CDC confirms first Ebola case diagnosed in US

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102037055 ^

[Crazieman]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday confirmed the first case of Ebola has been diagnosed in the United States.

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[DouglasKC]

“Something strange happened this weekend. I moved to Cedar Rapids Iowa about a year ago and we have a very small airport. Saturday I was downtown at the hotel bar and there were a bunch of people from Dallas stuck in Cedar Rapids. They said it was because of the Chicago fire but I couldn’t figure out why they would end up here??? They were telling me stories of how no matter what they did they couldn’t fly to Dallas. One lady told me she was able to fly to Minneapolis in hopes of maybe getting to Dallas but when she got there, no flights to Dallas. Another lady drove to Des Moines in hopes of catching a flight to Dallas but after 10 hours at the airport there, she turned around and went back to Cedar Rapids. These people had no intention of going to Cedar Rapids, and it seems strange they would end up here as it’s such a small airport. It’s my understanding many more folks that could not afford a hotel that were on their way to Dallas were stuck at the Cedar Rapids airport. According to the folks I talked to, most were headed to Dallas and most had flights that did not go through Chicago.” Interesting, eh?

Things that make you go...hmmmm? Let's see...fire shuts down flights across most of the upper midwest. Man flies into Dallas with Ebola about the same time. Name not being released. Scant personal information. Supposedly shows up at the hospital himself.

Now if I were paranoid I might think that terrorists loaded a bunch of ebola people on planes and sent them to airports. The gov got wind of some of them and shut down air flights as a precaution on pretext of a fire.

But at least one got through (that we know of) in Dallas. Was caught and brought to the hospital.

Whacky?

[a fool in paradise]

Planned Parenthood (IFPP) and homo activists are pushing to lift “notification” laws that require AIDS victims to notify their sex partners (including potential new partners).

Just as “no person is illegal”, no diseased person is “illegal”.

How can you “bar our shores” to those with an infectious disease like ebola (they say)?

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

The world has longed to see terrorism hit our shores as well as mad cow hit our shores.

Barack came into office with a chip on his shoulder that Americans were living too well compared to the rest of the world.

Just “spreading the misery around” I guess.

[a fool in paradise]

Once word got around that those two American doctors were brought here and survived, it became inevitable that other infected people, who had the means, would come. And, will continue to come. Everybody wants to live.

BUMP, it's the "magic kingdom" where you 'can' be cured.

[Dead Corpse]

Was meant in an, “Oh goody. Here comes the Apocolpyse. Do I really need a sarcasm tag?” Kind of way...

[EEGator]

It’s actually starting to come back around. There’s a good amount of demolition/new construction. People who can’t quite afford to be main liners heading out that way.

[Shelayne]

Phffft. Easy for YOU to say.

I see what you did there. ;^)

[bgill]

Another comment there says 3 Middle Easterners were found camping on somone’s place within sight of Dyess AFB (I’m deducing it’s Dyess). Dyess is 4 hours west of Dallas. Doesn’t sound related to the Ebola but these days there are lots of dots that are connecting.

[DallasBiff]

According to local news, the patient was taken by ambulance and the Dallas city ambulance personnel who transported him are in quarantine, per the mayor of Dallas, Mike Rawlings.

Mayor Rawlings looked nervous on TV.

[Cementjungle]

I moved there from the ML (Wayne) so I could have a lot more space (and my own stream too!).

[Covenantor]

Did they discuss what field he worked in? Oil? Health? Construction?

The more critical question might be, "is this man a Muslim?"

[PLMerite]

“If he was here to spread it, he would have headed straight to the malls.”

He might have.

[Delta Dawn]

Do I really need a sarcasm tag?

Actually, it has been mandated here on FR that if you post sarcasm, you must so indicate...I kid you not...

[fatima]

Bump.Is it time to drink yet?

[Covenantor]

The annual pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, officially starts on October 1. FWIW

[EEGator]

My kind of decision.

Every time I drive through Wayne, I always want to stay at The Wayne Hotel.

[PLMerite]

“Did anyone ever figure out why all those research scientists who specialized in biochem warfare/virology/bacteriology suffered an untimely and unexpected demise? At the time, just about everyone suspected they were being killed because of their detailed knowledge.”

I remember that. Did anyone ever do a connect-the-dots on them to see if they all overlapped somewhere?

[machogirl]

I’d been wondering the same thing. That there was intel on something going down with planes. Didn’t make sense that a “guy” trying to kill himself, lighting a fire could cause all those flights to be cancelled or delayed and of course I would not expect the Govt. to fill us in on the real scenario.

[DouglasKC]

The annual pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, officially starts on October 1. FWIW

It's going to be interesting to see what happens after that...

[machogirl]

The “arrogant” America must be brought down. (with exception of those in power, they have carved out their piece of the pie)

[txhurl]

If you extrapolate from the 5 or so ambulance guys, with the 26th Presbyterian visit, there are probably 50 health care workers in isolation right now because of this guy.