CDC Designates El Paso an Ebola Quarantine Site

KVIA-TV ^ | Thursday, July 31, 2014 | Darren Hunt

[kristinn]

The Centers for Disease Control has designated El Paso as one of 20 quarantine stations for the ebola virus.

The Sun City is part of a comprehensive system designed to prevent the spread of the disease in the United States.

While ebola has never been detected in the U.S., that doesn't mean it can't make its way to the country. The biggest concern is at airports with international flights and ports of entry, which there are a lot of in the Borderland.

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The CDC released a map showing the 20 quarantine stations designated across the country, including El Paso, mostly where international travelers arrive. The closest ones are in San Diego and Dallas.

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El Paso International Airport officials confirmed that it is a designated CDC quarantine site, but only in the event the CDC activates it.

In the unlikely event there were an ebola scare in the Borderland, bi-national communication between the CDC and Mexico's Department of Health would be key to keeping it contained.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I cannot understand why there is not a ban and quarantine on flights in and out of Africa.
I am totally against bringing into the country any cases of Ebola for treatment.
The CDC is out of it's mind here and so is the WHO.
Also it is lunacy for Obama to be having the African summit and allowing all these countries to bring these huge delegations into this country for a meaningless meeting.
The odds of someone or many people in these delegations having Ebola is too great to permit this.

[Jane Long]

Agree. Those mountains do not look like the Franklin Mountains.

[EBH]

Agreed it didn’t seem to affect humans, but it appeared to act as if airborne. I don’t think they ever bothered to try to determine if it truly was...

[LegendHasIt]

And there was a faux doctor on Faux News yesterday telling the sheep that Ebola is not communicable, except like AIDS through blood, or ‘intimate contact’.

[familyop]

I don’t recall, but traffic between Africa and Europe is normally heavy. There was one tested in the U.K. The result was negative.

[Tammy8]

As I understand it Ebola can also live on surfaces- dry or wet for another 20 something days. The time frame makes it very hard to deal with I would think.

[Paladin2]

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[Paladin2]

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[TheThirdRuffian]

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