Ebola confirmed in the US!

[Mortblanc]

First, this is not an "American strain", it was brought here from west Africa just like all the other cases.

Over here there is almost a total news blackout of meaningful details and only the standard "talking head" retinue of "do not panic all is under control"

You folks had details on this before I did!

One of the hospital staff has now leaked that there is a second confirmed case associated with the Duncan case and there are 18 people closely connected to him that have definitely been exposed to the active virus.

The fact that an ER doctor would be told that a patient, stating that he had just returned from Nigeria with early Ebola symptoms, would be treated for flu and sent home is a outside the realm of sanity!

I am sure the hospital staff is ready to lynch him/her due to the lack of warning when his test specimens hit the hospital lab! The lab would have had very specific protocols for handling that situation and now there is no way to know how many of the lab staff were exposed, how the biohazard waste was processed.....

That area is going into panic mode with parents holding their children out of school since 5 of the 18 exposed persons were school aged children who have been going from the infected home to school each day.

On a personal level, I have everything I need to shelter in place for an unlimited time, and have hazmat gear if I am required to leave the house if things spread here. I can reduce my contact with other humans to zero for 3-6 weeks, as long as this stuff does not go airborne.

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Anyone ever read The Stand?