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CDC Designates El Paso an Ebola Quarantine Site
KVIA-TV ^ | Thursday, July 31, 2014 | Darren Hunt

Posted on 07/31/2014 8:43:42 PM PDT by kristinn

The Centers for Disease Control has designated El Paso as one of 20 quarantine stations for the ebola virus.

The Sun City is part of a comprehensive system designed to prevent the spread of the disease in the United States.

While ebola has never been detected in the U.S., that doesn't mean it can't make its way to the country. The biggest concern is at airports with international flights and ports of entry, which there are a lot of in the Borderland.

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The CDC released a map showing the 20 quarantine stations designated across the country, including El Paso, mostly where international travelers arrive. The closest ones are in San Diego and Dallas.

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El Paso International Airport officials confirmed that it is a designated CDC quarantine site, but only in the event the CDC activates it.

In the unlikely event there were an ebola scare in the Borderland, bi-national communication between the CDC and Mexico's Department of Health would be key to keeping it contained.

(Excerpt) Read more at kvia.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: ebola; quarantine; texas
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To: Ellendra

You’re on!


41 posted on 07/31/2014 10:41:22 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
"Bye, bye elections."

Hello President for Life.


42 posted on 07/31/2014 11:05:16 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: garjog

Ugh! I don’t have my glasses on. Who are the two faces behind him?


43 posted on 07/31/2014 11:11:49 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Illegals Are Getting Flat Screet TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
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To: jjsheridan5; bgill
The rate of infection, and the anecdotal evidence of the circumstances of infection, scream "out of control".

Yeah. Something's up. Looks like it's more easily communicable than previously thought.

EXCLUSIVE: NHS doctor tells of his hell on Ebola ward in Sierra Leone
Metro(U.K.)
Aidan Radnedge Wednesday 30 Jul 2014 10:02 pm
"In Liberia, American Kent Brantly, one of many doctors to have caught the disease, is fighting for his life."

And look behind the link above at the protective gear that they're wearing.


44 posted on 07/31/2014 11:19:13 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

“Who are the two faces behind him?”
I think it is Holder and Biden.


45 posted on 07/31/2014 11:21:46 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: gaijin

I’m 61 Years Old and I never HATED a President of the United States, until now.

That picture just reminded me of that fact.


46 posted on 07/31/2014 11:27:16 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Things can always be worse and the Democrat Party is here to prove it.)
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To: gaijin

The poor child. :(


47 posted on 07/31/2014 11:28:11 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Illegals Are Getting Flat Screet TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
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To: gaijin

Wow, that is quite a photo. Makes me want to slap somebody.


48 posted on 07/31/2014 11:29:33 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Illegals Are Getting Flat Screet TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
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To: kristinn

Obama plans to bring Ebola to Southern states.


49 posted on 07/31/2014 11:33:54 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Looks that way.


50 posted on 07/31/2014 11:41:27 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Illegals Are Getting Flat Screet TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
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To: null and void

Null, would you please add me to your list?


51 posted on 07/31/2014 11:43:35 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Illegals Are Getting Flat Screet TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
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To: PAR35

If this thing is already loose, it will be global. If indeed there is a 21 day lag on showing symptoms, and if a person is contagious for even a short portion of that 21 days, there could be 10’s of thousands, if not more, people walking around passing the virus right now. 20 facilities would barely make a dent in ‘treatment’. More likely, they would/are being set up to process death.


52 posted on 07/31/2014 11:51:11 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...

Ping!


53 posted on 08/01/2014 12:15:08 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: gaijin

Having been to El Paso hundreds of times I do not remember any white capped mountains besides it. It does have some hills but no mountains. This photo is NOT El Paso, Texas.


54 posted on 08/01/2014 3:38:03 AM PDT by ProudFossil (" I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." Harry Truman)
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To: kristinn

Well, they’re going in the right direction. How about a little farther south, though?


55 posted on 08/01/2014 3:48:46 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Washi

Why are the journalists lying about this disease history?


56 posted on 08/01/2014 4:03:15 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Kackikat

According to the article, there are 20 designated sites nationwide and El Paso is just one of them. And it is at “unactivated” status.

This virus and its potential frightens me, as it should all of us. I absolutely approve of CDC precautionary measures.


57 posted on 08/01/2014 5:30:52 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Ellendra; null and void

This link has info including lists and map:
http://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/QuarantineStations.html

The CDC having quarantine stations is not something new. But, a “designated Eloba Site” is new.


58 posted on 08/01/2014 5:59:51 AM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: familyop
Yesterday, ministers here held an emergency Cobra summit to agree plans should the disease arrive in Britain.

I thought I'd read yesterday that England was going to bring in one patient same as the US.

59 posted on 08/01/2014 7:15:05 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Jedidah

Thanks for inof, El Paso is at border, but other than that I have not heard of it being a secure CDC site.


60 posted on 08/01/2014 7:26:52 AM PDT by Kackikat (ELECTED officials took an OATH...Time to honor it....be a Patriot.)
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