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Six in quarantine in Connecticut as U.S. steps up Ebola checks
Reuters ^ | Oct 23, 2014 | Richard Weizel

Posted on 10/24/2014 5:23:34 AM PDT by george76

Connecticut placed six West Africans who recently arrived in the United States under quarantine for possible Ebola exposure, a move that comes as the United States starts new restrictions on those coming from the countries hardest hit by the deadly virus.

The family of six West Africans, who arrived Saturday and were planning to live in the United States, will be watched for 21 days, Connecticut state health authorities said Thursday. Officials have yet to say where the family came from.

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Ebola fears have also touched one of the world's most reclusive countries, North Korea, which will bar entry to tourists from Friday because of worries over the spread of the deadly virus

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: africa; africans; amnesty; deadly; deadlyvirus; ebola; ebolapandemic; enterovirusd68; healthcare; northkorea; pandemic; polio; tb; virus; westafrica; westafricans
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1 posted on 10/24/2014 5:23:34 AM PDT by george76
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Meanwhile, Obama continues to import Ebola Plague to America as fast as he can.
2 posted on 10/24/2014 5:25:08 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: george76

I am not sure why there is not a ban on flights coming from Africa. Why is it so important to continue accepting travelers? You would think the airline unions would intervene.


3 posted on 10/24/2014 5:34:59 AM PDT by sueuprising (The best of it is, God is with us-John Wesley)
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4 posted on 10/24/2014 5:39:00 AM PDT by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: george76
The family of six West Africans, who arrived Saturday and were planning to live in the United States...

Why is this even a plausible sentence?

5 posted on 10/24/2014 5:43:22 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: george76

The plan is clear: let it be known to all Africans that on a simple vacation Visa, you can come here and receive the best, free healthcare you can get because America is racist and we owe it to you.

Heck, I probably just wrote Obama’s next speech...


6 posted on 10/24/2014 5:44:39 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: sueuprising

His October surprise... Bring as many Ebola infected Africans to the US as fast as possible.

Not just Polio, TB, and Enterovirus-D68 from Central America.

Then a flood of Haitians after the elections, when he has more flexibility = Executive Amnesty.


7 posted on 10/24/2014 5:46:41 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Cause bammy is making sure they have everything they need and paid for with your tax dollars! It will only get worse...he intends to turn our nation a different color and redistribute wealth on a massive scale. Nobody will stop him and his ilk!


8 posted on 10/24/2014 5:50:08 AM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary & remove the son of a kenyan mooslimb)
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To: george76

Quarantine comes with bowling privileges, right???


9 posted on 10/24/2014 5:51:50 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Liberalism: Promising Utopia - Delivering Detroit)
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To: george76
Some additional Ebola updates for this morning:


10 posted on 10/24/2014 5:54:14 AM PDT by wtd
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Is there anyway the researchers and the gov can know that all of these western Africans allowed to leave the affected zone won't bring cultural, environmental, or lack of resistance to the infection's cause with them? Nobody really knows what made Ebola go pandemic.

I feel like I'm living in a science fiction novel, one whose plot never ends well.

11 posted on 10/24/2014 5:54:26 AM PDT by grania
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WPTZ: Obama offers federal help to NY with Ebola case 10/24/2014 7:18AM EDT

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I see the “sporadic outbreak” in NY has gotten Mr. Obama’s attention.


12 posted on 10/24/2014 6:08:55 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (Repeal it.)
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To: grania; Smokin' Joe; null and void; LucyT

>>what made Ebola go pandemic <<


13 posted on 10/24/2014 6:22:33 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

At some point Pilots and FAs need to say I’m not going to be a part of Obamas plan for social justice by spreading ebola to America


14 posted on 10/24/2014 6:25:23 AM PDT by ground_fog
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“The family of six West Africans, who arrived Saturday and were planning to live in the United States, will be watched for 21 days, Connecticut state health authorities said Thursday. Officials have yet to say where the family came from.”

I’m sure these good folks have visas, and work permits to set up their home in Conn. Probably on EB5 status as we know that the West African countries economies are booming and all the newly minted millionaires are just “dieing” to invest all their wealth in business ventures in the US. /super sarc off


15 posted on 10/24/2014 7:19:58 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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Well, at $500,000 per person for specialized Ebola care in isolation, these good folks have the chance of soaking up $3,000,000 of free health care in one of America's best hospitals plus they maybe get to survive.

What's not to like about coming to America from West Africa and winning the Ebola Jackpot? You don't even have to make it through screening. All you have to do is land on our shores and you're a winner!!

16 posted on 10/24/2014 7:25:43 AM PDT by Gritty (Obama wants to wage war by measuring it out in teaspoons - Ralph Peters)
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And more businesses having to close their doors for cleaning and a lose of customers. The “good doctor’s” two friends and girlfriend now have their lives disrupted and out of income. The airlines will be passing on the cost of taking planes out of commission onto other passengers’ ticket prices. Everyone has to pay for these idiots’ decisions.

Anyne else raising an eyebrow that Vinson supposedly was told it was ok to fly because her temp wasn’t 100.5 (although it was 101.5 before CDC quickly changed it when she came down sick just like they did on my tagline) but this doctor’s was 100.3 and they hustled?


17 posted on 10/24/2014 7:32:33 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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The article didn’t make it clear. Are they in real honest quarantine at a secure facility or are merely being watched as in take your temp and call if it goes up? Will they be allowed to go bowling and run out for soup?


18 posted on 10/24/2014 7:38:23 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: george76; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
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...

19 posted on 10/24/2014 7:39:13 AM PDT by null and void ("Agoraphobia": fear of the marketplace; "AlGoreaphobia": fear of the marketplace of ideas.)
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To: Noamie

You forgot ‘stupid’...


20 posted on 10/24/2014 7:44:24 AM PDT by GOPJ (Obama would rather we die than offend West Africa. - freeper goldstategop (same for the CDC))
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