And with 30,000 per confirmed sick traveler, how many sick travelers before they quit trying to contain?
A repeat of my comment on http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3186471/posts?page=4#4 :
Fellow passengers on his plane were given warnings about the disease’s symptoms, which can include bleeding from the nose and mouth, but were allowed to continue on their journeys.
As Ebola has an incubation period of up to 21 days, there are fears that some may even now be spreading the disease still further.
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What?????
We are told not to worry because it takes close contact with an infected person to catch it, but now everybody who knows someone on the plane is at risk?
Let’s have Open Borders and let these poor people into the US. Aren’t we a compassionate country?
Doctors Without Borders says it’s “absolutely out of control,” and the outbreak “can only get worse.”
Meanwhile, Liberia is closing schools, but stopping short of using troops to quarantine villages.
Ruh roh, Raggy!
We should have those countries quarantined, but that would be racist!
it’s never been a matter of if, only a matter of when something like this would happen. We’re overdue.
Ebola has a 21 day incubation period...so how can they confine the massive number of people who were even in the airport, let alone the plain?
Liberia is not like the surrounding rural areas of other neighbor nations who have been containing this virus since the 70’s. It’s a major city with millions of people going thru their airports daily.
This is why ‘extreme measures’ are now being taken in Liberia....the cat got out of the bag into a major hub of International and national travel.....
TransmissionEbola is introduced into the human population through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals. In Africa, infection has been documented through the handling of infected chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines found ill or dead or in the rainforest.
Ebola then spreads in the community through human-to-human transmission, with infection resulting from direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and indirect contact with environments contaminated with such fluids. Burial ceremonies in which mourners have direct contact with the body of the deceased person can also play a role in the transmission of Ebola. Men who have recovered from the disease can still transmit the virus through their semen for up to 7 weeks after recovery from illness.
WHO – Ebola virus disease fact sheet
>So NOW they’re looking for the other people on plane with Ebola victim.<
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It may swim across the Rio Grande into the country and not be detected until it’s too late.
Yeah, another excuse to stop by the ammo store and buy some more.
Dark Winter was illuminating in many ways, but its most important finding is that the politicians were always 48-72 hours late with critical containment decisions.
EHF outbreaks have always burned out, because the virus kills the host too fast. However, there has never been an EHF outbreak in a typical West African "city" (really better described as a dump for human beings).
There's a lot we don't know, and the mortality in Western ICUs will undoubtedly be lower (if they can be staffed), but this has the potential to turn into a very big problem very fast.
George Will says we can let them all in ‘cause we are America!
BTW George Will may know baseball but otherwise I think that he is an idiot trying to insure his invitations to the Brie and Chablis parties in D.C. and the Hamptons.
Some are asking to bring two American workers HOME to the USA. They belong to Franklin Graham’s missionary group. They are infected. Are they nuts! This virus needs to be ISOLATED NOW!
At the risk of duplication, here’s a short video you really need to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnQVUf775VE#t=180
Somebody thinks this thing is airborne now if they are looking for all passengers on that plane and all their contacts in the last couple of weeks.
In other words, we all could have it.