This is absolutely ONE BIG MISTAKE to bring the ebola infected here to the States. Cross contamination can & will occure in the most secure locations. Even the infected Dr. used scrub & suiting procedures. We'll see !

There you go...being rational.

I agree, but it isn't rational to place thousands in jeopardy to treat one who volunteered knowing the danger of fatal illness.

That may not be true.
From Public Health Agency of Canada
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/p...
"Humans may be infected by handling sick or dead non-human primates and are also at risk when handling the bodies of deceased humans in preparation for funerals, suggesting possible transmission through aerosol droplets (2, 6, 28). In the laboratory, infection through small-particle aerosols has been demonstrated in primates, and airborne spread among humans is strongly suspected, although it has not yet been conclusively demonstrated."

Right you are! Still, the thought of leaving an American to die in Africa, no matter how inadequate the reason, still rankles a bit.

Most battlefield injuries aren't communicable and deadly to others.

I dunno what the hell those morons at the CDC are thinking. The US healthcare industry can't even contain & control staph infections -- so now they're going to try to play with a bug that's 50 times worse.

Who is going to decontaminate the airplane?
Who is going to decontaminate the ambulance?
The gurneys, bed, wheelchair, etc...
What about the plumbing in the bathroom that these people are bound to use *IF* they recover???

I know they're Americans, but they *CHOSE* to go minister in the F#@%ing plague zone!

Do *I* have an irrational fear of contracting Ebola? Heck no! I don't go near the cities.

These are the people who believe so highly in altruism that they were willing to sacrifice themselves. Since the facilities for treatment in Africa are very bad, the hope of curing or even just helping the victims is slim to none. They knew it, and yet they risked it all without any hope for any kind of success. Not admirable, just irrational. However, I am torn between letting them face the fate they risked, or trying to help them at least be more comfortable in the same sense of leaving no one behind on the battlefield. Let's hope the Atlanta facilities are top-notch and no Ebola is spread here.

That's a good point. Whatever precautions they're going to take here in the U.S. were probably taken there also -- and didn't work. Scary!

I see a great deal of misinformation here. Bottom line, there is a cure AND a preventative - for more than just this weaponized strain of Ebola.

http://drrimatruthreports.com/smoking-gu...

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/cdc-qu...
This link shows the now 20 Ebola quarantine sites the CDC now has in the US. Most are on the East coast? The number of sites dropped greatly in the 1970s, but now is on the rise.

The doctor and nurse who contracted Ebola knew how it is transmitted and STILL got it.

Read about this disease. It is not contagious like the flue. You have to physically have been in contact.

Maybe the CDC needs to setup an isolation lab in Gitmo.

We let thousands of illegals into our country with all sorts of diseases and release them all over the country. These are Americans and deserve to be treated with the best care they can get which is right here in America (Obamacare has totally screwed up our medical care system).

I have read the same.

I read it was exposure to fruit bat guano

Have not seen that episode yet. Still on the DVR I guess.

Honestly, I do not believe they have a definitive vector or set of vectors on that.

Further, since it is viral rather than bacterial, standards treatments are only supportive in nature. If you survive, your system has to fight it off. Also a virus mutates a lot easier, so any kind of vaccine is that much tougher to come up with. Look at the relative effectiveness of the flu vaccine cocktails every year. And modern day influenza does not have anywhere near the mortality rate of Ebola.

Right now they are saying its fluid borne, but you would think the health workers would be good enough at protective measures to avoid that vector. Yet it is still infecting aid workers.

It might have more than a single transmission vector, or mutating to that point.

If it becomes airborne, it becomes orders of magnitude more dangerous.

In any event the question of why these people are not kept isolated in quarantine is of primary importance.

Yes true but wasn't there a thing about only having one good vaccine? The just happened...the Dr. Forgoed it so the lady could have it. She's doing better and he's taken a bad turn.

No, please, I like the pun. Good one! =)

Does anyone know for sure how Ebola first spread to humans? Was it sexual contact with monkeys as I heard many years ago? Was it consumption of fruit bats that hadn't been sufficiently cooked? Something else?

Time to leave.

"“The bottom line is, Ebola is worsening in West Africa,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who announced the travel warning."

So in direct contradiction of their own warnings, the CDC is bringing the disease to a major city hospital near you!

"Patients are contagious only when they show symptoms, and U.S. hospitals are well equipped to isolate cases and control spread of the virus."
Symptoms are very similar to the flu.
I doubt the CDC has facilities to isolate everyone with flu symptoms in a city of 5 million.
Absolute folly!
Either the CDC hasn't thought this through or they have a hidden agenda. Stupidity reigns in the media that spread their irrational rubbish.

"The CDC has staff at 20 U.S. airports and border crossings. "
Wow! I know that gives me confidence as thousands of south americans cross the southern border unsupervised every week. Wonder if the CDC is prepared to isolate all the border patrol and homeland security before they spread disease to their families and the rest of the population.

Has the news media lost any semblance of intelligence? Does any investigative journalism ever get published in the major media?

Of course she isn't welcome anywhere in Africa.

She is no doubt looked upon as Ebola Mary to be blunt about it. They are terrified she is a carrier so avoid her like the plague, no pun intended.