[Bluewave]

Unfortunately, the sailor gives it to a few dozen hookers on their way to truck stop, the trucker gives it to the groceryman, the neighbor's daughter catches it from the produce manager's son, she passes it to my grandkids while baby sitting, grandma gets sick while tending the babies, and tragedy hits my family and millions of others.

The seriousness of this disease is difficult to imagine and yet, it is one or two encounters away from reality!

It is time to demand a professional and effective response from the CDC and the Federal Government. As much as I dislike the intrusiveness of the Federal Government, we need it now.

[Beck_isright]

Actually that is the proper role of the Federal government as envisioned by the framers. However I am very suspect of any information we get about this disease. I think that if there was a sudden announcement of 1000 cases in a particular community in the US, it would cripple the economy for a decade. I can see this outbreak being kept off of the front page in the US as long as possible.

[Judith Anne]

If it would just give out more accurate information and stop with the "suspect" and "probable" classifications, I'd be a little happier with the CDC and the feds. In addition, the locations would be nice, instead of just giving the state and maybe the county.

I don't think we're getting accurate information from the CDC, it's as politicized here as the health ministry in the PRC, imho.