Posted on 10/18/2014 7:27:54 AM PDT by RummyChick
The deadly Ebola virus could be mutating to become even more contagious, a leading U.S scientist has warned.
The disease has killed nearly 4,000 people, infecting in excess of 8,000 - the majority in the West African nations of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Communities lie in ruins, thousands of children have been orphaned, millions face starvation but the virus continues its unprecedented pace, invading and destroying vast swathes of these countries.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Yeah, that makes me feel a whole lot better... another liberal political hack.
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
Virulence can be maximized by a larger petri dish
(which the undocumented Moslem Tyrant takes as the
American homeland = 57 states).
Just great! And we have Wunderkind at the helm. Just great!
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/08/29/smuggled-bushmeat-ebolas-back-door-america-265668.html?piano_t=1
Also a 2009 article many more on Google
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/IntoTheWild/bushmeat-africa-sold-open-market-us/story?id=9312518
“Army Manual on a thread I posted indicates it’s airborne but it depends on your definition. Aerosol transmission is airborne to me.”
Exactly!
We aren’t taking a med school test on definitions here, just trying to understand what our risk is. “If you are sitting nexr to someone on a bus, you might infect them” = “airborne” to the lay person.
Hi. I don’t agree with what she did....not at all.
But please let’s not go there. We can’t undo it — I wish we could. I don’t want any of us to die.
I am not your enemy. I am on your side. And I am scared, too.....of Ebola and of my government.
Let’s just focus on what we can do...please (said with love and respect to you.)
This week I called my reps and now they have taken the correct stance — in favor of banning flights. A step, but we aren’t there yet.
Thank you.
There sure is a lot of differing op-ions on whether it is a air borne transmission of the virus. The virus can be in droplets in the air coming from an infected person sneezing or coughing but how about just exhaling, is the virus present in the exhaled gases?
Exhaled air has a relative humidity of 100% because of water diffusing across the moist surface of breathing passages and alveoli. Our exhaled gases are 5% water vapor.
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