Posted on 10/11/2014 8:30:52 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
The Ebola outbreak continues to spiral out of control. Near the epicenter of the epidemic in West Africa, more than 3,400 people have died and more than 7,000 people have been infected with the virus. Officials are scrambling to contain the outbreak at its source and keep it from spreading.
The World Health Organization is sending doctors to countries where the virus is most prevalent — Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. Fusion’s Jorge Ramos spoke to one of the doctors, Dr. Aileen Marty, who recently returned home to Miami after spending 31 days in Nigeria. She says she was surprised what happened when she arrived at Miami International Airport.
“I get to the kiosk…mark the fact that I’ve been in Nigeria and nobody cares, nobody stopped me,” Marty said.
“Not a single test?” Ramos asked her, surprised.
“Nothing,” Marty answered.
The White House recently announced it would implement additional measures for screening passengers coming into the U.S. from Ebola-stricken countries. New screenings will start at five major airports across the country, including New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta.
Travelers coming from West Africa will be taken to special screening areas to be examined for symptoms and questioned about any possible exposure they might have had to Ebola.
The decision came after Thomas Eric Duncan became the first Ebola patient on American soil to be diagnosed and die as a result of the disease. Duncan, a Liberian national, was diagnosed with the deadly virus on Sept. 30 in Dallas, days after he returned to the United States from Liberia. After a weeks-long struggle with the disease, he died on Oct. 8.
Dr. Marty says she was not surprised to hear about the first case of Ebola in the United States.
“If we don’t change our entry method and this outbreak continues to get completely out of control…it’s likely to be seen in other countries,” Marty warned.
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“Not a single test?” Ramos asked her, surprised.
“Nothing,” Marty answered.
Explains a lot.
I bet bam bam could lower their fevers like he lowered the sea levels.
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...
Nothing will be done unless the disease starts to close the golf courses.
or an Obama donor gets ebola first.
Obama won’t do anything about this because this is what he and the left wants to happen..he wants people to get infected, the more people the better. Consider it punishment for his failing poll numbers, he figures he is going to be a lame duck President anyway, he knows the vast majority of Americans can’t stand his pompous ass, so he and the left have decided what the hell, let Ebola in and let it do its thing
“after he returned to the United States from Liberia”
I thought he was FROM Liberia?
ping...
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