9 thoughts on “One plane, one trip, another continent”
This one is ‘trying’ to get out of hand… And who’s already ‘out’ and not detected??? And where are they, and where have they been?
All excellent questions and I’ll wager: no one knows.
BZ
“Emergency services conducted checks for fever on all those travelling …”
so 198 people had their temperatures taken? nothing else could be done in the two hour quarantine time frame.
don’t care if the tests were accurate, they were the wrong tests.
Ah, JW, I think you’re starting to see my point. . .
Thanks for reading, and thank you for taking the time to comment.
BZ
The day you posted your first comments on this I took a few moments to check up on direct flights from Liberia to the U.S. I invite folks to do the same. It’s pretty amazing.
Gestation periods range from 5 to 25 days so….. yeah not the right tests.
It is interesting that the French Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (Ha!) are engaging in CYA. They don’t want to be responsible for an outbreak there. Meanwhile Sebelius, who is ultimately responsible for securing the health of the American people has said?….. Nothing. This woman is clearly incompetent and what’s worse is that the press are too stupid to make any inquiry about this situation.
Sheesh!
And buried in Fox News is this reassuring story:
“A traveler who flew back to the United States from West Africa was diagnosed with the rare and sometimes deadly Lassa fever, said health authorities who on Friday were trying to identify others on the plane who may have been exposed.
In the first Lassa case in the United States in four years, an unnamed patient was admitted to a Minnesota hospital on Monday suffering from fever and confusion, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement…While the likelihood of human-to-human transmission of the virus is “considered extremely low,” the CDC was reaching out to airlines to identify passengers and crew who had close contact with the infected individual…”People will not get this infection just because they were on the same airplane or in the same airport,” said CDC epidemiologist Barbara Knust in the statement. “Casual contact is not a risk factor for getting Lassa fever.”
While Lassa fever can cause hemorrhagic symptoms in infected individuals, it is not related to the Ebola virus, which recently resurged in West Africa, the CDC said
This imported case is a reminder that we are all connected by international travel. A disease anywhere can appear anywhere else in the world within hours,” CDC Director Tom Frieden said in a statement.”
Despite the implications of that statement I couldn’t find any other ‘national’ news source that even mentioned the story. Even Fox didn’t deem it worthy of their front page. Why isn’t the CDC being more proactive in all this? Don’t want to being accused of scaring the populace?
Oh goodie. Lassa just a few molecular ticks away from Ebola.
And yes, crashing silence.
BZ
Just read this on Al Jazeera of all places:
“…”This is one of the most challenging Ebola outbreaks we have ever faced,” said Keiji Fukuda, assistant director-general of the World Health Organisation.
WHO said on Tuesday that it expected to have to confront an outbreak of the deadly virus Ebola in West Africa for the next two to four months, the Reuters news agency reported.
But the United Nations agency said it was not recommending any travel restrictions to Guinea, which has a total of 157 suspected and confirmed cases including 101 deaths, or Liberia which has 21 suspected and confirmed cases including 10 deaths.”
This I don’t understand. at. all. NO travel restrictions? None whatsoever? Does the UN want to encourage this to spread? Can anyone come up with a rational reason for this?
“Outbreak,” “Infection,” this is how it begins in the films.
I’m sure it’s because “we don’t want to cause a panic.” As rational people understand politically, it is not a good thing to scream “fire” in a crowded theatre.
I’ve said: this is all it would take. Discovered yesterday in Mali.
This one is ‘trying’ to get out of hand… And who’s already ‘out’ and not detected??? And where are they, and where have they been?
All excellent questions and I’ll wager: no one knows.
BZ
“Emergency services conducted checks for fever on all those travelling …”
so 198 people had their temperatures taken? nothing else could be done in the two hour quarantine time frame.
don’t care if the tests were accurate, they were the wrong tests.
Ah, JW, I think you’re starting to see my point. . .
Thanks for reading, and thank you for taking the time to comment.
BZ
The day you posted your first comments on this I took a few moments to check up on direct flights from Liberia to the U.S. I invite folks to do the same. It’s pretty amazing.
Gestation periods range from 5 to 25 days so….. yeah not the right tests.
It is interesting that the French Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (Ha!) are engaging in CYA. They don’t want to be responsible for an outbreak there. Meanwhile Sebelius, who is ultimately responsible for securing the health of the American people has said?….. Nothing. This woman is clearly incompetent and what’s worse is that the press are too stupid to make any inquiry about this situation.
Sheesh!
And buried in Fox News is this reassuring story:
“A traveler who flew back to the United States from West Africa was diagnosed with the rare and sometimes deadly Lassa fever, said health authorities who on Friday were trying to identify others on the plane who may have been exposed.
In the first Lassa case in the United States in four years, an unnamed patient was admitted to a Minnesota hospital on Monday suffering from fever and confusion, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement…While the likelihood of human-to-human transmission of the virus is “considered extremely low,” the CDC was reaching out to airlines to identify passengers and crew who had close contact with the infected individual…”People will not get this infection just because they were on the same airplane or in the same airport,” said CDC epidemiologist Barbara Knust in the statement. “Casual contact is not a risk factor for getting Lassa fever.”
While Lassa fever can cause hemorrhagic symptoms in infected individuals, it is not related to the Ebola virus, which recently resurged in West Africa, the CDC said
This imported case is a reminder that we are all connected by international travel. A disease anywhere can appear anywhere else in the world within hours,” CDC Director Tom Frieden said in a statement.”
Despite the implications of that statement I couldn’t find any other ‘national’ news source that even mentioned the story. Even Fox didn’t deem it worthy of their front page. Why isn’t the CDC being more proactive in all this? Don’t want to being accused of scaring the populace?
Oh goodie. Lassa just a few molecular ticks away from Ebola.
And yes, crashing silence.
BZ
Just read this on Al Jazeera of all places:
“…”This is one of the most challenging Ebola outbreaks we have ever faced,” said Keiji Fukuda, assistant director-general of the World Health Organisation.
WHO said on Tuesday that it expected to have to confront an outbreak of the deadly virus Ebola in West Africa for the next two to four months, the Reuters news agency reported.
But the United Nations agency said it was not recommending any travel restrictions to Guinea, which has a total of 157 suspected and confirmed cases including 101 deaths, or Liberia which has 21 suspected and confirmed cases including 10 deaths.”
This I don’t understand. at. all. NO travel restrictions? None whatsoever? Does the UN want to encourage this to spread? Can anyone come up with a rational reason for this?
“Outbreak,” “Infection,” this is how it begins in the films.
I’m sure it’s because “we don’t want to cause a panic.” As rational people understand politically, it is not a good thing to scream “fire” in a crowded theatre.
And so there you go.
That’s how.
BZ