Nice try at a redirect. GIs have top notch med facilities the world over, they never come here first, and would certainly not be at a civilian hospital in major city center.
A disease with no cure, a 60 to 90 percent mortality rate, and unknown transmission mechanism is not what a sane person brings to a major population center.
Even the WHO says this is out of control, and thy are the experts in the field.
Geez Mr. excitable, it isn’t a redirect at all.
I expect any American, especially our troops working with indigenous people, to be transferred to the U.S. in case of life threatening illness or disease, I also want our Christian missionaries and embassy personal to not be banned entrance back home if they are sick.
This also applies outside of Africa, if a sailor comes up sick, or a CIA agent comes up sick anywhere in the world, I want him allowed back into the U.S. for quarantine and medical care.
It's a known transmission mechanism, especially in Africa.
When someone dies, family members gather to wash the body for burial. This and other direct contact mechanisms with the victims of the disease before and after death is the mechanism of transmittal in the populace.
I have already addressed the transmission with the health workers.
So the mechanism is direct contact with a infected person. It is not known to be airborne or even contracted through the respiratory system.
Bodily fluids, plain and simple. And it's not nearly as bad as the flu in that regard, as the respiratory system is not involved.
Did you seriously say that “GIs have top notch med facilities the world over”??
Maybe so, but not stateside. Ill GIs would, indeed, probably be better off staying abroad.
(And the WHO does say the ebola outbreak is out of control — in Africa’s primitive society, not here. Another reason to bring American missionaries home. The two patients/research subjects at Emory pose less danger to you than some of your neighbors do.)