Posted on 10/13/2014 6:14:14 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
D/FW AIRPORT — The Ebola virus death toll has surpassed 4,000, including one in Dallas, and congressional leaders demanded Friday for more to be done to make sure the deadly disease doesn’t spread in America.
They asked health officials for answers to questions they are hearing, such as why flights aren’t being stopped to and from West African countries and what is being done to protect U.S. troops dispatched to West Africa to help.
“The crisis is unfolding at an alarming pace,” U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, said during a specially-called congressional hearing at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. “Thousands have died in Africa and thousands more have been infected.
“Now the virus has begun to spread to other parts of the world and the American people are rightfully concerned,” said McCaul, who heads the committee. “They are concerned because the Ebola virus is an unseen threat and it is only a plane flight away from our shores.”
The goal of the meeting was to examine the coordinated federal, state and local response in the wake of the one Ebola case in Texas.
Less than two weeks ago, Thomas Eric Duncan of Liberia arrived in Dallas to visit his girlfriend and family and became the one person diagnosed with the disease in the United States.
He showed up at Texas health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas with fever and pain, and was sent home with antibiotics, but returned in an ambulance a few days later and was formally diagnosed with Ebola. He was hospitalized, put in isolation and given a new experimental antiviral drug before he died on Wednesday.
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cuz that’s how we all got here........
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USCIS dot org website shows an 8/15/2014 order for ‘expedited visas’ from the affected countries if one has a relative living in the USA. Very quietly done. According to the internet at least 13K have come from three of the countries but I think that’s terribly low. That’s how the TX case got here - he knew he’d been exposed and got the visa.
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Because there are none between the U.S. and the West African countries?
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