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To: kabar

Also, to get back to the point.

What is with you and the Army, why do you keep wanting to pretend that working these Ebola breakouts is routine for them and that they do very much of the same work as the CDC in regards to this field, and in some areas, more than the CDC.

“USAMRIID is the only U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) laboratory equipped to study highly hazardous viruses at Biosafety Level 4 within positive pressure personnel suits.
USAMRIID employs both military and civilian scientists as well as highly specialized support personnel, in all about 800 people. In the 1950s and ‘60s, USAMRIID and its predecessor unit pioneered unique, state-of-the-art biocontainment facilities which it continues to maintain and upgrade. Investigators at its facilities frequently collaborate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and major biomedical and academic centers worldwide.
USAMRIID was the first bio-facility of its type to research the Ames strain of anthrax, determined through genetic analysis to be the bacterium used in the 2001 anthrax attacks.”


Why are you trying to pretend that what the Army normally does, and has always done in fighting Ebola in Africa, doesn’t exist?


110 posted on 09/16/2014 9:44:50 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12
What is with you and the Army, why do you keep wanting to pretend that working these Ebola breakouts is routine for them and that they do very much of the same work as the CDC in regards to this field, and in some areas, more than the CDC.

They don't do the same work as CDC nor do they have the same level of expertise. I spent 8 years in the USN and another 28 years as an FSO. I have never seen the Army take the lead role in such situations.

117 posted on 09/16/2014 10:02:35 AM PDT by kabar
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