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Top doctor 'not surprised' if US has another Ebola case, downplays use of virus in bioterror attack
Fox News ^ | October 5, 2014

Posted on 10/05/2014 12:19:32 PM PDT by jazusamo

The United States’ top infectious-disease doctor suggested Sunday that more people inside the country will be diagnosed with Ebola, but dismissed as “far-fetched” concerns about somebody bringing the deadly disease across the U.S.-Mexico border in a bio-terror attack.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, told “Fox News Sunday” that 50 people inside the country are now being monitored for the deadly virus and that the country’s first confirmed patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, is back in critical condition at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bioterrorism; ebola; terrorism
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Well Doc, I find it far-fetched that muslims strap on explosives and blow themselves up to murder enemies of Islam, but they do.
1 posted on 10/05/2014 12:19:32 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
Top doc said this would not be the "disease" of choice.

That sent the muzzies back to their tents to rethink their "infestation" plans.

2 posted on 10/05/2014 12:24:54 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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“Well Doc, I find it far-fetched that muslims strap on explosives and blow themselves up to murder enemies of Islam, but they do. “

WW2 saw no use of chemical weapons in combat between the Allies and the Axis. Both sides had them, but decided their use was a double-edged sword. The CDC was origionally conceived with the mission to alert the US to a Soviet bio-weapons attack and to fight it. (This is why deaths must be reported within a certain period.) But no such attack ever occurred. Both sides had the weapons and never used them. Probably for similar reasons that gas wasn’t used in World War Two. Once an attack begins, you lose all control over what happens next.

However, the Muslims are anxious to die. The former president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad opened and closed every speech with a prayer for the return of the Mahdi. The Mahdi would return, basically, at the end of the world. This would be the end of the world were everybody dies...

So, yes, Islam will use any weapon regardless of the consequences. This is why it is so foolish to let Iran have the bomb. And, make no mistake, that is exactly what Obama’s policies will result in.


3 posted on 10/05/2014 12:28:50 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: jazusamo

Just pandering to Obama’s IN YOUR FACE AMERICA.


4 posted on 10/05/2014 12:31:52 PM PDT by EagleUSA (eraer)
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To: Gen.Blather

Well said, and I believe the enabler in the WH is fully aware of it.


5 posted on 10/05/2014 12:33:12 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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The job of a Doctor is not to downplay anything....it it to heal.

The very fact he is spouting this nonsense makes him political.


6 posted on 10/05/2014 12:33:42 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Amen to that.


7 posted on 10/05/2014 12:35:24 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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. This is why it is so foolish to let Iran have the bomb. And, make no mistake, that is exactly what Obama’s policies will result in.

Obama wants to "level the playing field." He has no interest in or understanding of religious motivation.

8 posted on 10/05/2014 12:39:34 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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” He has no interest in or understanding of religious motivation. “

He understands the religious motivation and agrees with it. Ask an Arab how they KNOW Obama is an Arab. They’ll tell you that his wife, a non-Muslim, accompanied him to meet every head of state except where Obama went to a Sharia law.


9 posted on 10/05/2014 12:44:31 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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10 posted on 10/05/2014 12:45:56 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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In a couple of weeks, it'll be....Actually, we expected a few and so we're not surprised by these 15 new cases.

And two months down the road....Actually.......163 new cases

11 posted on 10/05/2014 12:51:18 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: jazusamo

Possible, but not likely. Does not have the psycho impact and easy blame-assignment that Moslems like.

As for what to do - send Ebola patients to ISIS and other Moslem countries.

May solve 2 problems at once!


12 posted on 10/05/2014 1:06:20 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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Could this be weaponized disease from barack ebola's Russian friends?

I wonder how bad this is going to be on November 4th? Is that the plan?

Imagine a scenario where people start staying home, including security for RESERVOIRS. Can you see 3-4 dead victims dumped in your drinking water? NO escape.

ARMED GUARDS 24/7 ON ALL DRINKING WATER SUPPLIES!!! NOW!!!

13 posted on 10/05/2014 1:06:54 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation)
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To: Sacajaweau

What’s the disease of choice? Marburg virus in Uganda.


14 posted on 10/05/2014 1:07:50 PM PDT by tips up (Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.)
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To: jazusamo

50 years ago when I was in the AF Squadron Officers school they were showing us the effects that chem and biological warfare could have on a population center. That was 50 years ago. I’m sure that by today the chemicals and biological agents have been somewhat improved as have the delivery systems. The doctor knows not of where he speaks. IOW an educated political hack!


15 posted on 10/05/2014 1:31:39 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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dismissed as “far-fetched” concerns about somebody bringing the deadly disease across the U.S.-Mexico border in a bio-terror attack.

Why cross the Mexican border when they can just fly into any American city?

16 posted on 10/05/2014 1:37:08 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins most of the battles. Reality wins ALL the wars.)
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To: EagleUSA

Plenty on FR are pandering to ‘Obola’ and his dancing dogs. Repeating what are clear lies. Nothing, I repeat nothing comes out of any government agency these days that does not promote ‘Obola’ and his goals. The news conference by the CDC fairly reeked with it. And yet those who should know that ‘Obola’ and his minions are in a contest with Lucifer for the title of The Prince of Lies repeat them and fervently believe them themselves. When I see FReepers fall for these lies I understand why ‘Obola’ won. When even those who should know better mouth his words is there really any wonder he can win?


17 posted on 10/05/2014 1:43:27 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: jazusamo; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
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...

18 posted on 10/05/2014 1:47:15 PM PDT by null and void (If the wage gap were real, American companies would be hiring millions of women to save a buck)
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To: Sherman Logan

True, but from the article:

“Fauci also downplayed the threat the virus could be used as a bio-terror weapon.”


19 posted on 10/05/2014 1:47:34 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Captainpaintball

Our sanitation and general hygiene make this an unlikely source as a bio weapon.

Now if you could genetically combine the common flu’s transmission mechanism with Ebola’s virulence...that would be a weapon.


20 posted on 10/05/2014 1:53:44 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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