The Ebola Heroes

[CrusaderFrank]

When the Chinese swarmed over the Korean border and escalated the war there, the ones in front threw themselves on the barbed wire fences so their comrades behind them could get past our defenses.

That is some chilling shit right there. That kind of hardcore self-sacrifice for the good of the whole.


Well, folks, that's what these doctors and nurses have been doing on our behalf in Africa. They have been taking huge risks, with some of them catching the bullet, in order to save the world from a pandemic.

I find it utterly disgusting their sacrifices have been perverted by fearmongering assholes who want the rubes shitting in the pants so they stay tuned for the commercials for gold-plated commemorative coins and HGH.

We should be greeting these amazing and courageous doctors and nurses back home as the heroes they are, and placing them on the highest pedestals we can make.

That is all.

I couldn't agree more. And after each and everyone of them is quarantined for at least 21 days after they return, Obama should give each one of them the Medal of Freedom.

I'l go with that but with one qualification. Any one of them that infects just one other person here in the States should be prosecuted for attempted murder. OK?

Well that should pretty well guarantee that medical personal will stop volunteering their service.

I think most of the hysteria will disappear when we start seeing low death rates in the US. It looks like the rate is going to be about 1 in 10 now. Since most of the disease is brought in by healthcare workers who monitor their condition and contacts and seek medical help in the earliest stages, the death rate will probably fall a lot lower.

Low death rates????? There should be no deaths at all from ebola here. I don't care if you quarantine returning medical and military personnel at 5* resorts They deserve it. Just keep them separate from the civilian population for 30 days.

One thing to keep in mind is that most of the doctors and nurses from the US are volunteers. They sign up for a fixed period of time and have jobs and a practices waiting for them when they return. Adding a 3 week quarantine based on political motives rather science will certain make volunteering less attractive.

So much of what is going on is strictly political one-upmanship which will disappear after the elections.

One of the dumbest things I've ever heard -- even on USMB

 

[ricechickie]

Any and all travelers coming back from West Africa MUST visit the White House to personally that the Obamas for letting them in the USA.

YOU might have uncontrollable diarrhea wherever you happen to be, but it's not standard for anyone else. Therefore, your idea is silly, because the chances are miniscule that anyone would "infect" the White House.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Any and all travelers coming back from West Africa MUST visit the White House to personally that the Obamas for letting them in the USA.

YOU might have uncontrollable diarrhea wherever you happen to be, but it's not standard for anyone else. Therefore, your idea is silly, because the chances are miniscule that anyone would "infect" the White House.

Right! So the Obamas should personally thank anyone and everyone coming back from the Hot Zone.

 

[ricechickie]

Any and all travelers coming back from West Africa MUST visit the White House to personally that the Obamas for letting them in the USA.

YOU might have uncontrollable diarrhea wherever you happen to be, but it's not standard for anyone else. Therefore, your idea is silly, because the chances are miniscule that anyone would "infect" the White House.

Right! So the Obamas should personally thank anyone and everyone coming back from the Hot Zone.

You really don't get it, do you?

Go on Chicken Little. Clutch your acorn and cry about the sky falling on your poor widdle head.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Any and all travelers coming back from West Africa MUST visit the White House to personally that the Obamas for letting them in the USA.

YOU might have uncontrollable diarrhea wherever you happen to be, but it's not standard for anyone else. Therefore, your idea is silly, because the chances are miniscule that anyone would "infect" the White House.

Right! So the Obamas should personally thank anyone and everyone coming back from the Hot Zone.

You really don't get it, do you?

Go on Chicken Little. Clutch your acorn and cry about the sky falling on your poor widdle head.

If you're back from West Africa without quarantine, kiss a Democrat politician!

 

[Flopper]

in their own homes sounds fine... why go on the subway one week after getting back and force others to be quarantined on account of you?

Right I hear you. That doctor was stupid. But if he wasn't symptomatic, aren't we over reacting?

you mean maybe we let his close contacts take the nyc city subway instead of quarantine them? maybe we are over reacting by quarantining them?? that gets to my point that IF the situation calls for immediate 21 day quarantine of contacts who were MAYBE exposed, why on earth would the situation not call for quarantine of KNOWN overt exposure...?

I think that anyone that has come in direct contact with an Ebola victim that is contagious should self isolate. And anyone that has come in contact with an Ebola victim that is not contagious need not isolate but should take their temperature daily and be made aware of symptoms to watch for.

Governors Cuomo and Christie disagree with you, but then what do they know.

Apparently not much. Cuomo faces an upcoming election and Christie a presidential campaign. They will propose whatever will appease the public. Many people have no faith in what the government says even thou it's supported by sound medical science. With elections just around the corner, many politicians seeking the votes of these people are proposing travel bans, 21 day quarantines, 24 day quarantines, and whatever it takes to gather a few more votes.
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There is ample evidence to support the claim that body fluid transfer is necessary to contract the disease. A study was conducted in Kikwit in the Republic of the Congo in 1995 with the same strain of virus we see today to determine the risk factors to family members with an Ebola patient. 27 households in which someone had been infected with the Ebola virus were studied. Of the 173 members in the households, 78 members had no direct contract with the Ebola patient and not a single one contracted the virus. None of the family members that were close to Thomas Eric Duncan, contracted the disease. This pattern has been confirmed throughout the epidemic in West Africa. The disease is only spread through the transmission of body fluids. People who have no direct contact with the infected person are no danger. Even people with casual contact in the early stages are extremely unlikely to contract the disease.

Transmission of Ebola hemorrhagic fever a stud... J Infect Dis. 1999 - PubMed - NCBI

 

[TooTall]

in their own homes sounds fine... why go on the subway one week after getting back and force others to be quarantined on account of you?

Right I hear you. That doctor was stupid. But if he wasn't symptomatic, aren't we over reacting?

you mean maybe we let his close contacts take the nyc city subway instead of quarantine them? maybe we are over reacting by quarantining them?? that gets to my point that IF the situation calls for immediate 21 day quarantine of contacts who were MAYBE exposed, why on earth would the situation not call for quarantine of KNOWN overt exposure...?

I think that anyone that has come in direct contact with an Ebola victim that is contagious should self isolate. And anyone that has come in contact with an Ebola victim that is not contagious need not isolate but should take their temperature daily and be made aware of symptoms to watch for.

Governors Cuomo and Christie disagree with you, but then what do they know.

Apparently not much. Cuomo faces an upcoming election and Christie a presidential campaign. They will propose whatever will appease the public. Many people have no faith in what the government says even thou it's supported by sound medical science. With elections just around the corner, many politicians seeking the votes of these people are proposing travel bans, 21 day quarantines, 24 day quarantines, and whatever it takes to gather a few more votes.
.
There is ample evidence to support the claim that body fluid transfer is necessary to contract the disease. A study was conducted in Kikwit in the Republic of the Congo in 1995 with the same strain of virus we see today to determine the risk factors to family members with an Ebola patient. 27 households in which someone had been infected with the Ebola virus were studied. Of the 173 members in the households, 78 members had no direct contract with the Ebola patient and not a single one contracted the virus. None of the family members that were close to Thomas Eric Duncan, contracted the disease. This pattern has been confirmed throughout the epidemic in West Africa. The disease is only spread through the transmission of body fluids. People who have no direct contact with the infected person are no danger. Even people with casual contact in the early stages are extremely unlikely to contract the disease.

Transmission of Ebola hemorrhagic fever a stud... J Infect Dis. 1999 - PubMed - NCBI

Actually, they both are Governors and probably take the responsibility of protecting millions of citizens in their states from a deadly virus. It is called leadership, which there is none of in the White House. I only hope that the Governors of the other states that have health care workers returning from West Africa that were caring for Epola patients to exercise the same precaution.

It is pitiful that Obama is to busy playing golf and attending fund raisers to be bothered.

Perhaps you should read this:

Ebola can spread by air in cold, dry weather common to the U.S. but not West Africa, presenting a “possible, serious threat” to the public, according to two studies by U.S. Army scientists.

After successfully exposing monkeys to airborne Ebola, which “caused a rapidly fatal disease in 4-5 days,” scientists with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) concluded Ebola can spread through air but likely hasn’t in Equatorial Africa because the region is too warm, with temperatures rarely dropping below 65°F.

“We… demonstrated aerosol transmission of Ebola virus at lower temperature and humidity than that normally present in sub-Saharan Africa,” the 1995 study entitled Lethal Experimental Infections of Rhesus Monkeys by Aerosolized Ebola Virus reported. “Ebola virus sensitivity to the high temperatures and humidity in the thatched, mud, and wattle huts shared by infected family members in southern Sudan and northern Zaire may have been a factor limiting aerosol transmission of Ebola virus in the African epidemics.”

The study also referred to the 1989 Ebola outbreak at a primate quarantine facility in Reston, Va., in which the virus rapidly spread between unconnected rooms.

“While infections in adjacent cages may have occurred by droplet contact, infections in distant cages suggests aerosol transmission, as evidence of direct physical contact with an infected source could not be established,” the study added.

It is interesting to note this outbreak occurred in December 1989, whentemperatures in Reston were usually below freezing, and it’s unlikely the indoor temperature in the vast quarantine facility was much higher.

 

[Ravi]

So now we have a nurse that tested negative for Ebola being forced by new Jersey to stay in quarantine for 21 days. That is full blown, retarded, civil rights violating hysteria and the RWNJs are just fine with it.

 

[TooTall]

So now we have a nurse that tested negative for Ebola being forced by new Jersey to stay in quarantine for 21 days. That is full blown, retarded, civil rights violating hysteria and the RWNJs are just fine with it.

So sue the Governor of New Jersey. Good luck with that!

 

[Ravi]

So now we have a nurse that tested negative for Ebola being forced by new Jersey to stay in quarantine for 21 days. That is full blown, retarded, civil rights violating hysteria and the RWNJs are just fine with it.

So sue the Governor of New Jersey. Good luck with that!

I hope she does, fascist.

 

[TooTall]

So now we have a nurse that tested negative for Ebola being forced by new Jersey to stay in quarantine for 21 days. That is full blown, retarded, civil rights violating hysteria and the RWNJs are just fine with it.

I thought about it and read the article on Drudge. The hospital is at fault for her shabby treatment, but she should just bite the bullet and tough out the 21 days. It used to be common practice for families to be quarantined in their homes for weeks at a time for childhood diseases such as measles and several others. Maybe if any of those people that were quaranatined are still alive they can sue for civil rights violation and illegal detention. LOL.

 

[Ravi]

So now we have a nurse that tested negative for Ebola being forced by new Jersey to stay in quarantine for 21 days. That is full blown, retarded, civil rights violating hysteria and the RWNJs are just fine with it.

I thought about it and read the article on Drudge. The hospital is at fault for her shabby treatment, but she should just bite the bullet and tough out the 21 days. It used to be common practice for families to be quarantined in their homes for weeks at a time for childhood diseases such as measles and several others. Maybe if any of those people that were quaranatined are still alive they can sue for civil rights violation and illegal detention. LOL.

If she tested negative why force her to suspend her life?

 

[Flopper]

Right I hear you. That doctor was stupid. But if he wasn't symptomatic, aren't we over reacting?

you mean maybe we let his close contacts take the nyc city subway instead of quarantine them? maybe we are over reacting by quarantining them?? that gets to my point that IF the situation calls for immediate 21 day quarantine of contacts who were MAYBE exposed, why on earth would the situation not call for quarantine of KNOWN overt exposure...?

I think that anyone that has come in direct contact with an Ebola victim that is contagious should self isolate. And anyone that has come in contact with an Ebola victim that is not contagious need not isolate but should take their temperature daily and be made aware of symptoms to watch for.

Governors Cuomo and Christie disagree with you, but then what do they know.

Apparently not much. Cuomo faces an upcoming election and Christie a presidential campaign. They will propose whatever will appease the public. Many people have no faith in what the government says even thou it's supported by sound medical science. With elections just around the corner, many politicians seeking the votes of these people are proposing travel bans, 21 day quarantines, 24 day quarantines, and whatever it takes to gather a few more votes.
.
There is ample evidence to support the claim that body fluid transfer is necessary to contract the disease. A study was conducted in Kikwit in the Republic of the Congo in 1995 with the same strain of virus we see today to determine the risk factors to family members with an Ebola patient. 27 households in which someone had been infected with the Ebola virus were studied. Of the 173 members in the households, 78 members had no direct contract with the Ebola patient and not a single one contracted the virus. None of the family members that were close to Thomas Eric Duncan, contracted the disease. This pattern has been confirmed throughout the epidemic in West Africa. The disease is only spread through the transmission of body fluids. People who have no direct contact with the infected person are no danger. Even people with casual contact in the early stages are extremely unlikely to contract the disease.

Transmission of Ebola hemorrhagic fever a stud... J Infect Dis. 1999 - PubMed - NCBI

Actually, they both are Governors and probably take the responsibility of protecting millions of citizens in their states from a deadly virus. It is called leadership, which there is none of in the White House. I only hope that the Governors of the other states that have health care workers returning from West Africa that were caring for Epola patients to exercise the same precaution.

It is pitiful that Obama is to busy playing golf and attending fund raisers to be bothered.

Perhaps you should read this:

Ebola can spread by air in cold, dry weather common to the U.S. but not West Africa, presenting a “possible, serious threat” to the public, according to two studies by U.S. Army scientists.

After successfully exposing monkeys to airborne Ebola, which “caused a rapidly fatal disease in 4-5 days,” scientists with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) concluded Ebola can spread through air but likely hasn’t in Equatorial Africa because the region is too warm, with temperatures rarely dropping below 65°F.

“We… demonstrated aerosol transmission of Ebola virus at lower temperature and humidity than that normally present in sub-Saharan Africa,” the 1995 study entitled Lethal Experimental Infections of Rhesus Monkeys by Aerosolized Ebola Virus reported. “Ebola virus sensitivity to the high temperatures and humidity in the thatched, mud, and wattle huts shared by infected family members in southern Sudan and northern Zaire may have been a factor limiting aerosol transmission of Ebola virus in the African epidemics.”

The study also referred to the 1989 Ebola outbreak at a primate quarantine facility in Reston, Va., in which the virus rapidly spread between unconnected rooms.

“While infections in adjacent cages may have occurred by droplet contact, infections in distant cages suggests aerosol transmission, as evidence of direct physical contact with an infected source could not be established,” the study added.

It is interesting to note this outbreak occurred in December 1989, whentemperatures in Reston were usually below freezing, and it’s unlikely the indoor temperature in the vast quarantine facility was much higher.

A decent study and a logical assumption linked together to come up with a totally erroneous conclusion.

Body fluids are expelled into the air by sneezing and coughing. Sneezing is not a symptom of Ebola and does not carry dense body fluids. Coughing is not an early symptom. By the time someone is hacking up fluids, there're going to be vomiting with uncontrolled diarrhea and probably have bleeding skin liaisons. You might run into someone like this in a street in Nigeria but not in the US.

In the lab experiments, monkeys were forced to cough continually exposing other monkeys that were 6 to 18 inches away. Monkeys further away were unaffected. So assuming that you came in contact with an Ebola victim, just how likely is that the patient would be coughing into your face from a short distance for long periods of time while you inhaled the body fluids. Possible? Yes, about as possible as the Tea Party endorsing Hillary Clinton.

If you really want to worry about something then you should be concerned about this virus spreading throughout Africa and to other countries. The more it replicates the more likely it is to mutate to an airborne virus. If this happens death tolls will run into the tens of millions if not higher and there will be no way to contain it. The influenza epidemic in 1918 killed in access of 650,000 Americans and 20 to 40 million worldwide in just 2 years. Even thou we have vaccines against influenza, 3 to 5 million a year die.

 

[paulitician]

And the march towards Third World Misery goes on. Hope & Change is so cool, right?

 

[TooTall]

you mean maybe we let his close contacts take the nyc city subway instead of quarantine them? maybe we are over reacting by quarantining them?? that gets to my point that IF the situation calls for immediate 21 day quarantine of contacts who were MAYBE exposed, why on earth would the situation not call for quarantine of KNOWN overt exposure...?

I think that anyone that has come in direct contact with an Ebola victim that is contagious should self isolate. And anyone that has come in contact with an Ebola victim that is not contagious need not isolate but should take their temperature daily and be made aware of symptoms to watch for.

Governors Cuomo and Christie disagree with you, but then what do they know.

Apparently not much. Cuomo faces an upcoming election and Christie a presidential campaign. They will propose whatever will appease the public. Many people have no faith in what the government says even thou it's supported by sound medical science. With elections just around the corner, many politicians seeking the votes of these people are proposing travel bans, 21 day quarantines, 24 day quarantines, and whatever it takes to gather a few more votes.
.
There is ample evidence to support the claim that body fluid transfer is necessary to contract the disease. A study was conducted in Kikwit in the Republic of the Congo in 1995 with the same strain of virus we see today to determine the risk factors to family members with an Ebola patient. 27 households in which someone had been infected with the Ebola virus were studied. Of the 173 members in the households, 78 members had no direct contract with the Ebola patient and not a single one contracted the virus. None of the family members that were close to Thomas Eric Duncan, contracted the disease. This pattern has been confirmed throughout the epidemic in West Africa. The disease is only spread through the transmission of body fluids. People who have no direct contact with the infected person are no danger. Even people with casual contact in the early stages are extremely unlikely to contract the disease.

Transmission of Ebola hemorrhagic fever a stud... J Infect Dis. 1999 - PubMed - NCBI

Actually, they both are Governors and probably take the responsibility of protecting millions of citizens in their states from a deadly virus. It is called leadership, which there is none of in the White House. I only hope that the Governors of the other states that have health care workers returning from West Africa that were caring for Epola patients to exercise the same precaution.

It is pitiful that Obama is to busy playing golf and attending fund raisers to be bothered.

Perhaps you should read this:

Ebola can spread by air in cold, dry weather common to the U.S. but not West Africa, presenting a “possible, serious threat” to the public, according to two studies by U.S. Army scientists.

After successfully exposing monkeys to airborne Ebola, which “caused a rapidly fatal disease in 4-5 days,” scientists with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) concluded Ebola can spread through air but likely hasn’t in Equatorial Africa because the region is too warm, with temperatures rarely dropping below 65°F.

“We… demonstrated aerosol transmission of Ebola virus at lower temperature and humidity than that normally present in sub-Saharan Africa,” the 1995 study entitled Lethal Experimental Infections of Rhesus Monkeys by Aerosolized Ebola Virus reported. “Ebola virus sensitivity to the high temperatures and humidity in the thatched, mud, and wattle huts shared by infected family members in southern Sudan and northern Zaire may have been a factor limiting aerosol transmission of Ebola virus in the African epidemics.”

The study also referred to the 1989 Ebola outbreak at a primate quarantine facility in Reston, Va., in which the virus rapidly spread between unconnected rooms.

“While infections in adjacent cages may have occurred by droplet contact, infections in distant cages suggests aerosol transmission, as evidence of direct physical contact with an infected source could not be established,” the study added.

It is interesting to note this outbreak occurred in December 1989, whentemperatures in Reston were usually below freezing, and it’s unlikely the indoor temperature in the vast quarantine facility was much higher.

A decent study and a logical assumption linked together to come up with a totally erroneous conclusion.

Body fluids are expelled into the air by sneezing and coughing. Sneezing is not a symptom of Ebola and does not carry dense body fluids. Coughing is not an early symptom. By the time someone is hacking up fluids, there're going to be vomiting with uncontrolled diarrhea and probably have bleeding skin liaisons. You might run into someone like this in a street in Nigeria but not in the US.

In the lab experiments, monkeys were forced to cough continually exposing other monkeys that were 6 to 18 inches away. Monkeys further away were unaffected. So assuming that you came in contact with an Ebola victim, just how likely is that the patient would be coughing into your face from a short distance for long periods of time while you inhaled the body fluids. Possible? Yes, about as possible as the Tea Party endorsing Hillary Clinton.

If you really want to worry about something then you should be concerned about this virus spreading throughout Africa and to other countries. The more it replicates the more likely it is to mutate to an airborne virus. If this happens death tolls will run into the tens of millions if not higher and there will be no way to contain it. The influenza epidemic in 1918 killed in access of 650,000 Americans and 20 to 40 million worldwide in just 2 years. Even thou we have vaccines against influenza, 3 to 5 million a year die.

Did you missed these two sentences because you are an Obama supporter? I will repeat it and wait for your explanation.

“While infections in adjacent cages may have occurred by droplet contact, infections in distant cages suggests aerosol transmission, as evidence of direct physical contact with an infected source could not be established,” the study added.

The study also referred to the 1989 Ebola outbreak at a primate quarantine facility in Reston, Va., in which the virus rapidly spread between unconnected rooms.

I most certainly am concerned about the virus spreading throughout Africa, but this study indicates the hot climate is not conducive to Ebola becoming airborne. My concern is because we have a President that is too busy playing golf and attending fund raisers to rally European countries and the United Nations to join in the fight to confine and conquer this disease in West Africa.
Europe is much closer to Africa than we are and are at greater risk. Where is American leadership when we need it?
George W Bush reached out in a big way to fight AIDS in Africa and got other countries to contribute as well. Just my two cents worth.

 

[paulitician]

I think that anyone that has come in direct contact with an Ebola victim that is contagious should self isolate. And anyone that has come in contact with an Ebola victim that is not contagious need not isolate but should take their temperature daily and be made aware of symptoms to watch for.

Governors Cuomo and Christie disagree with you, but then what do they know.

Apparently not much. Cuomo faces an upcoming election and Christie a presidential campaign. They will propose whatever will appease the public. Many people have no faith in what the government says even thou it's supported by sound medical science. With elections just around the corner, many politicians seeking the votes of these people are proposing travel bans, 21 day quarantines, 24 day quarantines, and whatever it takes to gather a few more votes.
.
There is ample evidence to support the claim that body fluid transfer is necessary to contract the disease. A study was conducted in Kikwit in the Republic of the Congo in 1995 with the same strain of virus we see today to determine the risk factors to family members with an Ebola patient. 27 households in which someone had been infected with the Ebola virus were studied. Of the 173 members in the households, 78 members had no direct contract with the Ebola patient and not a single one contracted the virus. None of the family members that were close to Thomas Eric Duncan, contracted the disease. This pattern has been confirmed throughout the epidemic in West Africa. The disease is only spread through the transmission of body fluids. People who have no direct contact with the infected person are no danger. Even people with casual contact in the early stages are extremely unlikely to contract the disease.

Transmission of Ebola hemorrhagic fever a stud... J Infect Dis. 1999 - PubMed - NCBI

Actually, they both are Governors and probably take the responsibility of protecting millions of citizens in their states from a deadly virus. It is called leadership, which there is none of in the White House. I only hope that the Governors of the other states that have health care workers returning from West Africa that were caring for Epola patients to exercise the same precaution.

It is pitiful that Obama is to busy playing golf and attending fund raisers to be bothered.

Perhaps you should read this:

Ebola can spread by air in cold, dry weather common to the U.S. but not West Africa, presenting a “possible, serious threat” to the public, according to two studies by U.S. Army scientists.

After successfully exposing monkeys to airborne Ebola, which “caused a rapidly fatal disease in 4-5 days,” scientists with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) concluded Ebola can spread through air but likely hasn’t in Equatorial Africa because the region is too warm, with temperatures rarely dropping below 65°F.

“We… demonstrated aerosol transmission of Ebola virus at lower temperature and humidity than that normally present in sub-Saharan Africa,” the 1995 study entitled Lethal Experimental Infections of Rhesus Monkeys by Aerosolized Ebola Virus reported. “Ebola virus sensitivity to the high temperatures and humidity in the thatched, mud, and wattle huts shared by infected family members in southern Sudan and northern Zaire may have been a factor limiting aerosol transmission of Ebola virus in the African epidemics.”

The study also referred to the 1989 Ebola outbreak at a primate quarantine facility in Reston, Va., in which the virus rapidly spread between unconnected rooms.

“While infections in adjacent cages may have occurred by droplet contact, infections in distant cages suggests aerosol transmission, as evidence of direct physical contact with an infected source could not be established,” the study added.

It is interesting to note this outbreak occurred in December 1989, whentemperatures in Reston were usually below freezing, and it’s unlikely the indoor temperature in the vast quarantine facility was much higher.

A decent study and a logical assumption linked together to come up with a totally erroneous conclusion.

Body fluids are expelled into the air by sneezing and coughing. Sneezing is not a symptom of Ebola and does not carry dense body fluids. Coughing is not an early symptom. By the time someone is hacking up fluids, there're going to be vomiting with uncontrolled diarrhea and probably have bleeding skin liaisons. You might run into someone like this in a street in Nigeria but not in the US.

In the lab experiments, monkeys were forced to cough continually exposing other monkeys that were 6 to 18 inches away. Monkeys further away were unaffected. So assuming that you came in contact with an Ebola victim, just how likely is that the patient would be coughing into your face from a short distance for long periods of time while you inhaled the body fluids. Possible? Yes, about as possible as the Tea Party endorsing Hillary Clinton.

If you really want to worry about something then you should be concerned about this virus spreading throughout Africa and to other countries. The more it replicates the more likely it is to mutate to an airborne virus. If this happens death tolls will run into the tens of millions if not higher and there will be no way to contain it. The influenza epidemic in 1918 killed in access of 650,000 Americans and 20 to 40 million worldwide in just 2 years. Even thou we have vaccines against influenza, 3 to 5 million a year die.

Did you missed this sentence because you are an Obama supporter? I will repeat it and wait for your explanation.

The study also referred to the 1989 Ebola outbreak at a primate quarantine facility in Reston, Va., in which the virus rapidly spread between unconnected rooms.

Don't bother. Ebola in America? Wow, Hope & Change is so cool. Right? And hey, did you know Obama is good friends with Beyonce & Jay Z?

What a mess.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

So now we have a nurse that tested negative for Ebola being forced by new Jersey to stay in quarantine for 21 days. That is full blown, retarded, civil rights violating hysteria and the RWNJs are just fine with it.

Better safe than bleeding out

 

[Valerie]

So now we have a nurse that tested negative for Ebola being forced by new Jersey to stay in quarantine for 21 days. That is full blown, retarded, civil rights violating hysteria and the RWNJs are just fine with it.

I thought about it and read the article on Drudge. The hospital is at fault for her shabby treatment, but she should just bite the bullet and tough out the 21 days. It used to be common practice for families to be quarantined in their homes for weeks at a time for childhood diseases such as measles and several others. Maybe if any of those people that were quaranatined are still alive they can sue for civil rights violation and illegal detention. LOL.

If she tested negative why force her to suspend her life?

the doctor who took the nyc subway a week later would have tested negative the day he got off the airplane too...

since the new rule just went into effect the facilities weren't prepared to immediately accommodate her in the most comfortable way is unfortunate, but stopping the virus at its source will prevent random public contacts from finding themselves 'feeling' trapped in quarantine later on. the public needs to be protected from that fate first and foremost. as a rational compromise perhaps we should trust these workers to self quarantine, as a matter of cdc protocol they could be provided an escort straight to their homes with a direct plan of which facility to immediately report to upon meeting the fever threshold...

 

[Valerie]

The first 48 people to be quarantined in the wake of Ebola landing in the US have now been given the all-clear after showing no symptoms of the deadly disease.

All 48 were sealed off from contact with other humans after it was revealed that Thomas Eric Duncan, the first man to be diagnosed with the virus on U.S. soil, had come into contact with them.

Among the group are Louise Troh, Duncan's fiancée, and her children, and friends and family members who has been kept under armed guard at a secret location in Dallas.

Most of the others were health workers who had contact with Duncan when he arrived at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in Dallas on the day he was diagnosed with Ebola, sparking fears across the country that the virus would spread.

When the clock struck 10pm on Sunday night, it marked three weeks from the date that Duncan was finally admitted to the hospital. Everyone who came into contact with him before that is now in the clear.

48 people exposed to Ebola patient zero emerge from quarantine after being declared disease free Daily Mail Online

 

[Valerie]

..new arrivals could pass the strictest test and then still fall ill days later. Because they had tested negative once, they could easily assume that symptoms like fever, nausea and diarrhea were just a flu. They could then potentially spread Ebola until they became so ill that they were forced to go to an emergency room. Because early treatment is important, it could also endanger their lives.

The difficulty is that Ebola has a relatively long incubation period. Although most people show symptoms within four to seven days after infection, some do not show them for up to 21 days. Dr. Craig Spencer, the physician who arrived in New York on Oct. 17, might have been able to pass an Ebola test that day. He did not detect a fever — a classic, although imperfect, warning sign — until Oct. 23. Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was forced into quarantine at Newark airport on Oct. 24, despite having had a negative Ebola test, might still develop Ebola — or she might never.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/...-all-new-arrivals/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0