Should the US impose a travel ban to and from Ebola-stricken nations of West Africa?
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Re: Should the US impose a travel ban to and from Ebola-stricken nations of West Afri
The E-Team: Pentagon Announces Special Ebola Support Squad - NBC News
Pentagon building rapid-response Ebola team
LA Times - Pentagon announces Ebola rapid-response team for U.S. cases of virus
The E-Team: Pentagon Announces Special Ebola Support Squad - NBC News
Pentagon building rapid-response Ebola team
LA Times - Pentagon announces Ebola rapid-response team for U.S. cases of virus
Re: Should the US impose a travel ban to and from Ebola-stricken nations of West Afri
Well, we know LOS hasn't, or he'd know better than to say that Ebola isn't an enemy the Army has the training or experience to deal with.
LOS: ask the people at Fort Dettrick!
As RLENT pointed out, that's precisely what USAMRIID [United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases] exists for.
Reading 'The Hot Zone', I'm wondering, though, about the scene where an Army Col in a full hazmat spacesuit chases a monkey around the room "for a couple hours" with a net: did they only have one net?!
Anyhow, Turtle was right: it's an excellent read.
Well, we know LOS hasn't, or he'd know better than to say that Ebola isn't an enemy the Army has the training or experience to deal with.
LOS: ask the people at Fort Dettrick!
As RLENT pointed out, that's precisely what USAMRIID [United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases] exists for.
Reading 'The Hot Zone', I'm wondering, though, about the scene where an Army Col in a full hazmat spacesuit chases a monkey around the room "for a couple hours" with a net: did they only have one net?!
Anyhow, Turtle was right: it's an excellent read.
Re: Should the US impose a travel ban to and from Ebola-stricken nations of West Afri
Moreso than being a case of just one net, I think it was more a case of having just one colonel... willing to put on that HAZMAT suit... and go in there and fight that monkey.
Moreso than being a case of just one net, I think it was more a case of having just one colonel... willing to put on that HAZMAT suit... and go in there and fight that monkey.
Re: Should the US impose a travel ban to and from Ebola-stricken nations of West Afri
Well cripes, there was a Sgt already in there, also suited up, so what's the point of rank, if you can't delegate?!
On topic: what would be the point of a travel ban, when people may be shedding the virus for days before they become symptomatic? It would only work if there were a rapid blood test to confirm/deny the virus, but that doesn't exist.
Well cripes, there was a Sgt already in there, also suited up, so what's the point of rank, if you can't delegate?!
On topic: what would be the point of a travel ban, when people may be shedding the virus for days before they become symptomatic? It would only work if there were a rapid blood test to confirm/deny the virus, but that doesn't exist.
Re: Should the US impose a travel ban to and from Ebola-stricken nations of West Afri
We should restrict Obama's travels to a Kansas out house. That would go a LONG way to limited disease.
We should restrict Obama's travels to a Kansas out house. That would go a LONG way to limited disease.
Re: Should the US impose a travel ban to and from Ebola-stricken nations of West Afri
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Why am I offended? Because I resent having intelligent conversation derailed, curtailed, and ended by such comments. They serve no other purpose, do they?
Re: Should the US impose a travel ban to and from Ebola-stricken nations of West Afri
I am gonna report this SNL, soon as I quit laughing and can see to doing the email. Now as u know this was totally , ugh, lets see, well, you will have to go to the Principals Office................
I am gonna report this SNL, soon as I quit laughing and can see to doing the email. Now as u know this was totally , ugh, lets see, well, you will have to go to the Principals Office................
Re: Should the US impose a travel ban to and from Ebola-stricken nations of West Afri
The airport screenings for Ebola are insufficient. An American physician, Dr. Craig Spencer, returned to the US after working with Ebola patients for 30 days in West Africa. Spencer passed through the airport screening designed to catch those showing symptoms. Obviously, Spencer did not show an elevated temperature and continued into the heart of NYC, where he rode the subway, took a ride with a car service, went bowling and, perhaps, visited a restaurant. Just a few hours after his bowling spree, Dr. Spencer who had reported feeling fatigue came down with a fever. Within a few more hours, Dr. Spencer tested positive for the Ebola virus.
Now comes word that some travelers meeting high risk criteria will be placed in special quarantine. Good idea.
The airport screenings for Ebola are insufficient. An American physician, Dr. Craig Spencer, returned to the US after working with Ebola patients for 30 days in West Africa. Spencer passed through the airport screening designed to catch those showing symptoms. Obviously, Spencer did not show an elevated temperature and continued into the heart of NYC, where he rode the subway, took a ride with a car service, went bowling and, perhaps, visited a restaurant. Just a few hours after his bowling spree, Dr. Spencer who had reported feeling fatigue came down with a fever. Within a few more hours, Dr. Spencer tested positive for the Ebola virus.
Now comes word that some travelers meeting high risk criteria will be placed in special quarantine. Good idea.
Re: Should the US impose a travel ban to and from Ebola-stricken nations of West Afri
"Insufficient" is being kind, I think. The airport screenings remind me of the "extraordinary" steps taken to quarantine returning astronauts from the Moon, where they placed the astronauts in quarantine for 3 weeks inside a converted Gulfsteam trailer in case they brought back any Moon pathogens.
The fact that they did that after the astronauts had just splashed down into the most fertile bacterium growth medium on the planet totally escaped the best and brightest minds on the planet.
"Insufficient" is being kind, I think. The airport screenings remind me of the "extraordinary" steps taken to quarantine returning astronauts from the Moon, where they placed the astronauts in quarantine for 3 weeks inside a converted Gulfsteam trailer in case they brought back any Moon pathogens.
The fact that they did that after the astronauts had just splashed down into the most fertile bacterium growth medium on the planet totally escaped the best and brightest minds on the planet.