The Ebola Delerium

red_hill wrote:

News Buzzard wrote:

News Pigeon wrote:

red-hill wrote:This President has done a wonderful job of making himself look bad with little or no help needed from the media.

That would be your biased opinion, not necessarily based on fact.

I agree!

It is my opinion, but it is one shared by many left leaning pundits (that I listen to often) such as Mark Thompson, Ari Rabib-Havt, Thom Hartmann and Mike Signorelli (I may have murdered the spelling of their names). Each one of them regularly has to admit the opportunities wasted by this President.

Some 1,600 doses of the vaccine arrived in Geneva which the WHO, under fire for what has been seen as a lethargic response to the outbreak, hopes can be fast-tracked into "real-world use".

Meanwhile doctors said Wednesday two people died in a riot the day before in eastern Sierra Leone, which erupted when health workers tried to take a blood sample from a 90-year-old woman suspected of having Ebola.

Several buildings were attacked and gangs of youths roamed the streets shouting "No more Ebola!"

Sierra Leone and neighbouring Guinea and Liberia are the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak, the world's worst ever, which has killed more than 4,500 people including a handful outside the region.

Health teams are working desperately to slow the alarming spread of the virus, with experts warning the rate of infections could reach 10,000 a week by early December.
http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2014/10/23/ebola-riot-in-sierra-leone-kills-two-as-who-to-launch-vaccine-trials

Dr. Craig Spencer, who returned to New York City from Africa 10 days ago, was rushed in an ambulance with a police escort from his Harlem home to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday, sources said.

He was suffering from Ebola-like symptoms — a fever and nausea, sources said.

While he was in Africa, the doctor had been treating Ebola patients in Guinea, sources said.
—NYPost

News Buzzard wrote:I don't think Obama needs to stop any flights, nor do I think he should allow himself to be bullied by the idiots on the right! Get a grip, man! One person has died in this country from Ebola, and the hospital he died in admits to a lot of mistakes!!

The Left-Wing Hipster Democrat Couple That Exposed NYC to #Ebola

So why did (2) health care professionals decide to go bowling just days after Spencer returned from Ebola-infected Guinea?"

They are both registered Democrats with a history of working in public health. Both Spencer and Dixon are professional do gooders according to their LinkedIn and professional websites. Spencer boasts a degree from Columbia’s University Mailman School of Public Health, according to his since deleted LinkedIn page. So why did health care professionals decide to go bowling just days after Spencer returned from Ebola-infected Guinea?"
—gotnews.com

The governors of New York and New Jersey announced Friday afternoon that they were ordering all people entering the country through two area airports who had direct contact with Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea to be quarantined.

The announcement comes one day after an American doctor, who had worked in Guinea and returned to New York City earlier in October, tested positive for Ebola and became the first New York patient of the deadly virus.
—New York Times

obervantone wrote:I just heard the greatest and accurate line about Ebola on NPR's On Point....

More people in the U-S have been married to a Kardashian  than have come down with Ebola!    LOL LOL    Run...now we're going to all get Ebola and have to marry a Kardashian!    AHHHHH

I received a request to comment on the evolution of the Ebola virus. The best, most recent work, which sequenced and compared 99 entire virus genomes, was published in Science last month: "Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak." It came at a very high cost -- five co-authors actually died of Ebola in the course of the work.

The paper is mostly concerned with tracing the timing and spread of the virus. The authors show that the virus is acquiring mutations very rapidly (several hundred compared to a virus from an earlier outbreak in 1976), as is to be expected for RNA viruses...,"
—Evolution News and Views

News Hawk wrote:Why? Indeed!

They partied with another couple, and now all four are in isolation.

Map of the "doctor's" rambling events in NYC:

http://www.businessinsider.com/retracing-the-steps-of-nyc-ebola-patient-2014-10

Anti Federalist wrote:If I didn't know any better, and did not know of your average American's almost pathological self absorption, I would swear that the very first symptom of Ebola was an uncontrollable urge to travel about.

§265. Suspension of entries and imports from designated places to prevent spread of communicable diseases.

Whenever the Surgeon General determines that by reason of the existence of any communicable disease in a foreign country there is serious danger of the introduction of such disease into the United States, and that this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a suspension of the right to introduce such persons and property is required in the interest of the public health, the Surgeon General, in accordance with regulations approved by the President, shall have the power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places as he shall designate in order to avert such danger, and for such period of time as he may deem necessary for such purpose. (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, §362, 58 Stat. 704.)

Editor, Lewiston [Maine] Morning Tribune:

If I wish to import a horse into the United States from Liberia or any African country other than Morocco, the horse needs to undergo a 60 day quarantine period at a USDA approved quarantine facility prior to mingling with the general population of horses in this country. Africa has a disease called African Horse Sickness that does not exist in the US; this is the way we have kept it out of this country.

African Horse Sickness does not cause disease in people, only horses; our government has determined that it would be devastating to the US horse industry if it were to come here.

The United States (and virtually all other countries) require a myriad of tests and often quarantine prior to bringing in a foreign animal.

I can’t legally cross state lines in the United States with a horse or cow without a health certificate signed by a USDA accredited veterinarian stating that the animal has been inspected and found free of infectious disease. In most cases blood tests are also required. In fact I can’t legally cross the Snake River and ride my horse in Idaho without a health certificate and a negative blood test for Equine Infectious Anemia.

I’m not complaining; the United States of America, the States of Idaho and Washington as well as the other 48 states take the health of our livestock very seriously, and we have a very good record at keeping foreign animal diseases out of our country. I am happy to do my part to maintain biosecurity in our animal population.

If I am a resident of Liberia incubating Ebola, to enter the United States all I need to do is present a valid visa, and lie when asked if I have been exposed to Ebola. Within hours (no quarantine required) I can be walking the streets of any city in the United States.

I feel very fortunate to live in a country that values our animals so highly.

David A. Rustebakke, DVM
Oct 29, 2014

WHL wrote:I saw a pictures of the nurse from Maine and the words were:  " I want to help Africans but I won't quarantine myself for Americans".  If she really said this I have a very bad opinion of her.

News Hawk wrote:

Editor, Lewiston [Maine] Morning Tribune:

If I wish to import a horse into the United States from Liberia or any African country other than Morocco, the horse needs to undergo a 60 day quarantine period at a USDA approved quarantine facility prior to mingling with the general population of horses in this country. Africa has a disease called African Horse Sickness that does not exist in the US; this is the way we have kept it out of this country.

African Horse Sickness does not cause disease in people, only horses; our government has determined that it would be devastating to the US horse industry if it were to come here.

The United States (and virtually all other countries) require a myriad of tests and often quarantine prior to bringing in a foreign animal.

I can’t legally cross state lines in the United States with a horse or cow without a health certificate signed by a USDA accredited veterinarian stating that the animal has been inspected and found free of infectious disease. In most cases blood tests are also required. In fact I can’t legally cross the Snake River and ride my horse in Idaho without a health certificate and a negative blood test for Equine Infectious Anemia.

I’m not complaining; the United States of America, the States of Idaho and Washington as well as the other 48 states take the health of our livestock very seriously, and we have a very good record at keeping foreign animal diseases out of our country. I am happy to do my part to maintain biosecurity in our animal population.

If I am a resident of Liberia incubating Ebola, to enter the United States all I need to do is present a valid visa, and lie when asked if I have been exposed to Ebola. Within hours (no quarantine required) I can be walking the streets of any city in the United States.

I feel very fortunate to live in a country that values our animals so highly.

David A. Rustebakke, DVM
Oct 29, 2014

Why can't Obama get it straight?

Luca Zaia, governor of the northeastern Veneto region, this week called on US authorities to repatriate all those US military personnel who have served in Liberia rather than have them undergo quarantine on Italian soil.

Mr Zaia made his comments after 11 soldiers returned to the US base of Ederle in Vicenza this week after serving some weeks in Liberia, helping with the logistical preparations necessary to deal with the pandemic.
—Irish Times

An experimental Ebola vaccine appears safe and triggered signs of immune protection in the first 20 volunteers to test it, U.S. researchers reported Wednesday. The vaccine is designed to spur the immune system's production of anti-Ebola antibodies, and people developed them within four weeks of getting the shots at the National Institutes of Health. Half of the test group received a higher-dose shot, and those people produced more antibodies, said the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Some people also developed a different set of virus-fighting immune cells, named T cells, the study found."
Dailymail/AP

The CDC is discussing plans to monitor thousands of people for Ebola. In the Dec 2 Federal Register, the CDC notified the Office of Management and Budget that they plan to monitor over 62,000 people a year who are at risk for Ebola and have entered the US.

The burden of reporting is so overwhelming, that the CDC is proposing using an IVR system (Interactive Voice Response) to track respondents.
SHTFDashboard.com

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has a sore throat and has gone to Walter Reed military hospital for testing, the White House said on Saturday.
—Reuters