Posted on 10/15/2014 1:55:41 AM PDT by sunmars
True. Like one poster said the virus is replicating at an astonishing rate in your bloodstream long before you show symptoms. It's just that the amount of the viral pathogen in your blood must reach a certain threshold before you're symptomatic. Nobody really knows exactly what that pathogen level must be to be contagious.
Which is why the time it takes an international airline flight to reach the U.S. is the perfect way to expose hundreds of people to ebola and bring them here to spread it.
Is ISIS (ISIL as obama says) in the White House?
Clearest, most understandable explanation I’ve read yet. You are CORRECT, they don’t know...but they’ll act like they do.
Thx for the post!
Speechless ping
The party line is to blame "cuts to the CDC budget," even though the CDC got $400 million more than they requested in this year's so-called budget.
But facts won't get in the way of Dem propaganda.
The good Doctor also has only so much plasma. You can only go to the well so often...
After scientists cashed in their reputation over global warming they now have a total credibility problem, and for good reason.
You forgot one. Somewhere in there is: mob DC, every politician gets to meet his personal hemp rope and lamp post.
Those aren’t hospitals they are research facilities.
That's news right there. I just thought he parrots whatever Jarrett tells him.
Him I expect to do the right thing. Maybe 2 more. But lets face it. The rest are on board with Barry and one great man isn’t a buffer against the rest of them.
Cruz is great. But the GOP is what it is what it’s actions show. I wish he would separate because himself from their yoke.
Thanks for the info.
Look up UN Agenda 21/Wildlands Project/Turtle Island/Population
Perfect storm.
So far, it’s all “contained” in Dallas and Thomas Eric Duncan related. The game changer will be when one (or more) cases shows up in ANOTHER metro area and repeats. A few game changers and society (as we know it breaks down).
If there are dozens of “hot spots” you going to fly? Send you kids to school? Walk thru the mall (or even a grocery store)?
The next week to ten days may be brutally historic.
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I wish he would separate himself from their yoke.
We are in a world of trouble. The hospital had patient zero in the ER for hours in the ER waiting for treatment, next to other patients. The nurses who treated him went on to treat other patients.
Yeah, why was it CDC Level 4 protocols/containment before Dallas/Duncan, and what looks like Level 3 or lower protocol AFTER Dallas?? Remember the doctor/missionary patients flown to one of the 4 Biohazard Level 4 equipped hospitals w/a total of 19 beds? A good investigative reporter need to get their teeth into this! (Oops bad choice of words). I notice the CDC Ebola page now has the prior “Ebola is a biohazard level 4 virus” references scrubbed...I was reading at the site about a week ago and the level 4 refs. where there, now I can’t find them. Based on the following CDC links, I thing the Dallas hospital is doing Level 2 or 3 at best: http://www.cdc.gov/training/QuickLearns/biosafety/ & http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/infection-prevention-and-control-recommendations.html
A few years ago I was sitting next to a woman on an airplane on an international (long) flight. She was coughing and sneezing. She didn't look or act like she had a fever but I worried that I would end up catching something. I wanted to change seats but the flight was full. She had a heavy eastern-European accent, maybe Czech or Polish, so I thought whatever she has must be something exotic to my own immune system.
Two to three days later I got really sick, with flu-like symptoms. I was terribly sick for the first three days, and then slowly recovered over the next week. I wonder how many others sitting on that airplane had the same problem?
You're right, airplane travel is a great way to get sick -- both from actively sick people too selfish to ground themselves, and from the surfaces touched by them (maybe from the last flight or the one before, or before that...).
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz called Tuesday for a ban on travelers from West African countries grappling with Ebola.
“Common sense dictates that we should impose a travel ban on commercial airline flights from nations afflicted by Ebola,” he said by phone from Texas.
“There’s no reason to allow ongoing commercial air traffic out of those countries.”
Public polls show broad support for barring the entry of travelers from those countries. But top public health experts argue that such a ban would hamper efforts to control the outbreak in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea — making an international pandemic more likely.
“If we do things that unintentionally make it harder to get that response in, to get supplies in, that make it harder for those governments to manage ... it’s going to become much harder to stop the outbreak at the source,” Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday. “If that were to happen, it would spread for more months and potentially to other countries, and that would increase rather than decrease the risk to Americans.”
Cruz agreed that the United States should send medical teams and supplies. But he said military transports would suffice.
The real problem is the epidemic in Africa is growing, and as more and more people get it the risk of some of them traveling to the U.S. and causing new unsuspected clusters will grow.
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