Could be in Boston now:  http://news.yahoo.com/patient-isolated-massachusetts-clinic-displaying-ebola-symptoms-newspaper-200117720.html

I'm constantly amazed at how stupid some folks are.  Good lord!

This Ebola outbreak is being called the “most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times“, and the U.S. health care system is completely and totally unprepared for it.  The truth is that most U.S. hospitals are simply not equipped to safely handle Ebola patients, and most hospital staff members have received little or no training on Ebola. There is a reason why Ebola has been classified as a biosafety-level 4 (BSL-4) pathogen.  It is an extraordinarily dangerous virus, and there are only a few facilities in the entire country that are set up to safely handle such a disease.
 
The Ebola patient that recently died in Dallas was the first to be cared for in a facility that did not follow biosafety-level 4 protocols.  And so it should not be a surprise that this is the facility where transmission happened…

Of the six Ebola patients treated in the U.S. before the health worker’s case, Duncan was the only one not treated at one of the specialized units in several hospitals around the country set up to deal with high-risk germs. The CDC’s director, Dr. Thomas Frieden, has said that any U.S. hospital with isolation capabilities can care for an Ebola patient. But his stance seemed to soften on Sunday, when asked at a news conference whether officials now would consider moving Ebola patients to specialized units.
“We’re going to look at all opportunities to improve the level of safety and to minimize risk, but we can’t let any hospital let its guard down,” because Ebola patients could turn up anywhere, and every hospital must be able to quickly isolate and diagnose such cases, he said.
 

 
The head of the CDC continues to underestimate the seriousness of this disease.  His opinion that just about any U.S. hospital can safely handle Ebola patients is being contradicted by a whole host of medical experts, including ABC News chief health and medical editor Dr. Richard Besser…

Besser said he does not agree with the Centers for Disease Control, which says any U.S. hospital can safely care for an Ebola patient. “To do it safely, health care workers need to train and practice using protective equipment like they have been doing at the Emory and Nebraska facilities,” he said, referring to special biocontainment units at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta — where Fort Worth physician Kent Brantly was treated for Ebola exposure; and the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where an NBC photojournalist is currently being cared for. “I would never have gone into an Ebola ward in Africa without being dressed and decontaminated by experts — health care workers here should expect no less.”   
 

 
And even if our hospitals had the proper equipment and hospital staff were being given proper BSL-4 protective clothing, the reality of the matter is that most of them have not received adequate training.  Just check out the following excerpt from an NBC News article that was posted this week…

Three out of four nurses say their hospital hasn’t provided sufficient education for them on Ebola, according to a survey by the largest professional association of registered nurses in the United States. National Nurses United has been conducting an online survey of health care workers across the U.S. as the Ebola outbreak has widened globally. After a Texas nurse who cared for the first patient diagnosed with the Ebola in the U.S. tested positive for the virus Sunday, the group released its latest survey findings. Out of more than 1,900 nurses in 46 states and Washington D.C. who responded, 76 percent said their hospital still hadn’t communicated to them an official policy on admitting potential patients with Ebola. And a whopping 85 percent said their hospital hadn’t provided educational training sessions on Ebola in which nurses could interact and ask questions.   
 

 WND is reporting that there is only one BSL-4 care facility in the entire nation that is available to treat the general public…

Have you wondered why Ebola patients are being sent to Omaha, Nebraska? It’s because one physician, Dr. Philip Smith, had the foresight to set up the Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit after the Sept. 11 attacks as a bulwark against bioterrorism. Empty for more than a decade, used only for drills, it was called “Maurer’s Folly,” for Harold Maurer, former chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The unit has a special air handling system to keep germs from escaping from patient rooms, and a steam sterilizer for scrubs and equipment. It could handle at most 10 patients at a time, but one or two would be more comfortable, owing to the large volume of infectious waste. It is the largest of only four such units in the U.S., and the only one designated for the general public.  
 

 
If this virus gets loose inside the United States it could easily become the worst health crisis our nation has ever seen.
The key is to keep the virus from getting into our country in the first place. Banning air travel for non-essential personnel to and from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia would not be that big of a deal.  Many other countries have already done it. But the CDC and the Obama administration are not even considering it. If they have made the wrong call on this, it could end up potentially costing a large number of Americans their lives.
 

kaninja
Obesity is the worst health care emergency of our time.

I understand where your coming from because more people die from that than Ebola. But Obesity is a controllable problem compared to Ebola. Its just people need to stop being so lazy and change their lifestyles thats all.

 
Heard on the radio briefly this afternoon that a doctor said it has now become airborne.
 
W.H.O. now saying we could be seeing 10,000 new cases a week by the end of the year, and mortality rate has risen to 70%. 
 
 
 
 

Nereus
 
Heard on the radio briefly this afternoon that a doctor said it has now become airborne.
 
W.H.O. now saying we could be seeing 10,000 new cases a week by the end of the year, and mortality rate has risen to 70%. 
 

It is not airborne and the chances of it ever becoming airborne are extremely small.

Ebola is dropletborne and can transmit through secretions of bodily fluids.

 
Seriously? Guys it's a virus - they mutate. This is not the only strain of ebola ever, just the current one.
 
I did not note down who said about the airborne possibility, I was in Manhattan and overheard it in passing on a car radio about some doctor *today* coming out and saying he thinks it might be / becoming airborne. That's it. It was a radio guy saying it but no idea what station etc., but they did say a doctor and inferred he wasn't just some quack but a respected doctor in the field.
 
Also looking via google tonight I am seeing some doctor involved with research or heading one of the research labs is saying this strain seem to be increasingly concentrated, meaning a droplet of bodily fluid contains a lot more of the virus than earlier strains.
 
As mentioned previously, W.H.O. are also saying there may be up to 10,000 new cases a week by the end of the year, and mortality rate has increased to 70% now.
 
The internet age.. what has that got to do with anything? BTW, why are you so set on trashing every comment here? Denial doesn't make it go away you know...
 
 

Nereus
The internet age.. what has that got to do with anything? BTW, why are you so set on trashing every comment here? Denial doesn't make it go away you know...

Since when is questioning credibility trashing anyone? It's a valid response to any debate. Citing information from reliable sources is the bedrock credibility is built upon. A very basic tenet in critical thought process.

 
Now the boyfriend of the nurse may have it: 
 
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1018543-nina-pham-boyfriend-ebola-nurse-boyfriend-admitted-to-hospital-with-ebola-like-symptoms/
 
 
http://gotnews.com/ebola-nurse-boyfriend-reportedly-admitted-ebola-symptoms/
 
 
http://www.inquisitr.com/1540599/nurse-with-ebola-nina-phams-boyfriend-might-have-symptoms-now-too/
 
 
http://madworldnews.com/boyfriend-dallas-nurse-ebola/
 
 
http://thepunditpress.com/2014/10/13/nina-pham-boyfriend-admitted-to-hospital-with-ebola-like-symptoms/
 

clo007

Nereus
As mentioned previously, W.H.O. are also saying there may be up to 10,000 new cases a week by the end of the year, and mortality rate has increased to 70% now.
 

Umm the comment from WHO about the 10,000 new cases a week was in regards to Liberia, not the USA.

Heh yes I realize that, and I didn't say it was USA. Liberia is the frontier. Given time, the rest of the world will follow suit if ebola isn't contained.
 

lol yeah.. usually couples do...the two person tango.

Static_FX
i would like to make a suggestion... How about we (the american people) stop going to these 3rd world countries trying to help all those poor people. Sorry, but we have PLENTY of poor people RIGHT HERE IN THE UNITED STATES that could use free doctors, food, care, shelter, support, etc etc etc. Lets fix ourselves before we help others. Cant STAND reading about this crap. 

I offer a rather different perspective. Society works on a bell curve. There will always be people on top and bottom no matter what you do. There will always be people who couldn't reason their way out of a wet paper bag let alone improve their own situation enough for them to be self sufficient. I pose the issue is that we're doing the world no service by making people co-dependent upon others. Instead people should be trained to be self sufficient. Give people the tools to do it themselves, don't do it for them. Otherwise it's flushing resources chronically down the toilet for no tangible improvement to society. Our only responsibility at a society level is to allow people access to the tools, not do everything for them. Until we embrace that concept, nothing will ever change. This is also fundamentally what is wrong with our current population at home in the US. Co-dependent welfare programs are cancerous. Instead of maintaining the status quo for these people, they should be focused on self improvement instead. There is no incentive for self-improvement if everything is handed to them.

Living in fear is worse than any viruses of mass destruction.

Just because we aren't hysterically jumping up and down freaking out doesn't mean we don't take things seriously.....sometimes calm and reason rule the day.

kaninja
Living in fear is worse than any viruses of mass destruction.

Just because we aren't hysterically jumping up and down freaking out doesn't mean we don't take things seriously.....sometimes calm and reason rule the day.

+1

 
LOL.. dude...