Obama Still Refuses to Halt Flights From Ebola Hot Zone

Multiple nations stopped flights over a month ago

After U.S. officials disclosed another potential case of Ebola in Dallas, Texas, this morning, the question remains whether the Obama administration will finally stop flights from Ebola-stricken countries as multiple nations did over a month ago.

In mid-August, Korean Air and Kenya Airways announced they were halting flights to the West African countries ravaged by Ebola, and British Airways and Air France also decided to suspend service to the Ebola hot zone a few weeks later.

“France is recommending that its citizens leave Sierra Leone and Liberia, two of the countries hardest hit by the worst ever outbreak of the disease,” Jessica Plautz reported for Mashable. “The government said the increasing spread of the disease prompted its request that the airline to suspend flights.”

Yet the Obama administration made no such request to U.S. airlines and government flights, despite the Center of Disease Control advising Americans to avoid “non-essential travel” to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea several weeks ago.
 
 


“CDC urges all US residents to avoid non-essential travel to Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone because of unprecedented outbreaks of Ebola in those countries,” the CDC travel health advisory states. “CDC recommends that travelers to these countries protect themselves by avoiding contact with the blood and body fluids of people who are sick with Ebola.”

The patient in Dallas, Texas, who the CDC confirmed as the first case of Ebola virus diagnosed in the United States, flew into the U.S. on Sept. 20 after contracting the disease in Liberia.

This morning, Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson said officials are currently monitoring another person who they fear may have Ebola after coming into contact with the patient currently being treated in Dallas.

“Let me be real frank to the Dallas County residents: the fact that we have one confirmed case, there may be another case that is a close associate with this particular patient,” Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson said Wednesday in an interview with local ABC affiliate WFAA. “So this is real.”

So far, the White House has done little to prevent the spread of Ebola in the U.S. and may have in fact encouraged an outbreak by sending thousands of U.S. troops into West Africa earlier this month who could potentially contract the disease.
 
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The good thing about Ebola is that you have to come in contact with someone's bodily fluids to contract it. I would be much more nervous about it if it were airborne.

Airborne is what happens to your bodily "fluids" when you sneeze.

I wonder how long can the virus live on surfaces?  Can an infected person leave behind their germs by sneezing onto a counter?  Holding a handle w/sweaty hands?  I do not know.

Marsha

President Obola is going to make sure that the American people are wiped out by the Ebola virus. He's letting all these people come and go as they please from Africa where this is rampant and the government is not quarantining anyone that has gone to Africa, not to mention the wide open boarder where people carrying who knows what are coming into this country to spread whatever diseases they can. Of course Gov. Perry is living in Obola's world too as he doesn't think this is a big deal either.


http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/michael-savage-blames-president-obola-for-virus-in-u-s/


MICHAEL SAVAGE BLAMES 'PRESIDENT OBOLA' FOR VIRUS IN U.S.
Charges open-borders policy, unwillingness to quarantine threatens nation

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Ebola has now entered the U.S. because of President Obama’s open-borders policy, charged talk-radio host Michael Savage.

Savage who has a doctorate in epidemiology, said Obama refused to employ the basic epidemiological rule of quarantining a deadly virus, “because the far-left agenda is to have an open-borders policy.”

Referring to the commander in chief as “President Obola,” Savage said on his nationally syndicated show Wednesday the “only solution is zero travel in and out of West Africa for any American.”

“You let nobody in from a country where you have a raging epidemic,” he said, emphasizing “microbes do not discriminate.”

“You isolate and you quarantine an entire nation, if necessary.”

Savage addressed the argument that it’s not practical to isolate an entire country or region.

“Is it practical to risk the spread of a killer illness?” he countered.

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Ebola has killed more than 3,300 people in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone this year. But a statistical forecast released by the CDC last week said the virus could infect 1.4 million in Liberia and Sierra Leone by the end of January.

WND reported Wednesday a team of researchers published an article in a scientific journal last month warning a reduction in airline travel of as much as 80 percent would only delay the international spread of the disease by three to four weeks at most.

The scientists concluded Ebola is unstoppable without a total quarantine.

Savage holds master’s degrees from the University of Hawaii in medical botany and medical anthropology and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in epidemiology and nutrition sciences.

The system is working?

Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control reported the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. The patient was identified Wednesday as Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national who had traveled to Dallas from Liberia Sept. 20 via Brussels, Belgium, to visit his family. Duncan was treated with antibiotics at Texas Presbyterian Hospital Sept. 26 and dismissed without being asked any details about his travel history. He returned to the hospital Sunday in an ambulance.

Meanwhile, five students from four different Dallas schools were being kept out of class Wednesday because of their possible exposure to Duncan.


Savage also has charged that Obama’s open-borders policy has allowed tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American minors to enter the U.S. and spread in schools viral illnesses, some of which had been largely eradicated in the country.

Regarding the threat of Ebola to the U.S., Savage said officials have resorted to spouting platitudes.

He chastised the CDC for insisting months ago that Americans had nothing to worry about, because the CDC has trained-doctors at airports in West Africa to prevent people infected with Ebola from traveling to the U.S.

But Savage noted that people infected with Ebola don’t show any symptoms until about three weeks later.

He criticized Texas Gov. Rick Perry as well, who said Wednesday that while the Ebola case in his state was a serious issue, everything was under control, and the “system was working as it should.”

Savage said Perry’s assurances disqualify him for the presidency, arguing the system never should have allowed Ebola to enter in the first place, and now many Americans are believed to have had contact with Duncan, including the public school students. The students attended classes this week after possibly being in contact with Duncan over the weekend.

Perry was a Republican candidate in 2012 and has shown signs he might run again in 2016.