So this is biological warfare?
Why, exactly is this an infectious disease threat to the United States? Is it because the Army is not in Africa?
There is nothing that the Army will do that will impact the infectious disease threat to the United States - which is substantial with Ebola. The threat of Ebola against the US has to do with allowing infected people to travel to the US.
What is the Army going to do about that? Nothing.
So is this biological warfare? If not, then what is the mission of the Army here, and is it appropriate?
What is it about these threads that brings out all the angry guys?
I didn’t say that it was biological warfare, but it is an infectious disease threat to the United States and to the world, and to Africa.
The Army is going in to try and help end this outbreak, and keep it from breaking out in mass, limit it’s escape, to at least individuals rather than floods of refugees. This is the 26th outbreak of Ebola since 1976, the Army has always been involved to some degree and in this largest outbreak, the Army involvement is it’s largest effort to date.
The Army is who detected and handled most of the Ebola outbreak in the Unites States in 1989.
As far as being in Africa, the Army is all over Africa, it is an area of operations for them, they have bases and stations in well over a dozen African nations.
Not true.
If they send a thousand troops there and only manage to get 10% of them infected, they can bring 100 fresh cases back to the USofA and let some fraction of them wander around, to the mall, to the sports stadium, to drop their kids off at school, to fly in crowded airplanes from here to there, to live in close quarters in their barracks while shedding viruses and getting a little sicker each day until frank unignorable symptoms present.
I'd say that's an impact, wouldn't you?