Posted on 10/22/2014 6:48:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A West African passenger aboard a United Airlines flight that landed in Newark on Tuesday has been hospitalized to be checked for Ebola, the CDC said.
The news comes the same day the feds announced a rule that would funnel passengers from Ebola-afflicted West African nations to one of five U.S. airports - including Newark Liberty International.
During the enhanced screening process for individuals arriving to the United States from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, an individual was identified as reporting symptoms or having a potential exposure to Ebola," Carol Crawford, a CDC spokeswoman, said in a statement sent to the Newark Star-Ledger.
The passenger was hospitalized at University Hospital, where officials told visitors the facility, a Level 1 trauma center, was on lockdown, the paper reported.
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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...
MORE INFO FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO ANALYZE IT:
* The plane, United Airlines Flight 998, originated in Brussels, though the ill passenger traveled first from Liberia (HE HAD A VISA OF COURSE< OTHERWISE< HE COULDN’T BOARD THE PLANE ).
* The flight is the same route that had a similar scare nearly three weeks ago, when a vomiting Liberian passenger forced officials to temporarily quarantine the jet.
MORE INFO FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO ANALYZE IT:
* The plane, United Airlines Flight 998, originated in Brussels, though the ill passenger traveled first from Liberia (HE HAD A VISA OF COURSE< OTHERWISE< HE COULDNT BOARD THE PLANE ).
* The flight is the same route that had a similar scare nearly three weeks ago, when a vomiting Liberian passenger forced officials to temporarily quarantine the jet.
WE STILL DON’T KNOW HOW MANY PASSENGERS WERE ON THAT PLANE.
Obama! Obama! Obama!
Will he just start denying Visas already?
He can’t do that because his Ebola Czar will have nothing to do.
But that's OK, because the Ebola Czar is already declining to do his job, as he declines to attend meetings and looks forward to his next position:
Is the New Ebola Czar Just Waiting to Step Into a Higher White House Position?
250 passengers.
Probably would be best to stay off of airplanes for quite awhile and do not land at any of the five airports if you happen to fly. May help Amtrak and Greyhound. With the cost gas going down - may be cheaper to drive. The only problem overseas flights are kinda of hard to replace with an alternative.
There is another thread on FR discussing the economic impacts of the 'fear' of ebola.
Here, I found it for you if you are interested.
The airlines are going to get very tired of having their planes quarantined. One would think they’d take steps to Ebola-test passengers who originate in Liberia BEFORE THEY GET ON THE PLANE.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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