Posted on 08/16/2014 7:47:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin
USA Basketball officials announced they have canceled a trip to Senegal this month because of concerns about the Ebola virus. The World Health Organization has called the deadly disease a “public health emergency of international concern,” which USA Basketball Chairman Jerry Colangelo tells ESPN’s Marc Stein left him no choice but to cancel the August 27 trip to the West African nation.
“Although the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] does not yet suspect any cases in Senegal, the country’s position as a neighboring country to Guinea and Dakar’s role as a gateway to West Africa heightened our concern,” Colangelo told ESPN. “I speak for all at USA Basketball when I say we’re extremely disappointed we will not be able to visit Senegal. Our entire traveling party was very much looking forward to the experience.”
The choice is cautionary, but most likely necessary, as the WHO’s latest stance says the outbreak, which has so far been linked to almost 1,100 deaths, has been “vastly underestimated.” Per Washington Post reporter Abby Phillip:
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Pretty soon, Jesse Watters will be out asking people if we should invade Ebola.
Ferguson MO seem like a great and timely place to begin such internvewing
Racists.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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...
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