Louisiana tells anyone who's been exposed to Ebola: Stay away

The Hill ^ | October 30, 2014 | Sarah Ferris

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Louisiana is set to host one of the year’s biggest gatherings of infectious disease experts next week, but anyone's who's recently been to West Africa won’t be welcome.

A pair of top state officials wrote a letter to the more than 3,500 members of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene who planned to attend the conference this week, warning them to stay away if they’ve had potential Ebola exposure.

“In Louisiana, we love to welcome visitors, but we must balance that hospitality with the protection of Louisiana residents and other visitors,” wrote Kathy Klieber, Louisiana’s secretary of Health and Hospitals, and Kevin Davis, director of the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.

“We do hope that you will consider a future visit to New Orleans, when we can welcome you appropriately,” they wrote in the letter, which was first reported by Bloomberg News.

The society of researchers has asked its members to comply with the state’s rules, though it said it does not know how many members could be affected.

Some scientists plan to protest the ban while others have already cancelled plans to attend.

The group's incoming president, Dr. Christopher Plowe, warned that the move could hinder the global effort to understand and ultimately contain the disease.

”This meeting is a place for people who are working on Ebola to share the latest information and go back better prepared to fight the epidemic,” Plowe told the scientific journal Nature. ”There is a potential hindrance to that effort of people not being able to come to the meeting.”

Louisiana is one of a dozen states that has implemented Ebola restrictions that are more stringent than federal guidelines. Anyone in the state who has traveled to West Africa has been told to avoid large groups of people and public transportation.

Under federal recommendations, a person would only be told to isolate themselves from the general public if they have have had known direct exposure to the virus, which has infected more than 13,000 people in West Africa and four people in the United States.

President Obama criticized the strict state policies Wednesday, issuing an impassioned plea for governors to enact science-based policies that would not punish people helping to combat the outbreak.

“When I hear people talking about American leadership, and then are promoting policies that would avoid leadership and have us running in the opposite direction and hiding under the covers, it makes me a little frustrated,” he said, standing alongside a half-dozen doctors and nurses in medical coats.

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WARNING: TRESPASSERS WILL BE VIOLATED!

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Thas RASSIS!

[Paulie]

I don’t know. Seems racist to me. And disrespectful. Kaci didn’t have to be ‘bullied by politicians’ so I guess none of these people do either.

Besides, the CDC has everything under control.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The best “quarantine” idea I’ve heard yet. I wonder why those bozos in the District of Corruption and down at the Center for Disease Redistribution haven’t thought of this. What a bunch of dummies.

[greeneyes]

A conference requiring people to travel and attend is just so quaint. I’d suggest they use tele-communications. No need to waste time and money traveling.

[EDINVA]

that was my reaction to this asinine statement: ”There is a potential hindrance to that effort {being “better prepared to fight the epidemic”] of people not being able to come to the meeting.”

Hook ‘em up electronically. No big whoop.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[greeneyes]

These people will apparently say anything to get their way and be critical of anyone they don’t agree with. And the reporters often just accept any lame brained excuse without question.

[glock rocks]

?.. and it’s all fun and games, untill some one pukes up a kidney.

[PistolPaknMama]

This is really gonna PO BO!!

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I hear Kaci Hickox is craving jambalaya...

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)

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...

[franzpick]

It’s the American way: Boost your cronies local hotel, food and car rental revenues by inviting in a few hundred spenders every excuse you get. Don’t ever let that feared NYC disease set in: Hotels Without Boarders.

[franzpick]

Can’t wait to see the illegal and authoritarian moves that O’Bola, Valerie and Eric the Holster bring to bear to further quash states rights of exercising any such independent action and what’s left of the Republic.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Balding_Eagle]

Doctors Without Boarders members should be uninvited.

They’ve shown themselves to be narcissists and a danger to others,