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The United States has its first confirmed case of the Ebola virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday, marking the first domestic appearance of the deadly virus that has ravaged swaths of continental Africa.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas officials said in a statement earlier Monday that an unnamed patient was being tested for Ebola and had been placed in "strict isolation" due to the patient's symptoms and recent travel history.
The CDC will host a press conference at its Atlanta headquarters at 5:30 p.m., ET.
At least 3,091 people have died from Ebola since the West African outbreak was first identified in Guinea six months ago. Last week, the CDC warned that between 550,000 and 1.4 million people in West Africa could be infected with Ebola by January 2015.
News of the virus' appearance sent the share prices of key biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies skyrocketing in after-hours trading, in anticipation that large drug companies may benefit from creating a vaccine. BioCryst Pharma shot up 15 percent in after-market trading, while Tekmira soared by nearly 17 percent.
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Let the backtracking begin.
Hope he wasn't a ticket taker at AT&T Stadium.
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Of course it is. What would keep it out?
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and it lands in texas; what a coincidence.
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Liberal father: " I fought the Americans, along with all the other liberals."
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Sweet. I am on a plane to Dallas as I type this.
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Be sure to let us know when the virus mutates and turns people into zombies. We wouldn't want to miss that.
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and it lands in texas; what a coincidence. Wonder how that happened?
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Hope the patient is moved to DC for treatment
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Well if they have a successfull vaccine engineered, it will only cause autism and the need for more ass whippins at kmart
Meryl Streep will save us
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If this widens......lots of voters will be requesting absentee forms.
And how many won't even turn out to vote?
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Can we shoot Africans on sight, yet..?
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I'd still be far more concerned about dying on a drive to the grocery store.
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Start a rumor on the internet......WalMart just received HazMat suits.
Will HazMat suits be the "in costume" for trick'r treat'rs this year?
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Well fugg, we import everything else, why not a virus or three, hey?
Gotta ask a simple question here. How easy would it have been maybe a month or three back to block travel between the U.S. and Africa or regions therein until this chitt settles out?
Fed right the fug up with the Federal Government.
I am..........disturbed.
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Who will obama throw under the bus this time?
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Well fugg, we import everything else, why not a virus or three, hey?
Gotta ask a simple question here. How easy would it have been maybe a month or three back to block travel between the U.S. and Africa or regions therein until this chitt settles out?
Fed right the fug up with the Federal Government. Only travel from the infected region needed to be block. Aid, researchers, and would be do-gooders could have still be allowed to travel to the Ebola region. Those going in would just have had to go for the duration.
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Well fugg, we import everything else, why not a virus or three, hey?
Gotta ask a simple question here. How easy would it have been maybe a month or three back to block travel between the U.S. and Africa or regions therein until this chitt settles out?
Fed right the fug up with the Federal Government. Only travel from the infected region needed to be block. Aid, researchers, and would be do-gooders could have still be allowed to travel to the Ebola region. Those going in would just have had to go for the duration. Yeah, right! And do tell how we prevent someone who wants to come here because we appear to have better medical treatment available and they decide to come by way of Zaire, Namibia, Mozambique and South Africa? We cannot manage a secure border across any single state in the southwest. How do you propose we manage to lock down a much, much longer boundary, most of which is jungle and please tell us while you're at it just how many troops you'll need to do this and how we keep them on duty and where all those hazmat suits will come from? THIS is why it's in our best interest to put that fire out over there as quickly as possible.
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Any body got a "Bio" of this Ebola envoy?
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Well fugg, we import everything else, why not a virus or three, hey?
Gotta ask a simple question here. How easy would it have been maybe a month or three back to block travel between the U.S. and Africa or regions therein until this chitt settles out?
Fed right the fug up with the Federal Government. Aid, researchers, and would be do-gooders could have still be allowed to travel to the Ebola region. Those going in would just have had to go for the duration. wow, you know jack chit about the way international travel works dont you? hell when i went to Australia i did it via Tokyo and Singapore....blocking just people coming from the whole of Africa is gonna do jack chit unless every country world wide does.....cause if yu pass the phugger in an airport anywhere in the world before coming here you can catch it and bring it.... like i said in the other post, this is going to be one interesting personal freedom rabbit hole we are going to go down, my only surprise is it hasnt happened earlier and the dumb chit in charge isnt giving me a warm fuzzy feeling with how its going to play out
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