Official Ebola update thread

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Anonymous wrote:Mark Zuckerberg just announced he and his wife are donating $25 million to the CDC to help fight Ebola in West Africa. Good for him.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-kicks-25-million-ebola-n225381

I hope the money is spent educating the west African people on safer burial practices, how to steer clear things that contain the virus (bats) and the ample use of bleach. All the medicine in the world will not help. Need to treat the cause, not the symptoms. It's like taking Tylenol for a cold. Tylenol doesn't kill the virus. In the case of ebola, it's living conditions and cultural practices.

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Anonymous wrote:Mark Zuckerberg just announced he and his wife are donating $25 million to the CDC to help fight Ebola in West Africa. Good for him.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-kicks-25-million-ebola-n225381

Maybe that money can be used toward a plane solely for humanitarian/health care personnel and then, we can actually ban people from those countries from entering the US until this blows over.

Sure, let's steal the money donated to helping people in West Africa and use it towards your political agenda instead.

An agenda? If you keep your child home because he or she has strep, is your family a victim of an agenda? Or, are you just protecting the other kids?

If you advocate for the right to steal from dying people to protect your individual child then those people are the victims of your screwed up agenda.

The healthcare workers will spread it as they travel back and forth, never mind the locals.

[Anonymous]

CDC director admits his agency could have done better in Dallas. Expresses regret.

[Anonymous]

From the Customs and Border Protection:

You must declare all food products. Failure to declare food products can result in up to $10,000 in fines and penalties.

If only we were so tough about imports other than cheese and sausage.

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Anonymous wrote:Mark Zuckerberg just announced he and his wife are donating $25 million to the CDC to help fight Ebola in West Africa. Good for him.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-kicks-25-million-ebola-n225381

Maybe that money can be used toward a plane solely for humanitarian/health care personnel and then, we can actually ban people from those countries from entering the US until this blows over.

Sure, let's steal the money donated to helping people in West Africa and use it towards your political agenda instead.

An agenda? If you keep your child home because he or she has strep, is your family a victim of an agenda? Or, are you just protecting the other kids?

If you advocate for the right to steal from dying people to protect your individual child then those people are the victims of your screwed up agenda.

+1,000,000

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Anonymous wrote:Mark Zuckerberg just announced he and his wife are donating $25 million to the CDC to help fight Ebola in West Africa. Good for him.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-kicks-25-million-ebola-n225381

Maybe that money can be used toward a plane solely for humanitarian/health care personnel and then, we can actually ban people from those countries from entering the US until this blows over.

Sure, let's steal the money donated to helping people in West Africa and use it towards your political agenda instead.

An agenda? If you keep your child home because he or she has strep, is your family a victim of an agenda? Or, are you just protecting the other kids?

If you advocate for the right to steal from dying people to protect your individual child then those people are the victims of your screwed up agenda.

+1,000,000

Our country's first agenda should be to keep ebola out of our country. We can help them, feel sorry for them, send aid, but we do not need to join them in their suffering.

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Anonymous wrote:Mark Zuckerberg just announced he and his wife are donating $25 million to the CDC to help fight Ebola in West Africa. Good for him.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-kicks-25-million-ebola-n225381

Maybe that money can be used toward a plane solely for humanitarian/health care personnel and then, we can actually ban people from those countries from entering the US until this blows over.

Sure, let's steal the money donated to helping people in West Africa and use it towards your political agenda instead.

An agenda? If you keep your child home because he or she has strep, is your family a victim of an agenda? Or, are you just protecting the other kids?

If you advocate for the right to steal from dying people to protect your individual child then those people are the victims of your screwed up agenda.

+1,000,000

Our country's first agenda should be to keep ebola out of our country. We can help them, feel sorry for them, send aid, but we do not need to join them in their suffering.

And the best way to keep Ebola from spreading beyond West Africa is to address it in West Africa.

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Anonymous wrote:Mark Zuckerberg just announced he and his wife are donating $25 million to the CDC to help fight Ebola in West Africa. Good for him.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-kicks-25-million-ebola-n225381

Maybe that money can be used toward a plane solely for humanitarian/health care personnel and then, we can actually ban people from those countries from entering the US until this blows over.

Sure, let's steal the money donated to helping people in West Africa and use it towards your political agenda instead.

An agenda? If you keep your child home because he or she has strep, is your family a victim of an agenda? Or, are you just protecting the other kids?

If you advocate for the right to steal from dying people to protect your individual child then those people are the victims of your screwed up agenda.

+1,000,000

Our country's first agenda should be to keep ebola out of our country. We can help them, feel sorry for them, send aid, but we do not need to join them in their suffering.

And the best way to keep Ebola from spreading beyond West Africa is to address it in West Africa.

Good luck addressing their lifestyle and cultural practices. Eradicating ebola will take about the same amount if time it will take to deal with obesity and diabetes in the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mortality rate at 70%, higher than previously thought.

Not here -- six patients, one death, one hospitalized, four recovered.

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Anonymous wrote:Mark Zuckerberg just announced he and his wife are donating $25 million to the CDC to help fight Ebola in West Africa. Good for him.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-kicks-25-million-ebola-n225381

Maybe that money can be used toward a plane solely for humanitarian/health care personnel and then, we can actually ban people from those countries from entering the US until this blows over.

Sure, let's steal the money donated to helping people in West Africa and use it towards your political agenda instead.

An agenda? If you keep your child home because he or she has strep, is your family a victim of an agenda? Or, are you just protecting the other kids?

If you advocate for the right to steal from dying people to protect your individual child then those people are the victims of your screwed up agenda.

+1,000,000

Our country's first agenda should be to keep ebola out of our country. We can help them, feel sorry for them, send aid, but we do not need to join them in their suffering.

We aren't talking about our country here. We are talking about $ that two private individuals have given to the people of a West Africa to be used to save them. Reallocating that money to help protect Americans would be theft.

[Anonymous]

As an aside to the discussion regarding Zuckerburg's donation: impressed with that, and glad to see he donated it to CDC specifically to help fight Ebola in West Africa and did not donate it directly to any charities that provide aid/money/etc. directly to West African govt.'s. Smart dude.

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Anonymous wrote:Mark Zuckerberg just announced he and his wife are donating $25 million to the CDC to help fight Ebola in West Africa. Good for him.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-kicks-25-million-ebola-n225381

Maybe that money can be used toward a plane solely for humanitarian/health care personnel and then, we can actually ban people from those countries from entering the US until this blows over.

Sure, let's steal the money donated to helping people in West Africa and use it towards your political agenda instead.

An agenda? If you keep your child home because he or she has strep, is your family a victim of an agenda? Or, are you just protecting the other kids?

If you advocate for the right to steal from dying people to protect your individual child then those people are the victims of your screwed up agenda.

+1,000,000

Our country's first agenda should be to keep ebola out of our country. We can help them, feel sorry for them, send aid, but we do not need to join them in their suffering.

We aren't talking about our country here. We are talking about $ that two private individuals have given to the people of a West Africa to be used to save them. Reallocating that money to help protect Americans would be theft.

The money was given, not to the people of W. Africa, but to the CDC to fight the virus in W. Africa. Using it, as a pp has suggested, for a plane to fly humanitarian workers and health care personnel over this IS fighting the virus in W. Africa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CDC director admits his agency could have done better in Dallas. Expresses regret.

About time.

Good for the nurses for calling him out on several issues surrounding protocol and training. Hope he puts the rest of his ego aside and implements protocols similar to what Doctors Without Borders are using, and gets some real training out there for our medical and support people.

Then he needs to step down. His arrogance and annoyed sighs when valid concerns about protocol and transmissions were brought up, instead of focusing on what is being successfully done by those in the trenches, might very well end up getting some people killed.

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Anonymous wrote:CDC director admits his agency could have done better in Dallas. Expresses regret.

About time.

Good for the nurses for calling him out on several issues surrounding protocol and training. Hope he puts the rest of his ego aside and implements protocols similar to what Doctors Without Borders are using, and gets some real training out there for our medical and support people.

Then he needs to step down. His arrogance and annoyed sighs when valid concerns about protocol and transmissions were brought up, instead of focusing on what is being successfully done by those in the trenches, might very well end up getting some people killed.

Let's hope not. But yes, he needs to find a way to be allowed to exit gracefully. Not gonna happen, however.

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Anonymous wrote:Mark Zuckerberg just announced he and his wife are donating $25 million to the CDC to help fight Ebola in West Africa. Good for him.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-kicks-25-million-ebola-n225381

I hope the money is spent educating the west African people on safer burial practices, how to steer clear things that contain the virus (bats) and the ample use of bleach. All the medicine in the world will not help. Need to treat the cause, not the symptoms. It's like taking Tylenol for a cold. Tylenol doesn't kill the virus. In the case of ebola, it's living conditions and cultural practices.

are you saying we need to preserve the forsts. Forest is being destroyed which causes the bats to come to human habitation, so contact is unavoidable. Unless you find a way
to leave things the way they were, people will get infected as contact is unavoidable.