[Citizen Zed]

Very difficult to contract...

[IYAS9YAS]

Cuz it’s easier to spread it out from the center of the country?

[MeganC]

"The Ebola virus is very difficult to contract," says Phil Smith, MD

Yet thousands of Africans are managin to do it and without the advantages of a degree in medicine...or propaganda.

[Blue Jays]

How long before the Leftists are complaining that "racist, white-hooded healthcare workers" are not providing equal treatment to all?

[GraceG]

Can you literally imagine how much a Radical Mosque (every saudi financed mosque) would pay for a vial of ebola blood?????

This is a bad bad bad bad thing bringing ebola patients here....

[bigbob]

Reminiscent of "The Andromeda Strain", a great book and movie:

[QuisCustodiet1776]

Looking at some doc purported to be from a few years back. They describe ebola as “one of the most contagious diseases known to man”.

Given the number of dead health workers in Africa, many of whom consistently did use gowns, masks, goggles etc. I am not buying the ‘bodily fluids’ line. One of the main doctors involved stated just days back that if you “shake an infected person hand and then touch the corner of your eye - your dead”.

Still - as long as our responses evolve beyond the keystone cops routine recently seen in Dallas - the US should be ok. Extremely aggressive quarantine is the key.

[tennmountainman]

Why not send them to Washington DC for treatment?

[BenLurkin]

CAPTION : "The Ebola virus is very difficult to contract,"

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping…

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

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping…

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

[MrB]

[metmom]

Very difficult to contract...

Sure. That's why they're dressed like that.

[TheConservativeParty]

Well if Dr.Phil says it’s impossible to catch....everybody party like it’s 1999! There is absolutely nothing to worry about!

[null and void]

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...

[Pollster1]

"The Ebola virus is very difficult to contract," says Phil Smith, MD medical director of the unit, on its website. "The risk it would pose to people outside the unit would be zero, and this is something that can be very safely treated without infecting health care workers."

MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish nurse who treated a priest in Madrid who died of Ebola is suspected to be the first case of the disease contracted outside West Africa . . .

A US doctor and missionary who was successfully treated for Ebola he contracted in Africa is back in the hospital . . .

Doctors Without Borders says the French nurse who became infected with Ebola while working in Liberia has . . .

The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in west Africa is unprecedented in many ways, including the high proportion of doctors, nurses, and other health care workers who have been infected . . .

I hope the post on Nebraska's web site was intended as satire.