Posted on 08/02/2014 11:40:52 PM PDT by Nachum
The first Ebola victim to be brought to the United States from Africa was safely escorted into a specialized isolation unit Saturday at one of the nation's best hospitals, where doctors said they are confident the deadly virus won't escape.
Fear that the outbreak killing more than 700 people in Africa could spread in the U.S. has generated considerable anxiety among some Americans. But infectious disease experts said the public faces zero risk as Emory University Hospital treats a critically ill missionary doctor and a charity worker who were infected in Liberia.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has received "nasty emails" and at least 100 calls from people saying "How dare you bring Ebola into the country!?" CDC Director Tom Frieden told The Associated Press Saturday.
"I hope that our understandable fear of the unfamiliar does not trump our compassion when ill Americans return to the U.S. for care," Frieden said.
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The triumph of "feelings" over reason; aka the road to Hell.
I remember putting a screen on the front of the car to protect the radiator. I had no idea they were a UF science experiment.
Zero risk does not exist.
“The check is in the mail” and what’s the other part of that lie?
Tar and feather the doctors and officials involved.
Ebola is not an airborne infection, nor would it likely have survived the fire that would occur after a plane crash.
It is spread by fluid contact. Ebola is not particularly contagious, it is simply very difficult to treat.
Four months in three countries that are pretty much the definition of backwards, it has spread to about 1000 people. These are people who eat monkeys they find dead on the ground (dead because they died of Ebola, for example). Their culture almost seems designed to help spread Ebola.
If we can’t handle a couple of cases of Ebola, we won’t survive a real outbreak of disease.
These overly amorous critters are native to Central America; the best guess as to how they came to these United States places them as undiscovered stowaways who arrived by ship in Galveston or New Orleans around 1920. They migrated into Florida in 1947 from Louisiana, looked around, liked what they saw, and decided to stay. Their natural capacity for reproduction took care of the rest.
Exactly..
Thank you. You saved me the trouble of looking up that particular picture of the Atlanta skyline.
Gives a whole new meaning to the Allman Brothers’ “Hot’lanta”.
RMS Titanic.
“Doctors Insist Deadly Ebola Virus Won’t Escape Atlanta Hospital”
So, then, they have liability insurance to ensure that in case they are wrong, victims will be properly compensated, right?
I wonder what their liability insurance company says?
I’m guessing they say “not covered”. Someone could ask though.
Ebola will not go airborne? Someone needs to tell the Canuks:
http://healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/pigs-monkeys-ebola-goes-airborne-112112
To "pre-judge" something is (usually) bad. To "discriminate" (between good and bad, or healthy food and poison, or, in this case between safety and danger) is, again usually, a good thing. We in the West are failing to discriminate on a massive scale, and this has led to many problems. Hopefully, EHF will remain one of the minor ones.
What do these findings mean? First and foremost, Ebola is not suddenly an airborne disease. As expert commentators at ProMED stated, the experiments “demonstrate the susceptibility of pigs to Zaire Ebolavirus and that the virus from infected pigs can be transmitted to macaques under experimental conditions… they fall short of establishing that this is a normal route of transmission in the natural environment.” Furthermore, because human Ebola outbreaks have historically been locally contained, it is unlikely that Ebola can spread between humans via airborne transmission.Of course, the fear is a new virulent strain of Ebola that could be transmitted airborne or by other means.
The doctor transported to the Atlanta Hospital was an EBOLA SPECIALIST.
He knew the disease.
He SAW the horrors of the disease.
He knew how to protect himself FROM EBOLA.
And THIS GOOD DOCTOR GOT EBOLA.
The relatively fast spread of the current outbreak means most of what they know about transmission is out the window. Also the patient at Emory was/is suppose to be an expert on ebola. Why have over 100 health care workers - trained and briefed - gotten the disease? Because it has mutated and may well have gone airborne.
Ebola's virus can live outside the body for days - - haunting elevator buttons, grocery cart handles and air conditioning duck work...
High density inner city neighborhoods will be epicenters of the slaughter.
You would think the Dems would be all over this, that’s their voters you’re talking about.
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