But not to worry, we have our leading "experts" working on the problem right here in the good 'ole USA ...
Ping!
That was quick.
over 100 medical personnel have now died - some of them doctors, most of them nurses tending the dying.
Terrible. Just the sort of person they or we for that matter cannot afford to lose. The more degraded the health care system is there, the more likely we will be to face this disease in our streets.
So it is hard to get and there’s nothing to worry about and no need to panic.
And it’s not coming to the USA.
EXPERTS: EBOLA COULD CROSS UNSECURED U.S. BORDER
“...However, a senate aide told Breitbart News Friday that Congress is monitoring the border for a potential Ebola outbreak. “Committee staff are in regular contact with CDC, [Customs and Border Protection], and other agencies to monitor the Ebola virus outbreak in Western Africa,” the Senate aide said. “Our porous southern border remains a major concern.”
Dr. Jane Orient, the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, said Americans should be concerned about this.
“It’s a question for which there are many unknowns,” Orient said in a phone interview. “We do know that people from affected areas of West Africa have been apprehended at the border in the last few years. I don’t know how recently it’s happened, and I don’t know how quickly someone could get here from there—so I don’t really know if there is any infected person who could survive long enough to cross the border, but the incubation period is as long as 21 days. Or if they are coming into Central America, then maybe they’re exposing other people who are then taking it here from there. Once you have one infected person, you could have a whole series of other contacts and so on.”
Orient said the risk of infectious disease spreading across the southern U.S. border is serious, adding that nefarious forces such as biological terrorists may try to exploit the virtually non-existent security along the U.S. border with Mexico to introduce a biological threat like Ebola into the United States....”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/08/Experts-Ebola-Could-Cross-Unsecured-U-S-Border
I normally do not get to concerned about these types of breakouts as they often dissipate before reaching across the world. That being said, this particular Ebola breakout appears to be extremely contagious given the number of medical personal it has taken out in Africa. The people that deal with these types of situations are trained to protect themselves and they are still dropping like flies.
Very sad.