First Case of Ebola Hits U.S.

“It’s not an epidemic, it can only be spread through bodily contact, nothing to see here, move along…”

From WaPo.

A man who flew from Liberia to Dallas this month was diagnosed with Ebola on Tuesday, becoming the first person to board a passenger jet and unknowingly bring the disease here from West Africa, where it has killed thousands of people in recent months.

Experts had said that such an event was increasingly likely the longer the epidemic rages in West Africa. But health officials were quick Tuesday to tamp down any hysteria, emphasizing the ways in which the U.S. medical system is well equipped to halt the spread of the disease.

“We’re stopping it in its tracks in this country,” Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a news conference Tuesday afternoon.

The infected man, who was not identified, left Liberia on Sept. 19 and arrived in the United States the next day to visit family members.

Health officials are working to identify everyone who may have been exposed to him since he began showing symptoms last week….

Start with the whole fucking plane full of people on his flight, the airports, the taxi driver, his family, and probably half the city of Dallas by now. Stopping the disease dead in its tracks? That’s bullshit on stilts. How about stopping it from entering this country, assholes.

The DHS, TSA, and the State Department don’t monitor potential disease carriers any better than they do illegal aliens and muslim terrorists.

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