CDZ Do Africans coming to America and other peoples that go and come from Africa pose a health risk

[MacTheKnife]

As we see the horror of the ebola virus spreading in a big city in Africa....what is to stop infected people from over there bringing it over here. Do controls need to be put into place to prevent this?

Ebola outbreak 2018: What's different this time? - CNN

Ebola spreads to major Congo city as vaccines a concern

Ebola Virus Disease and Its Potential Spread Beyond Africa | LMU-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine

 

[anotherlife]

The difference this time is, that you can deny them visas to keep yourself safe in the USA. Then you can deny passports to Americans too to keep them safe from going there. The future of America is so bright, does it even matter if we get Ebola or not?

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

As we see the horror of the ebola virus spreading in a big city in Africa....what is to stop infected people from over there bringing it over here. Do controls need to be put into place to prevent this?

Ebola outbreak 2018: What's different this time? - CNN

Ebola spreads to major Congo city as vaccines a concern

Ebola Virus Disease and Its Potential Spread Beyond Africa | LMU-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine

We put stiffer requirements on dogs entering America than people.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requires that pet dogs be vaccinated against rabies and be healthy upon arrival. Dogs that have never been vaccinated against rabies must be vaccinated at least 30 days before entering the United States. Puppies must not be vaccinated against rabies before 3 months of age, so the youngest that a puppy can be imported into the United States is 4 months of age.

 

[MacTheKnife]

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Ebola is mostly spread through direct contact with an infected person. This most often occurs at a burial ceremony where mourners touch recently deceased victims. Another way that transmission of Ebola occurs involves direct contact with the blood or secretions of an infected person. It isn't that easy absent cultural norms.

 

[Toronado3800]

As we see the horror of the ebola virus spreading in a big city in Africa....what is to stop infected people from over there bringing it over here. Do controls need to be put into place to prevent this?

Ebola outbreak 2018: What's different this time? - CNN

Ebola spreads to major Congo city as vaccines a concern

Ebola Virus Disease and Its Potential Spread Beyond Africa | LMU-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine

Eh? Meeting new ppl is dangerous.

If no on introduced the plague to wherever then the carnage wouldnbe worsewhen it was introduced.

Don't let this be an excuse for racism.

 

[Syriusly]

Is this thread about Africa or Ebola?

Ebola is confined to a few small parts of Africa- why are suggesting a quarinteen of all of Africa when the disease itself is confined to very specific areas?

Certainly we should take precautions to protect the United States from the introduction of Ebola(and other diseases too)- and we are.

But suggesting we prevent all Africans from coming to the United States because they live within 2,000 miles of known cases is pretty stupid.

 

[MacTheKnife]

Is this thread about Africa or Ebola?

Ebola is confined to a few small parts of Africa- why are suggesting a quarinteen of all of Africa when the disease itself is confined to very specific areas?

Certainly we should take precautions to protect the United States from the introduction of Ebola(and other diseases too)- and we are.

But suggesting we prevent all Africans from coming to the United States because they live within 2,000 miles of known cases is pretty stupid.

It is not confined....it just has not spread to other areas at this time....which does not mean it will not....the scary thing is that it has spread to a large city and with how big city folks travel world wide....it can spread to other nations and places.

Futhamoe....if it does get introduced into America then the first ones to holler we should have done more will be people like you.

It was not that long a few cases were transferred here by people coming from Africa....due to the fact that only a few folks here got infected it was containable by the cdc and the various hospitals where the cases popped up....what they are not telling you is that it takes a lot of resources to even handle just a few cases....if there a lot of cases popping up the health system will qulickly get overwhelmed...which would be a huge,huge disaster.

Thus the importance of doing everything possible to keep it out of America. The health system has a protocol on how to deal with epidemics....the protocol should be followed.

CDC to cut by 80 percent efforts to prevent global disease outbreak

 

[Syriusly]

Is this thread about Africa or Ebola?

Ebola is confined to a few small parts of Africa- why are suggesting a quarinteen of all of Africa when the disease itself is confined to very specific areas?

Certainly we should take precautions to protect the United States from the introduction of Ebola(and other diseases too)- and we are.

But suggesting we prevent all Africans from coming to the United States because they live within 2,000 miles of known cases is pretty stupid.

It is not confined....it just has not spread to other areas at this time....which does not mean it will not....the scary thing is that it has spread to a large city and with how big city folks travel world wide....it can spread to other nations and places.

Futhamoe....if it does get introduced into America then the first ones to holler we should have done more will be people like you.

It was not that long a few cases were transferred here by people coming from Africa....due to the fact that only a few folks here got infected it was containable by the cdc and the various hospitals where the cases popped up....what they are not telling you is that it takes a lot of resources to even handle just a few cases....if there a lot of cases popping up the health system will qulickly get overwhelmed...which would be a huge,huge disaster.

Thus the importance of doing everything possible to keep it out of America. The health system has a protocol on how to deal with epidemics....the protocol should be followed.

CDC to cut by 80 percent efforts to prevent global disease outbreak

So far Ebola has been confined to a small part of Africa in 2018- one country and only part of that country. Why you think that means that no one from Morocco or South Africa should therefore be allowed to travel to the United States makes no more sense than saying that means no one from Israel should be allowed to come to the United States because they might be bringing Ebola.

Do you know anything about Ebola? Ebola has a very, very fast onset- person who has contracted Ebola would be very likely displaying very obvious signs of a disease upon arrival in the United States.
Do you know the kinds of questions that they ask you when you arrive in the United States? Among them are what countries have you travelled to- and are you suffering from any disease? And Customs actually does look for people displaying signs of contagious disease.

Anyway- it makes no more sense to forbid all Africans from coming to the United States than it does to forbid everyone from coming to the United States- if you are that worried about Ebola.

 

[MacTheKnife]

Available evidence demonstrates that direct patient contact and contact with infectious body fluids are the primary modes for Ebola virus transmission, but this is based on a limited number of studies. Key areas requiring further study include (i) the role of aerosol transmission (either via large droplets or small particles in the vicinity of source patients), (ii) the role of environmental contamination and fomite transmission, (iii) the degree to which minimally or mildly ill persons transmit infection, (iv) how long clinically relevant infectiousness persists, (v) the role that “superspreading events” may play in driving transmission dynamics, (vi) whether strain differences or repeated serial passage in outbreak settings can impact virus transmission, and (vii) what role sylvatic or domestic animals could play in outbreak propagation, particularly during major epidemics such as the 2013–2015 West Africa situation. In this review, we address what we know and what we do not know about Ebola virus transmission. We also hypothesize that Ebola viruses have the potential to be respiratory pathogens with primary respiratory spread

Transmission of Ebola Viruses: What We Know and What We Do Not Know

Ebola Outbreak in North America


It could be just a plane ride away.

Ebola, the deadly virus that kills many of the people it infects and for which there is no known cure, has once again hit central African countries

Still, the mere suspicion that someone might be suffering from the Ebola virus is enough to put public health officials on red alert.

And, given increased international travel these days, some observers are wondering: could a North American debut of the virus be ahead?

More Ebola Cases in Future?

"It is not impossible" that an Ebola outbreak could occur in North America, says Ann Marie Kimball, an epidemiologist with the School of Public Health at the University of Washington, Seattle. "We live in an age in which the travel time is shorter than the incubation for a disease. You can get infected, go on a plane for 13 or 14 hours and still have two to three days to get sick."

Historically, Kimball says, people would travel by ship and their symptoms would show up by the time they reached port and they could be quarantined. Not so with air travel. "Given travel time today, we may see an increasing number of people becoming ill when they arrive in this country, which makes disease control impossible."

 

[MacTheKnife]

Ebola outbreak in Congo enters 'new phase' as it spreads to large city


(CNN)An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has entered a "new phase" after it spread to a large city, the country's health minister, Dr. Oly Ilunga Kalenga, said Wednesday.

The new case of Ebola virus disease has been confirmed in Wangata, one of the three health zones of Mbandaka, a city of nearly 1.2 million people in Equateur Province in northwestern Congo, the World Health Organization confirmed Thursday.
The spread of the virus from rural areas into a city has raised fears it could quickly spread and become harder to control.
Ebola outbreak spreads to large city in Congo - CNN

 

[Butch_Coolidge]

As we see the horror of the ebola virus spreading in a big city in Africa....what is to stop infected people from over there bringing it over here. Do controls need to be put into place to prevent this?

Ebola outbreak 2018: What's different this time? - CNN

Ebola spreads to major Congo city as vaccines a concern

Ebola Virus Disease and Its Potential Spread Beyond Africa | LMU-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine

Other peoples? If not vetted by the health department perhaps.


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