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Nigeria is about a half step ahead of the US on this one so it would be a good idea to follow what's happening there...
Just one guy entered Nigeria with ebola...and that guy was a jet-setter American:
Which begs the question....now that the US is an ebola outbreak country, will other nations quarantine our citizens flying into their country?
Then...
Sound familiar? And now more recently...
Here's one of the main allies of the spread of this disease, ignorance placed in position of authority [from the same as second link here]
Maybe random airport security people aren't PhDs in infectious diseases either. Who will watch the watchers? Well, this thread will for one..
Ebola spreads to Nigeria. Government declares emergency. - The Washington Post Nigeria’s health minister has declared a health emergency as the deadly Ebola virus gained a foothold in Africa’s most populous nation, according to news reports...
...Nigerian authorities moved quickly late Wednesday, gathering isolation tents as five more cases of the Ebola Virus were confirmed in Lagos, a city bursting with 21 million people.
All five people are believed to be health workers who had direct contact with one man traveling from Ebola-ridden Liberia to Nigeria — making this country the fourth now infiltrated by the deadly disease....
Just one guy entered Nigeria with ebola...and that guy was a jet-setter American:
Forty-year-old Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian-American civil servant on a business trip to Nigeria two weeks ago, reportedly collapsed upon arrival at Lagos’ main airport. On Tuesday, State Health Commissioner Jide Idris said the man was diagnosed with the disease and died after he had been taken to a local hospital.
Which begs the question....now that the US is an ebola outbreak country, will other nations quarantine our citizens flying into their country?
Then...
According to local news reports, Nigerian authorities first downplayed the risk of exposure. Then on Tuesday, Idris disclosed that the infected man had come into some sort of contact with at least 70 people – airline passengers, airport workers and healthcare professionals — all of whom have been placed under surveillance. Seven have been quarantined, he said.
Sound familiar? And now more recently...
Ebola Outbreak Nigeria Braces for More Cases in Lagos ..The government is now screening travelers, obtaining isolation tents in case they receive new cases, and establishing an emergency operations center, while the other five patients with confirmed cases of Ebola are treated in isolation at a Lagos hospital...
..The government was following a total of 70 people who had primary contact with Sawyer, but the number of people being monitored is growing as the government tracks more people who were in contact with the six infected patients before they showed symptoms.
Here's one of the main allies of the spread of this disease, ignorance placed in position of authority [from the same as second link here]
Still, the outbreak hasn’t affected daily life in the economic hub of Africa’s largest economy. Even as some concerns mount among government officials, many people say they’re not worried.
“I don’t believe it, I don’t believe what people are saying that is happening in Nigeria,” said 28-year-old Christopher Ukpang, a security guard at an upscale Lagos supermarket. “I’m begging my fellow Nigerians, they should not be afraid of this sickness, it won’t affect us. We should have trust in God.”
Maybe random airport security people aren't PhDs in infectious diseases either. Who will watch the watchers? Well, this thread will for one..