great, they are laying groundwork for the ability to quarantine and go after you if you have certain animals on your land or around you.
you have to leave your house or be quarantined. you have bats (or whatever animal du jour) and they’re a vector. dhs is here to remove you to a “safe place”.
Obie’s best friend and terrorist, Billy Ayers is smiling.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."-- H.L. Mencken
By some remarkable coincidence, a bit later in this article from 1918, he cites as an example "infectious scares", not -- if you please! -- referring to the infamous Spanish "Flu" of the era, but rather to diphtheria.
When health "experts" demonstrate that ebola does NOT kill people faster than its incubation period, THEN, and only them, might we have a problem. Until such time, articles such as this are simply claptrap and illustrate Mencken's point perfectly.
Well, let’s hope it doesn’t make a jump to chickens. In that host it could do some gene exchanges with other viruses and possibly become airborne transmittable.
Whew, looks like I'm safe. I only have squirrels, raccoons, cats, opossums and skunks traversing my back yard and deck.
What if Ebola jumps to the USA, and jumps to our feral pigs via escaping domesticated pigs? There are indications that Eboloa might be spread by mosquitoes from “reservoir to reservoir” of host species. Then we’d have a harbor population of Ebola in the wild, similar to rodents carrying the plague. Makes it very hard to eradicate.
Man, it’s a threat to dogs and bacon. This is serious!