Posted on 10/17/2014 12:14:17 PM PDT by Dave346
As the U.S. military rushes to combat Ebola in West Africa, soldiers are receiving on-the-fly instructions on how to protect themselves against the deadly virus.
American military operations to fight Ebola in Africa are unfolding quickly—forcing the military to come up with some procedures and protocols on the fly.
Soldiers preparing for deployment to West Africa are given just four hours of Ebola-related training before leaving to combat the epidemic. And the first 500 soldiers to arrive have been holing up in Liberian hotels and government facilities while the military builds longer-term infrastructure on the ground.
For soldiers at Fort Campbell and Fort Bragg preparing for their deployments to West Africa, Mobile Training Teams from the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), based out of Fort Detrick, have been tasked with instructing them on Ebola protocols.
A team of two can train as many as 50 personnel over that four-hour time frame, USAMRIID told The Daily Beast. The training includes hands-on instruction on how to put on, remove, and decontaminate personal protective equipment, followed by a practical test to ensure that soldiers understand the procedures.
“All training is tiered to the level of risk each person may encounter,” said USAMRIID spokeswoman Caree Vander Linden.
The training process sounds daunting: One USA Today report described soldiers being told that Ebola “basically causes your body to eat itself from the inside out” and that Ebola is “worse” than what soldiers encountered in Afghanistan. Others reportedly heard that the disease is “catastrophic” and “frightening… with a high fatality rate,” though the chances of contracting it are low.
“I’ll be honest with you,” one soldier told the newspaper. “I’m kind of scared.”
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Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts
Lord I hope these poor guys get better than the CDC recommendations.
Time for mutiny?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216502/posts
I got more CBN (Chemical Biological, and Nuclear)
Maybe we should be following what Senegal did to be declared Ebola free by the WHo:
The Obama Administration seems to want them to contract Ebola.
I can think of no other logical reason for these actions.
are these troops all volunteers? are they all single, no dependents? or is it mandatory they go? Why do they need ‘longer-term’ housing? Wasn’t this mission to just build pop-up ebola intake centers and get out?
Why are they going in light of the report that western medicine templates don’t work in containing ebola and that quarantining at home with nutrition and supplies provided is a more realistic protocol for containment?
Soldiers preparing for deployment to West Africa are given just four hours of Ebola-related training before leaving to combat the epidemic. - And the first 500 soldiers to arrive have been holing up in Liberian hotels and government facilities while the military builds longer-term infrastructure on the ground.
Check out article.
I don't believe 4hrs is NECESSARILY deficient.
Do THIS.
Don't do THAT.
And with the full expectation the protocol will be followed perfectly.
It's not complicated. Treat it like Nerve Gas and Biologic weapons.
The key is ADHERENCE.
Oh, NICE!
Not only are they billeting in local hotels (which probably had infected tenants prior to arrival), but we're building "Long-term Infrastructure"?
How long is this "deployment" supposed to last??
Until 0hbummer is certain they are all infected w ebola?
Considering that nurses and doctors who are supposed to be trained in this stuff are contracting the disease across the world, I’d say 4 hours is clearly deficient.
They shouldn’t even be going there in the first place.
It’s impossible to make sense of any of this anymore (unless we start with the assumption Obola wants these troops to get sick).
They only have to hang on until after the election, then Obama can Benghazi them and Move Forward.
They have a clear mission and are doing what they are trained to do, the engineers are doing engineering, the Seabees are doing construction, the lab people are doing lab work, the headquarters people are being the headquarters.
This has been in the news for many weeks, how can you not know their mission?
I got ten minutes of hands on training on this before I worked with dangerous pathogens when I worked in a lab, of course I was a doctoral candidate— we are expendable. Seriously though, how long would be long enough to satisfy you? The training is limited to teaching someone how to put on and take off personal protective equipment, which is not so clear from the article. That is the limits of this training; if the need arises they may receive additional training on how to decon, dispose of infectectious waste, and so forth. I was a soldier, and still work with soldiers- they are pretty smart, and eager to learn. We can go through training for ~fifty common soldier tasks for everything from applying CPR to clearing jams in a machine gun in a single afternoon, so four hours for this simple task seems more than suffcient to me.
They being sent to backward Ebola infested regions to “fight Ebola” whatever that is supposed to mean. They are doing some construction etc. for what possible useful purpose no intelligent person can discern.
The Administration has said the soldiers will be exposed to Ebola.
You sound like you think sending American troops, engineers, etc. to be exposed to Ebola without adequate training or protection is a great idea.
Why don’t you volunteer to go with them and live there with Ebola patients if you really think it is a great idea?
“soldiers are receiving on-the-fly instructions on how to protect themselves against the deadly virus.”
MOPP 4 in the African climate will render them “combat ineffective” in about 2 hours. And MOPP 4 is the only way I’d work in that environment.
LOL, what a low quality post, at least you make it easy to see how you have managed to remain in ignorance about their mission all this time, your ignorance is a position that you have deliberately adopted.
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