Ebola Worst-Case Scenario Has More Than 500,000 Cases (via drudge)

Source cannot be linked. Click red link at drudge ^ | Sep 19, 2014 12:00 PM CT | By Caroline Chen and Brendan Greeley

[DCBryan1]

not-yet-released CDC report pens current ebola cases at 500k!

[Qiviut]

It’s not odd that it hit several countries all at once; we know why that happened. We know who contracted the first case (probably from eating an undercooked fruit bat in December 2013) and how it spread to others in Guinea, who brought it from Guinea (innocently) and how it spread to contacts in Sierra Leone, and who brought it from Guinea (also innocently - for commerce) and how it spread in Liberia.

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Saw a TV piece (’docmentary’) on Ebola last night - I did not realize that there was a black market for “bush meat” here in the US. The undercover reporter found it for about $20/lb ... in the DC area I think. It gets smuggled in because immigrants want that “taste of home”.

[iowamark]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-19/ebola-worst-case-scenario-has-more-than-500-000-cases.html

[silverleaf]

I read today that 320 health care workers have been infected, no word on how many died

These are people who know how to protect themselves and have the best equipment available in the region. Western doctors and nurses are infected and dying.

Natives in the bush just killed a 9 member public information team, out of fear and suspicion

What mission is it, exactly, that president ebola thinks our army is going to manage in that situation? setting up “field hospitals” that can maintain a biohazard 4 level protocol (pressurized suits/contained air supply)

“Quarantining” people without letting them touch or get close to any of our troops? What about those who bust out of quarantine or the sick or dead who have to be removed? Who’s going to do that? Under what controls?

When the very few people that can reach one of president ebola’s ordered “field hospitals” manages to do so - and dies - and the body is not returned to the quarantined village - who is going to control the angry uneducated mobs fed on rumors and superstition? Our 3,000 troops dressed like “bubble boys”? Or will it be impossible to protect them with adequate biohazard gear in equatorial Africa while they perform their “humanitarian” mission of killing people who try to escape quarantine, or backing up the local security forces who do so?

Using the US Army as guinea pigs bravely charging into a pandemic zone is madness. If pres ebola really wants to contain the pandemic send them in with flamethrowers and keep the press out. And seal our borders against African travelers or put them in 25 day quarantine.

http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/doctors-irresponsible-to-send-troops-to-combat-ebola/

[Smokin' Joe]

I think that may be where downplaying the danger of the disease, as present in Africa, comes in. The complacency will lull the populace while the administration does enough of a slow build to hitting the 'panic button' with the media--much the same trick that was pulled with the economy and derivatives market meltdown.

This need not be a crisis here if sane steps are taken toward prevention of any outbreak. Those steps will not be taken, nor demanded, if the people are uninformed, or if they are convinced it takes some arcane behaviour to catch the disease (the current meme).

Perhaps I missed something in earlier comments and threads, but this is the same administration gambit used with AIDS (act like it is only a problem of a specific group, let it spread beyond that group, then hype it as everyone's problem--which Ebola could be, far beyond the scope of a primarily behaviourally spread disease like AIDS)

[ontap]

Africans refuse to follow directions on preventing disease....???????

[Jack Hammer]

I can think of a far worse scenario than that....

[lonevoice]

Barack Ebola

I like that. Or, maybe Barack bin Ebola

[BenLurkin]

ping

[scouter]

Ping

[vetvetdoug]

Excellent on point assessment of the current situation. I think its method of transmission has been changed. I also know that standard epidemiological controls are not being instituted or used. The entire event is being mishandled by politicians which is leading to the spread of the disease. I’m including our President also.

[a fool in paradise]

Please sneeze into your sleeve. Thank you.

[hal ogen]

Duck & Cover! Oh, wait. That was the great advice from the government in the 1950’s.

[Tennessee Nana]

probably at least...

[GeronL]

*aaahhh choooooo*

[TomGuy]

I was channel surfing earlier this afternoon and landed on The Doctors, a medical talkshow. I missed part of it, but they were talking about the Ebola outbreaks, US troops, and the potentiality for Ebola to transform and become airborn.

They didn’t offer any solutions, but they were scared that a potential pandemic outbreak could occur in the US, due to the openness of travel in and out of the country.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[roadcat]

We know who contracted the first case (probably from eating an undercooked fruit bat in December 2013)

I'll have mine medium rare! Fruit bats, huh? Eww, that "taste of home" should just stay in Africa. Then again, I wonder what that tastes like?

[exDemMom]

Between 600,000 and one million people die annualy of malaria. Where’s the freak-out over that?

Indeed, good perspective. Many more Africans die of a large number of diseases than die of Ebola--but Ebola gets all the attention.

[exDemMom]

What the heck happened to make this outbreak so much worse than all previous combined?

The virus reached an urban area with a high population density. The virus itself has not significantly changed.

[exDemMom]

then freedoms will be striped

I think we need a graphic for striped freedoms. What do striped freedoms look like?

(Sorry, I am very literal minded, and you did misspell "stripped.")