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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yikes! Scary. 90% death rate. They should just stay where they are. [/quote]

Yes.  I got this weird pit in my stomach when I read the story - like I was reading the beginning of something horrible.  I could see if we had a treatment that could only be done here.  But there is no treatment, there is no vaccine.  Why risk infecting so many new people (the plane, getting them off the plane, people at the hospital).  All it takes is one hospital worker to bring it home and we have an epidemic here.  
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Ebola has no known cure but it *is* treatable, and early treatment of symptoms has been shown to decrease the mortality rate (more like 60%).  As we all know, hospitals here have much better resources and the quality of care will be much higher.  If your husband or parent was deathly ill, wouldn't you want them to receive the best care available?  I'm also guessing there are treatments they could attempt here that simply aren't available in places like Sierra Leone, where there aren't even enough doctors and nurses to go around.

If these people are coming home to die, so be it.  They have both made incredible sacrifices for the greater good.  They deserve to be able to die in their home country, with their families at their side.  [/quote]

+ 1!!!   I'm sure the posters questioning this would want to get home and have a chance at beating this.   It's pretty sad that some people think we should leave them there, especially after everything they have sacrificed.[/quote]

I don't think it's sad. Come on home because that's what this hospital's program is for, but it's not like they can just beat this thing with a little elbow grease and American ingenuity. [/quote]

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