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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fact that CDC is voluntarily bringing two ebola patients into the country is insane to me.

The fact that I can do nothing to stop it, or even show my displeasure in any meaningful way, is also frightening.

Leave them where they are - I have yet to find a good explanation of the risk - benefit analysis that makes sense (other than the patriotic but not particularly rational 'they are American and deserve to be at home.' Their desserts do not trump the safety of everyone on the continent).[/quote]

Your purportedly one-sided risk/benefit analysis does not take into account the realities of the risk, which is relatively small for a non-airborne hemorraghic fever that kills as quickly as Ebola does. The risk of some sort of uncontrolled and widespread outbreak based on one patient crossing the border is basically nil.[/quote]

I don't think that this will turn into the Black Death Mark 2, no, but I do think there is a chance some people in Atlanta area (probably other health workers) will get infected. No protocol is perfect. I don't see the point of risking this at all for no benefit - the only rationale that would make sense to me is that they want to study this in live patients under controlled conditions ebcause arrival of Ebola in this country via some sick passenger who doesn't know he is sick is inevitable and they want to get a head start. But then I am not sure why they aren't quarantining anyone coming from that part of the world as a matter of course, in the first place. [/quote]

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