I've continued to keep up with these threads and am utterly baffled why this isn't making international news. This could turn into a world-wide nightmare. Why isn't this all over the news?
The media is run by the money interests.
They stand to lose alot if international travel and commerce is curtailed.
Move along, nothing to see here...
A response to your question may be that they have pourous borders and that people have travelled beyond the town. Just that alone may spread a wide area concern.
No doubt everyone could use a volunteer to go in there and see what's happening.
You are free to do so.
Beats me! I just E-mailed the article to my daughter.She reads the NYT anyway and may see it but I want to spread the word.
If it can be transferred by sweat think about the seats of planes,busses etc. The way I interpret the article the disease can be spread any old way.
Why aren't they just isolating everyone in the country
until they can beat this thing down?
I come from a generation where we were quarantined for many of the childhood diseases---quarantine of the entire area is the answer,I hope.
I agree with the earlier poster's answer, and also, many folks got kind of jaded by the SARS outbreak. It didn't ever develop into the pandemic that a number of well-meaning professionals warned that it might (including CDC Director Gerberding). The thing is, Dr. Gerberding really wasn't crying wolf: It did have the potential but fortunately was contained (it could re-emerge). Now the agencies are a little gun shy about wide-ranging warnings. Of course, one case getting off a plane in Atlanta or somewhere and that will change. I think these comments apply to Avian influenza H5N1 as well.
This was a New York Times article, and not the first one on it. No television coverage that I've seen, though.
Not nearly as salacious as Michael Jackson, and Terri Schiavo's parents had a better publicist.
Because Michael Jackson doesnt have it... yet?
I first read about this on Free Republic it seems like two weeks ago and I remembered saying to myself, "Oh, man."
I still haven't heard much about it away from Free Republic, other than across news tickers.
Beats me. It should be all over the news.