Posted on 08/04/2014 2:32:50 PM PDT by mojito
A patient at Mount Sinai Hospital was under treatment Monday afternoon, after being tested after traveling to a country where the Ebola virus is present, the hospital said in a statement.
The man arrived at the East Harlem medical center’s emergency room early Monday morning with high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms. The man told doctors he had recently traveled to a West African country where Ebola has been reported, the hospital said.
The man has been placed in “strict isolation” and is undergoing various tests to determine the cause of the symptoms, the hospital said.
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....Add to that with open borders.
What about the ship’s crew?
Shouldn’t the people on the mainland be equally exposed to the potential dangers of ebola?
It’s only faaaaair to do so.
It’s not a cruel joke — it’s reality.
Not only those exposed on the airliner, but all those Africans walking across our Obama-opened borders. How soon will it sweep across America? How contagious is ebola, really? They never tell the whole truth about such things.
He’s working hard to reach his goal before 2016, and that’s assuming he ever plans to leave the WH.
I read there’s been 2000 dead since 1976. That is not exponential, IMO.
Apparently they get a lot of false negatives in the initial tests, so these two could have been infected.
Or maybe not.
I don’t think people should get hysterical. This site looks like the chicken yard in the rainstorm...the sky is falling, the sky is falling. Hysteria doesn’t help.
Figure out reasonable precautions and take them.
If the disease is here, it’s here and it’s too late to stop it. Flights from the affected countries should have been halted long ago, but it’s too late now. This has gone well beyond those African countries.
Actually, it has gone from one victim, occurring not too long ago, to hundreds at this moment. Also, the fear of Ebola is that it has the ability to explode if not dealt with. Furthermore, we all make comments; my comments are just that; I won’t bore everyone by trying to close down all avenues of nuances, extrapolations, inferences, etc.
“Now the fat is really in the fire. Lagos is Africa’s biggest city,
with 21 million people, and one of the world’s most crowded, with poor
healthcare infrastructure.
“A businessman relative informs me that he has seen many Nigerian
market women at Beijing airport who spend their lives flying from
Lagos via Abu Dhabi to buy cheap goods in China and take them back
home to sell. Enterprising Nigerian traders travel to every world
market. - Mod.JW”
From promed.org
Or maybe some of Obama’s terrorist buds who have crossed the open border will even get the bright idea of making dirty bombs of the virus to let loose across the country.
As the back entrance of hospitals sees a daily fleet of hearse rolling in....They're experts!
Hot Zone wasn’t a novel. The healthy monkeys on the other side of the lab became infected with ebola with no physical contact to the diseased monkeys.
Stay safe.
It isn't airborne, but it can be aerosolized, such as by sneezing. It can also live outside a host for several days.
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php
And what self-destructive % don’t give a damn?
Cue the movie “OUTBREAK”!
If it is not easily spread, then how did the treating doctors get infected? I’m sure they took a lot more precautions than the people sitting next to Ebola carriers on airplanes and subways .
When the Black Death was spread via trading ship, the European populace had no inkling that a deadly infection was being transported to its shores. In the case of the ebola outbreak, no one can claim ignorance regarding the risk. Why are common sense measures to curtail its spread not being taken?
” In the case of the ebola outbreak, no one can claim ignorance regarding the risk. Why are common sense measures to curtail its spread not being taken?”
Money and politics.
Common sense measures would involve interrupting travel in some fashion. Anything that would slow down international travel is going to cost someone money. And politicians will continue to serve the interests of big money right up to the day that the fourth horseman of the apocalypse rides into town carrying the plague.
Exactly. Keep the public in the dark. They’ll just panic.
Also, how can Dems not secure our border and allow in the ‘children’ by the thousands when Ebola is on the loose? 21 day incubation period is plenty of time to travel to Mexico and then into the U.S.
Imagine just 20 purposefully infected people going to 20 major U.S. cities. ISIS has how many hundreds of millions of dollars in oil money to spend?
Now more than ever we need to control or borders.
Instead, it’s a joke.
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