Ebola Patient Coming To U.S.

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How about, I don't know, have a period of time for people to not leave Africa to go to the US instead. Like a layover of 3-4 days, especially if you are coming from an area that has the outbreak.

You have to get a visa to come to the US. In order to get a visa you have to get an appointment, pass an interview, etc. There is a delay in obtaining visa's already.

Most airlines do not let you purchase a ticket until you provide proof of a visa.

You've flown internationally. It is not easy for internationals to get on flights to the US who are not from Western countries.

http://monrovia.usembassy.gov/mobile/nonimmigrant_visas.html

You have to get a visa to come to the US. In order to get a visa you have to get an appointment, pass an interview, etc. There is a delay in obtaining visa's already.

Most airlines do not let you purchase a ticket until you provide proof of a visa.

You've flown internationally. It is not easy for internationals to get on flights to the US who are not from Western countries.

http://monrovia.usembassy.gov/mobile/nonimmigrant_visas.html

If you are a citizen or national of a participating VWP (Visa Waiver Program) country, you don't need a visa to enter USA, you only need a passport. Upon arrival in USA, you simply receive an I-94 stamp in your passport which allows you to stay for up to 90 days.

As a westerner, it is exceptionally easy to enter USA. The last time I went to NZ to visit family, I was expecting at least some kind of scrutiny upon returning to USA, especially since I had several declarable items with me including plant seeds and food, which should have raised an immediate red flag. I had spent months applying for permits from the USDA just so I could bring those items into the country - and no-one even asked to see them. I would say that I spent less than 30 seconds at the customs counter - just enough time for them to put my luggage through a scanner, glance at my declaration, stamp my passport and skip on to the next passenger in line without saying a word.

Ironically I have more trouble flying domestic in USA than I do international. It's amazing how non-random those random passenger screenings are at security checkpoints when they see you're using a foreign passport.

none of us are going to judge you for having it done.

Woke up this morning, still don't have the Ebola.

Sorry to disappoint. Let me shake some sweaty hands and see if I catch it for you.

Woke up this morning, still don't have the Ebola.

Sorry to disappoint. Let me shake some sweaty hands and see if I catch it for you.

CDC could quarantine U.S. citizens for weeks if they refuse Ebola screenings

U.S. citizens who refuse to undergo the new screenings for Ebola at five major American airports could find themselves held in quarantine for up to three weeks, officials told Yahoo News on Thursday. Non-citizens who refuse the screenings could be quarantined or turned away from U.S. soil by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The Obama Administration announced on Wednesday that it would soon require passengers from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone — the countries at the epicenter of the deadly outbreak in West Africa — to answer questions about their potential exposure to the illness and to have their temperature taken upon arrival.

Officials unveiled the new rules hours after the only patient thus far diagnosed with Ebola on U.S. soil, Thomas Eric Duncan, died of the illness. Neighbors said he helped a pregnant woman in Liberia get to a hospital, where she was turned away from a crowded Ebola treatment ward. Liberian government officials said they planned to prosecute him for lying on health forms by denying any contact with an Ebola patient.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) may “isolate, quarantine, or issue a conditional release order to any arriving person who is reasonably believed to be infected with or exposed to Ebola,” CDC Public Affairs Director Barbara Reynolds told Yahoo News in an email. “Refusal to be screened or to respond to public health questions would be factors to be considered in formulating a reasonable belief as to whether the individual may be infected with or exposed to Ebola.”

A government official, who requested anonymity to describe the process candidly, said CDC would likely quarantine someone until they agreed to answer questions about their potential exposure to Ebola and have their temperature taken. Failing that, the authorities would consider holding the individual 21 days from their most recent plausible date of exposure to the disease. That’s how long the deadly virus can take to incubate. While the five airports will have special quarantine areas, the official would not say whether that is where recalcitrant citizens would be held.

Reynolds declined to confirm those details but underlined that “our intent is to be measured and protect the public’s health at the same time.”

“CDC has Quarantine Public Health Officers responding almost daily to potential public health threats in airports and are trained to help a traveler to understand what is being done and why every step of the way,” she said.

The CDC asserts the legal authority to take such measures under section 361 of the Public Health Service Act.

The law permits the federal government to take steps “necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the States or possessions, or from one State or possession into any other State or possession.”

It also allows the government to detain individuals either infected or “reasonably believed” to be infected “for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary.”

(It also empowers the government to carry out “inspection, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, destruction of animals or articles found to be so infected or contaminated as to be sources of dangerous infection to human beings.”)

“CDC has delegated authority to apprehend, detain, examine, and conditionally release individuals with certain communicable diseases (including Ebola) that are specified in an executive order of the president,” said Reynolds.

Ebola was designated as such under an executive order that then-President George W. Bush signed on April 4, 2003.

On a conference call with reporters on Wednesday, CDC Director Thomas Frieden hinted at the potential downside of refusing to undergo the screening.

“There are legal authorities,” Frieden said. “In public health, most fundamentally there's a right to protect the public. And we can do that by isolating individuals who may be infectious and may be a risk to the public.”

On the same call, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said his agency has “the authority to take measures with respect to U.S. citizens as well as non-citizens to ensure that the public safety or security is not threatened.”

“That is in the public health arena just as it is in the national security arena,” Mayorkas said.

Woke up this morning, still don't have the Ebola.

Sorry to disappoint. Let me shake some sweaty hands and see if I catch it for you.

I woke up this morning with a cough, body aches, fever, and sweating a lot. I think it might be Ebola.

I woke up this morning with a cough, body aches, fever, and sweating a lot. I think it might be Ebola.

I woke up this morning with a cough, body aches, fever, and sweating a lot. I think it might be Ebola.

there is a psychosomatic ebola outbreak in Random Thoughts thread you can commiserate with them!

I told you Bacon, keep the sick sweat balls out of your mouth.

Disappointed!

Officially revoking Texas's title as the Ebola Capital of the U.S.

In other news, I was with some people who visited their family in Nigeria a few weeks ago, and nothing yet.

A health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has tested positive for Ebola after a preliminary test, the hospital said in a statement.

Confirmatory testing will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

The employee helped care for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. Duncan died on Wednesday.

"We knew a second case could be a reality, and we've been preparing for this possibility," Dr. David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, in a statement Sunday morning.

He was sent home on the 26th, that gives her only about 2 weeks, it takes longer than that for it to incubate... Something seems amiss.

Duncan's success in reaching America and getting advanced health care may spur others to flee if economies and living conditions collapse further.

The tragic journey of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan from Liberia to Texas, where he died at the hospital that initially sent him home undiagnosed, revealed gaps in the screening and preparedness system aimed at detecting Ebola cases. However, no one foresaw how that system could be porous enough to allow a disease carrier to pass undetected from the West Africa Ebola zone to the suburbs of Dallas. Nor did anyone foresee how his missed diagnosis worsened matters by allowing his infection to intensify further.

As the epidemic accelerates, a new onrush may emerge of West African “Ebola refugees” fleeing their homelands’ increasingly hellish conditions. Duncan’s success in reaching America and getting advanced health care may spur others to flee if economies and living conditions collapse further. Others who interacted with active Ebola victims and those who believe themselves infected might evade travel restrictions en masse in order to reach foreign lands with better health care.

With more people falling ill and infecting others, the number of symptom-free carriers there will escalate rapidly. Because Ebola can incubate symptom-free for up to 2-3 weeks, present control measures may not be able to detect those harboring the virus as they board planes or arrive at customs halls. Such controls are keyed to active symptoms, such as fever or bleeding, and will miss those who are symptom-free.

A further vulnerability is the reliance on travelers’ self-reporting of past contacts with Ebola victims. But unknowing or desperate people may misstate their past contact status, and if they are not exhibiting active symptoms even upon questioning, then chances are that they would be allowed to progress to their destinations.

If more asymptomatic Ebola carriers reach industrialized countries, those nations’ medical preparedness will be tested if and when they become sick. In spite of proclamations of readiness, it is uncertain if all health care sites are ready to detect and treat them. Finding Ebola cases relies upon frontline health workers to recognize key signs, to zero in on travel history, and to act quickly

Wonder how American's feel about this article.

However, no one foresaw how that system could be porous enough to allow a disease carrier to pass undetected from the West Africa Ebola zone to the suburbs of Dallas. Nor did anyone foresee how his missed diagnosis worsened matters by allowing his infection to intensify further.

I feel that the author is an idiot.

As the epidemic accelerates, a new onrush may emerge of West African “Ebola refugees” fleeing their homelands’ increasingly hellish conditions. Duncan’s success in reaching America and getting advanced health care may spur others to flee if economies and living conditions collapse further. Others who interacted with active Ebola victims and those who believe themselves infected might evade travel restrictions en masse in order to reach foreign lands with better health care.