Posted on 07/28/2014 9:18:11 PM PDT by Kartographer
Liberia, along with neighbouring Guinea and Sierra Leone, is struggling to contain an epidemic that has infected some 1,200 people and left at least 670 dead across the region since the start of the year.
Last week authorities in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown and Lagos in Nigeria announced their first cases, marking an alarming new front in the fight against a disease mainly confined to remote villages and rural outposts.
"All borders of Liberia will be closed with the exception of major entry points," Sirleaf said in a statement late Sunday.
Monrovia's international airport, a provincial airport and three major crossings were exempted from the closures.
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I kinda think it’s too late to worry about infected animals and raw meat...
E B O L A — Coming to a southern border near you.
If the Feds want to keep you IN, I’m sure they could close it ...
Actually, they don’t even have to go through the trouble of trying to get the infection here through a porous border.
They just have to infect a dozen or so Jihadis right before they board airliners bound for a dozen US cities. It is a very frightening scenario.
“They just have to infect a dozen or so Jihadis right before they board airliners bound for a dozen US cities. It is a very frightening scenario.”
How so? Do typical Americans swap bodily fluids with just-arrived Jihadis?
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...
Well, you can believe that it isn’t a threat, but if it weren’t, the CDC would not have issued this.
Additionally, if any of these potential domestic victims get infected, there is an indeterminate probability that the infection can be spread to loved ones, etc.
You don’t have to “swap bodily fluids” with an infected person in order to contract Ebola. It’s not like AIDS, much more virulent.
As far as we know, it has not yet gone airborne. However, it does live on surfaces.
We have two Americans currently suffering from this strain who were in full protective gear when exposed. Ebola is highly communicable even to those trying hard to avoid it.
From Gaffer’s CDC link:
“The prevention of Ebola virus infection includes measures to avoid contact with blood and body fluids of infected individuals and with objects contaminated with these fluids (e.g., syringes).”
I think most Americans are safe. Heck, with Obamacare it may even be safer. As in “take a number and we’ll call you when we’ve scheduled your emergency room appt.” And that’s before the ambulance and hospital union rules on contagious diseases kick in.
The horse has pretty much been out the gate for far too long to stop it now. ....and that goes for most things now coming into this nation...as well as what’s going out.
.....”If the Feds want to keep you IN, I’m sure they could close it”.....
That’s true, but it seems just the opposite, and this worldwide with borders mostly open......at very least to funnel those from one area to the next.
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