Posted on 09/20/2014 8:35:57 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A real-life horror story is playing out in Africa as Ebola spreads, and President Obama’s decision to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to combat the virus could very well put Americans at risk of contracting the deadly illness at home, some health experts say.
According to the World Health Organization, at least 4,985 people have contracted Ebola and at least 2,461 have died. Several doctors have fallen ill with Ebola, and two of them have died. New reports indicate a Doctors Without Borders staff member has contracted the virus in Liberia and will be evacuated to France for treatment.
“You can see that these doctors, who are highly trained people, got themselves infected,” said Dr. Lee Hieb, former president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. “So sending troops into an area, if they’re dealing one-on-one with a patient, they’re not going to be able to protect themselves very well. It’s not easy to [prevent transmission], because you get tired and you get careless and you make some simple mistakes. All it takes is one virus particle.”
Dr. Hieb said quarantine measures should be taken to control the outbreak and prevent Ebola from coming to America.
“You don’t get Ebola from Europe,” she told WND. “You get Ebola from Africa. And it’s a really simple formula: Don’t let people fly to America if they’ve been to areas where there’s an outbreak. When there’s an outbreak, stop air [traffic] flow.”
Hieb added, “If they’re going to use the troops to do population control, which is one of the ways you contain it, basically you just don’t let anybody out. You’d make a ring around where it is, and you’d quarantine the area.”
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Looks like another Darwin’s Award class.
Like all of your posts, I guess it will remain a mystery of how it relates to anything, especially to post 179.
1700 bed vs 1.2 million anticipated patients.
Keep running the numbers. You’ve got another year.
If you join us over there, it will become very obvious why we need more resources.
So you want our military to build more treatment centers, can’t you just say that rather than all the other nonsense and drama, and hostility?
At least you seem to have moved away from thinking that it would take 2 years to build each one.
Generally it takes 5 years to build them, from the time somebody has the idea they want one.
If less than 2 years, just send in ISO containers of bleach and plastic sheeting and maybe the infection rate won’t become as high, exponentially.
Don’t pretend field clinics are BSL4 treatment and triage centers. It’s a disservice to those who are tasked with those endeavors.
I haven’t seen anyone pretend such a thing, why do you insist on lying and making up fake statements?
Other than that, you still seem to just saying gibberish, your posts are not clear and they are contradictory, the best I can make out you are just angry and want to keep talking about 5 years, and 2 years, and some ramblings about construction, and some digs at the military.
It is just a jumbled, but hostile mess of confusion that you keep posting.
Not surprising that about the only organization of doctors in the US ready and willing to stand up to idiotic and counterproductive plans of the Obama administration is, once again, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. (AAPS)
AMA, the cheerleaders for Obamacare, is missing in action, as usual.
Why are they not using medical Bio Hazard suits? And being Decontaminated after each exposure? This is as we know a highly contagious disease. Probably more so than the Black Plague was.
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