Posted on 10/14/2014 6:48:29 AM PDT by walford
The potential spread of Ebola into Central and Southern America is a real possibility, the commander of U.S. Southern Command told an audience at the National Defense University here yesterday.
“By the end of the year, there’s supposed to be 1.4 million people infected with Ebola and 62 percent of them dying, according to the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention],” Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly said. “That’s horrific. And there is no way we can keep Ebola [contained] in West Africa.”
If it comes to the Western Hemisphere, many countries have little ability to deal with an outbreak of the disease, the general said.
“So, much like West Africa, it will rage for a period of time,” Kelly said.
This is a particularly possible scenario if the disease gets to Haiti or Central America, he said. If the disease gets to countries like Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador, it will cause a panic and people will flee the region, the general said.
“If it breaks out, it’s literally, ‘Katie bar the door,’ and there will be mass migration into the United States,” Kelly said. “They will run away from Ebola, or if they suspect they are infected, they will try to get to the United States for treatment.”
Also, transnational criminal networks smuggle people and those people can be carrying Ebola, the general said. Kelly spoke of visiting the border of Costa Rica and Nicaragua with U.S. embassy personnel. At that time, a group of men “were waiting in line to pass into Nicaragua and then on their way north,” he recalled.
“The embassy person walked over and asked who they were and they told him they were from Liberia and they had been on the road about a week,” Kelly continued. “They met up with the network in Trinidad and now they were on their way to the United States -- illegally, of course.”
Those men, he said, “could have made it to New York City and still be within the incubation period for Ebola.”
Kelly said his command is in close contact with U.S. Africa Command to see what works and what does not as it prepares for a possible outbreak in the area of operations.
At what point do we finally say “enough is enough”?
At what point do we finally say “enough is enough”?
I would love to see Gen. Kelly militarize the southern border at the request of the three Republican governors, or on his own initiative, James Mattoon Scott style.......
Closing the border for Ebola control would prove that the Democrats have been lying all these years.They won’t close the borders and cut off the flow of third-worlders they want as voters.
Yes, there was but the powers that be decided not to treat it like any past level 4 pathogen and let it spread. They even let it fly.
When you do something like that you are doing it deliberately.
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...
I would love to see Gen. Kelly militarize the southern border at the request of the three Republican governors, or on his own initiative, James Mattoon Scott style.......
When the very last RINO is crapping out the last few drops of his blood supply, he will with his dying breath gasp, "enough you guys, enough"
He won't quite bring himself to finish with "control the border"...
Maybe someone should convince the Dems that people getting through with Ebola will infect and kill off a large percentage of their current voters.
Maybe someone should convince the Dems that people getting through with Ebola will infect and kill off a large percentage of their current voters.
True. The only thing that would work is the Pinochet solution.
Exactly. That’s what I find to be so confusing. Hispanics and Blacks in this country will be infected first, and die off in large numbers, which is exactly what the administration should not want.
I seems more likely they are trying to start a severe civil disturbance so they can declare Martial Law, and suspend the Congress.
It’s racist to stop travel from thee small African countries.
It’s not racist to stand by and do nothing to stop millions of peoples across 5 different continents die, when you had the ability to stop it.
It’s racist to stop travel from thee small African countries.
It’s not racist to stand by and do nothing to stop millions of peoples across 5 different continents die, when you had the ability to stop it.
The CDC and DoD did a bang-up job handling an Ebola outbreak in suburban Washington in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s. Most of their efforts were spent covering their own asses and shifting blame elsewhere. They were running around the infected area with no hazmat suits — and even sent a potentially infected patient to Fairfax Hospital [a major regional hospital sitting right next to the Capital Beltway] w/o telling the staff.
The only reason it was contained then [and why I’m still here to tell you, being a native to the DC area] was because that particular strain was only infectious amongst the lab monkeys.
We therefore have every reason to be confident that the government is doing the right thing and that political considerations will not trump public health. Anyone who doesn’t understand and accept that is a NASCAR-watching, Bud Lite swilling, Fox News watching, Bible-thumping, racist troglodyte.
http://ispub.com/IJPRM/2/1/12768
Tweets from the World Health Organization official account this morning:
-Dr Bruce Aylward: As of this morning 8,914 #Ebola cases and 4,447 deaths have been reported to WHO
-Dr Aylward: By December 2014, 5,000 to 10,000 #Ebola cases per week anticipated in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
After Hazelton Research Products sent them the samples, the Army took over the lab, killed the monkeys and sterilized the building.
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