Ebola in America

Skeptic Ginger said:
You want everyone who vomits quarantined?
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CDC officials removed the man and his daughter while other passengers remained on board, CNN affiliate WABC reported. The two passengers were escorted by CDC officials in hazmat gear. The daughter did not exhibit any symptoms.​

They are insuring maximum possible exposure to the contaminant. This is what someone would want if they owned stock in the health care industry.
 
Here is something to consider. Country, GDP per capita, number of Ebola cases as of October 3, number of deaths, and when it last had a civil war:

Liberia: $500; 3834; 2069; 2003
Guinea: $1000; 1199; 739; 2013
Sierra Leone: $900; 2437; 623; 2002
Nigeria: $2500; 20; 8; 1970
Senegal: $1900; 1; 0; never

In other words, countries which are dirt poor and/or had been recently devastated by war and have no health care to speak of, are hit hard. Countries with decent income and stability managed to keep Ebola under control -- and that's "decent" by African standards. Does any of you think US or any country in Europe would do a worse job than Nigeria?
 
GWCarver said:
Well, in general, Republicans aren't worried about "global warming" at all, but they are worried about Ebola.
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I haven't really gotten that impression, but I also having been keeping an eye on anyone that might have an opinion about the current situation. If true, it could indicate that Republicans in general are more short-sighted than others.

Or, perhaps more likely, they simply possess a weaker personal understanding, or weaker trust in others with that understanding, of the related science. Scientists say global climate change is real and man-made? Republicans distrust. Scientists says Ebola isn't a serious threat in the U.S.? Republicans distrust.

xinonix said:
I remember when only a few black people in Africa got ebola, it was not curable
Now as soon as some white people get ebola they have come up with this new procedure to cure them.
Do any of you bleeding heart liberals think that there is something not kosher about this?
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I'm not sure how new these procedures you refer to actually are. Do you?

Also, I'm not sure why that question of yours is directed at liberals.

Dan O. said:
So the people that were possibly infected by a brief contact are being forced to live in a confined contaminated space for three weeks?! How long can the Ebola virus survive outside of a host? If the people being quarantined come into contact with the virus two weeks into their stay, they will walk out of quarantine symptom free yet carrying the virus.
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wollclark said:
I didn't even think about this. What the hell is the CDC doing?
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Let's not start acting like all those goofballs that take great personal pride in thinking they've absolved humanity of the climate change issue by pointing at the sun and implying that none of the people whose job it is to think about this stuff had ever actually thought of it.
 
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Skeptic Ginger said:
The same study found almost no environmental surfaces had recoverable virus.
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That sounds very reassuring.

Dan O. said:
If we were smart we would be offering free health care to the homeless just to protect ourselves from them becoming a repository for contagions.
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Yes.

Some years ago when visiting Hong Kong during the Sars scare, the captain of my ship proclaimed that any infected crew would be feed pizza on account of it being the only food that could be kicked under the door to a cabin. :D

I suspect that in that guys situation I would have done whatever it took to get home. Like lying to local airport authorities.

But I would likely have reported to Danish airport authorities that I kind of felt like getting a lift to the National Hospital quarantine ward. (Or Hvidovre-hospital, I am not sure where it is.)
 
Shortly after the Duncan incident made the news, another American aid worker that had potentially been infected was shipped home. This message should be repeated - we aren't going to leave our citizens stranded. I'd rather accept whatever risk there is to bringing them back home for treatment than have them try to sneak back into the country uncontroled.
 
Dan O. said:
Shortly after the Duncan incident made the news, another American aid worker that had potentially been infected was shipped home. This message should be repeated - we aren't going to leave our citizens stranded. I'd rather accept whatever risk there is to bringing them back home for treatment than have them try to sneak back into the country uncontroled.
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And when you say "treatment", you mean "incineration", right ?
 
Dan O. said:
Shortly after the Duncan incident made the news, another American aid worker that had potentially been infected was shipped home. This message should be repeated - we aren't going to leave our citizens stranded. I'd rather accept whatever risk there is to bringing them back home for treatment than have them try to sneak back into the country uncontroled.
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Before Duncan, there was a group of 4, three were cured and released about the time of Duncan. Dunno the 4th, but IIRC, Duncan is getting better too?
 
casebro said:
Before Duncan, there was a group of 4, three were cured and released about the time of Duncan. Dunno the 4th, but IIRC, Duncan is getting better too?
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There is a report that Pheonix Air ambulance service has been shuttling patients back to the US for weeks.
 
Mark6 said:
Here is something to consider. Country, GDP per capita, number of Ebola cases as of October 3, number of deaths, and when it last had a civil war:

Liberia: $500; 3834; 2069; 2003
Guinea: $1000; 1199; 739; 2013
Sierra Leone: $900; 2437; 623; 2002
Nigeria: $2500; 20; 8; 1970
Senegal: $1900; 1; 0; never

In other words, countries which are dirt poor and/or had been recently devastated by war and have no health care to speak of, are hit hard. Countries with decent income and stability managed to keep Ebola under control -- and that's "decent" by African standards. Does any of you think US or any country in Europe would do a worse job than Nigeria?
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I think our government will have something to answer for if they do a worse job than Senegal.
 
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/...-who-had-possible-contact-with-ebola-patient/

An eight-year-old girl who recently traveled to Liberia with her parents is being tested for the Ebola virus at a Delaware hospital, a source told Fox News Sunday.

A nurse at Bayhealth Kent General Hospital in Dover confirmed to Fox News that a patient exhibiting Ebola symptoms has been placed in isolation in the hospital and is being tested for the deadly virus, but did not give any more detail.

The girl is said to have traveled from Liberia to the U.S. two weeks ago, and has since attended an elementary school.
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