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March 2, 2008
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Honestly (and I'm not trying to cry "wolf" here), I'm pretty worried about this. My wife is a nurse in an Infectious Disease practice that is part of a large Regional Hospital in CT. Yesterday they got an emergency phone call from a doctor's office about a possible Ebola patient. Forunately, the doctor's office immediately closed (locked the doors to and evacuated) the waiting room, isolated the patient, and called the next step in their protocol (my wife's office). There is a procedure in place for an "incident", and there may be procedures in place for an outbreak. It's not clear that locally or nationally there are protocols in place to deal with an epidemic.
As porous as our borders are, legally and mostly illegally, we might need to be pretty concerned about this.
Washing your hands after going to the bathroom is not enough to fix this one.
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April 18, 2014
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This is an issue that (hoping i'm wrong) could prove to be a serious problem for the U.S. and while there is likely local protocols, I doubt the CDC is prepped as they say. It seems the Feds are always last up... unless they want your tax dollars.
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January 22, 2008
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My wife is very concerned as she has to flight to Las Vegas next Monday morning.
Im glad I work from home!
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We are told that the virus is only spread by close contact with bodily fluids from infected persons. If that is so, then why are crews disinfecting all the surfaces at the airports, and homes of the infected nurses? It would seem that the virus can persist on surfaces for a period of time. If that is the case, could Ebola spread on something like, oh say money? I see people lick their fingers to count money all the time. If that person is someone like the latest nurse, infected, but unaware and mainly asymptomatic, and they hand a bill to a store clerk etc. is not that clerk now at risk? There is more to this story than we the people are being told, I imagine to 'prevent a panic'. This may work for a while, but I fear there will be more cases and a panic WILL ensue. The CDC and the Obummer administration are trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle but its obvious she doesn't want to go. It would have been better to have left the cork in the bottle (prevented travel from infected countries) than to try to round up the virus and eradicate it now that it is loose in the population.
Remember, Ebola is not a threat, ISIS is not a threat, Climate change is a threat. I am just floored by the BS spewing forth from this administration
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March 2, 2008
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SCORPIO said
Remember, Ebola is not a threat, ISIS is not a threat, Climate change is a threat. I am just floored by the BS spewing forth from this administration
Just when I thought it was not possible to trust our elected leaders less, guess who got proven wrong again!
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July 2, 2011
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You guys are concerned? 
Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas is "my" hospital of record.
I've been treated in the ER. I've been admitted for testing. I've had surgery there. I went through a long drawn out physical therapy (inpatient) regimen there. My doctor and friend (he stood up with me when I got married) of 22 years has privileges there.
I'm kind worried! 
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July 14, 2013
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I started worrying about this for all the above reasons as soon as the guy showed up in Dallas. It's been a few hundred years since the planet lost a large percentage of its population. Despite modern medicine I believe it could happen again and Ebola is looking like the prime cantidate.
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April 18, 2014
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Scorpio, I just recently saw a bit on ABC network about the germs on cash because of its cloth content. They didn't speak directly of ebola virus, but the oils from a persons skin, and as the clip stated, people licking their fingers to count...
I think FEMA is setting up some places to deal with it...
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January 22, 2008
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This morning I wondered if winter would have an impact on the spread of the virus... I was assuming it would make it more difficult to be spread but it appears the exact opposite may be true!
Dean Garrison wrote:
There is lot of debate in the blogosphere about whether Ebola is an airborne virus. We have previously highlighted the Canadian independent study, in which it was shown that pigs could pass Ebola to monkeys without physical contact. We have also featured the CDC release which clearly warned of infectious material through the air and urged that precautionary steps be taken in the commercial airline industry.
Still, no one seems to be willing to go on record and admit what many already suspect, that Ebola is in fact an airborne transmissible disease.
The latest information comes in the form of a research report and video from "Pissin on the Roses" blog. The gathered information would seem to suggest that the chances of Ebola going airborne are going to be greatest this winter.
US Army: Winter Weather Provides Ideal Conditions for Ebola to go Airborne
The next article I read was titled Comment is free Concerned about Ebola? You’re worrying about the wrong disease
A deadly disease is set to hit the shores of the US, UK and much of the rest of the northern hemisphere in the coming months. It will swamp our hospitals, lay millions low and by this time next year between 250,000 and 500,000 worldwide will be dead, thousands of them in the US and Britain.
Despite the best efforts of the medical profession, there’s no reliable cure, and no available vaccine offers effective protection for longer than a few months at a time.
If you’ve been paying attention to recent, terrifying headlines, you may assume the illness is the Ebola virus. Instead, the above description refers to seasonal flu – not swine or bird flu, but regular garden variety influenza. Read more...
Just more things for thought...
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