Posted on 09/20/2014 8:35:57 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A real-life horror story is playing out in Africa as Ebola spreads, and President Obama’s decision to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to combat the virus could very well put Americans at risk of contracting the deadly illness at home, some health experts say.
According to the World Health Organization, at least 4,985 people have contracted Ebola and at least 2,461 have died. Several doctors have fallen ill with Ebola, and two of them have died. New reports indicate a Doctors Without Borders staff member has contracted the virus in Liberia and will be evacuated to France for treatment.
“You can see that these doctors, who are highly trained people, got themselves infected,” said Dr. Lee Hieb, former president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. “So sending troops into an area, if they’re dealing one-on-one with a patient, they’re not going to be able to protect themselves very well. It’s not easy to [prevent transmission], because you get tired and you get careless and you make some simple mistakes. All it takes is one virus particle.”
Dr. Hieb said quarantine measures should be taken to control the outbreak and prevent Ebola from coming to America.
“You don’t get Ebola from Europe,” she told WND. “You get Ebola from Africa. And it’s a really simple formula: Don’t let people fly to America if they’ve been to areas where there’s an outbreak. When there’s an outbreak, stop air [traffic] flow.”
Hieb added, “If they’re going to use the troops to do population control, which is one of the ways you contain it, basically you just don’t let anybody out. You’d make a ring around where it is, and you’d quarantine the area.”
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PING!
Sending troops is incredibly STUPID!
Incredibly stupid sums up the entire Obungler administration top to bottom.
Of course. That's why we're doing it.
AMEN!
No, it’s actually perfect for what Obama wants. A military that is rife with sickness, so its more vulnerable at the hands of his buddies in ISIS
Sending troops in is Intentional and we all know the results.
Per many of the FR Ebola ‘experts’ this outbreaks isn’t even as dangerous as a hangnail.
There are a number of civilians who have already volunteered to relief agencies to go help in West Africa.
Well, you know how hangnails can be. /sarc
Has the US sent troops to fight a disease before?
How would you like to be the troops selected for this “mission”?
Thing is most Drs and foreign aid workers had a choice to go or not. Will our soldiers have any choice?
Actually, that’s a great question. I’m going to look into that right now.
“We had a large footprint in Africa,” Cummings said of the Defense Department’s response to the first Ebola cases reported in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire. Since that time, the Defense Department has answered numerous calls for assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO), nongovernmental organizations and ministries of health and defense, he said.
The Army has been heavily involved in running it’s own research and labs and operations similar to the CDC, and has ALWAYS been involved in the Ebola outbreaks.
“The U.S. military, and in particular, the Army, has had a longstanding mission in preventing and treating infectious and parasitic diseases in troops, dating to the late 1800s.”
“Filoviruses like Ebola have been of interest to the Pentagon since the late 1970s, mainly because Ebola and its fellow viruses have high mortality rates — in the current outbreak, roughly 60 percent to 72 percent of those who have contracted the disease have died — and its stable nature in aerosol make it attractive as a potential biological weapon.
Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have sought to develop a vaccine or treatment for the disease.
Last year, USAMRIID scientists used a treatment, MB-003, on primates infected with Ebola after they became symptomatic; the treatment fully protected the animals when given one hour after exposure.”
Yup! Just found it. Of course. USAMRIID
I wish they’d have said that. All the press is saying is ‘soldiers’. And ‘boots on the ground’. This is stupid and leaves the impression that they’re sending in Joes.
USAMRIID has been involved with Ebola, Cholera, and many other outbreaks.
Now the only thing that I did find about USAMRIID in reference to this outbreak is that they were going to be ‘providing laboratory support’ for the outbreak, but that article was from last July.
And the people that voted for him twice will still be there to vote for the next communist idiot
Seems like there isn’t going to be a political solution to what ails America
See posts 16 and 17. This is irresponsible reporting. They won’t be sending in Joes.
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