The Who Declares Ebola A Public Health Emergency

[pdogg]

The WHO (World Health Organization not Townshend) is now calling the Ebola crisis an epidemic.

 

 

World Health Organization Declares Ebola a Public Health Emergency

The World Health Organization on Friday declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency, only the third declaration of its kind since regulations permitting it to do so were adopted in 2007. But it said there should be no general international travel or trade bans because of the outbreak. The declaration represented a newly aggressive stance by the health organization. In the past, it has often bent to pressure from member states demanding no consequences even as epidemics raged inside their borders and sometimes slipped over them.

 

[Torurot]

You mean like SARS and other over blown things? And the effect will be?

As serious as it it is for the places that actually have the infection what will it mean for the rest of us when traveling??

Detention for any one with a sniffle, an infected finger?

[pdogg]

Ebola arrives in the USA

 

BREAKING NEWS Tuesday, September 30, 2014 5:57 PM EDT

Airline Passenger With Ebola Is Being Treated in Dallas

A man who took a commercial flight from Liberia that landed in Dallas on Sept. 20 has been found to have the Ebola virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Tuesday. He is the first traveler to have brought the virus to the United States on a passenger plane. He was not ill during the flight, health officials said. Symptoms developed several days after he arrived, and he is being treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

[Guest JustSumGai]

and THIS is what they SHOULD have been thinking of WEEKS AGO.  Patients numbers are doubling every three weeks I think it is.  ONE person hitting a major city undetected will...well...you can imagine.
While Ukraine and Syria/Iraq unravel, THIS concerns me MUCH more. Personally NO ONE should be flying out of any of the affected countries or nearby ones, with exception of carefully controlled medical personal etc. Anyone know about the flu pandemic around 1916?