Posted on 09/03/2014 7:58:38 PM PDT by markomalley
The Ebola outbreak has dropped off the front pages, pushed aside by news from the Middle East and Ukraine.
But the epidemic is not contained and is getting out of control, says the director of the Center for Disease Control:
The director for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says that the Ebola outbreak is going to get worse.
Speaking to “CBS This Morning” following his trip to the West African countries dealing with the outbreak, Dr. Tom Frieden explained that they have to act now to try to get Ebola under control.
“It is the world’s first Ebola epidemic and it is spiraling out of control. It’s bad now and it’s going to get worse in the very near future,” Frieden told CBS News. “There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.”
Frieden, who visited Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, will tell Washington tomorrow that the Ebola outbreak is “spiraling upward.” The CDC director explained that these countries still need help to deal with the deadly outbreak.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
All flight from these countries, or anyone visiting them, should be stopped. Very risky to fly people in.
Bring Out Your Dead
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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...
This is a minor problem compared to the biggies, like
Meet you at Hershel’s farm - bring your bugout bag.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
And, now they are starting to warn colleges...from what I hear....
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“It is the world’s first Ebola epidemic and it is spiraling out of control. It’s bad now and it’s going to get worse in the very near future,” Frieden told CBS News. “There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.”
Oh, good! They're going to "act now!"....finally :-/
When you don’t obey the laws of quarantine...
Sure. So what is actually being done ?
More 'scientists' are being flown to Sierra Leone. The natives are rioting. The medical staff are on strike. And we are allowing anyone who can get to the Southern Border of the US to waltz in without any quarantine period or medical testing, or even any questions.
Makes you feel good inside, doesn't it ?
You misunderstand. By "act now" they mean that they want the MONEY FIRST, then they will do something.
This same subject was brought up in a similar thread yesterday and they said, "But we need the money first".
"Act" = think up some strategy in the next few months.
0bola needs $$ upfront....to *minimize* the problem.
Where you bleed,
I will follow
I find Ebola to be quite a disappointment as pandemics go. The death toll has been abysmal, just a few hundred, yet thousands of cases are reported. And now that they have new drugs, the death rate will drop even more. How boring! It’s been hyped for weeks, spreading from one third-world country to another, but nothing approaching the number of people killed by the ISIS disease. We don’t hear much about that, because journalists would have to blame a group of people which has been cutting heads off of their peers. Journalists are generally chicken$#!+ cowards and are afraid of moslems in general and ISIS in particular. So we get more stories of Ebola.
This guy Rick Moran that “writes” for American Thinker has got some kind of a racket. 80%, at least, of his articles are written by somebody else. He excerpts articles, writes a short lead-in and a conclusion. What a job. Wish I had one like that.
Maybe some nuclear medicine will solve the problem...
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