[aMorePerfectUnion]

Money sentence... (more at website)

"I called CDC not long ago and asked how many active cases are being monitored in the United States of Ebola, and they said 1,400.

"I said, 'where is that on your web site?' They said 'We're not putting it on the web.'

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

It is stunning how everyone does what Obama tells them to do.

[John Valentine]

Thus doesn’t pass my smell test. Why don’t you call the CDC and see if they tell you how many active Ebola cases they are monitoring in the US.

I doubt if they would tell you.

[cripplecreek]

The Ebola czar is no longer in place. He stepped down a couple weeks ago.

[Oliviaforever]

There is absolutely no way that there are 1400 active cases of Ebola in the US.

[bluejean]

Since the govt sucks completely at everything it tries to control, this secret cat-herding experiment is doomed to go wrong at some point if this is true. It’ll get ugly like Fast and Furious, Mooch’s lunch program, Unaffordable Healthcare, the IRS crapfest, Benghazi, etc., etc. It never ends because incompetence runs through it all like crap through a sewer pipe. It’s just a matter of time.

[Oliviaforever]

The headline does not match the story.

The story is BS.

[Jim Noble]

They are most certainly NOT “active cases”.

They are people who, for the most part, have zero to 0.01% chance of exposure, who have been called in by an over excited ER or clinic.

Back in November, I got five calls a day like these.

There are FOUR US Ebola cases, with ZERO secondaries. Not on the stupid plane from Dallas to Cleveland to Dallas, not on the subway or in the stupid bowling alley, not in Newark or Fort Kent, Maine.

ZERO.

[clearcarbon]

The problem, says Attkisson, is that the CDC is covering up the numbers, presumably to minimize panic across the United States.

It's not to cover up minimize panic, it's to minimize retaliation against the obola mis-administration.

[OneWingedShark]

"I called CDC not long ago and asked how many active cases are being monitored in the United States of Ebola, and they said 1,400.
"I said, 'where is that on your web site?' They said 'We're not putting it on the web.'

Fortunately I've published this brochure for them:
Consoling Disease Concerns
[Direct Link]

[null and void]

Administratively, an "active case" is one where you are "actively" checking in on someone who might possibly been exposed, say once every couple days, just to make sure they aren't spiking a fever.

Not even close to a medically "active case" where someone is actually sick.

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)

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...

[NELSON111]

And just how many of those 1400 actually HAVE Ebola?

I'm betting NONE. HYPE once again. According to some, my world was already supposed to be in great danger of ending by now....

[Smokin' Joe]

For the most part, the AP stopped reporting on most suspected cases or individuals being monitored for symptoms in October link, a few weeks before the election.

About the same time, reporting on the disease went dark in the major media.

Numerous people were being monitored as at risk for having contracted the disease by virtue of travel to affected regions or close contact with others who had.

"Monitoring" is not the same as "treatment", and the word "cases" may be a poor choice, as most would not consider the individuals in question to be "cases" unless they had contracted the disease.

If they had contracted the disease, they would either be being treated or have resolved as recovered or dead, not merely be "monitored".

I have little doubt, with unrestrained traffic to the affected countries in Western Africa and military quarantines of only 21 days rather than the 42 to ensure confidence the person of interest had not contacted the disease, that there are at least 1400 people in the US being actively monitored for development of symptoms at any given time.

It is an unfortunate choice of words that gives the impression that there might be that many confirmed infected patients.

However, at this point, if there were, and the government could suppress that information, I have little faith they would not seek to do so.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

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

[mountainbunny]

No way. That number would fill the infectious disease wards in who-knows how many hospitals.

All of which would have to be staffed by hundreds, if not thousands of nurses and hundreds of doctors.

The waste from Ebola patients has to be specially treated, and so dozens or hundreds of waste management people would be involved.

Unusually large orders of cleaning supplies, bunny suits, full face masks, and so on. More work for the janitorial staff, too. All requiring more people to notice what was going on, and keep their mouths shut.

And not even one of those hundreds or thousands of people say something to the media or on FB or tell their relatives?

No way. You can’t have a conspiracy of hundreds or thousands.