Ebola

[jonriv]

Ebola has been around for decades- these outbreaks happen every few years- what has been the result? Caution is great- panic is overboard. Still only two cases in US(both who had been in West Africa)

[jonriv]

Hey- here's a more dangerous outbreak(statistically)

http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/cotham-04-14/map.html

[NumeroUno]

Ebola has been around for decades- these outbreaks happen every few years- what has been the result? Caution is great- panic is overboard. Still only two cases in US(both who had been in West Africa)

JR that is true but I think there are over 900 reported deaths already.

[jonriv]

Well over a thousand, but only one outside Africa

[NumeroUno]

900 last week

[Dugout Dad]

Hey- here's a more dangerous outbreak(statistically)

http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/cotham-04-14/map.html

Take heed JR, don't kiss any bearded dragons.

[jonriv]

My point is that fear mongering is pointless- at this point, based on the facts and history involved, Ebola does not pose a major threat to the US. There are many dangerous contagious diseases already here that better deserve your attention.

A bigger threat to you is some Vegan, progressive wanna-be hippie family that have stopped having their kids immunized

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/ne ... g-vaccines


In California, the rate of such exemptions has risen from 0.77 percent in 2000 to 2.33 percent in 2010, according to the study. Still, the state has relatively high vaccination rates. Almost 91 percent of children entering kindergarten in 2010 had received all the required immunizations, the study authors pointed out.

Omer and his team reviewed data on vaccine exemptions from school data, and they geographically coded that information to the census tract level. They then did the same thing with data on whooping cough cases.

The investigators found 39 clusters for high nonmedical exemption rates and two statistically significant clusters of whooping cough cases. Census tracts within a high nonmedical exemption cluster were 2.5 times more likely to be in a whooping cough cluster than areas without high exemption rates.

The risk of whooping cough was 20 percent higher inside a vaccine exemption cluster than outside of one, according to the study.

In California, whooping cough clusters and nonmedical exemption clusters were associated with a lower population density, lower average family size, fewer minorities, higher percentage of high school graduates, higher average household incomes and a lower percentage of families living in poverty, the study found.

"There was some nice analysis from the CDC years ago that people who refuse vaccines tend to be higher in socioeconomic status," added Omer.

An expert not involved with the study agreed with that analysis.

"The irony is that normally people with lower socioeconomic status have an increased risk of infectious diseases, but with vaccine-preventable infectious diseases, the risk is higher for those higher in socioeconomic status," noted Dr. Kenneth Bromberg, director of The Vaccine Research Center and chairman of pediatrics at The Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York City.

[Pale Rider]

...medicine resistant TB...to go along with the bedbugs...

http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/chagas/
The Kissing disease...bug in pic crawls up in your bed...plugs you in lip drawn in by your breath...gets a dinner of your blood
Then (rudely I may add) turns around and takes a deuce in your mouth...
Theyre hitching rides North from 'rural central America'...same way bedbugs made their comeback...

[Dugout Dad]

JR is saying that Ebola is law abiding and respects our borders, more than we can say for the 3rd world border crossers.

[Dugout Dad]

Sad when Albania has better immigration protection than the US, and they are doing their job - protecting their citizens.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/08/14/Five-Suspected-Ebola-Victims-Found-in-Albania

http://www.newsweek.com/five-illegal-immigrants-detained-albania-ebola-symptoms-264605

Hmmm, Albania does not border Africa