What a nightmare. The Ebola virus is frightening.
Coming soon to a Brownsville hospital near you!
Three hundred thirty-three deaths.
How many deaths does the U.S. experience every year just from influenza? I don’t know, but it is a lot more that 333!
Wonderful. I wonder how much of it is coming across the southern border
You can count on Obama to increase legal immigration from those areas.
Obama and his agents must be thinking hard
how to move a slow moving type of this
to the open southern border of the US.
Ping!
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...
Those doctors without borders need to be quaranteened for a long period before they are ever allowed to enter the country again.
We need to bring them to America to save them all.
/sarc
Preppers’ PING!!
“The Hot Zone” (true story)
“The Ebola virus kills nine out of ten of its victims so quickly and gruesomely that even biohazard experts are terrified. It is airborne, it is extremely contagious, and in the winter of 1989, it seemed about to burn through the suburbs of Washington D.C.”
“At Fort Detrick’s USAMRIID, an Army research facility outside the nation’s capital, a SWAT team of soldiers and scientists wearing biohazard space suits was organized to stop the outbreak of the exotic “hot” virus. The grim operation went on in secret for eighteen days, under unprecedented, dangerous conditions.”
“The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story in depth, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their outbreaks in the human race. From a remote African cave hot with Ebola virus, to an airplane over Africa that is carrying a sick passenger who dissolves into a human virus bomb, to the confines of a Biosafety Level 4 military lab where scientists risk their lives studying lethal substances that could kill them quickly and horribly, The Hot Zone describes situations that a few years ago would have been taken for science fiction. As the tropical wildernesses of the world are destroyed, previously unknown viruses that have lived undetected in the rain forest for eons are entering human populations. The appearance of AIDS is part of a larger pattern, and the implications for the future of the human species are terrifying.”
“The first chapter of The Hot Zone is one of the most horrifying things I’ve read in my whole life–and then it gets worse. That’s what I keep marveling over: it keeps getting worse.”
–Stephen King
http://richardpreston.net/preston-books/hot-zone
Can we stop visas from such countries? Or will this be like AIDS and a ton of Americans will be dying soon?
thanks for the update. what with everything else,
I can’t keep up on this.
All we need is a couple of these kids coming over the border infected with something like this to really screw us up.