CDC is bringing Ebola patient to Emory University in Atlanta

[DGambler]

Read my post... Congressman said he couldn't do anything, state said they couldn't do anything... CDC said "fuck off" nicely of course.

Who made the damn decision?

 

[Miss Annie]

I will say that I will be avoiding Atlanta for a while.

Please say some prayers for those of us who are stuck here.

 

[Suzanimal]

Please say some prayers for those of us who are stuck here.

I went to Druid Hills HS - right around the corner (literally, like two or three traffic lights) from the CDC and Emory Hospital and two of my nephews go back to school there August 11th. I don't like this one bit.

 

[pcosmar]

The plane with the infected doctor stopped in Bangor at 7:30. My kids and my mother flew out of Bangor at 6:55.

I don't care how small the risk is, I think this needs to stay in Africa.

Too late.

I guess they didn't ask your opinion.

 

[phill4paul]

Ever flown into Atlanta?

Seems like a good place to store/treat toxic diseases....

I've lived there. If there is an outbreak I say burn it down like the second coming of Tecumseh Sherman.

 

[Miss Annie]

I went to Druid Hills HS - right around the corner (literally, like two or three traffic lights) from the CDC and Emory Hospital and two of my nephews go back to school there August 11th. I don't like this one bit.

You and your family will be in my prayers too! .... I am not that close, Woodstock.

 

[Miss Annie]

Read my post... Congressman said he couldn't do anything, state said they couldn't do anything... CDC said "fuck off" nicely of course.

Who made the damn decision?

I read your post! Thank you for calling and trying to raise some crap about it!
I would love to know for sure who made the decision, but I bet its in the WH...

 

[donnay]

 

[euphemia]

The two patients are Americans from who were in Africa to serve medical needs there. These patients were brought home by their sending agencies after one member of the team died. I do not see this as a government conspiracy, since the sending agencies also evacuated others who were there as part of the medical team.

As I understand it, part of the African problem is the resistance to follow protocol to prevent the spread of the disease. American protocol will be very strict. I'm sure none of those caring for these patients will want to risk contracting the disease.

 

[orenbus]

 

[FindLiberty]

Hospital might be perfectly safe.... What else could go wrong?

Old news about an owl (not fruit bat),

...inspecting an F/A-18 Hornet aboard the carrier Harry S. Truman in the Persian Gulf when he noticed something unusual in the plane's wheel well.

http://www.navytimes.com/article/20080331/NEWS/803310323/A-bird-hand-worth-none-jet

If an Ebola fruit bat hitched a ride, it would have probably been killed in-flight ( and might even fall out as airplane prepared to land - as long as it did not fall directly into the city's drinking water reservoir, everything should be fine).

Best if it's dead, 'cause a live fruit bat might like to make a Georgia peach tree its new home...

EBOLA ZOMBIE MUTATION PROBABIITY: less than .1%

 

[orenbus]

 

[Antischism]

Lots of fear mongering, mostly. While Ebola is nothing to take lightly, flu viruses are more of a threat than Ebola to your life and health. For one, Ebola hasn't mutated and become airborne; that is a fact until absolutely proven/confirmed otherwise, without a shadow of a doubt. If it does mutate and become airborne at some point in time, the mortality rate will have lowered a significant amount.

My guess is the CDC just wants to get blood samples from these people.

 

[Teenager For Ron Paul]

Lots of fear mongering, mostly. While Ebola is nothing to take lightly, flu viruses are more of a threat than Ebola to your life and health. For one, Ebola hasn't mutated and become airborne; that is a fact until absolutely proven/confirmed otherwise, without a shadow of a doubt. If it does mutate and become airborne at some point in time, the mortality rate will have lowered a significant amount.

My guess is the CDC just wants to get blood samples from these people.

That already happened?

 

[orenbus]

 

[orenbus]

 

[Anti Federalist]

Lots of fear mongering, mostly. While Ebola is nothing to take lightly, flu viruses are more of a threat than Ebola to your life and health.

That's why I wish people would sit up and pay attention to shit like this:



Scientists condemn 'crazy, dangerous' creation of deadly airborne flu virus

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/11/crazy-dangerous-creation-deadly-airborne-flu-virus

Researchers say recreation of Spanish flu strain highlights risk of pandemic, but critics say work puts global population at risk

Scientists have created a life-threatening virus that closely resembles the 1918 Spanish flu strain that killed an estimated 50m people in an experiment labelled as "crazy" by opponents.

US researchers said the experiments were crucial for understanding the public health risk posed by viruses currently circulating in wild birds, but critics condemned the studies as dangerous and called on funders to stop the work.

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison used a technique called reverse genetics to build the virus from fragments of wild bird flu strains. They then mutated the virus to make it airborne to spread more easily from one animal to another.

"The work they are doing is absolutely crazy. The whole thing is exceedingly dangerous," said Lord May, the former president of the Royal Society and one time chief science adviser to the UK government. "Yes, there is a danger, but it's not arising form the viruses out there in the animals, it's arising from the labs of grossly ambitious people."

 

[Brian4Liberty]

For one, Ebola hasn't mutated and become airborne; that is a fact until absolutely proven/confirmed otherwise, without a shadow of a doubt.

Lol. Your definition of "fact" seems to be a bit off.

 

[nobody's_hero]

I read your post! Thank you for calling and trying to raise some crap about it!
I would love to know for sure who made the decision, but I bet its in the WH...

Why would Obama pass an executive order which amends the language of the quarantined diseases list? Right as this is happening? Someone high up made this call and they're too cowardly to make themselves known.

The good news is that if there is an outbreak, Atlanta is mostly filled with democrats. (too low? even for me?)

 

[fr33]

"They" operate daily as if they have infinite resources. "They" surely have the resources to care for them across the ocean. I'm not worried but it seems like a better stance on isolating the patient has been sacrificed. No walls, floors, or other obstacles are as wide as a the sea they flew over. All of those things including medical staff and an army to support them could have been flown over there for the price of some obscene DC social party.