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Ebola scare: 116 people arrive [in Delhi, India] from worst-affected Liberia in Delhi and Mumbai
The Times of India ^ | Aug 27, 2014, 04.46 AM IST | Suhas Munshi & Durgesh Nandan Jha,TNN

Posted on 08/27/2014 6:10:25 PM PDT by Qiviut

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To: cripplecreek

I’m glad I live in a white area on that map.


21 posted on 08/27/2014 8:24:47 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: Inyo-Mono

We spent a couple weeks roaming India several months ago. There appeared to be an absence of understanding and appreciation of both personal and public hygiene...everywhere. We were amazed that everyone wasn’t sick or dead.


22 posted on 08/27/2014 9:03:32 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: B.O. Plenty
Ebola is loose all over the world.

Please provide a working link to back up that assertion.

Or, if the "all over the world" part proves too difficult, I'd settle for a link that shows it's loose anywhere outside of west and central Africa.

BTW, has your life been impacted by Fukushima?

23 posted on 08/27/2014 9:10:18 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: ogen hal
There appeared to be an absence of understanding and appreciation of both personal and public hygiene...everywhere.

Well, yes and no. The specialty hospitals that cater to medical tourism are state of the art in medical technology and pathogen control. The upper classes, especially those with a family member who has studied abroad, also tend to be western-like in that regard.

While living in India, my wife came into contact with many diseases unknown here in the states such as cholera. However, she personally is extremely circumspect about sanitation and cleanliness. But living in a slum, you're going to come into contact with that stuff.

Your comment: "We were amazed that everyone wasn’t sick or dead" shows that most of us are tougher than western ideas make us think we are. A properly functioning immune system can fend off a lot of day-to-day infectious threats. But not Ebola.

24 posted on 08/27/2014 9:24:04 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: Qiviut

But, but ... we are assured that the only way the disease can be contracted is by sharing a long ‘soul kiss’ with someone who is actually foaming at the mouth and calling for “Brains!”.
Of course, the ones providing these assurances also assured us that they can’t find their e-mail records & that they don’t have your e-mail, and that they won’t pay for illegal aliens’ sex change operations.


25 posted on 08/27/2014 9:27:50 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: tumblindice

Of course, the ones providing these assurances also assured us that they can’t find their e-mail records & that they don’t have your e-mail, and that they won’t pay for illegal aliens’ sex change operations.

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Not to worry if you get Ebola - they promised you can keep your doctor, too. Period.


26 posted on 08/27/2014 9:31:25 PM PDT by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. (W.E. Johns)
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To: steve86

Our immune systems functioned well there...we survived without illness.


27 posted on 08/27/2014 9:33:46 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: Qiviut; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

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

28 posted on 08/27/2014 9:34:35 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: cripplecreek

“Turn me loose, set me free, somewhere in the middle of Siberia!”


29 posted on 08/28/2014 12:44:46 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: Alamo-Girl

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!


30 posted on 08/28/2014 2:32:47 AM 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: Qiviut
This could be the total crap tornado.

India is one of the most crowded, and easily one of the filthiest places on the planet: public defecation is widespread, and human and animal corpses are routinely tossed into rivers.

Sounds like heaven if you're an Ebola virus.

31 posted on 08/28/2014 8:45:46 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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...... total crap tornado ....

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I think that’s a good description of what the situation on the ground will be if it ends up on the loose in India.


32 posted on 08/28/2014 9:05:19 AM PDT by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. (W.E. Johns)
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To: steve86
Maybe here.... or here

Read away....

& I don't know if my life has been impacted by Fukushima yet...it has not shown up as something that is recognizable, but lets get together a year from now and see.

..and my man, if it impacts me, it will impact you. At the very least, I kind of acknowledge that Americans MAY be in danger from Ebola etc.

33 posted on 08/28/2014 6:38:22 PM PDT by B.O. Plenty (....give war a chance.....)
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To: Qiviut
They're only quarantining the ones with symptoms. Not good.
34 posted on 08/28/2014 9:05:37 PM PDT by Ellendra ("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
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To: cripplecreek

Seems like every map I’ve seen lately makes Wyoming look better and better.


35 posted on 08/28/2014 9:07:59 PM PDT by Ellendra ("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
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To: Ellendra

From the scientist (Professor Peter Piot) who discovered Ebola:

With ever growing mobility of people and travel, it’s not unlikely that people during the incubation period of Ebola - which is between 2 and 21 days after infection - may go to another country.

Ebola outbreaks are always happening in a context of poverty, dysfunctional health services with poor infection control and hygiene practices. If someone with Ebola is admitted to such an environment anywhere in the world, that will give rise to outbreaks.

Link (another Times of India article dated Aug 1, 2014):
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Its-the-deadliest-strain-says-the-man-who-discovered-Ebola/articleshow/39434060.cms


36 posted on 08/28/2014 10:12:12 PM PDT by Qiviut
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To: Inyo-Mono
I’m glad I live in a white area on that map.


37 posted on 08/29/2014 7:38:15 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: metmom

Amen to that. Any people coming in from those countries, should be quarantined for about a month to make sure they don’t develop symptoms, and those with symptoms should be quarantined seperately.

If everyone knew that they would have to be quarantined before leaving and after arriving, maybe they’d quit jetting all over the world and some progress could be made on stopping this.


38 posted on 09/02/2014 9:10:09 AM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: jocon307

Mumbai is the most densely populated city in the world IIRC.


39 posted on 09/02/2014 9:32:25 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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To: steve86
Link for today
40 posted on 09/02/2014 9:35:11 AM PDT by B.O. Plenty (....give war a chance.....)
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