Posted on 10/03/2014 6:11:29 AM PDT by markomalley
Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Friday said restricting travel between the U.S. and West Africa would likely backfire and put Americans more at risk of contracting Ebola.
Appearing on MSNBC, Frieden was asked about potentially prohibiting air travel between the U.S. and West Africa, where the Ebola outbreak is most widespread. He said that such a restriction would likely be ineffective and would make it harder for health officials to root out the virus.
The only way were going to get to zero risk is by stopping the outbreak at the source in West Africa, Frieden said.
Even if we tried to close the border, it wouldnt work, the top health official added. People have a right to return. People transiting through could come in. And it would backfire, because by isolating these countries, itll make it harder to help them, it will spread more there and wed be more likely to be exposed here.
Friedens comments come as health officials continue to screen up to 100 people in Texas in connection with Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan, who is in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Duncan flew to the U.S. on Sept. 19, but the CDC said that he was screened before his flight in Monrovia and showed no symptoms of Ebola. Health officials say his temperature was 97.3 degrees and that he was not contagious on the flight, meaning his fellow passengers were not at risk.
While in Liberia, Duncan had contact with a woman who had the virus and helped carry her from a taxi, according to The New York Times.
On Friday, Frieden said airport screenings are reducing risks. There are a lot of checks in place. Its not perfect, he said.
In several interviews and at a Thursday news briefing, the CDC director has expressed confidence that health officials will be able to contain the spread of the virus in the U.S.
On Thursday evening, NBC announced that a freelance journalist working for the network in Liberia had contracted Ebola and quarantined himself on Wednesday.
A real life Quincy would be nice and I would bet he’d get plenty of real backup. I know it was preachy and liberal sometimes but still a good series. Even a Dr. Astin would be a step up.
“I wish adults/conservatives were in charge now,’
You’re right, it is the thought process of a child and just like with a child anything that deviates from their small little known world/thought process and they are completely helpless.
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"Not perfect." Try harder...much harder.
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Along with the illnesses they carry - like TB.
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Just wonderin'.....
If American is stricken with Ebola and the only cause that can be determined was the airline flown, would there be civil suits up the wazoo?
Are airlines going to be held responsible for flying the Ebola stricken or people with Ebola connections from west African countries?
Healthcare won't be cheap with Ebola - I hear lawyers smacking their lips already.
Airlines being charged with culpability.......cha-ching.
“This would work. The airlines would cancel most of their flights due to low load factors or the ticket prices would need to go way up to compensate for low load factors.”
Of course it would work. But liberals do not believe in market forces.
The Hill thinks they’re immune but there are flights into Dulles every day. Hate to say it, but it’s going to take a case to land in the middle of their kids’ exclusive private schools to wake them up. Just wait until the holiday travel starts next month. There will be no safe US city.
Fire the politically appointed bastards and put a veterinarian in place as head of the CDC that has an MPH and served in the Army or USAF.
UT Austin, TX professor Pianka has been lecturing his bio classes for years that he wants Ebola to wipe out 90% of the human race. For years, he has failed to step to the front of the line to eliminate himself. What’s good for the goose isn’t good for the gander. To be sure, he’s dancing jigs every day in class now.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
You are dealing with liberals here!
If they actually did something to improve any situation, not only might the idea catch on (HERESY!), but it would really foul up the whole victimhood thingy! (/ not really sarcasm)
I predict the manhunt will rival that of looking for genocidal Nazis...Oh, wait...redux...
They'd be forgetting the last box. Vote from the rooftops if you have to.
It is time for a conservative to rise up and take verbal charge of this fiasco. Little Barry seems to be a bit overwhelmed.
Nah, he's sharing the love, so he can blame the crackas later.
Patient Nigeria admitted to Howard Univ Hospital in DC with possible Ebola symptoms
'nuff said - he's a political hack
The people running all of our agencies are leftist fools living in an alternate reality. Just look at the joke of a person that resigned from the Secret Service. The federal government is FULL of people just like that, or worse.
The DHS is worried about GLOBAL fu#king WARMING, for God’s sake!!!
The insane are running the asylum here....
Can’t or won’t?
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