Ebola comes to Atlanta

[DrHenley]

Originally Posted by TLE2

Ebola is spread only by contact with body fluids. It kills quickly and rarely spreads beyond the original area of infection zone.
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RARELY do you fly Ebola patients out of the infection zone. This IS one of those "rarely" events.

[AdamG247 (Navy-Ret)]

Just some FACTS about EBOLA. So were all on the same page about this decision to bring infected here. Yes they are Americans. They put themselves in great danger and took undue risk. Now we feel compelled to help them?

EBOLA "NO CURE":
http://health.usnews.com/health-news...oosts-survival

EBOLA has a 90% Fatality rate. Of 100 people infected only 10 will survive.

Currently there is no known form of Vaccine to prevent infection.

Ebola is spread "Still being confirmed" via contact with other humans.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

Other "Direct Contact" diseases for comparison purposes:

•Anthrax -
•Coronavirus -
•Group A Streptococcus -
•Invasive Group B Streptococcal (GBS) -
•Haemophilus influenza -
•Legionellosis -
•Meningococcal Disease -
•MERS-CoV -
•MRSA -
•Plague -
•Strep pneumoniae -
•SARS -

Source "http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/epi/airborne/"

About "Immigrant Health" :

"Immigrants and refugees must undergo a medical exam as part of the immigration process for entry into the United States. The exam includes screening for any illness defined as a communicable disease of public health significance. All of these diseases can be easily spread between people. Those immigrants and refugees found to have these diseases may not enter the United States. "

"What diseases prevent non-U.S. citizens from coming to the United States?

Diseases that can prevent entry to the U.S. fall into three categories:

•Any of the following diseases: active tuberculosis, infectious syphilis, gonorrhea, infectious leprosy, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma inguinale, and HIV infection. (HIV infection will be removed on January 4, 2010)

•Quarantinable diseases designated by any Presidential Executive Order. The current list of diseases includes cholera, diphtheria, infectious tuberculosis, plague, smallpox, yellow fever, viral hemorrhagic fevers, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and influenza caused by novel or re-emergent influenza (pandemic flu).

•Diseases reportable as a public health emergency of international concern to the World Health Organization under the International Health Regulations of 2005. These diseases currently include: polio, smallpox, SARS, pandemic flu and other public health emergencies of international concern."

Source of the above Immigrant Health Screening information:
http://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeeh...eneral-qa.html

[DrHenley]

HIV is much more difficult to transmit than Ebola. Yet HIV has spread to every corner of the earth.

[milkmanjoe]

Originally Posted by DrHenley

HIV is much more difficult to transmit than Ebola. Yet HIV has spread to every corner of the earth.

I read today that scientists have used aerosol methods of spreading the disease in tests, and it worked. Seems that when transmitted that way it is not as deadly, which they cannot explain.

Here's my opinion.....It's deadly and should be kept quarantined, not imported.

[AdamG247 (Navy-Ret)]

Originally Posted by DrHenley

HIV is much more difficult to transmit than Ebola. Yet HIV has spread to every corner of the earth.

Excellent point Doc!!!! This is just asinine and leads me to start thinking crazy stuff could be in the works. I am simply stupefied by this move.