Ebola Patient Coming To U.S.

What the *** did I just tell you? YOU'VE GOT A PROBLEM MISTER

/getsverklemptf

I got a lot of love to give!

What is wrong with you people?

What is wrong with you people?

Ebola = Abortion now? What is wrong with you people?

Well, an abortion is like vaginally localized ebola, with the whole liquid organ/blood soup just kind of cascading out in a thousand shades of crimson.

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The Centers for Disease Control have established a quarantine station at LAX to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus from passengers coming off international flights.
The CDC is warning Americans to avoid the Ebola-ravaged nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea where more than 700 people have died.
Tom Bradley International Terminal now has a CDC quarantine station where health officials will determine whether a sick person getting off an international flight can enter the country.
“We’re fairly comfortable that if a patient were identified here in the U.S., that the normal kinds of barrier nursing precautions that would be in place would prevent spread, even before the person would be confirmed to be a case of Ebola,” Dr. Stephan Monroe said.
Two American aid workers have been infected with the virus in Liberia.
One is taking an experimental serum, while the other is being flown to a special isolation treatment center in Atlanta.

@Baconwrap

what I said was taken completely out of context

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is spreading faster than efforts to control it, World Health Organization (WHO) head Margaret Chan has said.

She told a summit of regional leaders that failure to contain Ebola could be "catastrophic" in terms of lives lost.

But she said the virus, which has claimed 728 lives in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since February, could be stopped if well managed.

Since ebola has made its way into Nigeria's capital.

My point a few pages back was directed at people who don't see what hardships come from caring for a child with a debilitating condition.

It's in the capital now? Oh jeez, I hope the prince is okay. That guy owes me money.

You are safe, since you are in Australia New Zealand.

There are bioweapons far more deadly than the Ebola virus in storage in the US. You have nothing to worry about. I find it kind of funny that people are actually scared, all things considered.


EDIT: Not to mention enough nukes to blow the world up 5 times over. but carry on worrying about a medical patient, infected with a known virus that can be cured and treated, who will be isolated and not come into contact with any other human beings physically.

Liberia shut a major hospital in the capital Monrovia on Wednesday after a Spanish priest and six other staff contracted Ebola, as the death toll from the worst outbreak of the disease hit 932 in West Africa.

The outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever has overwhelmed rudimentary healthcare systems and prompted the deployment of troops to quarantine the worst-hit areas in the remote border region of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported 45 new deaths in the three days to August 4, and its experts began an emergency meeting in Geneva on Wednesday to discuss whether the outbreak constitutes a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" and to discuss new measures to contain the outbreak.

International alarm at the spread of the disease increased when a U.S. citizen died in Nigeria late last month after flying there from Liberia. The health minister said on Wednesday that a Nigerian nurse who had treated the deceased Patrick Sawyer had herself died of Ebola, and five other people were being treated in an isolation ward in Lagos, Africa's largest city.

In Saudi Arabia, a man suspected of contracting Ebola during a recent business trip to Sierra Leone also died early on Wednesday in Jeddah, the Health Ministry said. Saudi Arabia has already suspended pilgrimage visas from West African countries, which could prevent those hoping to visit Mecca for the Haj in early October.

Liberia, where the death toll is rising fastest, is struggling to cope. Many residents are panicking, in some cases casting out the bodies of family members onto the streets of Monrovia to avoid quarantine measures.

Beneath heavy rain, ambulance sirens wailed through the otherwise quiet streets of Monrovia on Wednesday as residents heeded a government request to stay at home for three days of fasting and prayers.

"Everyone is afraid of Ebola. You cannot tell who has Ebola or not. Ebola is not like a cut mark that you can see and run," said Sarah Wehyee as she stocked up on food at the local market in Paynesville, an eastern suburb of Monrovia.

St. Joseph's Catholic hospital was shut down after the Cameroonian hospital director died from Ebola, authorities said. Six staff subsequently tested positive for the disease, including two nuns and 75-year old Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, who is due to be repatriated by a special medical aircraft on Wednesday.

TROOPS DEPLOYED IN OPERATION "WHITE SHIELD"

Spain's health ministry denied that one of the nuns - born in Equatorial Guinea but holding Spanish nationality - had tested positive for Ebola. The other nun is Congolese.

"We hope they can evacuate us. It would be marvelous, because we know that, if they take us to Spain, at least we will be in good hands," Pajares told CNN in Spanish this week.

Healthcare workers are in the front line of fighting the virus, and two U.S. health workers from Christian medical charity Samaritan's Purse caught the virus in Monrovia and are now receiving treatment in an Atlanta hospital.

The two saw their conditions improve by varying degrees in Liberia after they received an experimental drug, a representative for the charity said.

Three of the world's leading Ebola specialists urged the WHO to offer people in West Africa the chance to take experimental drugs, too, but the agency said it "would not recommend any drug that has not gone through the normal process of licensing and clinical trials".

Highly contagious, Ebola kills more than half of the people who contract it. Victims suffer from fever, vomiting, diarrhea and internal and external bleeding.

Many regular hospitals and clinics have been forced to close across Liberia, often because health workers are too afraid of contracting the virus themselves or because of abuse by locals who think the disease is a government conspiracy.

In an effort to control the disease's spread, Liberia has deployed the army to implement controls and isolate severely affected communities, an operation codenamed "White Shield".

The information ministry said on Wednesday that soldiers were being deployed to the isolated, rural counties of Lofa, Bong, Cape Mount and Bomi to set up checkpoints and implement tracing measures on residents suspected of coming into contact with victims.

Neighboring Sierra Leone said it has implemented new restrictions at the airport and that it was asking passengers to fill in forms and take a temperature test.

Some major airlines, such as British Airways and Emirates, have halted flights to affected countries, while many expatriates were getting out, government officials said.

"We've seen international workers leaving the country in numbers," Liberia's Finance Minister Amara Konneh told Reuters.

Greece advised its citizens on Wednesday against non-essential travel to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria and said it would take extra measures at its entry ports.

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Drugmakers' use of the tobacco plant as a fast and cheap way to produce novel biotechnology treatments is gaining global attention because of its role in an experimental Ebola therapy.

The treatment, which had been tested only in lab animals before being given to two American medical workers in Liberia, consists of proteins called monoclonal antibodies that bind to and inactivate the Ebola virus.

For decades biotech companies have produced such antibodies by growing genetically engineered mouse cells in enormous metal bioreactors. But in the case of the new Ebola treatment ZMapp, developed by Mapp Pharmaceuticals, the antibodies were produced in tobacco plants at Kentucky Bioprocessing, a unit of tobacco giant Reynolds American.

The tobacco-plant-produced monoclonals have been dubbed "plantibodies."

"Tobacco makes for a good vehicle to express the antibodies because it is inexpensive and it can produce a lot," said Erica Ollmann Saphire, a professor at The Scripps Research Institute and a prominent researcher in viral hemorrhagic fever diseases like Ebola. "It is grown in a greenhouse and you can manufacture kilograms of the materials. It is much less expensive than cell culture."

In the standard method of genetic engineering, DNA is slipped into bacteria, and the microbes produce a protein that can be used to combat a disease.

Just because its more easily nurtured and created in third world areas, doesn't mean we can't transmit it person-to-person here JUST as fast if not faster with our rapid methods of transit and high population areas.

No.

Ebola is transmitted person-to-person through direct contact of bodily fluids so the likelihood of catching it out in the open are very low unless you regularly exchange bodily fluids on the bus or other highly-populated areas, in which case, stop doing that.

No.

Ebola is transmitted person-to-person through direct contact of bodily fluids so the likelihood of catching it out in the open are very low unless you regularly exchange bodily fluids on the bus or other highly-populated areas, in which case, stop doing that.

No.

Ebola is transmitted person-to-person through direct contact of bodily fluids so the likelihood of catching it out in the open are very low unless you regularly exchange bodily fluids on the bus or other highly-populated areas, in which case, stop doing that.

Well, Ramyrez, there are good nuns and then there are naughty nuns...

But in all seriousness, they probably got it from caring for the infected without having access to the proper protective gear.