Official Ebola update thread

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

F. The, and the high horse they rode in on

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Try to bring in a freakin orange

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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.

And stop it from leaving. Man are you being thick

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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.

How about not consuming the damn bats.

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How about someone post a link to all other 17 threads with the titles.

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Humans and fruit bats have always coexisted in Africa. I am not sure i buy the defoerstation argument.

I have eaten fruit bat, and it is quite good, if a little boney. There is no evidence that eating fruit bat caused the outbreak. It was probably a fruit bat pooping on a mango, or some such, and then being picked up and eaten by the 2 year old patient 0.

I find it fascinating how keen people are to blame the victims. It makes me think we are pretty rotten as a race. Maybe we deserve to be wiped out by ebola. Maybe the insects would make a better fist of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Humans and fruit bats have always coexisted in Africa. I am not sure i buy the defoerstation argument.

I have eaten fruit bat, and it is quite good, if a little boney. There is no evidence that eating fruit bat caused the outbreak. It was probably a fruit bat pooping on a mango, or some such, and then being picked up and eaten by the 2 year old patient 0.

I find it fascinating how keen people are to blame the victims. It makes me think we are pretty rotten as a race. Maybe we deserve to be wiped out by ebola. Maybe the insects would make a better fist of it.

I thought the theory was that killing and preparing the fruit bat, which means contact with its blood, was the issue, not eating it.

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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.

There are plenty of commercial flights available for that purpose. No need to divert resources from more critical needs like setting up treatment facilities and providing appropriate protective gear to medical personnel. Sorry but this is more important than further reducing the minuscule chance that some uptight DC paranoiac will be infected playing soccer with black men.

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Anonymous wrote:Humans and fruit bats have always coexisted in Africa. I am not sure i buy the defoerstation argument.

I have eaten fruit bat, and it is quite good, if a little boney. There is no evidence that eating fruit bat caused the outbreak. It was probably a fruit bat pooping on a mango, or some such, and then being picked up and eaten by the 2 year old patient 0.

I find it fascinating how keen people are to blame the victims. It makes me think we are pretty rotten as a race. Maybe we deserve to be wiped out by ebola. Maybe the insects would make a better fist of it.

I'll have to look later for the link, but the thinking is that it is actually in the butchering and dealing with the raw meat where transmission likely occurs. Sidenote: I keep thinking of that one season of Survivor where the players ate bats, and one of the guys actually loved it and ate the bats the others didn't eat.

Where is there victim blaming? (with the exception of Friedman outrageously blaming the nurse for "breach of protocol"). Do you mean people saying to stop eating fruit bats? Or educating West Africans? Discussing the difficulties of working around and changing culture norms like burial rituals? I'm asking sincerely.

What I'm hearing most is 1)let's protect our own country while we get a handle on this 2) let's equip those on the front lines with the right equipment, information, and support 3) let's educate, support and help West Africa.

It seems logical (take care of yourself first so you can take care of others), and realistic. It shouldn't be this hard. Let's not be afraid to make a couple of bold moves, get our act together, and then go help stop this and ease the suffering of the people in West Africa.

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Anonymous wrote:Humans and fruit bats have always coexisted in Africa. I am not sure i buy the defoerstation argument.

I have eaten fruit bat, and it is quite good, if a little boney. There is no evidence that eating fruit bat caused the outbreak. It was probably a fruit bat pooping on a mango, or some such, and then being picked up and eaten by the 2 year old patient 0.

I find it fascinating how keen people are to blame the victims. It makes me think we are pretty rotten as a race. Maybe we deserve to be wiped out by ebola. Maybe the insects would make a better fist of it.

I thought the theory was that killing and preparing the fruit bat, which means contact with its blood, was the issue, not eating it.

wasn't that close to the plot of the movie contagion (an infected bat was eaten by a pig who was then slaughtered at a Chinese restaurant and the chef had its blood on his hands when he met Gwyneth Paltrow.....)

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Anonymous wrote:Please post all news updates, opinions, thoughts, and concerns here. Please keep the discussion civil.

Thank you

If only people would actually do this. I'm not sure why Jeff only tolerated one thread about the missing Malaysian plane, but is allowing 10 zillion separate Ebola threads.

Because Ebola affects a lot more people?

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Anonymous wrote:Humans and fruit bats have always coexisted in Africa. I am not sure i buy the defoerstation argument.

I have eaten fruit bat, and it is quite good, if a little boney. There is no evidence that eating fruit bat caused the outbreak. It was probably a fruit bat pooping on a mango, or some such, and then being picked up and eaten by the 2 year old patient 0.

I find it fascinating how keen people are to blame the victims. It makes me think we are pretty rotten as a race. Maybe we deserve to be wiped out by ebola. Maybe the insects would make a better fist of it.

Well, I agree with your post and reading it makes me feel slight better about the human race, so thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:Humans and fruit bats have always coexisted in Africa. I am not sure i buy the defoerstation argument.

I have eaten fruit bat, and it is quite good, if a little boney. There is no evidence that eating fruit bat caused the outbreak. It was probably a fruit bat pooping on a mango, or some such, and then being picked up and eaten by the 2 year old patient 0.

I find it fascinating how keen people are to blame the victims. It makes me think we are pretty rotten as a race. Maybe we deserve to be wiped out by ebola. Maybe the insects would make a better fist of it.

I thought the theory was that killing and preparing the fruit bat, which means contact with its blood, was the issue, not eating it.

wasn't that close to the plot of the movie contagion (an infected bat was eaten by a pig who was then slaughtered at a Chinese restaurant and the chef had its blood on his hands when he met Gwyneth Paltrow.....)

Thanks for the spoiler <sarcasm>. You should warn with SPOILER if you are going to post about a movie/book.

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That movie is a few years old, if you haven't seen contagion yet it's not PP fault. Chill out man. The movie is only pretty famous for the gywneth Paltrow seizure scene, so there's another spoiler

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Anonymous wrote:Humans and fruit bats have always coexisted in Africa. I am not sure i buy the defoerstation argument.

I have eaten fruit bat, and it is quite good, if a little boney. There is no evidence that eating fruit bat caused the outbreak. It was probably a fruit bat pooping on a mango, or some such, and then being picked up and eaten by the 2 year old patient 0.

I find it fascinating how keen people are to blame the victims. It makes me think we are pretty rotten as a race. Maybe we deserve to be wiped out by ebola. Maybe the insects would make a better fist of it.

I thought the theory was that killing and preparing the fruit bat, which means contact with its blood, was the issue, not eating it.

Lol. Yep, that makes a diffference. Good LORD. Straw grasp much?!?