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    Really, they are bringing infected patients here? Who thought this would be a good idea? Just what we need more disease and especially this lovely one... Am i over reacting in thinking this is very bad?



    Emory Healthcare to treat Ebola patient


    By Misty Williams

    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    Emory University Hospital is expected to receive a patient infected with the deadly Ebola virus within the next several days, the university announced Thursday.

    It’s unclear when exactly the patient will arrive, according to a statement from Emory. The Clifton Road hospital has a specially built isolation unit to treat patients exposed to certain serious infectious diseases. Set up in collaboration with the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the unit is physically separate from other patient areas and is one of only four such facilities in the country.

    The Associated Press reported Thursday that the Ebola death toll passed 700 in West Africa as security forces went house-to-house in Sierra Leone’s capital looking for patients and others exposed to the disease.

    The CDC warned against travel to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

    The AP also said that almost half of the 57 new deaths reported by the World Health Organization occurred in Liberia, where two Americans, Dr. Kent Brantly of Texas and Nancy Writebol, a North Carolina-based missionary, are also sick with Ebola. It was unknown which of the two was coming to Atlanta.

    Quoting an unidentified source, CNN reported Thursday evening that a medical charter flight left Cartersville to evacuate the two Americans from Monrovia, Liberia.

    Experts on the Ebola virus expressed little concern that the virus would spread to other continents. CDC Director Thomas Frieden said an outbreak in the United States was “not in the cards.”

    Agence France-Presse interviewed Dr. Peter Piot, a discoverer of the virus and head of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who said there was little risk of pandemic.

    “Spreading in the population here, I’m not that worried about it,” he told AFP.

    “I wouldn’t be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don’t vomit on you or something,” he said, referring to London’s underground train system. “This is an infection that requires very close contact.”

    Ebola is spread through contact with bodily fluids.

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    Would make a great excuse for martial law.
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    • #3
      I think the Leaders of our country are ready to thin the heard! It wouldn't suprise me on bit!
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      • #4
        Originally posted by matts5.0 View Post
        Would make a great excuse for martial law.
        This

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        • #5
          Look at all the distractions we have!

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Scott Mc View Post
            Look at all the distractions we have!
            Kind of a big one.

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            • #7
              I do not disagree at all. There is so much WTF going on I can't even keep track of it all lately.

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              • #8
                This won't interrupt So You Think You Can Dance, will it?
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                • #9
                  Nothing going on here, Mericans keep moving on with your cattle like lives!

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                  • #10
                    Misleading thread title is misleading.
                    ZOMBIE REAGAN FOR PRESIDENT 2016!!! heh

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                    • #11
                      and it just happens to be in Atlanta where The Walking Dead began lol.

                      my family has an island off Australia. Talk about a great time to get a 1 way ticket out of here.
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                      • #12
                        Every single outbreak movie ever made starts out this way. "no, there's no threat of it spreading at all here".
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by YALE View Post
                          Misleading thread title is misleading.
                          Yep. Also, they are bringing US citizens that have the disease to treat them. Gonna have to agree with this.
                          I don't like Republicans, but I really FUCKING hate Democrats.


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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by LANTIRN View Post
                            Yep. Also, they are bringing US citizens that have the disease to treat them. Gonna have to agree with this.
                            It's also a fast moving virus that the CDC and USAMRIID doesn't get to look at much, so live infected hosts are valuable, so it's worth the risk, in my opinion.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by YALE View Post
                              It's also a fast moving virus that the CDC and USAMRIID doesn't get to look at much, so live infected hosts are valuable, so it's worth the risk, in my opinion.
                              Add to that the virus is not spread like the flu and you have to come in contact with bodily fluids. Granted if the infected cough on you and spit gets in your eye you are fucked, but you are not going to catch it from sitting next to someone on the bus.
                              I don't like Republicans, but I really FUCKING hate Democrats.


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