Govt. Not Banning Flights from Ebola Hot Zones

It's the zombie apocalypse wanna bang?

Totally trying that tonight.

Agreed. Great job. All of that is accurate and happened.

This is the ideal opportunity for the the drug companies to make a huge profit by marketing the vaccination they developed years ago.

virusdr wrote:

1) Restricting flights to and from these countries will do ENORMOUS economic damage. The economic and political unrest is already starting, and completely cutting these countries off will only increase that. That means that aside from the 6000 people who have been laboratory-confirmed as infected, millions of others will be at risk from other diseases and things like malnutrition and lack of basic infrastructure.

2) With .02% of the population in these countries infected and a virus that is relatively easy to contain (with good public health infrastructure like the US), there is very little risk to the American public

3) If a patient comes to the US with Ebola, their survival chances increase exponentially

4) No other countries are cutting off flights either, what does this have to do with Obama?

HAHA this! love it.

and there is a second case...dont say i didnt tell you idiots so. believing that your government and CDC and the media tell you. idiots

most of those responding critisizing me are probably pretty young and naive. pandemics are not unheard of in America. There was tuberculosis and polio, and now thanks to our lax government, ebola is here.

My friend took 2 airplanes across coast this past weekend, and in the second one, some big fat woman was swishing her into the window of the plane. There was another fat guy across the aisle, twice as big as the woman.

The airlines should ban all big fat people from the airplanes.

It might be contagious, and besides that it is dangerous.

R2D3 wrote:

This is the ideal opportunity for the the drug companies to make a huge profit by marketing the vaccination they developed years ago.

It's called zMapp and it's supposed to be "experimental".

Time to buy shares in Big Pharma.

lrc commune wrote:

You are a troll. All you ever post on Letsrun is TMZish articles. You never contribute anything. That you actually believe Obama is trying to make the US a 3rd world country furthers the evidence that you have nothing to offer society.

Obama was raised by Communists, Islamist supremacists/terrorists, and domestic terrorists. Every radical/criminal extremist of the time makes a Forest Gump like appearance in his life. The man who calls himself "Barack Obama" couldn't be hired as his own SS agent, because of his background. The man can't even pass E-Verify.

"If they're not lying, they are grossly incompetent," said Dr. Gil Mobley, a microbiologist and emergency trauma physician from Springfield, Mo. as he checked in and cleared Atlanta airport security wearing a mask, goggles, gloves, boots and a hooded white jumpsuit emblazoned on the back with the words, "CDC is lying!"

Obama is so incompetent and out of touch with reality he's giving a speech today in Chicago on how great the economy is. Can you believe it?

1918 Spanish Flu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them—three to five percent of the world's population.

Black Death

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death

The Black Death is thought to have originated in the arid plains of central Asia, where it then travelled along the Silk Road, reaching the Crimea by 1343.[6] From there, it was most likely carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships. Spreading throughout the Mediterranean and Europe, the Black Death is estimated to have killed 30–60% of Europe's total population.[7] All in all, the plague reduced the world population from an estimated 450 million down to 350–375 million in the 14th century.

Nov 16, 2012

Fears are growing that the most lethal form of the Ebola virus can mutate into an airborne pathogen, making the spread of the terrifying disease more difficult to check.

It was previously thought the untreatable virus, which causes massive internal bleeding and multiple organ failure, could only be transmitted through contact with infected blood.

But now Canadian researchers have carried out experiments showing how monkeys can catch the deadly disease from infected pigs without coming into direct contact.

Deadly: The Ebola virus, which causes fever-like symptoms, usually followed by organ failure and unstoppable bleeding, and eventually death

Deadly: The Ebola virus, which causes fever-like symptoms, usually followed by organ failure and unstoppable bleeding, and eventually death. New research shows that it could be transmitted through the air

'Our findings support the hypothesis that airborne transmission may contribute to spread, specifically from pigs to primates, and may need to be considered in assessing transmission from animals to humans in general,' they said.

Nov 2012

Ebola from Pigs to Monkeys

A deadly Ebola virus can spread from pigs to monkeys without direct contact, pointing to pig farms as a possible contributor to outbreaks.

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/33277/title/Ebola-from-Pigs-to-Monkeys/

H. M. Weingartl et al., “Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates,” Scientific Reports, doi: 10.1038/srep00811, 2012.

markschultz25 wrote:

Hate to break it to you, but a known airliner transporting people from Ebola hot zones will do more damage to their own reputation, once the airliners are named. No one is going to feel safe on their planes.

So, you feel that the government needs to tell these airlines what to do.

And finally, from today's headlines:

Scores possibly exposed to U.S. Ebola patient; four isolated

Up to 100 people may have had direct or indirect contact with the first person to be diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus in the United States, and four of his relatives have been quarantined in their homes as a precaution, health officials said Thursday.

Dallas County officials said 12 to 18 people had direct contact with the Texas patient, and they in turn had contact with scores of others.

A top health official urged U.S. hospitals to heed lessons from Dallas, where the hospital initially sent the ailing patient home, despite information that he had recently visited West Africa, potentially exposing more people to the virus.

U.S. officials initially described the number of people potentially exposed as a handful, and on Wednesday said it was up to 18.

But on Thursday, the Texas health department said there were about 100 potential contacts. However, Dallas County officials said more than 80 had direct or indirect contact with the patient.

Officials said none of those thought to have had direct or indirect contact with the patient, who was being treated at a Dallas hospital, were showing symptoms of Ebola.

Duh ... because the incubation period is 21 days.

Nonsense.

“Washington (AFP) - The world population may grow larger than previously estimated, reaching 11 billion people by century's end, according to a UN-led analysis published Thursday.

That would mean two billion more people on Earth than expected by 2100, largely due to high birth rates in Africa, said the report in the US journal Science.”

There have been a total of 3385 deaths from Ebola in Africa so far.

That is in a continent with a population of over one billion and, as the report states - there will be 4 billion there in the year 2100.

Were a specific animal to overpopulate like that in a given area, we would, for their own benefit, severely cull their numbers.

It would seem we will have to wait for something considerably more potent than Ebola to have the slightest effect on their rapid growth.

Incidentally, on current birth-rate statistics, the white American (and European) will have virtually disappeared from the planet by 2100.

So Ebola is the last thing Americans should be concerned about.

The government is so big and corrupt they tell everyone what to do and how to do it. If they can tell the Redskins to change their name, they can certainly prohibit airlines from flying into and out of West Africa.

angry willy wrote:

Nov 16, 2012

Fears are growing that the most lethal form of the Ebola virus can be borne and sprinkled by fairies. Children who are losing their first teeth are particularly at risk.