Posted on 09/15/2014 10:23:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The United States government is sending thousands of military troops to the west African nation of Liberia as part of the Obama administration's Ebola virus-response strategy, the White House said late Monday night.
'U.S. Africa Command will set up a Joint Force Command headquartered in Monrovia, Liberia, to provide regional command and control support to U.S. military activities and facilitate coordination with U.S. government and international relief efforts,' a statement from the White House press office said.
'A general from U.S. Army Africa, the Army component of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), will lead this effort, which will involve an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces.'
Liberia is the hardest-hit of the four west African nations that have confirmed Ebola cases, accounting for more than one-half of the fatalities. The others are Sierra Leone, Guinea and, to a lesser extent, Nigeria.
Some of what America's armed personnel will do in Liberia is unclear. The White House said 'many' of them will be stationed at an 'intermediate staging base' where they will supervise the movement of medical staff, supplies and heavy equipment.
AFRICOM already warns its own personnel that they should 'avoid nonessential travel to Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia.'
And the Defense Department is concerned, one Pentagon official told MailOnline, about the public perceptions aroused when American G.I.s patrol ground zero in a disease outbreak that could plunge three or more countries into chaos if it worsens significantly.
Combat soldiers and Marines 'will be on hand and ready for anything,' said the official, who has knowledge of some, but not all, of the Ebola-related planning. 'But hopefully it will be all logistics and hospital-building.'
'The president has ordered us to help, and we're eager to do it,' he said....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
3000 is an odd number... and the ears perked up when mentioned with ebola
a couple of weeks ago, there was talk of 3000 ebola martyrs slipping into the country.
was the idea that 0bama would infect our own people and bring them back here?
Yikes, my son is Special Forces. What kind of troops will the send, MPs?
Obama won’t put any boots on the ground in Iraq, a war zone that needs our troops on the ground, but he will put troops on the ground in Liberia to help fight Ebola, a different kind of war zone but equally if not more deadly. And subjects our troops to danger in a job that is totally outside of the purview of the military’s raison d’etre.
This President is star raving bats, or in the alternative, totally malevolent and actually hates our troops. He hides it with phony stage managed medal of honor ceremonies in the White House for political purposes, while sending our military men and women into the Ebola Valley of Death. I loathe this man and his thug regime. This pansy, throws like a girl, exercises like a swish, barely a man, more of a child, inwardly ugly, poor excuse for a human; infantile, cold, selfish, obnoxious, fatuous, putrid piece of human flesh not fit to lick the boots of even one of our military men, deserves to contract this deadly virus before any one of our soldiers ever does. Ditto for the servile satan lovers that surround him. There, I feel better.
This is stupid.
This doesn’t make sense at all, CDC, DOD and Army medical specialists from Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System, or the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, sure, but thousands of young rank and file troops?
For laboratory environments...From the Canadian Public Health Agency of Canada at
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php?option=print
SURVIVAL OUTSIDE HOST: Filoviruses have been reported capable to survive for weeks in blood and can also survive on contaminated surfaces, particularly at low temperatures (4°C) Footnote 52 Footnote 61. One study could not recover any Ebolavirus from experimentally contaminated surfaces (plastic, metal or glass) at room temperature Footnote 61. In another study, Ebolavirus dried onto glass, polymeric silicone rubber, or painted aluminum alloy is able to survive in the dark for several hours under ambient conditions (between 20 and 250C and 30–40% relative humidity) (amount of virus reduced to 37% after 15.4 hours), but is less stable than some other viral hemorrhagic fevers (Lassa) Footnote 53. When dried in tissue culture media onto glass and stored at 4 °C, Zaire ebolavirus survived for over 50 days Footnote 61. This information is based on experimental findings only and not based on observations in nature. This information is intended to be used to support local risk assessments in a laboratory setting.
A study on transmission of ebolavirus from fomites in an isolation ward concludes that the risk of transmission is low when recommended infection control guidelines for viral hemorrhagic fevers are followed Footnote 64. Infection control protocols included decontamination of floors with 0.5% bleach daily and decontamination of visibly contaminated surfaces with 0.05% bleach as necessary.
Obola should not be exposing our troops to a hot zone!!!!!!!
If they want to build hospitals and logistics, they need to go to engineers and general contractors who build hospitals.
Then again, a centralized healthcare machine would know all about that,..wouldn’t they? Another manifestation of Obamacare incompetence.
Only thing that makes sense is they are going there to kill infected Africans to limit or slow spread of disease.
I understand the virus lives in a host cell. If the cell dies, so does the virus, unless it moves to another living cell to replicate.
I haven’t seen any stats on dormancy.
The problem is its very small, 80nm x 760nm, which might not be airborne, but any infected cell which might become airborne, could also be contagious.
Some lab reports indicate ebolavirus uncleaned surfaces in a lab, left to ambient air conditions, can survive over 50 days, while concentrations may dwindle over hours to days.
I wouldn’t want 3,000 line GIs engaged in any intimacy with the local population.
Science and medical expertise is one thing, but to be bringing in simple manpower that Africans could provide, just doesn’t compute.
It will be interesting to see public reaction to something this fantastical related to Ebola.
Aye, I thought of that too; but that should be done from far away and from very high altitude....
The Indonesian Impostor, who has made his Senate
serfs EXEMPT, has one goal, and will kill Americans
in all 57 STates and throughout his Moslem Caliphate.
By design.
I think this is foolish, but Liberians have a high opinion of Americans. When Bush II sent Marines there as peacekeepers after their civil war, Liberians were puzzled as to why they were hunkered down as if they expected attacks; they eventually made it clear that nobody regarded the Americans as anything but saviors, and I don;t believe a single American has been molested there (and they’ve been there a long time now).
Don’t expect to see it in the news, but Liberians I work with, who support Democrats because our media has apparently told them Republicans hate black people, admit that Bush II is immensely popular there.
It can live several days with no host. How long depends on temperature and how much uv light it’s exposed too. It can be revitalized even after its dried out.
It’s is known to exist in animals such as pigs and monkeys. Most likely also bats and birds and other creatures although it affects them differently and does mutate. Not really known if mosquitos can transmit it but it seems likely.
Not only is anyone with any kind of authority not going to notice, apparently some without authority don't care. Greta interviewed the parents of James Foley last night and they said they thought he was very sympathetic about their son's beheading and they believed he did everything he could do to prevent it. It was okay with them that he played golf right after his public statement. They told him they had worked hard to get him elected.
I guess parents of troops being sent into the Ebola nest in West Africa should feel honored to sacrifice their sons or daughters for this marvelous and wonderful man. He should simplify it and get his own volcano for them to leap into.
Please describe to me how this is defending our country. If we were to defend our country wouldn’t we suspend visas from these nations and close down travel to and from the area?
BTTT!
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