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View Poll Results: Are you comfortable with the Ebola victims being brought to the US?
Yes 54 50.00%
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Old 08-04-2014, 05:09 PM
 
Location: Long Island
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I see the birther's are branching out into new territory
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Old 08-04-2014, 05:12 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Those 2 came under strict CDC precautions. Neither will become patient zero.

If anything the person currently being tested for ebola in NYC could very well be our patient zero.
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Old 08-04-2014, 05:19 PM
 
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I see the birther's are branching out into new territory
Label much?
I'm not a birther....
I think AJ brought up some good points.
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Old 08-04-2014, 06:12 PM
 
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Gotta love how every media pundit and message board poster is an armchair scientist or doctor these days.
Only up to page 4 of this thread, and I can see that on both sides of the fence.
Equally disturbing however, is the amazing amount of naivete.
Whatever happened to "err on the side of caution"? I don't care how many precautions are taken or how better "we" THINK we are capable to treat it. Ebola IS here. As an example - people should remember how MRSA became that way.
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Old 08-04-2014, 06:26 PM
 
Location: Wonderland
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Monkeys throw faeces at each other.
Did you read the book? Their cages were very far away from each other.

Also, some pigs (who do not throw poop at each other) kept in separate cages caught it from each other as well.
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Old 08-04-2014, 06:26 PM
 
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Those 2 came under strict CDC precautions. Neither will become patient zero.

If anything the person currently being tested for ebola in NYC could very well be our patient zero.
This. Ouch, the truth hurts.
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Old 08-04-2014, 06:52 PM
 
Location: Ohio
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The question is straightforward enough.
I'm sorry, how many illegal immigrants enter the US every day?

And you're concerned over 2 freaking people?

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This virus is not as contagious as people seem to think it is.
Massive medical fail, but then...you probably think it's transmitted by Wealth Inequality.

Transmission Because the natural reservoir of ebolaviruses has not yet been proven, the manner in which the virus first appears in a human at the start of an outbreak is unknown. However, researchers have hypothesized.....


Source: US Centers for Disease Control



Transmission | Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever | CDC


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I highlighted the operands for not-too-bright.

Straight-forwardly....


Mircea
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Old 08-04-2014, 07:19 PM
 
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I'm sorry, how many illegal immigrants enter the US every day?

And you're concerned over 2 freaking people?



Massive medical fail, but then...you probably think it's transmitted by Wealth Inequality.

Transmission Because the natural reservoir of ebolaviruses has not yet been proven, the manner in which the virus first appears in a human at the start of an outbreak is unknown. However, researchers have hypothesized.....


Source: US Centers for Disease Control



Transmission | Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever | CDC


[emphasis mine]


I highlighted the operands for not-too-bright.

Straight-forwardly....


Mircea
And if you go to the link and read....or even read what you posted, you'd realize they were talking about the natural reservoir transmission method (which is suspected to be eating a infected animal BTW). The human to human transmission is pretty clearly understood.

And of course you include personal attacks while highlighting that you do not understand the topic.
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Old 08-04-2014, 08:34 PM
 
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
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I have no issues with it. The main driver of Ebola is funerary practices in Africa which stress handling and washing the dead without precautions so you get direct contact with infected blood. We don't do that in the US so I'm not worried.
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Old 08-04-2014, 08:37 PM
 
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Hell no! They don't belong here. It is NOT our problem.
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