desert dude
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Is anybody "terrified" of ebola?
For all of you stooges terrified of ebola...
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sheskunk
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I am.
desert dude
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Harrekin
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Dr Kynes
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he only exercises that "consistency" when called on his bias, it's merely a defense. his many many many many many MANY posts on the subject of The Koch Brothers, "Big ____________" madlibs, and the usual suspects of the lefty occupytards are his primary action agenda, invocation of his "non-partisanship" is only slightly less disingenuous than fox news' "Fair and Balanced" slogan.
rapesy sets forth his lefty agenda, and then soft-peddles some "consistency" as an afterthought.
50 posts railing against The Evil Koch Overlords followed by one anemic tangential reference to soros doesnt demonstrate shit except his hypocrisy
More likely to win the lottery. You create your own fear.
sheskunk
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Tell that to the people who have Ebola.
Padawanbater2
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I don't know of anyone on the far left who criticizes the democratic party, so you're simply wrong about that like you are about a lot of other things
You people are too far right to know what center looks like, your minds are tainted with neoconservative propaganda and decades of absorption through the TV
7 billion people in this world and a couple thousand have it. Should I warn everyone not to eat food because every year a couple thousand die from choking? OMG, sound the fucking alarms.
Again, you create your own fear.
Canna Sylvan
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Whenever I take those questionnaires it places me at a far south libertarian who leans slightly right. But you say such nonsense because you're so far left. Of course you're critical of Democrats, because these days Democrats are no longer FDR pinkos.
sheskunk
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Life survives based on fear. I'm ok with that.
Padawanbater2
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Sooo weird, I haven't heard a thing about ebola since September.. Whatever happened to it spreading all around the US because Obama didn't close the borders?
Was Fox News just bullshitting the entire time, just spreading fear and panic for no reason other than ratings? Hmm...
Will any of you have the balls to finally admit you were wrong about it?
I'll be the first to praise you for admitting you were wrong, just fucking admit it and show the forum you have a little bit of integrity
Meanwhile...
"As of November 2014, there have been a total of ten cases of Ebola virus disease (commonly known as "Ebola") in humans in the United States; the first was reported in September 2014 Eight of the people contracted the disease outside the US and traveled into the country, either as regular airline passengers or as medical evacuees; of those eight, two died. A total of two people have contracted disease while in the United States. Both were nurses who treated an Ebola patient; both have recovered. Hundreds of people have been tested for possible infection As of November 2014, no person has both contracted and died of Ebola virus disease while in the United States"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_cases_in_the_United_States
Was Fox News just bullshitting the entire time, just spreading fear and panic for no reason other than ratings? Hmm...
Will any of you have the balls to finally admit you were wrong about it?
I'll be the first to praise you for admitting you were wrong, just fucking admit it and show the forum you have a little bit of integrity
Meanwhile...
"As of November 2014, there have been a total of ten cases of Ebola virus disease (commonly known as "Ebola") in humans in the United States; the first was reported in September 2014 Eight of the people contracted the disease outside the US and traveled into the country, either as regular airline passengers or as medical evacuees; of those eight, two died. A total of two people have contracted disease while in the United States. Both were nurses who treated an Ebola patient; both have recovered. Hundreds of people have been tested for possible infection As of November 2014, no person has both contracted and died of Ebola virus disease while in the United States"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_cases_in_the_United_States
ChesusRice
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Hmm just before election time. And the echo chamber was going on about Failure of leadership in regards to EbolaSooo weird, I haven't heard a thing about ebola since September.. Whatever happened to it spreading all around the US because Obama didn't close the borders?
Was Fox News just bullshitting the entire time, just spreading fear and panic for no reason other than ratings? Hmm...
Will any of you have the balls to finally admit you were wrong about it?
I'll be the first to praise you for admitting you were wrong, just fucking admit it and show the forum you have a little bit of integrity
Meanwhile...
"As of November 2014, there have been a total of ten cases of Ebola virus disease (commonly known as "Ebola") in humans in the United States; the first was reported in September 2014 Eight of the people contracted the disease outside the US and traveled into the country, either as regular airline passengers or as medical evacuees; of those eight, two died. A total of two people have contracted disease while in the United States. Both were nurses who treated an Ebola patient; both have recovered. Hundreds of people have been tested for possible infection As of November 2014, no person has both contracted and died of Ebola virus disease while in the United States"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_cases_in_the_United_States
Canna Sylvan
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Yet all the hospitals and clinics still have Ebola warning notices plastered everywhere.
Padawanbater2
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Hospitals and clinics have teen pregnancy, AIDS/HIV, & Cancer warning notices posted, wtf is the retarded point you were trying to make again exactly? "Ebola everywhere so BE AFRAID!!! IT'S STILL HERE! OBAMA LYIN' TO YOU!!!!"
Is that it?
sheskunk
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It's simply the preamble to set up more regulations. If you believe Obama is not involved you are more of a puppet than the rest of us.
US looking past Ebola to prepare for next outbreak
WASHINGTON (AP) — The next Ebola or the next SARS. Maybe even the next HIV. Even before the Ebola epidemic in West Africa is brought under control, public health officials are girding for the next health disaster.
Related Stories
Ebola sprang from one of those blind spots, in an area that lacks the health systems needed to detect an outbreak before it becomes a crisis. Now the Obama administration has requested $600 million for the CDC to implement what it calls the Global Health Security Agenda, working with an international coalition to shore up disease detection in high-risk countries and guard against the next contagion.
There's little doubt there will be a next time. Just in recent years, the world has seen bird flu sicken people in Southeast Asia, the respiratory killer SARS spread from China, the 2009 flu pandemic, growing threats from antibiotic-resistant germs, and SARS' new cousin in the Middle East named MERS.
And what if the next bug spills across borders even more easily than Ebola?
If bird flu ever mutates to spread between people, "we better look out. It will make Ebola look like a picnic," Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, warned a recent Senate Appropriations Committee as he questioned whether $600 million was enough to do the job.
After all, less than 20 percent of countries have reported meeting World Health Organization requirements showing they are adequately prepared to respond to emerging infectious threats.
The Obama administration kicked off the global health security project in February at a White House meeting with representatives of more than two dozen countries — unaware that Ebola already was quietly brewing in Guinea. Additional countries signed on in later meetings in Finland and Indonesia, and again at the White House in September, where President Barack Obama declared the world must "make sure we're not caught flat-footed" in future outbreaks.
For its part in the international collaboration, the U.S. plans to assist at least 30 countries over the next five years to bolster local disease prevention and monitoring, improve laboratory diagnosis of pathogens and strengthen emergency response to outbreaks.
Consider Uganda, where in 2010 a lack of a good laboratory system was one reason it took "a shockingly long" 40 days to determine a mysterious outbreak was yellow fever, said CDC scientist Jeff Borchert.
Last year, CDC began a pilot project to improve Uganda's disease detection by piggybacking on a small program that tested babies born to HIV-positive mothers. Now, in a larger swath of the country, motorcycles race samples from sick patients to provincial capitals where they're shipped overnight to a central lab to test for a variety of diseases. The health ministry also set up an emergency operations center to oversee potential outbreaks.
In March, Uganda's new system proved itself, Borchert said, as the country fought an outbreak of nearly 200 cases of meningitis, using that network for testing of patients in remote areas. And last month, in an another example of its overall preparedness, Ugandan officials rapidly tracked down contacts of a health worker who died of Marburg virus, an Ebola relative, a case that fortunately didn't spread.
CDC has long trained public health workers in various countries to be disease detectives, but the international collaboration is supposed to be more comprehensive. Even before receiving any new funding, CDC started some additional small projects in countries such as India, Thailand, Jordan, Vietnam and Georgia, to expand outbreak-fighting capabilities.
Then came Ebola. While the outbreak stalled work on broader global health security, it also increased awareness of the ripple effect that one unprepared country can have.
Lawmakers want to know if the U.S. will leave Ebola-ravaged Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea with health systems more capable of responding to future outbreaks.
"Liberia is a country where they tell me that their electricity output is such that it would have trouble powering the Jumbotron at Dallas stadium," said Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark. "Is this going to be something that we put in and it's going to be an ongoing cost for us, you know, forever?"
CDC will expand its Ebola-specific work, such as training rapid response teams to investigate cases, "so they're better able to detect and respond to not only Ebola but other pathogens," said Dr. Jordan Tappero, CDC's director of global health protection. "It's our intention to be there for the long-term to really build that public health capacity."
Learning to tackle one disease can pay off against another: Nearby Nigeria beat back Ebola thanks in part to its polio-fighting program that included labs and CDC-trained disease detectives who quickly switched gears to the new threat.
Scary outbreaks often spark calls for better global preparedness that fade as the disease does.
"We should avoid a cycle in which we let our guard down once the immediate public health crisis passes," Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said last week.
CDC's Frieden offered hindsight: "The world would be a very different place today if Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone had had those systems in place a year ago. They could have contained this outbreak."
http://news.yahoo.com/us-looking-past-ebola-prepare-next-outbreak-133653126.html
US looking past Ebola to prepare for next outbreak
WASHINGTON (AP) — The next Ebola or the next SARS. Maybe even the next HIV. Even before the Ebola epidemic in West Africa is brought under control, public health officials are girding for the next health disaster.
Related Stories
- Obama: West Africa not out of the woods on Ebola Associated Press
- CDC chief drops worst-case Ebola estimate Associated Press
- US to screen travelers from Mali for Ebola Associated Press
- UN chief: Ebola cases in Mali a 'deep concern' Associated Press
- Sierra Leone is forcing its citizens into isolation to fight Ebola Vox.com
Ebola sprang from one of those blind spots, in an area that lacks the health systems needed to detect an outbreak before it becomes a crisis. Now the Obama administration has requested $600 million for the CDC to implement what it calls the Global Health Security Agenda, working with an international coalition to shore up disease detection in high-risk countries and guard against the next contagion.
There's little doubt there will be a next time. Just in recent years, the world has seen bird flu sicken people in Southeast Asia, the respiratory killer SARS spread from China, the 2009 flu pandemic, growing threats from antibiotic-resistant germs, and SARS' new cousin in the Middle East named MERS.
And what if the next bug spills across borders even more easily than Ebola?
If bird flu ever mutates to spread between people, "we better look out. It will make Ebola look like a picnic," Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, warned a recent Senate Appropriations Committee as he questioned whether $600 million was enough to do the job.
After all, less than 20 percent of countries have reported meeting World Health Organization requirements showing they are adequately prepared to respond to emerging infectious threats.
The Obama administration kicked off the global health security project in February at a White House meeting with representatives of more than two dozen countries — unaware that Ebola already was quietly brewing in Guinea. Additional countries signed on in later meetings in Finland and Indonesia, and again at the White House in September, where President Barack Obama declared the world must "make sure we're not caught flat-footed" in future outbreaks.
For its part in the international collaboration, the U.S. plans to assist at least 30 countries over the next five years to bolster local disease prevention and monitoring, improve laboratory diagnosis of pathogens and strengthen emergency response to outbreaks.
Consider Uganda, where in 2010 a lack of a good laboratory system was one reason it took "a shockingly long" 40 days to determine a mysterious outbreak was yellow fever, said CDC scientist Jeff Borchert.
Last year, CDC began a pilot project to improve Uganda's disease detection by piggybacking on a small program that tested babies born to HIV-positive mothers. Now, in a larger swath of the country, motorcycles race samples from sick patients to provincial capitals where they're shipped overnight to a central lab to test for a variety of diseases. The health ministry also set up an emergency operations center to oversee potential outbreaks.
In March, Uganda's new system proved itself, Borchert said, as the country fought an outbreak of nearly 200 cases of meningitis, using that network for testing of patients in remote areas. And last month, in an another example of its overall preparedness, Ugandan officials rapidly tracked down contacts of a health worker who died of Marburg virus, an Ebola relative, a case that fortunately didn't spread.
CDC has long trained public health workers in various countries to be disease detectives, but the international collaboration is supposed to be more comprehensive. Even before receiving any new funding, CDC started some additional small projects in countries such as India, Thailand, Jordan, Vietnam and Georgia, to expand outbreak-fighting capabilities.
Then came Ebola. While the outbreak stalled work on broader global health security, it also increased awareness of the ripple effect that one unprepared country can have.
Lawmakers want to know if the U.S. will leave Ebola-ravaged Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea with health systems more capable of responding to future outbreaks.
"Liberia is a country where they tell me that their electricity output is such that it would have trouble powering the Jumbotron at Dallas stadium," said Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark. "Is this going to be something that we put in and it's going to be an ongoing cost for us, you know, forever?"
CDC will expand its Ebola-specific work, such as training rapid response teams to investigate cases, "so they're better able to detect and respond to not only Ebola but other pathogens," said Dr. Jordan Tappero, CDC's director of global health protection. "It's our intention to be there for the long-term to really build that public health capacity."
Learning to tackle one disease can pay off against another: Nearby Nigeria beat back Ebola thanks in part to its polio-fighting program that included labs and CDC-trained disease detectives who quickly switched gears to the new threat.
Scary outbreaks often spark calls for better global preparedness that fade as the disease does.
"We should avoid a cycle in which we let our guard down once the immediate public health crisis passes," Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said last week.
CDC's Frieden offered hindsight: "The world would be a very different place today if Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone had had those systems in place a year ago. They could have contained this outbreak."
http://news.yahoo.com/us-looking-past-ebola-prepare-next-outbreak-133653126.html
Thecouchlock
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WAIT!!!! I'm not done being scared of swine flu and avian flu yet!!![/QUOTE]
Dr Kynes
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you havent even started being terrified of West Nile, SARS and H1N1 yet,
put Ebola on your rocket docket, but dont forget to cue up Chagas, and the Plague of The Century Of The Week yet to be announced.