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    Quote Originally Posted by naturallysweet View Post
    It takes a lot of fuel to burn a corpse to ashes. I've had to do it (livestock) - it's not a pretty picture when the fire dies out and the body is only 1/2 burned.

    Do you think that people who don't have food to feed to their people in the hospital or gloves for their healthcare workers, are going to have a cord of dried hard wood lying around for every dead body?
    Ii takes skill and time to burn a corpse, animal or human. An uncooked leg or arm or head can carry the virus.
    Agreed, it is time consuming and expensive to burn the corpses, but, done it quantity, there will be efficiencies of scale.
    Perhaps Mr. Obama can send over more American military volunteers to do the training.
    This policy would be applauded by Liberals and Putinists.
    People, even the slavish Media puppets, are starting to realize there is no 'good' answer to an Ebola Pandemic.
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    Lots of good quotes from the CDC projections, Godwit.
    Thanks for the post.
    'The cumulative number of Ebola cases for Liberia and Sierra Leone could double to approximately 8,000 by the end of September 2014. This estimate is within the range of other published estimates (8,9). Cases could be underreported by a factor of 2.5, and ending the epidemic requires approximately 70% of persons with Ebola to be treated either in an ETU or at home or in a community setting such that there is a reduced risk for disease transmission (including safe burial when needed).
    The findings in this report underscore the substantial public health challenges posed by the predicted number of future Ebola cases. If conditions continue without scale-up of interventions, cases will continue to double approximately every 20 days, and the number of cases in West Africa will rapidly reach extraordinary levels'
    http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwr...u63e0923a1.htm
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    You know, this doesn't seem to have jumped too far out. If it decimates Africa--particularly west africa--I could see some of those pre-constructed chinese cities being used and a rather large exodus of chinese from the homeland to the new colonies.

    Just saying... Eradication of the natives is a time tested method.

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    The worst-case scenario for Ebola

    Before this year, Ebola was a disease relegated to remote villages in Africa. Even public health officials didn't worry about it spreading very far. Until recently, they would probably tell you that the virus typically burned out after ravaging only a handful of people.

    But then came 2014.

    This year has, in many ways, rewritten the Ebola rulebook. We're in the middle of an unprecedented, nightmarish epidemic that has spread from a rural rainforest region in West Africa to large urban centers. The World Health Organization's director has called it "the greatest peacetime challenge" the world has ever faced, with the number of cases doubling each week.

    Now, health care officials are starting to talk about a worst-case scenario for Ebola. The World Health Organization projects that 20,000 people will be infected in November. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, meanwhile, projects 1.4 million people could be infected by January, assuming that Ebola cases continue to increase exponentially and are underreported by a factor of 2.5.

    Continue at -- http://www.vox.com/2014/9/23/6832023...l-health-panic

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    I can't help but recall this article and the irony...

    Quote Originally Posted by laughingmanny View Post
    Here is a nice and insulting article...

    A poll published today by Harvard School of Public Health and SSRS, an independent research company, shows that many in the United States are unnecessarily worried about an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus here. The major findings were that people with less education, and people who haven’t been following news of the epidemic closely, were the most likely to worry about an outbreak reaching the United States.

    The poll found that four in 10—39 percent—of U.S. adults are “concerned” that there will be a large outbreak here . More than a quarter—26 percent—are concerned that they or someone in their immediate family may get sick with Ebola this year.

    But this fear is largely misplaced, according to medical experts.


    http://www.boston.com/health/2014/08/26/poll-finds-percent-american-adults-fear-ebola-outbreak/Bl8sl9OkTmepdoAWz0CzTL/story.html


    Makes one wonder if this is an attempt to once again cast a segment of society as paranoid and/or discredit folks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alpha View Post
    I can't help but recall this article and the irony...
    This article was written to control panic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Silverheart View Post
    This article was written to control panic.
    Of course it was, but who ended up being "discredited"?

    Makes one wonder if this is an attempt to once again cast a segment of society as paranoid and/or discredit folks.
    As the Fort Detrick report pointed out: the intellectuals etal can use the mutations argument to cover their butts as the truth unfolds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alpha View Post
    Of course it was, but who ended up being "discredited"?



    As the Fort Detrick report pointed out: the intellectuals etal can use the mutations argument to cover their butts as the truth unfolds.
    I think they were counting on a short attention span on the part of their audience, with no one recalling the article you cited.
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    Laurie Garrett ‏@Laurie_Garrett 15m
    The @DrFriedenCDC & @WHO Fukuda live now at Congress on #Ebola
    http://www.c-span.org/video/?321685-1/congressional-seminar-ebola-outbreak-west-africa …

    Now beginning, #Ebola hearing before Senate For Relats Subcomm on Africa http://www.c-span.org/video/?321685-1/congressional-seminar-ebola-outbreak-west-africa … Tom Inglesby now, @DrFriedenCDC on deck

    Laurie Garrett ‏@Laurie_Garrett 10m
    LIVE #Ebola hearing in DC. Jeremy from @USAID speaking now, layingout US govt reponse
    http://www.c-span.org/video/?321685-1/congressional-seminar-ebola-outbreak-west-africa … .
    On deck is @DrFriedenCDC



    Kai Kupferschmidt ‏@kakape 5m
    "This is something none of us have ever done on this scale before", says @USAID Jeremy Konyndyk on #Ebola response at congressional hearing

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