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CDC Issues Highest Emergency Alert Amid Ebola Outbreak
NBC News ^ | August 6, 2014 | nbcnews.com

Posted on 08/06/2014 4:57:42 PM PDT by John W

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday ramped up its response to the expanding Ebola outbreak, a move that frees up hundreds of employees and signals the agency sees the health emergency as a potentially long and serious one.

The CDC’s “level 1 activation” is reserved for the most serious public health emergencies, and the agency said the move was appropriate considering the outbreak’s “potential to affect many lives.” The CDC took a similar move in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and again in 2009 during the bird-flu threat.

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KEYWORDS: ebola
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To: John W

Hmmm. I wonder if this Ebola thing is a cover up for CDC’s “level 1 activation” due to the diseases being brought across the border with Barry’s Kids. I don’t think this is a coincidence.


41 posted on 08/06/2014 6:17:22 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp! It is my home!!!)
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To: stanne

We have plenty of military in Africa, they can become infected, as can any other American.

Christian missionaries nor any other American travels in Africa with an agreement that a monster like you will condemn them to death if they get ill.

Your panic and hysteria, and anti-Christian bias is disturbing, and frankly your hysteria about two people being treated at the very clinic that was built to treat CDC people for this very thing is a sign of fear out of control, especially since you would have no problem with it if they were two GIs.


42 posted on 08/06/2014 6:17:57 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: John W

I would not make too much of the term “Grave”.

Anyone who get’s Ebola is in “grave” condition. No matter how they are presenting at the moment.

I think the hoopla over the term is largely a American issue and not any other country. Americans seem to be having a “bloody good” time with it.


43 posted on 08/06/2014 6:20:28 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Hmmm. I wonder if this Ebola thing is a cover up for CDC’s “level 1 activation” due to the diseases being brought across the border with Barry’s Kids. I don’t think this is a coincidence.

Good point and pretty typical of how they operate.

44 posted on 08/06/2014 6:23:26 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: DonaldC

They haven’t brought Ebola “to America”, for one thing labs in America and Canada already have Ebola, and have for years, they infect animals with it for research.

You really seem to believe that those two patients will decide our future with Ebola, that it will either escape or remain in isolation there, and that is what the threat to America is from Ebola, not other people, not strangers, travelers, terrorists, illegals, only those two being treated in the best Ebola clinic in the world.


45 posted on 08/06/2014 6:24:22 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: KGeorge

Didn’t Franklin Graham’s missionary organization bring them home for treatment?

I doubt the government ordered them to come home for medical treatment.


46 posted on 08/06/2014 6:27:18 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: TADSLOS
While this very real potential of ebola spreading worldwide, I suspect this sudden CDC reversal is nothing but smoke and mirrors. It's a distraction from some other even more devastating deed from the Evil Won.
47 posted on 08/06/2014 6:27:20 PM PDT by bgill
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To: John W
I have a concern with the first doctor walking into the hospital a couple days after being described as in grave condition.

Why?

48 posted on 08/06/2014 6:32:45 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: bgill
I think it's far more likely that they are putting everyone on call to do screening, investigation and hand holding of a American public that is reaching hysterical-mass. Yes, I just invented a new term......
49 posted on 08/06/2014 6:32:47 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: ansel12

Well, having a healthy distrust of our government based on a history of lying to us it just seems somewhat strange that he went from grave to walking himself in within a couple days.

Then he is brought here first before they lady who then is wheeled in.

I think it’s possibly better to approach this discussion as we would any issue that involves the government although that is difficult when good Americans are ill.


50 posted on 08/06/2014 6:47:14 PM PDT by John W (Summer of Recovery VI: This Time We're Serious)
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To: DonaldC

Well, the clown did say he’s got Africa in his blood - Maybe he thinks we should too


51 posted on 08/06/2014 6:47:37 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Cold Heat

Crowd control always does seem to be foremost for the authorities.


52 posted on 08/06/2014 6:48:33 PM PDT by John W (Summer of Recovery VI: This Time We're Serious)
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To: John W

You you think that Franklin Graham and his Christian missionaries are pulling some sort of scam?


53 posted on 08/06/2014 6:54:37 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12

Is Franklin the government? No, I do not.


54 posted on 08/06/2014 6:57:40 PM PDT by John W (Summer of Recovery VI: This Time We're Serious)
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To: John W

perfect


55 posted on 08/06/2014 7:03:48 PM PDT by EBH (And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
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To: John W

Well it is Franklin Graham, the missionaries and their organization Samaritan’s Purse that this is all about, so if it isn’t hem, then it isn’t anyone else.


56 posted on 08/06/2014 7:05:04 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: John W

Especially this government..


57 posted on 08/06/2014 7:05:26 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: ansel12

We do not send troops expressly on missions to take care of Ebola patients

Monster?

I’m repeating what dr Ben Carson said. And I agree with him. Take it up w him


58 posted on 08/06/2014 7:22:21 PM PDT by stanne
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To: John W; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
Bring Out Your Dead

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...

59 posted on 08/06/2014 7:23:07 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: Cold Heat

Of course, as I SAID, if it’s in the interest of protecting and defending the country
This is a waste of time

Pretzel logic


60 posted on 08/06/2014 7:25:03 PM PDT by stanne
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