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CDC: 150 People Enter U.S. Per Day from Ebola-Stricken Countries--or 4,500 Per Month
CNSnews ^ | October 9, 2014 | Susan Jones

Posted on 10/11/2014 2:10:15 PM PDT by opentalk

(CNSNews.com) - Both Homeland Security Secretary Secretary Jeh Johnson and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden said on Wednesday that 150 people a day arrive in the United States from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea, the three West African countries that have been hit  by the Ebola virus.

..."The number of travelers is relatively small. We're talking about 150 per day," Frieden told a news conference on Wednesday. He announced that questionnaires and temperature checks will begin at five major U.S. airports that handle "95 percent of all the 150 travelers per day who arrive from these three countries"

One hundred-fifty passengers a day from West Africa works out to more than a thousand a week (1,050), 4,500 a month, and 54,750 a year

Given the 21-day incubation period for Ebola and the 150 people coming in each day, that means that at any given time there could be 21 x 150 people in the U.S. who could be asymptomatically incubating Ebola, and who are free to wander around the country.

...All passengers flying out of West African countries already undergo temperatures checks and answer questions about their contact with Ebola patients, but the screening doesn't always work, as the case of Thomas Eric Duncan proves

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amnesty; cdc; clowardpiven; ebola; obama; openborders
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Sooner or later West Africans will be flying here en masse to get our excellent treatment and care.


101 posted on 10/11/2014 8:10:19 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: Oliviaforever

Thats because you wont be on the front lines caring for patients who arrive with it and putting your own family at risk. I take care of flu patients day in and day out — but I have been vaccinated against the flu. Something you cant do with ebola

Taking care of a flu patient doesn’t give me one second pause. Taking care of an ebola patient will cause me to take measures to protect my family and loved ones including sending my young one away from me for the full incubation period.

Those who don’t have to deal with it can afford to be casual about it.


102 posted on 10/11/2014 8:34:30 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Sherman Logan

Dr. Aileen Marty tells Fusion what she saw fighting Ebola in Nigeria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3214129/posts

The Ebola outbreak continues to spiral out of control. Near the epicenter of the epidemic in West Africa, more than 3,400 people have died and more than 7,000 people have been infected with the virus. Officials are scrambling to contain the outbreak at its source and keep it from spreading.


103 posted on 10/11/2014 8:49:35 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: opentalk

I suppose we could be in a trouble once more than 1 out of every 150 people in the stricken countries has ebola /sarcasm


104 posted on 10/11/2014 9:14:35 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: opentalk
No problem.

Show them the Nation's Capital.

Put them all up in first-class digs for a week in D.C., the best restaurants, a show or two, and at the end of the week, give them all the complimentary White House Tour.

Really, insist on it.

105 posted on 10/11/2014 11:40:13 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: Jack Hydrazine
Does this mean that 8,399 have it and of those 4,024 have died resulting in a 48% fatality rate?

Keep in mind that that contains a large number of unresolved cases. If you want a more accurate mortality rate, you need to compare the number of dead with the number of infections at the time those cases were infected, between 8 and 21 days prior. That will eliminate the unresolved cases which were uninfected at the time those whose outcomes are known were sick and give a higher number for mortality rate.

106 posted on 10/12/2014 12:03:21 AM 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: Amendment10
In previous outbreaks, those affected were rural villagers for the most part. Few of them could afford airfare elsewhere, and as a rule, the outbreaks died in the communities or within short distance of the communities they started in.

This outbreak is unprecedented in a couple of ways: It is far, far larger.

It is in urban areas, and not limited to small rural communities/villages.

By virtue of the latter, the outbreak has affected people of means and status who can afford to travel internationally.

107 posted on 10/12/2014 6:34:07 AM 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: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...

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

108 posted on 10/12/2014 7:40:18 AM 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: Morpheus2009

Pretty much sums it up for me as well. Thanks.


109 posted on 10/12/2014 9:32:32 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: bobby.223

Agreed


110 posted on 10/12/2014 9:33:28 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Can’t argue with that view. I lean that direction myself.


111 posted on 10/12/2014 9:39:59 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: Windflier

Both the Dems and GOP-e are facilitating black-market labor because it benefits them financially. So, the border remains open.

I don’t see how illegal immigration helps the unemployed citizens. It almost seems as if the goal is to change the demographics through attrition.


112 posted on 10/12/2014 12:48:20 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric
I don’t see how illegal immigration helps the unemployed citizens.

It obviously doesn't, but the left is so practiced at double-speak, they convince low info Americans that it's somehow a benefit to the country. My and my family's fortunes have been directly negatively impacted by illegals in the workforce over the last decade or so.

It almost seems as if the goal is to change the demographics through attrition.

I think they want to change the demographics of the country through sheer overwhelm of numbers, thus our chronically open southern border and lack of deportations.

113 posted on 10/12/2014 2:18:31 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping!


114 posted on 10/12/2014 9:09:31 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!


115 posted on 10/13/2014 3:01:52 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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