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CDC issues Ebola guidelines for U.S. funeral homes
WGCL-TV ^ | September 30, 2014 | Jocelyn Connell

Posted on 09/30/2014 7:13:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Edited on 10/01/2014 6:18:03 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

ROSWELL, GA - CBS46 News has confirmed the Centers for Disease Control has issued guidelines to U.S. funeral homes on how to handle the remains of Ebola patients. If the outbreak of the potentially deadly virus is in West Africa, why are funeral homes in America being given guidelines?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: ebola; epidemic; georgia; obama
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To: DannyTN
I work for a hospital firm. The other day, I asked if a hazmat suit was acceptable under the dress code. They laughed and said, maybe if you paint it look like a suit.

It'd be interesting to see the reaction if someone wearing a full biohazard suit with SCBA were spotted walking through downtown Dallas tomorrow.

21 posted on 09/30/2014 8:17:50 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: logi_cal869
What, EXACTLY, does the CDC do again?

Lobby against gun ownership.

22 posted on 09/30/2014 8:18:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: Texas Songwriter

My car wouldn’t even get warm driving to FEMA headquarters. They could send someone over with a shopping cart or wheelbarrow to come get me.


23 posted on 09/30/2014 8:19:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: logi_cal869

Paint spray chalk lines around Ebola victims using drones.


24 posted on 09/30/2014 8:27:16 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: PAR35

That is the conclusion that you want to jump to?


25 posted on 09/30/2014 8:28:06 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
CBS46 asked English if Georgians should be alarmed by these guidelines.

"Absolutely not. In fact, if they weren't hearing about it, they should be a whole lot more concerned," said English.

Just a JV virus.....

26 posted on 09/30/2014 8:39:55 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: jocon307

Wouldn’t the ebola infested corpses be at the hospital?

Why not incinerate them there?


27 posted on 09/30/2014 8:57:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Exactly. If Ebola-ridden bodies are being released for conventional burial then there is just no hope for humanity. We’ll die of stupidity if Ebola doesn’t get us first.


28 posted on 09/30/2014 9:21:29 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (Epesians 6:12 becomes more real to me with each news cycle.)
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To: BenLurkin

Absolutely. if they can be incinerated, I’m not sure how they must be disposed of, but I’d think embalming, etc. would be right out.


29 posted on 09/30/2014 9:33:58 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: txhurl

Ebola Zombies? I wonder if this is why Homeland Security bought 3 billion rounds of hollow point bullets. No, I guess not.


30 posted on 09/30/2014 9:36:36 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

31 posted on 09/30/2014 9:47:28 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: jocon307
Is this going to be the crowning disaster of Obama’s tenure? A nationwide ebola outbreak?

With so many to choose from, and two years left in his term, this might not be a bad one to have as the 'crowning disaster'.

I suspect the open borders and these Isis characters might be in the running down the road.

32 posted on 10/01/2014 4:24:35 AM PDT by IncPen (None of this would be happening if John Boehner were alive...)
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To: ansel12; DannyTN
DannyTN

Try re-reading the thread. I didn't jump to any conclusions. DannyTN did. I just pointed out that there was no evidence to support his conclusions. I have drawn no conclusions.

Opinions aren't facts. But if you haven't learned that by now, you probably never will.

Now, the conclusions that you've jumped to are probably correct - Patient Zero is probably a Black African. But there is no evidence that's been released by the folks running the cover up that would support it. So in the absence of facts, all we have is speculation.

33 posted on 10/01/2014 5:07:02 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Your energy went into wanting to say that this might be military, and you were adamant that there is no proof that it isn’t, your conclusion seems to be that military is the frontrunner of your choice.

You are clearly thinking military, oddly, you somehow have me concluding black African, which is bizarre, I have no opinion yet on that and haven’t said anything about it, so you concluded that out of thin air.


34 posted on 10/01/2014 8:43:10 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

My mother-in-law owns a funeral home and she said they had procedures for ebola weeks ago. If I understand her correctly and the article they are not to do any embalming or autopsy’s.

I would think sending the bodies to a funeral home would be incredible stupid. They should be sent to a central location where people properly equipped and trained could bury the bodies quickly.


35 posted on 10/01/2014 12:01:44 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: ansel12

You apparently are having some cognitive issues. Perhaps you should see a neurologist.


36 posted on 10/01/2014 3:15:10 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: jocon307
“..sending them to the local funeral home is a VERY BAD IDEA.”

Do they still have the funeral homes where they do the body prep in back and then the little chapel out in front? If so, would seem like a bad idea to take Ebola victims there.

I recall when my grandpa died and I was just a kid. Prior to the service starting I was wandering around the place and found my way in the back room. Some old guy was laid out in the table with a suit on, getting ready to be placed in a casket I suppose. I recall recognizing him from somewhere, and then figured I probably shouldn't be back there!

Hopefully that is part of the new protocal - don't let eight year-olds have access to the working areas.

37 posted on 10/01/2014 3:26:03 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: DannyTN

“They laughed and said, maybe if you paint it look like a suit.”

Sounds like a business opportunity.

Instead of wearing the white tyveks out near landfills we would wear one-piece cotton jump suits. Toss them in the wash at the end of the day (or project). We were mainly concerned about the dusts and particles. But something like that might be okay to wear to work depending on what you do.

A friend’s dad, once he retired, wore a jumpsuit like that the rest of his life - he had all sorts of colors. I’m not sure why he chose that. Brilliant - genius type. Wife died. Perhaps he had more important things to worry about than what he would wear each day.


38 posted on 10/01/2014 3:31:33 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: PAR35

Not exactly a jump. More like connect the closely aligned dots.

The first of the 3000 troops just arrived in West Africa and started breaking ground on Saturday, the odds that one had already been infected and returned to the U.S. was really really low.

That’s not to say that there may be other military in West Africa that has been there all along. But the point is that there was a lot of objection to sending troops. I supported sending troops, because if we don’t put Ebola down in Africa, it is bound to spread here.

Now it has, and it can’t be blamed on the decision to send the military. Hopefully the military will use common sense and separate our troops from locals as much as possible. (And the published plan so far seems to indicate that is the case.) And I hope the quarantine the soldiers before allowing them to return to the U.S. just to be on the safe side.

But stopping it in Africa is still our best hope. And the faster the CDC abandons it’s line that it’s not airborne and gets more aggressive on stopping it’s spread, the better off we will all be.


39 posted on 10/01/2014 4:22:40 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: jocon307
We need a MUCH MUCH MUCH better plan for ebola infested corpses, sending them to the local funeral home is a VERY BAD IDEA.

This crisis calls for an experienced Obama Administration hand, someone they can call back; someone they can rely on to communicate to the public everything they need to know, while at the same time be able to coordinate a well reasoned, unified response.

Tommy Vietor, please pick up the white courtesy phone!

"Dude!"


40 posted on 10/01/2014 4:34:24 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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