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Let's see, the CDC has also:

The moves (closure of two CDC labs) follow lapses in laboratory protocol revealed the past month, including exposure of more than 80 CDC scientists to live anthrax, discovery of lost vials containing what�s been determined to be live smallpox at a Food and Drug Administration laboratory � and a discovery, just this week, that a CDC laboratory accidentally contaminated low-risk bird flu samples with highly pathogenic samples of H5N1 bird flu, and sent it out to a government lab.

Yep, nothing to worry about here folks, these guys are in charge of it!

I'll be driving by the CDC on Clifton Rd later today. Do I need to grab a sample for any of you?

If we are not worried about it in ATL, you shouldn't sweat it. The CDC/Emory has the people that need to treat and study it. Hemorrhagic fevers are nasty SOB's, but they are containable and treating an MD here will not cause the end of civilization. Obama's executive orders are more dangerous to all of you.

This ^.

No need to bring it here; it can be studied there, perhaps not quite as well, but enough equipment could be sent to get it done with 2 patients.

This is like knowingly opening Pandora's box when you know it's dangerous.

If it gets loose here, can you say "Zombie Apocalypse"?

MM

And, supposedly via mosquitos.

http://7online.com/health/mount-sinai-patient-tested-for-ebola-virus/239663/

This is the biggest problem

Snake

I, too, am alarmed.

But the government can control it, right?

This is the government that couldn't find an effective way to keep the Lamprey Eel and the Gobi Mussel out of the great lakes.

This is the government that couldn't keep the Emerald Ash Borer from coming into the country on Chinese pallets.

This is the government who may have accidentally created CWD in our deer and elk and then spread it around the country in an effort to hide the fact.

This is the government that allowed the importation of the Big Head Asian Carp because they knew how to control them to prevent escape into the wild.

This is the government that allowed Lyme Disease to escape from their biological warfare lab.

This is the government that had to run an emergency immunization program back in the Carter years after they accidentally allowed an experimental organism to escape into the environment in Nevada. (Or was it Arizona?)

Why we have nothing to fear. The executive branch has this under control!

It's not the two folks they know about that will be the problem

really

Snake

Another Dr in Africa has just placed himself in isolation.


Patrick Sawyer was the first American known to have contracted the strain of Ebola causing the latest, record outbreak. He died from the disease July 25, days after arriving in Lagos, Africa's most populous city.

Officials have since scrambled to track down his fellow passengers, quarantining two of them so far, but they could not stop one of the doctors who treated him from getting it, Nigerian health officials said Monday.

Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu also said test samples were pending for three other people who had shown symptoms of Ebola.

"Three others who participated in that treatment who are currently symptomatic have had their samples taken and hopefully by the end of today we should have the results of their own test," Chukwu said.

I'm wondering if the docs who have contracted Ebola were not taking care to keep from being exposed to body fluids of the patients they treated.

You know when a bunch of doctors have the US government standing behind 'em, you're safe and fuggin' sound.

Too fuggin' funny.

I'm just glad I can't die. Sorry about the rest of ya'.



Travis

Don't like it, and suspect that it will end badly by speeding up what most likely would have happened any way, its spread throughout the U.S. and the rest of the world!

Phil

"You are going to die!"

and, he's going to die an obama voter

Who? Henry Kane?

You guys are really on a roll, today.

As far as .gov's decision to intentionally bring it into our country...this must be some seriously powerful and deadly force, the control of which is vital to us, and the cure for which we'd like to own.

Yea, safe as a sheep with a Montanny shepherd behind it.

That's what I was thinking. If the welfare class dies off just think of all the people who will loose their jobs. With no one to buy Colt 45, Kool menthols and coolaid many will be out of work.

I read a book about E Bola called The Hot Zone by Richard Preston?? I think? My recollection is that E Bola is not easy to catch. The most common way the doctors get infected is needle punctures. It's almost always fatal, and there is no cure. For the aid workers, they pump them full of gammaglobulin and pray. People have gotten pricks from infected patients and not contracted the disease, and some have survived. Most people die bleeding out every orifice. Not a good way to go. The good thing about the disease used to be that it killed quickly. A village would have an outbreak and everyone would be dead before anyone could spread it. Now with modern transportation, an infected person could fly anywhere in the World before they showed any sign of infection.

By the way, there was a medical research facility in Reston, Virginia where the monkey house had to be burned to the ground because they were infected with Marburg, which is very similar to E Bola. Heck, our Hantaan Virus in mice and prairie dogs and ground squirrels is a cousin to it.

You girls act like Ebola is not already here. Guaranteed the CDC has ebola, and much nastier bugs, in Atlanta, and has had them there for years.

Bringing two patients in means nothing. Its the ones who aren't yet patients ya need to worry about.