Prescription for avoiding Ebola airport screening: ibuprofen

The Baltimore Sun / Reuters ^ | October 3, 2014 | Sharon Begley

[2ndDivisionVet]

People who contract Ebola in West Africa can get through airport screenings and onto a plane with a lie and a lot of ibuprofen, according to healthcare experts who believe more must be done to identify infected travelers.

At the very least, they said, travelers arriving from Ebola-stricken countries should be screened for fever, which is currently done on departure from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. But such safeguards are not foolproof.

"The fever-screening instruments run low and aren't that accurate," said infection control specialist Sean Kaufman, president of Behavioral-Based Improvement Solutions, a biosafety company based in Atlanta.

"And people can take ibuprofen to reduce their fever enough to pass screening, and why wouldn't they? If it will get them on a plane so they can come to the United States and get effective treatment after they're exposed to Ebola, wouldn't you do that to save your life?"

On Thursday, Liberia said the first Ebola patient to be diagnosed in the United States had lied on a questionnaire at the Monrovia airport about his exposure to an Ebola patient. He flew to Brussels and then Dulles airport outside Washington, D.C., before landing in Dallas on Sept. 20....

[2ndDivisionVet]

So everyone in Africa with access to an airport and a ticket will soon be here? Lovely.

[Black Agnes]

Ping.

[tumblindice]

It’s not a lock that they will be ‘rubbing elbows’ with the rest of us. The Ebolamites also have to claim they were in fear for their lives from gang activity and rampant violence in their home country.
(Auto correct liked ‘robots’ better than ‘elbows’. Rubbing robots. AC may be right.)
State department people are busy pinning the narrative on a 3X5 card to their shirts. The script is written backwards so the Ebolamites can practice reciting the requirements set forth in the political amnesty law in front of a mirror.

[Ray76]

The good news just keeps on coming. /s

[353FMG]

They should be allowed to enter the US via WDC only and should not be allowed to travel any further.

[therapsida]

Ellis island was good for this....

Back when gobberment... made more sense.

[rolling_stone]

I think the abbreviation for the whitehouse is WH not wdc.../s

[Ann Archy]

Obama is so PLEASED with this!! He might have not planned it, but “never let a crisis go to waste”!

[LibsRJerks]

Soon we will hear it’s our duty to take on all of Africa’s diseased, accept them with open arms (at our own peril) as well as to spend millions if not more to nurse them back to health, us being the horrible evil white nation that we are ......

[Ann Archy]

Obamacare will cover all the Africans health care....but it won’t help Republicans!!

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping…

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

[null and void]

Well, we can't quarantine them can we?

That would be racis!

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

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*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[Lazamataz]

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!