Stopping flights out of an entire continent is impractical for all that outsourced free trade that republicans love so much.
Further, anyone can simply jump borders and get on a plane somewhere in Europe.
Or get on a cruise ship before they start showing symptoms.
Just so you know, over 35,000 Americans die from regular flu each year. Where's the panic there?
Two percent of people contracting the flue die of it. 70% of people die of Ebola.
We aren't suggesting stopping flights out of all of Africa, just West Africa. And those whose passports show that the traveler origin as West Africa. That is a much smaller area.
I don't think that sounds unreasonable at all given the circumstances. It is a disease that can spread fast if the victims are not isolated. Sputum (from coughing) could spread the disease quite easily and quickly. Unlike what they were saying before, apparently the disease CAN be spread through cough and sneeze droplets. I thought it could anyways. It's only common sense because sputum/phlegm are bodily fluids.
Okay? So you cough in your hand, touch a door handle, which another person touches and then puts his finger in his mouth or something. There, another person who could potentially have Ebola.
WHO finally admits sneezing and coughing can spread Ebola - NaturalNews.com
(NaturalNews) As Ebola continues to spread, the official story about
how it is spreading keeps on changing. The World Health Organization (WHO) now says that Ebola
can spread through the air via moisture released through sneezing and coughing, a powerful admission that exposes the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which says this isn't possible, as a fraud.
Corroborating its position with convincing scientific evidence, WHO now officially recognizes that, in some cases, Ebola can transmit from person to person via the respiratory system. Depending on the stage of infection and how it is manifesting symptom-wise, Ebola is capable of traveling through the air and infecting other people.
"Theoretically, wet and bigger droplets from a heavily infected individual, who has respiratory symptoms caused by other conditions or who vomits violently, could transmit the virus -- over a short distance -- to another nearby person," explained the UN agency.
"This could happen when virus-laden heavy droplets are directly propelled, by coughing or sneezing (which does not mean airborne transmission) onto the mucus membranes or skin with cuts or abrasions of another person."
Learn more:
http://www.naturalnews.com/047250_Ebola_transmission_sneezing_coughing.html##ixzz3GHbjuekt