How is there not a thread on this yet?
http://nypost.com/2014/09/30/ebola-in-the-usa-texas-patient-has-deadly-disease/
Some guy in Texas that had been in Liberia tested positive. The CDC seems pretty confident that they have it under control, and I suspect that they're correct, but still, this isn't exactly great news.
Ebola outbreak in Texas? Wow, be careful what you wish for.
You are a sick F#%k!
There are millions of things more likely to kill you.
BAN EBOLAAAA!!!! oh wait, that's Texas. Give us then freedom to choose whether or not we want Ebola!!!
How about stopping all travel into and out of Liberia? What in the world??? It's not that hard to figure out.
So that's what, the fourth case in the US? Snore.
You can be sure this patient isn't the only Ebola-infected person in the US. He may be the only KNOWN patient. There's more to follow. Stay tuned.
Stay in Africa wrote:
How about stopping all travel into and out of Liberia? What in the world??? It's not that hard to figure out.
And what about the humanitarian efforts? Should those be abandoned? Or is it okay to just let governments and NGOs travel there, but no commercial flights....you know, like they're already doing?
Since it can only be transmitted by very sick individuals, and the fact that it is controllable in the early stages makes one case non-news. The real shame is how long it took the rich world to step into Africa and help.
Try to keep up wrote:
So that's what, the fourth case in the US? Snore.
Yes. The others came here in complete isolation. This dude came on a commercial jet!!!!
What a cluster f%$%
NO people At ALL should be allowed to fly out of west Africa, and sure as shite not to here.
Why does this need to be spelled out?
Obama, somebody? Do your jobs, geez! This is a disgrace.
we r idiots wrote:
You can be sure this patient isn't the only Ebola-infected person in the US. He may be the only KNOWN patient. There's more to follow. Stay tuned.
This.
It's not ebola. It's e. coli.
To think that we cannot have an Ebola outbreak here is naive. Ebola is much easier to transmit than HIV, and yet we have over a million people in this country living with this disease. We should definately take steps to restict travel from the countries affected by this outbreak.
Third World problems suddenly got very real.
They screen everybody leaving those countries for fever to ensure that they at least aren't symptomatic at the time of the flight. You must have symptoms to spread the disease.
"The man, who was visiting relatives in the United States, was not ill during the flight, health officials said at a news conference Tuesday evening. Indeed, he was screened before he boarded the flight and had no fever. Because Ebola is not contagious until symptoms develop, there is “zero chance” that the patient infected anyone else on the flight, said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the disease centers. Ebola is spread only by direct contact with body fluids from someone who is ill."
The thing I find most troubling was that he sought medical attention on 9/26, but was sent away and then finally placed in hospital isolation on 9/28. To the doctor(s) from 9/26, fvcking hello McFly! Liberia, fever, WTF? This kind of thing is what shakes my confidence in the controlling picture that the CDC like to paint, some doctors are indeed morons.
Just give everyone ebola, then all the survivors will be immune and that will be the end of it.
A good guy with ebola is the only way to stop a bad guy with ebola.
How the choom gang took down America.
Terminate him and send his body back to Africa. They may do with it as they please (which will probably involve some sort of cannibalism, hence the spread of the disease).