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Ebola can spread like 'forest fire,' US warns
Yahoo News ^ | July 29, 2014 | By Kerry Sheridan

Posted on 07/29/2014 11:10:50 AM PDT by garjog

""The likelihood of this outbreak spreading beyond West Africa is very low," admitted Stephan Monroe, deputy director of the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: apocalypse; ebola; outbreak; pandemic
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To: informavoracious

“Unless the goal is to reduce the population”

100 million fewer Americans = less global warming, better air quality, reduced carbon emissions and world peace.

Perfect environmental final solution.


21 posted on 07/29/2014 11:37:48 AM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: garjog

Why does everyone worry about ebola?
We have stuff here in the USA that is just as deadly, things like hantavirus, a hemorrhagic fever disease.


22 posted on 07/29/2014 11:39:07 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Unarmed people cannot defend themselves. America is no longer a Free Country.)
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To: WayneS

With that virus ... they should be dropping something else from a plane.


23 posted on 07/29/2014 11:40:50 AM PDT by CapnJack
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To: garjog

Once again life imitates art . . . Clancy’s Executive Orders comes to life!


24 posted on 07/29/2014 11:46:28 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: BuffaloJack

Hanta virus can be survived, not as easily spread human to human.

Ebola is light years worse. This is the worst outbreak, all because it has spread from more remote regions to large cities.

IT IS SOMETHING EVERYONE SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT.


25 posted on 07/29/2014 11:52:03 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: garjog

She’ll be comin ‘round the border when she comes.


26 posted on 07/29/2014 11:53:07 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Truth is the enemy of our dysfunctional government.)
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If You Want To Keep FR
Support It


27 posted on 07/29/2014 11:53:32 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: garjog

This means they plan on releasing it into the wild at multiple points in the USA immediately, if not sooner.


28 posted on 07/29/2014 11:55:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: EBH
I think some extra sterile prep gear is in order…

And you are right. I used to chuckle at pictures of Japanese wearing surgical face masks while out in public. But it's a smart idea if this Ebola comes here. Also protective gloves. Too many people eat out at restaurants, many of which are fast-food outlets; now that may be something to avoid. Better to have stuff stored at home to ride out an epidemic should it occur. There will be run on prep gear and it will be quickly gone.

29 posted on 07/29/2014 11:56:11 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: BuffaloJack
And Obamacare, a hemorrhoid-like 'infliction' that results in a slow, agonizing descent in to bankruptcy.
30 posted on 07/29/2014 12:00:31 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: BuffaloJack

Really? How many active cases of hantavirus right now?


31 posted on 07/29/2014 12:06:46 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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To: RJS1950

It’s the only virus I’ve ever read about that remains virulent even from a corpse.


32 posted on 07/29/2014 12:09:53 PM PDT by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
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To: pierrem15

Burning the corpses to anything other than complete ash isn’t always effective.


33 posted on 07/29/2014 12:12:28 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: mware

As long as it is not airborne...
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As I understand it, the way it is spread, at this time, is through bodily fluids but all it would take is some infected women coming here with the sexual appetite of Sandra Flute and then katie bar the doors.


34 posted on 07/29/2014 12:12:34 PM PDT by RetSignman (obama: "For the love of Alinsky, how much more do I have to do to get them to impeach me"?)
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To: RJS1950

You sound really worked up about this. You probably should put a hashtag on that.


35 posted on 07/29/2014 12:14:41 PM PDT by Justa
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To: garjog

"TIME FOR PLAN B."

36 posted on 07/29/2014 12:51:43 PM PDT by jetson
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To: roadcat

Also keep in mind that with Ebola, the protocol has been to quarantine entire cities. No one in/out.


37 posted on 07/29/2014 1:09:05 PM PDT by EBH (And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
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To: EBH

Watching Cavuto, he said the CDC is telling hospitals to watch for the signs of Ebola.


38 posted on 07/29/2014 1:10:09 PM PDT by mware
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To: Paladin2
"That is clearly what happened in Liberia," he said, noting that the country made it for more than 21 days without cases, but Ebola returned. "They were reseeded by cases coming across the border, so until we can identify and interrupt every source of transmission, we won't be able to control the outbreak."

Sure, the likelihood of an outbreak is very low until it crosses the border. Then it's too late to close the barn door.

39 posted on 07/29/2014 1:14:05 PM PDT by bgill
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To: WayneS

Ebola outbreak: Is it time to test experimental vaccines?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3186347/posts

“This is clearly an outbreak across international borders and it has not been handled properly,” explains David Heymann, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), who was on-site at the first human Ebola outbreak in 1976.

He says the 24 known outbreaks of Ebola to date have shown that it should be easily controlled. “It’s not rocket science to control these outbreaks but instead basic epidemiology: infection control, hygiene practices, contact-tracing and safe burial practices,” says Heymann of the virus, which is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids. “Ebola is its own worst enemy, it’s too lethal and cannot sustain its own spread.”

But whilst it should be easily contained, this time something has gone wrong


40 posted on 07/29/2014 1:15:45 PM PDT by EBH (And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
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