Posted on 10/19/2014 12:39:53 PM PDT by driftdiver
(CNN) -- The U.S. military is forming a 30-person "quick strike team" equipped to provide direct treatment to Ebola patients inside the United States, a Defense Department official told CNN's Barbara Starr on Sunday.
A Pentagon spokesman later confirmed portions of the official's information.
The team will be under orders to deploy within 72 hours at any time over the next month, the official said.
The Department of Health and Human Services requested the military team, and the Pentagon has given verbal approval, the official said.
The team will include five doctors, 20 nurses and five trainers, Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a statement.
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Active Duty ping.
Ummmm... Why the military?
ping
That is my question. What makes the military the proper response?
Because they are expendable? Because they have a little bit of budget left that needs to be wasted?
Close Border
Ban Air travel
The military, especially the Army, are experts in this area.
All 4 hours of preparation.
The military better be expert at biological and chemical weapons.
It is too bad their expertise was not consulted earlier.
They have a small team that has been studying ebola since it was discovered. They aren’t experts at providing treatment for it.
From my personal experience military doctors suck. They lack the training and experience necessary to provide this kind of care.
“The military better be expert at biological and chemical weapons.”
yes I was told at one point that North Korea might come across and to expect 75% casualties. They are experts at using the weapons but not at treating people for them.
Needs to be managed by epidemiologists
4 hours from the CDC who has a demonstrable inadequate knowledge of this virus.
Ummm...martial law?
This is the real reason for the deployment to Africa.
As well as the plan to boost obamacare with millions of panic related registrations.
And the payback for the pharmaceutical companies aligning with the president.
Ha...chump change.
Obama gave $190 Million to the Dallas Baptist Church Charity to set up offices and HOUSING for illegal immigrant children in 6 cities....and another $50 MILLION to the same group to purchase a de-lux 600 bed hotel complex in Dallas...
< Here is Obama and Dallas Judge Jenkins at the signing ceremony:
The Army experience and involvement in disease and bio agents goes way deeper than that, it goes farther than just their research and testing for cures and vaccines.
“” More than half of the routine vaccines given to service members today were codeveloped by the US military. Beyond protection of its own forces, the military’s advances also created solutions to diseases of dire importance to national and international public health. Of 15 adult vaccines licensed in the United States since 1962, the DOD played a significant role in developing eight.””
“” The U.S. military has stationed uniformed scientists in the tropics for more than 100 years, and itsh active overseas laboratories have been in place for as long as 58 years. Military scientists live and work in the tropics to study the disease threats in naturally affected populations. Countermeasures and candidate solutions are studied through all phases of development including field testing. These military scientists serve as goodwill ambassadors, and contribute to developing health and science infrastructure in these tropical countries. Enduring relationships between tropical DoD facilities and ministries of health, international healthcare facilities, and local healthcare providers and researchers are of great value to the U.S. at a time when diseases such as SARS and avian influenza are potential global threats. The global MIDRP military presence provides a real-time early warning system in the identification and assessment of new and reemerging disease. Data from around the world is collected, analyzed, and immediately disseminated to military leadership and other agencies by the military’s DoD Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DoD-GEIS) at the Armed Forces Health and Surveillance Center (AFHSC).
The MIDRP’s capabilities include basic science (discovery and the knowledge base to develop technological approaches) pre-clinical product optimization, and advanced animal model development. Clinical trials expertise for early FDA Phase 1 testing of drugs and vaccines through large (e.g. 42,000 volunteers for hepatitis A vaccine, and 62,000 volunteers for Japanese encephalitis vaccine) pivotal Phase 3 trials in developing nations is an especially valuable asset of the MIDRP. The DoD also has high containment laboratories, pilot Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) compliant bioproduction facilities, and FDA regulatory expertise in the U.S. and in many international settings.”
Enter martial law.
Fine. Abolish the CDC then and give their funding to the US Army.
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