Posted on 10/05/2014 1:54:45 PM PDT by djf
'In 1976 I discovered Ebola, now I fear an unimaginable tragedy'
Peter Piot was a researcher at a lab in Antwerp when a pilot brought him a blood sample from a Belgian nun who had fallen mysteriously ill in Zaire...
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Great article.
Good article.
He should have killed it then and there, but I guess he allowed it to live!
/s
Several things he said are worrisome:
“We Flemish tend to be rather unemotional, but it was at that point that I began to get really worried.”
“I really never thought that it could get this bad.”
“Even in 2014, we hardly have any way to combat this virus.”
“And it is clear that the virus is mutating.”
“... they died in their shacks and we couldn’t do anything except let them die. In principle, it’s still the same today. That is very depressing.”
In 1976 I discovered hang gliding, went on to graduate with a degree in electrical engineering, moved to San Diego and spent the next ten years as a mountain pilot.
It says the idiots in Africa transport dead O’Bola victims in taxis, in order to return them to their hometowns for burial !
Good grief, they’re as stupid as the CDC.
“A three-day curfew sounds a bit desperate.
“Yes, it is rather medieval. But what can you do? Even in 2014, we hardly have any way to combat this virus.”
Comments on this article in The Mail sound just like our comments….why can’t we keep infected people OUT OF OUR COUNTRY. Apparently we cannot.
In before the We are all screwed.
But seriously, folks...
He needs his fifteen minutes to cash in because it will not be as fearsome as he expects. Everything about ebola is hype, meant to get people to tune in to the TV news, so they can get the latest Democrat propaganda, just in time for the November elections. You watch, oil will go back up, unemployment will go back up, and they will stop bombing ISIS, unless they need it to distract from Executive Order Amnesty.
“In 1976 I discovered Ebola” - Al Gore ?
No he invented the internet and the global warming scam.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
The scientist seems to be most worried about people living in third world countries. We had a guy with TB in town awhile back that wouldn’t stay in quarantine. They caught the guy and confined him until the incubation period was over. Let say another patient zero get into cash strapped Detroit for example. Would there be enough resources to contain it if people didn’t want to be found?
I’m sure he found Ebola in the “Love Canal”.
In 1976 I. ........ was born!
What you say makes a lot of sense.
On the one hand, it was because their African regional office isn't staffed with the most capable people but with political appointees
Sounds familiar.
MINIMIZE MOBILITY FOR ALL CIVILIANS. PERIOD!
And yes, I am yelling.
… also contributed to the catastrophe. Because the people there are extremely mobile, it was much more difficult than usual to track down those who had had contact with the infected people. Because the dead in this region are traditionally buried in the towns and villages they were born in, there were highly contagious Ebola corpses traveling back and forth across the borders in pickups and taxis. The result was that the epidemic kept flaring up in different places.
BAN CIVILIAN TRAVEL.
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