Posted on 10/20/2014 12:22:21 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
Some students in Burlington County are being kept home from school due to fears stemming from the Ebola outbreak.
A message on the Maple Shade School District's website says students who have spent time in an unspecified part of eastern Africa were scheduled to begin classes in the district today.
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Eastern Africa? Probably as far from Liberia as Burlington County is.
Idiots panic.
Yes because our govt has this under control.
Idiots? You’d leave your children in school? Not sure I would.
Why would you take your kids out of school because some other students went to eastern Africa?
Simple - out of “an abundance of caution” and because I don’t trust the government to have screened the returning students.
Why would the returning students need to be screened? They are from Rwanda. Not Liberia. Not Sierra Leone. Not Guinea. Not even Nigeria.
Sudan Ebola is just as deadly as Zaire Ebola, and Rwandans routinely go to “superior” Ugandan medical facilities FWIW. We are on high alert here, since 10 miles away, LRAFB is flying directly in and out of Monrovia, Liberia supporting troops on the ground. Crews spend the night in Liberia and then head back to LRAFB.
Yes, due to the fact that I understand the geography of Africa, map reading and that a person that does not have Ebola cannot transmit Ebola.
But there hasn’t been an outbreak of Sudan Ebola, nor have there been any reported cases of Ebola (Sudan or Zaire strains) in Rwanda, Uganda, or anywhere else within ~2,500 miles of where these kids are from. Quarantining them is ridiculous.
Thank you!
There is more the one outbreak of this virus. All across Africa. The Eastern outbreaks are relatively new and not out of control. Supposedly one is the Marburg strain. Very nasty.
Wow.
Because they came back?
Do you have a source for ANY of this?
Supposedly one is the Marburg strain. Very nasty.
Marburg is a different virus, not a "strain" of Ebola.
Came back from a country that is ~2,500 miles from the Ebola-affected regions.
How many thousands of miles is the US from the Ebola countries?
A bit less than 5,000 miles (at the closest points). What does that have to do with anything?
Your angle is that these students are from a country far, far away from Ebola counties. The U.S. is farther away, yet we have Ebola infections here. I don’t blame the parents one bit for keeping their kids home.
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