First Ebola virus diagnosed in the USA (Dallas, TX)

[babe]

Go tell that to the nurses that got infected despite being covered from head to toe. We don't know jack **** about this virus and everyone is acting like it is almost impossible to contract it.

All flights from countries with outbreaks should be banned immediately, if a citizen is in one of these countries then he can make his way over but be put in quarantine until he is examined.

Actually, you need to examine, and then quarantine to ensure the incubation time runs and no Ebola is developing in the would-be traveler. . . . . three weeks at least.

 

[DutchJazzer]

On 22 July, a rocket landed about a mile from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. Delta Airlines diverted a flight which was in the air to Paris.Delta Airlines and United Airlines suspended all flights to Tel Aviv indefinitely, and US Airways also cancelled flights. After this, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) prohibited U.S. airlines from flying to or from the airport for up to 24 hours and cited "the potentially hazardous situation created by the armed conflict in Israel and Gaza."The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) stated that it "strongly recommends" that airlines do not fly into or out of the Tel Aviv airport. On the 23rd of July, the FAA extended its prohibition for another 24 hours, however half way through the extension, 36 hours into the flight ban, the FAA lifted their ban.
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg flew to Ben Gurion on El Al on the 23rd of July in order to prove that Israel's airports are safe and to show his solidarity with Israel.
He told CNN, "The fact that one rocket falls far away from this airport – a mile away – doesn't mean you should shut down air traffic into a country and paralyze the country."

Hamas called the FAA flight ban a "great victory".

sooooo a travel ban got instituted against israel.
but not against obamas people in africa for the OBOLA crisis.

[sarcas]
ooh wait i can play the antisemitism card[/sarcasm].


anywhooooo if the faa deemed a travel ban necisiray because of a rocket.

shouldnt obola also demand a faa ban.

not i am not in favor of travel ban.

 

[One Brow]

Everyone got it straight yet? You can pass it to someone on a bus but you can't get it from someone on a bus.

Vehicles of public transportation have places where bodily fluids are supposed to be expressed, which is not sitting next to someone.

 

[One Brow]

Go tell that to the nurses that got infected despite being covered from head to toe.

They were not covered head-to-toe. They did not use the correct gear, and had exposed skin.

 

[PearlWatson]

The bottom line is - the health experts say travel ban will be counterproductive, the Rs say they want travel ban. Why are we not listening to the people we pay to know what is wrong and right

"Health experts" say this after the fact. Of course they are going to excuse their incompetence.

A travel ban would have kept Thomas Eric Duncan from flying to America, but that plane has flown.

 

[Nate505]

So what are we up to now, 3 cases? Or is it still at 2.

 

[dodo]

So what are we up to now, 3 cases? Or is it still at 2.

1 dead, 2 improving. Word is 33 year old "Doctors Without Borders" personel recently returned from Guinea is down with fever and gastrointestinal symptoms. Results pending but given how everyone is acting up it might be or not be Ebola. We'd know in few hours.

In other news - kudos to Paul Allen for putting his $$$ for this fight:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/...-give-100-million-to-tackle-ebola-crisis.html

100 Mil is no chump change

 

[dodo]

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/...us-at-bellevue-hospital-in-new-york-city.html

Another US ebola case.

 

[One Brow]

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/...us-at-bellevue-hospital-in-new-york-city.html

Another US ebola case.

Technically, transmitted in Africa. Still only two transmitted in the US.

 

[Stoked]

Technically, transmitted in Africa. Still only two transmitted in the US.

The thing that caught my attention was that this dude "...had traveled on the A and L subway lines Wednesday night, visited a bowling alley in Williamsburg, and then took a taxi back to Manhattan."

He reported his fever Thursday morning. Hopefully we just dodged another bullet.

 

[moevillini]

while I understand that a health care worker who has returned from treating Ebola patients would be anxious to resume their lives once they return home, perhaps there should be some sort of automatic quarantine period to see if symptoms show up

I realize the likelihood of transmission is quite rare, but I would hope someone who'd been exposed would be willing to restrict their public activities until the incubation period had passed

In other news, the Dallas nurse has ended her treatment and has just been released

 

[Gameface]

while I understand that a health care worker who has returned from treating Ebola patients would be anxious to resume their lives once they return home, perhaps there should be some sort of automatic quarantine period to see if symptoms show up

I realize the likelihood of transmission is quite rare, but I would hope someone who'd been exposed would be willing to restrict their public activities until the incubation period had passed

In other news, the Dallas nurse has ended her treatment and has just been released

Sounds like those nurses are going to make it. That's really good to hear. Obviously no one deserves to die from a disease, but especially those who put themselves directly in the path of those who are sick for the greater good.