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Macedonia seals hotel after Briton dies of suspected Ebola
Reuters ^ | 10/09/2104 | -

Posted on 10/09/2014 11:11:31 AM PDT by AAABEST

SKOPJE, Oct 9 (Reuters) - A British man with symptoms of the Ebola virus died in Macedonia on Thursday and authorities said they had sealed off a hotel where he stayed, keeping another Briton and hotel staff inside.

A Health Ministry official said the man had arrived in the capital, Skopje, from Britain on Oct. 2 and had been rushed to hospital at 3 p.m. (1300 GMT) on Thursday, where he died several hours later.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: briton; ebola; ebolasuspect; hotel; macedonia; skopje
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Let the games begin.
1 posted on 10/09/2014 11:11:31 AM PDT by AAABEST
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To: AAABEST

Is he really “British,” or was he an African who held a British passport, I wonder. They haven’t confirmed that he had Ebola, but simply that he became sick after arriving in the country on Oct. 2 and died with various ugly symptoms. I wonder if he had been traveling in Africa or was actually from Africa for them to think that it was Ebola?


2 posted on 10/09/2014 11:14:07 AM PDT by livius
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To: AAABEST

The Ebola Wars have begun.


3 posted on 10/09/2014 11:14:11 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: AAABEST

Has the CDC added Macedonia and Madrid to the list of places on their “screening” questionnaire? You know, the one they will be using at 5 airports to keep ebola from entering the US


4 posted on 10/09/2014 11:15:33 AM PDT by wrench
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To: AAABEST

Oh SURE he’s “British”..!

For decades the Left LOOOVED all manner of hyphenation, but now they banish allll of it.

They wouldn’t shut up about “no more melting pot...!!”

They were doing multiculti backflips about it.


5 posted on 10/09/2014 11:16:05 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: wrench

would someone ask the CDC shill if the ONE Ebola patient entered at DFW, why are they screening 5 OTHER airports.

maybe because they don’t really know what they’re doing. What is to keep someone from flying to say..Belgium then to the US from Africa?


6 posted on 10/09/2014 11:18:18 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitante)
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To: gaijin

When there’s social welfare payments in the air EVERYONE was hyphenated, but now that there’s a disease at the gates, well, they fish-and-chippify every last Brit passport holder.

Same as USA.


7 posted on 10/09/2014 11:19:10 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: AAABEST

Sounds like some people will be getting screaming deals on Priceline...


8 posted on 10/09/2014 11:21:17 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: livius
I wonder if he had been traveling in Africa or was actually from Africa for them to think that it was Ebola? That's one of the first questions that comes to mind.

Another that comes to mind is being that this is Spain, does this case have anything to do with the Spanish nurse or is it just coincidence?

Either way we may be looking at a breakout in Europe.

9 posted on 10/09/2014 11:31:10 AM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: Dick Vomer

never let a crisis go to waste.

sacrifice lives for THEIR re-election.


10 posted on 10/09/2014 11:31:48 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Dick Vomer

He actually entered at Dulles and would have been screened there. Not that he should have gotten in at all...


11 posted on 10/09/2014 11:34:04 AM PDT by alphadoggie
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To: Dick Vomer

Or Canada, S America, Japan, etc....


12 posted on 10/09/2014 11:36:41 AM PDT by wrench
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To: AAABEST
fever, vomiting and internal bleeding, and that his condition deteriorated rapidly

I.e. the most infectious stage. People who were around the splash zone will be infected, surfaces will be infected for hours, and unprotected healthcare workers will be infected.

13 posted on 10/09/2014 11:42:08 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: gaijin

That’s a good point.

Hyphens disappear when fingers get pointed.


14 posted on 10/09/2014 11:43:05 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Bogey78O

Macedonia is a country by what I see, not in Spain.


15 posted on 10/09/2014 11:47:35 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: AAABEST

Just for the record, this isn’t Spain. Macedonia is in the middle of the Balkan Peninsula. Used to be a part of the former Yugoslavia. Both Greece and Bulgaria consider it at one time to be a part of either country.


16 posted on 10/09/2014 11:47:41 AM PDT by 05 Mustang GT Rocks
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To: 05 Mustang GT Rocks

Thank you - Despite my travelling all over the planet, I’m extremely geographically challenged.


17 posted on 10/09/2014 11:50:43 AM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: 05 Mustang GT Rocks

It is not really “Macedonia”. The name a provice in Greece.

It would be like New York claiming they were the original “York”.

Pella where Alexander the Great’s wife and son are buried, where his father King Philip is buried is in Greece along with Palace of the period. The burial mound is open to the public as a museum. The artifacts are written and similar to the rest of the ancient greek writings.

Either way, you are dealing with a collapsed communist block nation in FYROM. (former yougoslav republic of Macedonia) They have no real economy other than exporting people, black markets, white slavery, and other corruption.

THE ONLY hope of containing it there is for the EU to intervene in this non-EU government and essentially do the job. Blue helmets would be worse than useless.


18 posted on 10/09/2014 12:00:23 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: palmer

“..surfaces will be infected for hours..”

On another thread it has a link to a “WebMD” poll (government lacky). It said Ebola can survive for 6 days under some conditions!


19 posted on 10/09/2014 12:04:22 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: AAABEST

Are you familiar with Philip of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great?


20 posted on 10/09/2014 12:06:00 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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