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CDC: Airborne Ebola possible but unlikely
The Hill ^ | 10/07/14 | Elise Viebeck

Posted on 10/08/2014 5:28:36 AM PDT by Enlightened1

The Ebola virus becoming airborne is a possible but unlikely outcome in the current epidemic, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Tom Frieden said Tuesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: airborne; cdc; ebola; possible
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So now the CDC went from "impossible".... to now well possible but unlikely. Yeah uh huh just like it was unlikely to come here with our open borders and THAT... just happened.
1 posted on 10/08/2014 5:28:36 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

That means it’s VERY possible.


2 posted on 10/08/2014 5:30:25 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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Judging by their the track record, the CDC doesn't say something is "possible but highly unlikely" until it's already occurred.

Every time they say something to reassure the public, I feel less reassured.

3 posted on 10/08/2014 5:30:40 AM PDT by grania
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To: V_TWIN

Bingo!


4 posted on 10/08/2014 5:32:29 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: grania

I feel the same way!


5 posted on 10/08/2014 5:32:43 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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How dare the CDC deter from their prime directive
of protecting Moslem self-esteem and keeping
the American public dumb as possible.


6 posted on 10/08/2014 5:32:47 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: Enlightened1

How did the Spanish nurse get it when she followed the standard protocols for avoiding infection?


7 posted on 10/08/2014 5:33:37 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Diogenesis

That’s right! They are suppose to be telling us everything is going to be okay. Yeah uh huh...(sarcasm off)


8 posted on 10/08/2014 5:33:59 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: txrefugee

Yep and no telling how many people she infected in the hospital. I guess we will all know in 30 to 60 days for sure.


9 posted on 10/08/2014 5:34:48 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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Is that ‘unlikely’ like it probably won’t happen, or ‘unlikely’ as in ‘unlikely to spread to the US’?


10 posted on 10/08/2014 5:35:28 AM PDT by skeeter
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Some Ebola experts worry virus may spread more easily than assumed

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-questions-20141007-story.html#page=1


11 posted on 10/08/2014 5:36:43 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather ("The Border Is On Fire & Washington Is Sending Us Gasoline" AZ Ranchers John Ladd & Fred Davis 7/14)
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To: Enlightened1

Oh jeez, we’re screwed, aren’t we?


12 posted on 10/08/2014 5:37:09 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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That means it’s VERY possible.

Given the current regime, that means it's already happened.

13 posted on 10/08/2014 5:39:17 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: Caipirabob

Been listening to Major Garrett?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6zNfI4oVjZc


14 posted on 10/08/2014 5:39:18 AM PDT by NoNAIS (Yet another Government program not needed.)
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To: null and void

Ping.


15 posted on 10/08/2014 5:40:43 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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It’s most likely airborne now. I’ve read at least half a dozen stories where the writer got infected being extremely careful and has no idea how it happened. There are likely many strains out there picking up hosts. Ten months in and a mutation hasn’t happened? In a virus that is known for it’s fast adaptability and mutations? Ya, uh huh, okay.

The number of persons infected with Ebola is doubling every 7 days. You do the math, how many infected after another 10 months? As the number of persons infected rises, so does the chance of it mutating and becoming more virulent. This is the point of no return, right now. Either quarantine Africa, make the hard but safe decisions, and watch as it burns itself out finding no new hosts to infect OR watch it burn through every continent on Earth.

What happens when there are thousands, or tens of thousands of infected in ONE city? Where are you going to go? The hospital? Out back in a tent in the alley by the kitchens refuse disposal? While you watch exhausted nurses and doctors fall like flies who end up next to you on a plastic mat, bleeding out their organs through their eyes, with no one to administer care to anyone. Maybe that’s what it will take to cure the real disease of PC tolerance and non hurt feelings that has made it possible.


16 posted on 10/08/2014 5:42:14 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Enlightened1

And why would any American believe anything the CDC puts out?

H1N1 was supposed to ravage the country and was just a flash in the pan


17 posted on 10/08/2014 5:46:27 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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“The number of persons infected with Ebola is doubling every 7 days”

I read it’s doubling every 3 weeks. This is because it’s undetectable for 3 weeks.


18 posted on 10/08/2014 5:47:42 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

19 posted on 10/08/2014 5:49:58 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: yldstrk

Right... Whatever they say it’s just the opposite.

Same goes for their numbers. If it’s good number, then generally it’s over estimated by 2 1/2 to 3 times whatever they say.

If it’s a bad number, then it’s 2 1/2 to 3 times whatever number they say.

That’s how you get a close estimate to the real number like unemployment.


20 posted on 10/08/2014 5:51:29 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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