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Macedonia seals hotel after Briton dies of suspected Ebola
Reuters ^ | 10/09/2104 | -

Posted on 10/09/2014 11:11:31 AM PDT by AAABEST

SKOPJE, Oct 9 (Reuters) - A British man with symptoms of the Ebola virus died in Macedonia on Thursday and authorities said they had sealed off a hotel where he stayed, keeping another Briton and hotel staff inside.

A Health Ministry official said the man had arrived in the capital, Skopje, from Britain on Oct. 2 and had been rushed to hospital at 3 p.m. (1300 GMT) on Thursday, where he died several hours later.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: briton; ebola; ebolasuspect; hotel; macedonia; skopje
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To: AAABEST

Macedonia is part of the old Yugoslavia.


21 posted on 10/09/2014 12:08:13 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: longtermmemmory

Or perhaps like Buffalo identifying itself as a New York City? I’m sure that Alexander did rule the area, and I’d guess that King Philip did as well, so it isn’t as much of a stretch as your York example.

At any rate, things are about to get somewhat more nasty—hopefully not really really nasty.


22 posted on 10/09/2014 12:08:43 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: longtermmemmory
I think Macedonia is officially called FYROM because the Greeks didn't want the same name as the province (Macedonia). But everyone shortens the country name to Macedonia. Here's wikipedia attempting an explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia
23 posted on 10/09/2014 12:15:53 PM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: Hieronymus
Pay no attention to my wild geography proclamations - I'm a geographical dumb-ass. This is interesting though:

"Kostovska said there was no indication the man, who had been in Macedonia about a week, had recently been to Africa..."

LINK

If true, very interesting.

24 posted on 10/09/2014 12:16:58 PM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: Hieronymus
Are you familiar with Philip of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great?

Alas, I knew him well.

25 posted on 10/09/2014 12:22:38 PM PDT by Rapscallion (We are led by failed leaders. That is what is wrong.)
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To: AAABEST

Don’t they know, that according to the CDC, sealing off the hotel will only make the Ebola worse!


26 posted on 10/09/2014 12:26:54 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Bogey78O

Glad I was not the only one that noticed their convoluted logic.


27 posted on 10/09/2014 12:41:02 PM PDT by Amish with an attitude
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To: Dick Vomer

The Liberian who arrived in Dallas wasn’t on a direct flight to DFW airport. There are only a few international airports that receive flights from Africa, so those are the ones they are screening people for fevers.
However, this doesn’t catch people who take fever reducers or whose illness is so early that they don’t have a fever.
Nor does it catch people whose itinerary goes through different airports.


28 posted on 10/09/2014 12:43:23 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

29 posted on 10/09/2014 12:51:31 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: AAABEST

Quick, send them Jesse.


30 posted on 10/09/2014 12:54:53 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: wrench
You know, the one they will be using at 5 airports to keep ebola from entering the US...

The US that already has Ebola/Øbola? Perhaps the first world needs to keep out flights from the the newly-Turd world nation of the US...

31 posted on 10/09/2014 12:59:58 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: palmer

because nobody lies in Wikipedia entries (/s)


32 posted on 10/09/2014 1:16:05 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: C210N

the USA just became the life raft of the entire planet. The dying will capsize the boat out of desperation while the rest of the world “does what it takes” to get the job done.


33 posted on 10/09/2014 1:17:46 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: 21twelve

The official story now seems to be that if you, for instance, are a man with Ebola and you cut yourself shaving or in some other way and leave a tiny drop of blood on a surface the virus can survive for several days at room temperature in that blood drop. NOT an encouraging thing to read. If someone sneezes or coughs there may be tiny blood droplets in that.


34 posted on 10/09/2014 1:50:35 PM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: 21twelve
"It said Ebola can survive for 6 days under some conditions!"

I was listening to Rush this morning and he said he learned for those men who survive Ebola the virus will be in their sperm for up to nine months.

35 posted on 10/09/2014 1:56:41 PM PDT by Spunky
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To: Smokin' Joe

Joe - please add me to the ping list!


36 posted on 10/09/2014 2:00:03 PM PDT by PatriotGirl827 (O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Please add me to the Ping List also. Thanks.


37 posted on 10/09/2014 4:38:59 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("There's always free cheese in a mousetrap." - Marine Col. Peter Martinow)
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To: AAABEST

British...

White family in England back to William the Conqueror...

or immigrant from Liberia/Africa etc with family neighbors just arrived in the last month from Ebola Country ???

if its the last then its not a mystery how he got Ebola..

British doesn’t mean what we tend to think it means any more...


38 posted on 10/09/2014 4:47:19 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Dick Vomer

they do go to Belgium..

to fly directly to the US from Liberia “non-stop” you go through Brussels..

and they could always buy a ticket to Europe and another ticket to the US so that their starting airport doesn’t read as LIBERIA..

there seems to be lots of air fare available for these “poor” folk from Ebola Country..

Tom Duncan was just “a poor man” but he managed to come up with $1,000 to buy his ticket to Dallas...


39 posted on 10/09/2014 4:53:15 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: longtermmemmory

As an aside, saw a commercial yesterday for Macedonia on BBC yesterday. Offer 10 year tax free enterprise areas to attract business and investment....


40 posted on 10/09/2014 4:57:49 PM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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