Ebola on US shores

[Denny]

I dont care what he was saying. If you call the CDC and they give you the ok, then obviously they arent that worried. Again, 99.5f isnt a fever.

Yo should care what I'm saying since you and the CDC got that one wrong. That was made clear when they backtracked when put in front of Congress.

Do you have a layout of a DECON area for a situation like this? Or are we just talking PPE removal and rewashing hands?

[Denny]

It is easy to disguise the fact that you have been somewhere if you wanted to. At least disguise well enough to get past passport control which would be who that action would fall on.

Fly from Liberia to Dubai on a one way ticket and itinerary. Stay a night in Dubai then fly right in to the US on a new itinerary. = stamp and "welcome to America. Next!"

Drop off some Ebola!

[DON SVO]

Do what they did in Nigeria, every single person in contact gets immediate quarantine. No ifs, ands or buts.

The problem is that all the selfish fucking PC morons will whine about it.

Have everyone quarantined in the same place with a group (that's paid very well) to regulate them. After the 21 days and isolation of anyone testing positive take stock and see how it went. If a relatively 3rd world country can defeat it we should, even if it means harsh measures.

[idrivea4banger]

Ok, I'll hold off on panicking until the weekend.

[kingjason]

LOL They just said no more Ebola in Dallas. Yeahhhh ok.

[ceyko]

Do what they did in Nigeria, every single person in contact gets immediate quarantine. No ifs, ands or buts.

The problem is that all the selfish fucking PC morons will whine about it.

Have everyone quarantined in the same place with a group (that's paid very well) to regulate them. After the 21 days and isolation of anyone testing positive take stock and see how it went. If a relatively 3rd world country can defeat it we should, even if it means harsh measures.

I really want to agree with this...but are you going to rely on the government to make those definitions of who did and did not have contact? Who may be at risk?

You know they'll just make a radius around where a person got it and try to essentially put everyone in that circle in a prison. Good chance to use all the tactical gear and shit.

[Forever_frost]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/16/obama-ebola-reserves/17363251/

Obama may call on reserves to deal with Ebola in Africa
Gregory Korte and Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY 7:18 p.m. EDT October 16, 2014

Is there a health risk in flying? On USA NOW, Carly Mallenbaum answers that question, and looks at how airport, health and school officials are reacting to the fact that an Ebola-infected woman boarded a plane. (USA NOW, USA TODAY)
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WASHINGTON — President Obama has issued an executive order allowing the Pentagon to call up reserve troops to combat the Ebola crisis in Africa.

The Pentagon said it had no immediate plans to send reservists or National Guard troops to Africa, saying that the order simply allows the military to begin planning for those forces in its overall response.

It "doesn't mean that we are deploying these forces, but it gives us the option to do so if we need to," said Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas Crosson, a Pentagon spokesman.

The Pentagon is identifying gaps that active-duty troops cannot fill, said a Defense Department official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the issue. Among the specialists that might be tapped: technical engineering, communication systems, logisticians, comptrollers and religious specialists.All reservists called to duty will be given proper training and medical-threat briefings, the official said.

Obama notified Congress of his order Thursday after phone calls with top congressional leaders of both parties. The order reads: "I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation United Assistance, which is providing support to civilian-led humanitarian assistance and consequence management support related to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa.

Obama also met with top advisers on Ebola Thursday evening and was expected to make a brief statement afterward.

The White House said it didn't know exactly how many reserve troops would eventually be required.

"The president has laid out very clearly what the mission is. The Department of Defense has told the president that it will require about 4,000 Department of Defense personnel to execute the mission the president has directed them to execute," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said earlier in the afternoon. "What I don't know is the composition of that force."

At the Pentagon, officials expect as many as 3,000 troops could be sent to Liberia to fight the disease. There are no plans for them to be involved in the direct treatment of victims. Instead, they will build treatment facilities and operate labs.
U.S. Marines arrive as part of Operation United Assistance

U.S. Marines arrive as part of Operation United Assistance on Oct. 9, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Some 90 Marines, the largest group of U.S. military yet, arrived on KC-130 transport planes and MV-22 Ospreys to support the American effort to contain the Ebola epidemic.(Photo: John Moore, Getty Images)

USA TODAY

Nurse with Ebola virus to be moved out of Dallas

The Pentagon recently finished building a mobile, 25-bed hospital in Liberia for infected health-care workers, said Army Maj. Gen. Darryl Williams, who commands the Pentagon's task force responding to the Ebola crisis.

The hospital will be staffed by the U.S. Health Service Commission Corps, Williams told reporters on Thursday. Two laboratories are also operating, and troops are constructing 17 treatment centers.If troops are infected by Ebola, they would be quarantined, stabilized and transported out of Liberia for treatment, Williams said. Troops are constantly monitored for signs of the virus, Williams said. On Wednesday, his temperature was checked eight time.

Obama canceled a second day of political events Thursday in order to deal with the Ebola crisis from the White House, as the second Ebola patient to be diagnosed on American soil was transferred from a Dallas hospital to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

NIH Director Anthony Fauci said Pham will be treated in a special unit "designed to provide high-level isolation'' with staff trained to handle infectious diseases and critical care. He said Pham "is stable, and she seems to be doing reasonably well.''

[lincolnboy]

This is one of the paybacks Africa is doing for taking its poeple.

[Denny]

This is one of the paybacks Africa is doing for taking its poeple.

For the record, most were given away.

[DON SVO]

I really want to agree with this...but are you going to rely on the government to make those definitions of who did and did not have contact? Who may be at risk?

You know they'll just make a radius around where a person got it and try to essentially put everyone in that circle in a prison. Good chance to use all the tactical gear and shit.

Like I said... A legit no-holds-barred quarantine. The non-PC type that reins in all possible contacts with symptomatic cases. In Nigeria they talked to over 18,000 people in a matter of a couple days. They mandatory quarantined everyone that posed a risk.

Nigeria. They beat Ebola. The USA? Stuff our head in the sand and blame anyone we can but ourselves.

[lincolnboy]

Like I said... A legit no-holds-barred quarantine. The non-PC type that reins in all possible contacts with symptomatic cases. In Nigeria they talked to over 18,000 people in a matter of a couple days. They mandatory quarantined everyone that posed a risk.

Nigeria. They beat Ebola. The USA? Stuff our head in the sand and blame anyone we can but ourselves.

Those who saw Nina board the jet today. Why where those people getting on the jet after her without hazmat suit, at the most with a cowskin rug that has madcow disease?

[Baba Ganoush]

I wore my hazmat suit while mowing the yard today. That'll teach that ebol-eye!

[Denny]

Those who saw Nina board the jet today. Why where those people getting on the jet after her without hazmat suit, at the most with a cowskin rug that has madcow disease?

You're trying too hard.

[KBScobravert]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...rves/17363251/

Obama may call on reserves to deal with Ebola in Africa
Gregory Korte and Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY 7:18 p.m. EDT October 16, 2014

Is there a health risk in flying? On USA NOW, Carly Mallenbaum answers that question, and looks at how airport, health and school officials are reacting to the fact that an Ebola-infected woman boarded a plane. (USA NOW, USA TODAY)
AP OBAMA EBOLA A USA DC

(Photo: Jacquelyn Martin, AP)
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WASHINGTON — President Obama has issued an executive order allowing the Pentagon to call up reserve troops to combat the Ebola crisis in Africa.

The Pentagon said it had no immediate plans to send reservists or National Guard troops to Africa, saying that the order simply allows the military to begin planning for those forces in its overall response.

It "doesn't mean that we are deploying these forces, but it gives us the option to do so if we need to," said Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas Crosson, a Pentagon spokesman.

The Pentagon is identifying gaps that active-duty troops cannot fill, said a Defense Department official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the issue. Among the specialists that might be tapped: technical engineering, communication systems, logisticians, comptrollers and religious specialists.All reservists called to duty will be given proper training and medical-threat briefings, the official said.

Obama notified Congress of his order Thursday after phone calls with top congressional leaders of both parties. The order reads: "I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation United Assistance, which is providing support to civilian-led humanitarian assistance and consequence management support related to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa.

"The president has laid out very clearly what the mission is. The Department of Defense has told the president that it will require about 4,000 Department of Defense personnel to execute the mission the president has directed them to execute," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said earlier in the afternoon. "What I don't know is the composition of that force."

At the Pentagon, officials expect as many as 3,000 troops could be sent to Liberia to fight the disease. There are no plans for them to be involved in the direct treatment of victims. Instead, they will build treatment facilities and operate labs.
U.S. Marines arrive as part of Operation United Assistance

U.S. Marines arrive as part of Operation United Assistance on Oct. 9, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Some 90 Marines, the largest group of U.S. military yet, arrived on KC-130 transport planes and MV-22 Ospreys to support the American effort to contain the Ebola epidemic.(Photo: John Moore, Getty Images)

The Pentagon recently finished building a mobile, 25-bed hospital in Liberia for infected health-care workers, said Army Maj. Gen. Darryl Williams, who commands the Pentagon's task force responding to the Ebola crisis.

The hospital will be staffed by the U.S. Health Service Commission Corps, Williams told reporters on Thursday. Two laboratories are also operating, and troops are constructing 17 treatment centers.If troops are infected by Ebola, they would be quarantined, stabilized and transported out of Liberia for treatment, Williams said. Troops are constantly monitored for signs of the virus, Williams said.''

This must be who the job offer I got was in support of. For a thousand a day I would go but not for less. Pass.

[Forever_frost]

http://nypost.com/2014/10/16/alarm-after-vomiting-passenger-dies-on-flight-from-nigeria-to-jfk/

A plane from Nigeria landed at JFK Airport Thursday with a male passenger aboard who had died during the flight after a fit of vomiting — and CDC officials conducted a “cursory” exam before announcing there was no Ebola and turning the corpse over to Port Authority cops to remove, Rep. Peter King said on Thursday.

The congressman was so alarmed by the incident — and by what he and employees see as troubling Ebola vulnerabilities at JFK — that he fired off a letter to the federal Department of Homeland Security demanding more training and tougher protocols for handling possible cases there.

The unnamed, 63-year-old passenger had boarded an Arik Air plane out of Lagos, Nigeria, on Wednesday night, a federal law enforcement source said.

During the flight, the man had been vomiting in his seat, the source said. Some time before the plane landed, he passed away. Flight crew contacted the CDC, federal customs officials and Port Authority police, who all boarded the plane at around 6 a.m. as about 145 worried passengers remained on board, the source said.

“The door [to the terminal] was left open, which a lot of the first responders found alarming,” said the source.
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Rep. King called the protocol followed after the passenger died “alarming.”Photo: Getty Images

“My understanding was that the passenger was vomiting in the seat,” King (R-LI) said.

“The CDC went on the plane, examined the dead body and said the person did not have Ebola,” King said.

“It was what I was told a cursory examination. The Port Authority cops and personnel from Customs and Border Protection were there, and they were told there was no danger because the person did not have Ebola,” King said.

“But their concern was, how could you tell so quickly? And what adds to the concern is how wrong the CDC has been over the past few weeks.”

Rep. Peter T. King letter to Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Between 70 and 100 passengers a day arrive at JFK from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the three West African countries that are the epicenter of the outbreak, King said.

“These individuals transit the airport with the rest of the traveling population, including using the restrooms,” King wrote to Jeh Johnson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, in a letter Thursday.

“Only after they arrive at the Customs and Border Patrol primary screening location that they are separated and sent to secondary inspection for a medical check and to complete the questionnaire,” he wrote Johnson.

King’s letter demands that Homeland Security immediately beef up protocols for what happens to potentially infected passengers in flight and at the terminal itself, prior to their reaching the screening location.
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Rep. Billy Long holds up a copy of a magazine with an Ebola headline as public health officials testify before a House subcommittee about the outbreak.Photo: Reuters

The letter also demands that training and safety equipment improve for the Port Authority police and Customs and Border Patrol officials who can come into contact with high-risk passengers.

“I believe there should be a suspension of direct flights and connecting flights from these three countries,” King said. “And maybe anyone with a visa from those countries, and who has been living in those countries, should be barred” from entering the US, he added.

No other information was immediately available about the deceased Nigerian passenger.

Nigeria is 1,000 miles east of the three West African countries suffering from an Ebola outbreak, but has had 19 confirmed cases of the deadly virus. The country has had no new cases over the past month; the World Health Organization has said that if there are still no new cases of Ebola by Monday, they will officially declare the country “Ebola-free.”