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"In a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted in recent days, the number of Americans who say the government should be doing more to prevent additional Ebola cases in the United States is almost twice the number who believe the United States is doing all it can to control the spread of the virus.
That includes overwhelming support — 91 percent — in favor of stricter screening for people traveling to this country from West Africa. Such screening began this past weekend at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and soon will begin at four other international airports in the country."
Biometric chips have been implanted in all US issued passports since 2007. Those issued prior to 2007 remain valid for ten years.
One of the intents of this long term international initiative is to trend towards visa less travel between participating countries. The global community has a long, long way to go to be in a position to have the technology and agreements in place to read, record and track international travel. It's also a privacy issue.
This is a map showing what countries currently use Biometric chips in their passports (dark green).
Bright green are the countries that plan to use them in the future.
Let me get this straight. A US 4 star General heard second hand from someone who works at some US embassy that he came across 2 men attempting to cross by foot from Costa Rica into Nicaragua. When asked where they came from and were headed, they replied Liberia enroute to the U.S.
Guess this embassy worker and general never heard of Liberia, Costa Rica.
And I would assume that most people (I could be wrong) could tell the difference between a Spanish accent and an African accent. Maybe not.
These are early days in what will be a world altering event. People are already comparing this to aids, as if it is similar, and THAT IS DANGEROUS!
This strain of Ebola makes aids look like the common cold. Obviously, it is highly contagious if a nurse can contract it by a possible breech of her suit.
I pray they are right this thing hasn't become an air born contagion.
The people who are politicizing Ebola need to check their partisanship at the door, and re-engage their brains.
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Originally Posted by Cathy4017
Was this surviving doctor given ZMapp? If so, I guess the antibodies used to make ZMapp would become part of his own arsenal, correct?
I'm not a scientist--I'm guessing.
That is what the doctors are hoping for. At this point, they're throwing everything against a wall and hoping something sticks. It's simply too early to know what will and won't work, if anything at all. This is a result of BIG PHARMA completely ignoring Ebola for 40 years... because there was no monetary incentive to pursue it. Now they are woefully behind the curve - whether accidentally or intentionally is the question.
Lives are never included in the bottom line, only in ads after the fact.
The director of the National Institutes of Health says an Ebola vaccine would be ready by now if it were not for cuts to the NIH budget.
"NIH has been working on Ebola vaccines since 2001. It's not like we suddenly woke up and thought, 'Oh my gosh, we should have something ready here,' " Dr. Francis Collins told The Huffington Post in an article published Sunday. "Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would've gone through clinical trials and would have been ready."
I bet lots of people here still think massive cuts in spending instead of raising revenue is a great idea...
We've added $7 trillion in new fiscal debt, and you act as if there have been massive cuts in federal government spending. Why not ask where that $7 trillion has been going to.
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Countries that use biometric chips in passports
