Posted on 09/02/2014 6:46:05 AM PDT by Qiviut
Centers for Disease Control Director Tom Friedman did not return from his visit to West Africa, where the worst outbreak of Ebola in history has spread to five countries and killed at least 1,500 people, with any good news.
Friedman told CNN hosts on Tuesday that the Ebola outbreak in Africa is currently “completely out of control” and is now an “epidemic.” The CDC director added that “it will get worse in the future and our window of opportunity to turn it around is closing.”
*Ping*
So when do they plan on stopping all air travel
from Africa to this country?Or would that be politically incorrect?
But but.... the WHO is on top of things aren’t they? What could go wrong?
When the horse is out of the barn.
Bring Out Your Dead
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...
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thanks, Qiviut!
But while the West seems largely convinced that superior medical technology and detection methods will prevent the disease from spreading to the United States, two experts on viral outbreaks are not so sure.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal opinion pages, former Food and Drug Administration Deputy Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and former Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Tevi Troy do not expect the U.S. to escape the consequences of globalization that easily. “Given international travel, we will certainly see cases diagnosed here, and perhaps even experience some isolated clusters of disease,” they write, though noting that a West Africa-style outbreak is highly unlikely in the industrialized world.
Is that Billy Donovan on the left? Just wonderin'...
Even in Ferguson, I don't believe they'd loot the bloody mattresses. /S
As FReeper Iron Munro said in a comment to me the other day “Political correctness will probably kill more than evildoers.” I suspect PC will also get Americans in this country killed by Ebola.
When people refuse to abide by the rules of quarantine...
Compare how they treat Ebola with how a Foot and Mouth outbreak is handled.
One is very serious about quarantine, the other not at all.
link:
http://wildpro.twycrosszoo.org/S/00dis/viral/Disease_FMDInfection/FMDTxCx_Quaran.htm
Unless someone absolutely crazy with a death wish thinking they will get their 72 virgins wants us to...
When people refuse to abide by the rules of quarantine...
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This is one of the big reasons it’s spreading in Africa ... and you know the same will happen here. Then we get into this:
If Ebola Arrives In The U.S., Stopping It May Rely On Controversial Tools (8-13-2014)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3192362/posts
Excerpt below & read on in article for the actual regs and problems ... it’s all “murky” and “potentially intrusive” (that’s an understatement):
Yet given the deadly nature of the Ebola virus, and the popular worry it’s likely to engender, one can expect the CDC and health authorities to pull out all the stops. The response could include invocation of the CDC’s evolving quarantine authorities.
These federal powers comprise a set of rules that gives CDC sweeping authority to hold and isolate Americans in a public health emergency. These authorities haven’t been fully updated in decades. They’ve only been amended in piecemeal fashion to deal with modern threats like SARS and MERS. In advance of what may be a very public test of these powers, the collected scheme deserves closer scrutiny.
If such disease did break out in America do you think people here would be smart enough to quarantine themselves?
So,
lets lift the quarantine,
And dance.
I dunno....they are only bloody on one side.
Good point. There’s a flip side to the problem.
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