Ebola to our shores

[Tresbn00]

I do not get why we are bringing people with Ebola in to the United States? If I had Ebola I would sit down at the very location where I found out I had it and not risk infecting anyone else.  Yes I would love to see my family for one last time but at the risk of spreading the millennial plague? I heard that someone, who had sneezed on a plane the other day, uttered the words...oops, I think I have ebola. The plane allegedly landed at the nearest airport. The sneezer was taken off of the plane by people in hazmat suits and the entire plane was held at bay for several hours.  The sneezer was kidding but no one is taking any chances. I have also heard that it may take weeks for the virus to manifest itself in visible signs.

[Nancy5]

It is scary.  Now there is another person in Texas who is infected!

[debidoo]

What is worse to me is that the health people in Texas didn't have enough sense to listen when the victim said he had just come from Africa.  No offense but sometimes we are so ignorant to be so advanced.  Now there is another person infected in Texas and a guy in Nebraska.  Which is another example of ignorance because he wouldn't listen to his parents advise not to go to Liberia. 

[monnee]

The other person infected is the healthcare worker that treated the person that passed away with ebola.  Plus who knows how many people the person has infected from his way to the U.S. on the plane, airport, locations he's been too, etc.

[6265AT99]

For all that this disease is scary and there is no "cure" my question is Why does the  U.S. HOLD A PATENT ON IT??  That to me makes it even scarier!!!!

[BlackSheepNY]

I do not get why we are bringing people with Ebola in to the United States? If I had Ebola I would sit down at the very location where I found out I had it and not risk infecting anyone else.  Yes I would love to see my family for one last time but at the risk of spreading the millennial plague? I heard that someone, who had sneezed on a plane the other day, uttered the words...oops, I think I have ebola. The plane allegedly landed at the nearest airport. The sneezer was taken off of the plane by people in hazmat suits and the entire plane was held at bay for several hours.  The sneezer was kidding but no one is taking any chances. I have also heard that it may take weeks for the virus to manifest itself in visible signs.

Actually, the guy you're talking about (the sneezer) said outright and loud enough for all to hear him, "I've been to Africa and I have Ebola!  You're all scr*wed!"  Nice, huh?  He was a 54-year old man who thought it would be funny.  He didn't seem to like it when the guys in the Hazmat suits came and removed him from the plane, held him for a blood test, and then told him he would have to get the blood test again on his return flight home.  Do a search, you'll find the video online.  Guy's a MORON.

[pwvogt]

I don't think the person coming to the U.S. knew they had Ebola.  I understand they displayed no signs of the disease during preboarding precautions taken before boarding the plane (i.e. they had no fever and did not display any other symptoms of the disease) so to suggest that this person aught to have just sat in isolation somewhere doesn't make sense to me.  Why would they do that if they didn't even know they had the disease?

[countrygirl12]

I do not get why we are bringing people with Ebola in to the United States? If I had Ebola I would sit down at the very location where I found out I had it and not risk infecting anyone else.  Yes I would love to see my family for one last time but at the risk of spreading the millennial plague? I heard that someone, who had sneezed on a plane the other day, uttered the words...oops, I think I have ebola. The plane allegedly landed at the nearest airport. The sneezer was taken off of the plane by people in hazmat suits and the entire plane was held at bay for several hours.  The sneezer was kidding but no one is taking any chances. I have also heard that it may take weeks for the virus to manifest itself in visible signs.

Okay, first you don't joke about stuff like that.  The guy should have been jailed and charged with a criminal offense.  And we can't stop it as long as our boarders are open.  And if people lie like the black guy who came from Liberia then there is no way to know if they have been to another country.  All we can do is stop ALL incoming traffic from other countries.  And you say you would sit down where you were and die but when it comes down to it if you could make it to the US and possibly get treatment and live then I think that is what you would do.  I honestly think they guy knew he had Ebola and was trying to get to the US because his treatment options were better and he thought his survival rate would be better here than there.

[countrygirl12]

It is scary.  Now there is another person in Texas who is infected!

It is one of the heath care workers who had to take care of him.

[haimsterette]

It is scary.  Now there is another person in Texas who is infected!

It is one of the heath care workers who had to take care of him.

Which is horrifying because one can only guess how many other people in and out of the hospital that healthcare worker came in contact with and potentially infected!!! I heard something about someone in D.C. being infected with Ebola too...? My dad was just in D.C. over the weekend; it's about 2 hours away from us. Not a pleasant thought. :-/

[gaylasue]

Everyone coming from an infected area should be quarantined at least 30 days before being allowed in to our country.

[haimsterette]

.... Just found out this morning on the news that someone here is being checked out at the VCU Medical Center for Ebola. Getting far too close!!!!!

[southernhorizons]

I don't think the person coming to the U.S. knew they had Ebola.  I understand they displayed no signs of the disease during preboarding precautions taken before boarding the plane (i.e. they had no fever and did not display any other symptoms of the disease) so to suggest that this person aught to have just sat in isolation somewhere doesn't make sense to me.  Why would they do that if they didn't even know they had the disease?

He knew he came in contact with the woman who died from it. So he should have known he was infected. Some people just don't care about anyone else but themselves, not even their families. It's despicable that he came over here, not only risking the infection of Americans, but risking his own family!

[southernhorizons]

Everyone coming from an infected area should be quarantined at least 30 days before being allowed in to our country.

That would make too much sense, you can't expect the government to have any sense!

[sfreeman8]

Everyone coming from an infected area should be quarantined at least 30 days before being allowed in to our country.

I agree those people should be quarantined after getting here, but the simple method would be to ban all flights coming from West Africa,  That's hard to do since they are not direct flights from Africa to the USA.

Now Jesse Jackson is claiming that Mr. Duncan was treated unfairly...racism, he's claiming, because he's black and died while the white man and woman got the experimental drug.  That's a bogus claim, since the drug was all used up before Duncan even came to the U.S. and because he was already too far gone. The Texas Hospital was really unprepared for this guy. His family, too, are fighting the quarantine orders. Evidently, they don't care if they infect people.

 I knew the claim of racist would come out sooner or later because Jackson and Sharpton make everything racist.