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So, has anyone figured out why we are continuing to let people from Africa fly into the United States and only check their health AFTER they get here?

Well, that is controlled by the same people who left a vile of smallpox in a closet for thirty years, so...

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Posted by Oyster

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Posted on 10/10/14 at 7:43 am to Dtolar

Dtaylor next time Jeff responds tell this pompous arse it isn't the Ro it's the mortality rate stupid! It's not a matter of how hard it is to catch the virus that matters so much as the percentages that ultimately die. 50% death rate is at the minimal end of the figures I have seen. I'm going to be a hell of a lot more worried about acquiring Ebola than a cold or the flu. I will happily take my chances around a snotty nosed kid with the flu than the same snotty nosed kid with Ebola at any stage.

The matter of how you succumb is a factor too.

As a side note Ro seems to increase exponentially as the disease progresses.

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Posted by Creamer

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Posted on 10/10/14 at 8:02 am to Oyster

I agree the cop should have stayed home and called an ambulance, but all these people bashing him are just going to make other people,with symptoms, fearful of getting checked out.

The last thing we need are people with Ebola showing up to school and work because they don't want to make a scene.

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Posted by Oyster

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Posted on 10/10/14 at 8:09 am to Creamer

The problem is the average joe just doesn't know anything about the proper way to do things in requard to this virus. If you think you have this virus you are scared beyond rational thought.

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Posted by TheFranchise

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Posted on 10/10/14 at 1:57 pm to barry

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Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research monkeys housed in Virginia and who later led the CDC's most far-reaching study of Ebola's transmissibility in humans, said he would not rule out the possibility that it spreads through the air in tight quarters.

"We just don't have the data to exclude it," said Peters, who continues to research viral diseases at the University of Texas in Galveston.

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Dr. Philip K. Russell, a virologist who oversaw Ebola research while heading the U.S. Army's Medical Research and Development Command, and who later led the government's massive stockpiling of smallpox vaccine after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, also said much was still to be learned. "Being dogmatic is, I think, ill-advised, because there are too many unknowns here."

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Moreover, said some public health specialists, there is no proof that a person infected — but who lacks symptoms — could not spread the virus to others.

"It's really unclear," said Michael Osterholm, a public health scientist at the University of Minnesota who recently served on the U.S. government's National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. "None of us know."

Russell, who oversaw the Army's research on Ebola, said he found the epidemiological data unconvincing

Ebola could be spread through air

Who is the fricking moron, barry?

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