Color me not shocked.
Viruses mutate. Seems the “watchdog media” decided not to ask about that fact.
The virus “jumped”.
Ping.
If you look around the world, Ebola has spread quickly. People usually get it before the 21 days. Dallas is unusual to say the least.
D.C. is beautiful in the Fall. We should encourage our West African tourist friends to take advantage of all the wonderful tours in our nations capital while they are here!
“It is highly unlikely that someone would acknowledge having a fever, or simply feeling unwell,” Beer said via email. “Not only will they probably not get on the flight — they may even be taken to/required to go to a ‘holding facility’ where they would have to stay for days until it is confirmed that it is not caused by Ebola. .... “
My guess is that Thomas Duncan didn’t have a fever when he flew to the USA so just checking for fever at the airport is not enough.
Ebola Reston is/was airborne.
We’ve never been told, to my knowledge, what this strain is that has left Africa. I’m assuming it’s Ebola Zaire, which is the most lethal.
http://cryptome.info/0001/bioweap.htm
Say it ain’t so
This insane allegation coming out of the CDC that shutting down travel to and from West Africa would make it harder to get resources in boggles my mind. Has he never heard of military jets or charters?
This is shocking! Shocking I tell you!
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...
Just look at the posters here who seem to be asking for a full out break in the US in order to “prove” we have a robust terrorism response
Do you Typhoid Mary take this Ebola Berry to be your lawfully wedded husband?
I do.
Do you Ebola Berry take this Typhoid Mary to be your lawfully wedded wife?
I do.
I now pronounce you husband and wife.
You may now infect the country.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
They’re not lying -yet.
They ARE making their theories into bold, declarative statements.
Just saw on TV where a proud father was bragging that his daughter, a recent med school grad, is off to Dallas to do her part. Do her part? They need another doctor why?
Do her part in bringing Obola to S Texas is more like it.
Obama and the CDC chief should be held PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE for any deaths from this point forward from ebola.
Zero risk? Zero? Very low, perhaps. Infinitesimal, even. But zero? No.
Other public health officials have voiced similar assurances, saying Ebola is spread only through physical contact with a symptomatic individual or their bodily fluids.
Quite so, but that is not zero. "Symptomatic" in this sense varies so much between victims that it is essentially an undefined term. The parameter of a temperature of 101.5 Fahrenheit is simply someone's estimate - there is no scientific research to back up the implication that 101 is safe and 102 is not, because none is possible with so small a sample size. And that's a good thing.
There's an awfully wide ground between complacency and panic, and I'd like to feel that responsible officials are trying to occupy it. I really don't get that feeling at the moment.