Ebola chan, have pestilence, will travel.
Posted on 11/07/2018 12:35:55 PM PST by BenLurkin
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield said Monday that the Ebola outbreak in conflict-ridden Congo has become so serious that international public health experts need to consider the possibility that it cannot be brought under control and instead will become entrenched.
If that happened, it would be the first time since the deadly viral disease was first identified in 1976 that an Ebola outbreak led to the persistent presence of the disease. In all previous outbreaks, most of which took place in remote areas, the disease was contained before it spread widely. The current outbreak is entering its fourth month, with nearly 300 cases, including 186 deaths.
If Ebola becomes endemic in substantial areas of North Kivu province, in northeastern Congo, “this will mean that we’ve lost the ability to trace contacts, stop transmission chains and contain the outbreak,” said Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, which hosted the briefing on Capitol Hill that featured the Ebola discussion with Redfield.
In that scenario, there would be a sustained and unpredictable spread of the deadly virus, with major implications for travel and trade....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Is this the 3rd or 4th Horse of the Apocalypse ?
Easy. Travel ban. now.
Build a wall! Seriously, Nobody out
Dunno, but it could take out the entire eastern hemisphere and I wouldn’t mind.
Thanks for posting. Health/life BUMP!
Totally agree!!! Last time, Hussein 0bama's solution was to bring them to the US.
Ebola chan, have pestilence, will travel.
They’ll all board planes and come to the US for medical care or the US health care folks will bring it back with them. It’s only a matter of time.
I would mind-—a lot.
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Sure it is containable. Nobody has the political will to do it. Coming to an inner-city near you.
That's the obvious, rational solution, isn't it? But... "racism!!!!"
This new CDC director is an actual rational scientist, conservative on the issue. He should also re-ban entry of HIV/AIDS infected non-citizens into the country.
The White Horse.
If there was a Jewish temple in Jerusalem and we were in the seven year Tribulation, most conservative evangelicals would see it as the fourth, the pale-greenish horse.
If it ever gets here, I predict that a major transmission vector will be our gay community. They don’t exactly have a great track record mitigating the effects of communicable diseases in their midst, even with the prognosis is deadly.
Thank God Trump is POTUS. In case anyone doesn’t remember, Obama brought Ebola to the US like an idiot.
It will be illegal aliens working in the food service industry.
Offering up “nuke it from or it” as a solution ...
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