This is from about 5 weeks ago.
“The U.S. military, and in particular, the Army, has had a longstanding mission in preventing and treating infectious and parasitic diseases in troops, dating to the late 1800s.
The Armed Forces Press Service reported late Friday that military health workers, including an entomologist from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, already are in the affected area providing support ranging from logistical assistance to “clinical management” — assisting in treating affected populations.
“DoD personnel bring a level of excellence second to none, working in response to host nations and WHO in the most-affected countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia,” Army Col. James Cummings, a physician and director of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center told AFPS.
Filoviruses like Ebola have been of interest to the Pentagon since the late 1970s, mainly because Ebola and its fellow viruses have high mortality rates — in the current outbreak, roughly 60 percent to 72 percent of those who have contracted the disease have died — and its stable nature in aerosol make it attractive as a potential biological weapon.
Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have sought to develop a vaccine or treatment for the disease.
Last year, USAMRIID scientists used a treatment, MB-003, on primates infected with Ebola after they became symptomatic; the treatment fully protected the animals when given one hour after exposure.”
Soetoro is sending these troops to Africa to get them infected, so they can bring the virus back to infect more Americans.
You are correct sir, and we still have two more years of the Obungler. If they claim there is no danger to the troops, I am cynical enough to think every word that comes out of their mouths is a bald face lie.
What could go wrong?
Surprised he hasn’t put Susan Rice and Biden in charge
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Active Duty ping.
Ping.
I don’t agree with military personnel being sent around the world on humanitarian missions unless it involves fighting.
Not if the goal is to remove them from deployment to the battle field due to quarantine.
Major ISIL offensive in what? 21 days?
Our Army needs to study the virus and develop strategies and training. Other nations’ armies are certainly doing so. Crazy? Of course. Our force needs to keep up. It’s been that way for even a little longer than I’ve been around (entered 13 weeks of OSUT in ‘89, when I was 31).
Maybe they’ll bring some little presents to ISIS.
People, pray for our troops. This is is unfathomable.
Per the official FR ‘Obola’ experts there is nothing to worry about as long as they don’t have sex with the infected for three days and then eat their brains under the blood moon.
Although I do not subscribe to conspiracy theories and do not believe that Obama's purpose in sending the troops to Liberia is to deliberately bring more cases of Ebola to the US, it certainly is a possibility that some of the troops could become infected and serve as the means whereby more widespread outbreaks of the disease could occur in the US. I cannot think of a more inappropriate use of the US military!!
There are established protocols for handling infectious viruses. Sample tubes are disinfected on the outside, then placed into plastic bags. Those plastic bags are disinfected on the outside, then placed into a second plastic bag. The second plastic bag is disinfected on the outside and placed into a transport container. The container is closed, disinfected on the outside, and transported. Once at destination, it is placed inside a containment unit (hood or glovebox) and opened.
Notice that frequent disinfection of surfaces is a key feature of transport of hazardous specimens. Opening a sample generates aerosols, but the sample should be in a containment unit at that point. The containment unit is also disinfected before and after use.
Of course, President Obola was lying about this.