Posted on 10/07/2014 7:11:37 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
.....some scientists who have long studied Ebola say [federal government] assurances are premature — and they are concerned about what is not known about the strain now on the loose. It is an Ebola outbreak like none seen before, jumping from the bush to urban areas, giving the virus more opportunities to evolve as it passes through multiple human hosts.
Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research monkeys housed in Virginia and who later led the CDC's most far-reaching study.....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
They’re not lying -yet.
They ARE making their theories into bold, declarative statements.
Mutations for advantageous virus spread require lots of spreads to get the right mutation to spread more easily. Right now that environment is in Africa, not here.
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Of course the CDC knows about military jets and charters. It's a government agency:
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health institute of the United States. The CDC is a federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services and is headquartered in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, a few miles northeast of the Atlanta city limits.[1][2][3] Its main goal is to protect public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability.
CDC’s FY2014 budget is $11.3 billion. As of 2008, staff numbered approximately 15,000 (including 6,000 contractors and 840 Commissioned Corps officers) in 170 occupations. Eighty percent have earned bachelor's degrees or higher; almost half have advanced degrees (a master's degree or a doctorate such as a PhD, D.O., or M.D.).[14] CDC job titles also include engineer, entomologist, epidemiologist, biologist, physician, veterinarian, behaviorial scientist, Nurse, medical technologist, economist, Public Health Advisor, health communicator, toxicologist, chemist, computer scientist, and statistician.[15]
In addition to its Atlanta headquarters, the CDC has other locations in the United States and Puerto Rico. Those locations include Anchorage; Cleveland; Cincinnati; Fort Collins; Hyattsville; Morgantown; Pittsburgh; Research Triangle Park; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Spokane, Washington; Detroit; and Washington, D.C.
The CDC also conducts the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the world’s largest, on-going telephone health survey system.[16]
The CDC offers grants that help many organizations each year bring health, safety and awareness to surrounding communities throughout the entire United States. As a government-run department, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awards over 85 percent of its annual budget through these grants to accomplish its ultimate goal of disease control and quality health for all.[17]
Source: Wikipedia
Yes. However, you’ve got to assume that there are numerous strains of the virus percolating there and it’s chance as to which one(s) we’ll encounter here.
Fewer than 10,000 cases in the entire world over several years is "spread quickly"? Okay.
No material mutation has occurred with the Zaire Ebola strain. All organisms undergo insignificant mutations continually.
It is spreading quickly in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Since it is getting out of remote places in Africa where it was contained years ago, it has and will spread very quickly. The entire world hasn’t been exposed to Ebola.
They may be very soon.
True but there are 1000’s of innocuous or mildly beneficial mutations for that really really bad one. Our chances of seeing the bad one here before they see it in Africa are close to zero.
I was being sarcastic...they should use those military jets and charters to get assistance into the area while limiting travel OUT.
Oh, I agree. The crap shoot is in what strain makes it here and when. The odds are overwhelming that the worst strains will start in Africa.
My apologies!
Just saw on TV where a proud father was bragging that his daughter, a recent med school grad, is off to Dallas to do her part. Do her part? They need another doctor why?
Do her part in bringing Obola to S Texas is more like it.
LOL, no worries!
Thanks. :)
Obama and the CDC chief should be held PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE for any deaths from this point forward from ebola.
Zero risk? Zero? Very low, perhaps. Infinitesimal, even. But zero? No.
Other public health officials have voiced similar assurances, saying Ebola is spread only through physical contact with a symptomatic individual or their bodily fluids.
Quite so, but that is not zero. "Symptomatic" in this sense varies so much between victims that it is essentially an undefined term. The parameter of a temperature of 101.5 Fahrenheit is simply someone's estimate - there is no scientific research to back up the implication that 101 is safe and 102 is not, because none is possible with so small a sample size. And that's a good thing.
There's an awfully wide ground between complacency and panic, and I'd like to feel that responsible officials are trying to occupy it. I really don't get that feeling at the moment.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thanks for the ping!
I feel sorry for that woman’s children. If they were running fever chances are they had the flu and that’s miserable for a poor kid to be forced to sit in school all day feeling terrible. Not to mention they weren’t getting the rest and fluids needed to help them feel better and get well:(
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