[bitt]

'An encitement to panic or to declare an unsupported crisis will hardly lead to the best course of containment or treatment and it is not in our better interest to light the lanterns and go running through the streets.'

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the Article posted was quoting the spokesperson from the CDC. IMO, the CDC has done everything possible to keep the level of info/panic below the radar.

For this person to make such a statement is therefore like she jumped up and shrieked "We're all gonna die!!!".

[Old Professer]

I'm not quite clear on your point but for a CDC official to make such an irresponsible conclusion from what has yet to prove to be a widely transmissible pathogen while under the microscope of all the world's epidemiologists strikes me as being a bit self-serving.

First of all, if a new pathogen surfaces with no understood etiology it would be a much more serious threat since we would have no way to track or even identify it; but for a well understood source to rather suddenly show itself to be cross-transmissible we have a clear idea of what to avoid and it is in the avoidance of infection that the greater gains are made prior to a proven treatment or vaccine.

This article has the ring of the Beggar's Bell to me - but then, I'm a cynic.