I don't want to panic anyone, but Ebola may be coming to a town near you

[Skyy God]

At least we won't have to slog through another 7-9 Chiefs season....

Now there are American casualties.

Not in Gaza, and not on the ill-fated Malaysian airliner. Now there are American casualties in another war very far away so maybe, goddammit, somebody should start paying more attention to it.

Kent Brantly, 33, an American doctor who has been working in Liberia since October for the North Carolina-based aid organization Samaritan's Purse, is receiving intensive medical treatment after he was infected with Ebola, according to a spokeswoman for the group. Melissa Strickland said Brantly, who is married and has two children, was talking with his doctors and working on his computer while being treated. A second U.S. citizen, Nancy Writebol, also has tested positive for Ebola, Samaritan's Purse said. Writebol is employed by mission group SIM in Liberia and was helping a joint SIM/Samaritan's Purse team treating Ebola patients in Monrovia. Writebol is married with two children, the organization said. "Both of them tonight are in stable condition," Ken Isaacs, Samaritan Purse's vice president of programs and government relations, said Sunday. "But they are not out of the woods yet."

That's some serious Damien-at-Molokai hero stuff right there, still being at your computer while you're being treated for one of the most vicious diseases on the planet. Other medical professionals, alas, are not as lucky.

A Liberian government official said Sunday that one of that country's highest-profile doctors has died in what the World Health Organization (WHO) calls the largest recorded outbreak of the disease...The first Liberian doctor to die of the disease was identified as Samuel Brisbane. He was working as a consultant with the internal medicine unit at the country's largest hospital, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Medical Center in Monrovia. Brisbane, who once was a medical adviser to former Liberian President Charles Taylor, was taken to a treatment center on the outskirts of the capital after falling ill with Ebola and died there, said Tolbert Nyenswah, an assistant health minister. He said another doctor who had been working in Liberia's central Bong County also was being treated for Ebola at the same center where Brisbane died. The situation "is getting more and more scary," Nyenswah said.

Yes, you could say that. The disease is now in both Nigeria and Liberia, and not in the backwater places any more, either, but in the capital cities. The ones with millions of people. And airports.

Over the weekend, health officials in Nigeria raced to stop the spread of Ebola after a man sick with the disease arrived on a flight in Lagos, Africa's largest city with 21 million people. He later died. The man's ability to board an international flight raised new fears that other passengers could carry the disease beyond Africa because of weak passenger inspection and the fact that Ebola's initial symptoms can resemble those of other illnesses. Isaacs said in an interview that "where it gets really scary" is that the disease, which was previously seen only "in very remote, small villages in Africa" is now being contracted by people in the capital cities of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. "Now the disease has been introduced into the big urban areas with millions of people," he said. "In the big cities, people can get on an airplane and fly out." Isaacs does not believe this outbreak his peaked. "I think the worst is yet to come," he said. "I hope I'm wrong."

Meanwhile, the local customs aren't helping a lot, either.

Koroma, 32, a resident of the densely populated Wellington district, had been admitted to an isolation ward while blood samples were tested for the virus, said Sidi Yahya Tunis, a health ministry spokesman. The results came back on Thursday. "The family of the patient stormed the hospital and forcefully removed her and took her away," Tunis said. "We are searching for her."

Jesus save us. I don't mean to sound like a cultural imperialist -- although I seriously doubt that the people in rural Sierra Leone are acting out of what they know about the Tuskegee experiments, or what happened in Guatemala in the 1940's -- but snatching an Ebola patient out of the hospital doesn't sound like a very good way to fight the disease, family networks notwithstanding. (The purloined patient eventually died.) This thing is one airplane flight away from being an international catastrophe, but there is no boom-boom, and without boom-boom, there is no news. However, you know, Americans are getting sick now. Hey, Wolf! Over here?

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politic...Ebola_Outbreak

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by DaFace

...National Report is fake news, dude.

http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/texasquarantine.asp

You're a mod and he just posted a fake news report

admits that he knew it was fake and hope people would fall for it



why is he still here?

[J Diddy]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

You're a mod and he just posted a fake news report

admits that he knew it was fake and hope people would fall for it



why is he still here?

I don't DaFace is a mod anymore. He's just got supermod powers.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by J Diddy

That would be politics. There is a forum for that. Fret not cupcake nothing you say could offend me.

Then why did you say anything in the first place?? Lol

It was an innocuous comment, in and of itself.

You're the one who made a big deal out of it, so either I struck a nerve...or you're a cp thread nazi...take your pick.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

You're a mod and he just posted a fake news report

admits that he knew it was fake and hope people would fall for it



why is he still here?

Just to piss you off, sweet tits.

Does everyone here make all their posts with a stick directly up their collective asses??

[J Diddy]

Originally Posted by rabblerouser

Then why did you say anything in the first place?? Lol

It was an innocuous comment, in and of itself.

You're the one who made a big deal out of it, so either I struck a nerve...or you're a cp thread nazi...take your pick.

Mostly because the forum exists for a purpose: to keep BS political stuff from the main forum (as it did before the creation of DC).

I believe you have wonderful eyes.

[J Diddy]

Originally Posted by rabblerouser

Just to piss you off, sweet tits.

Does everyone here make all their posts with a stick directly up their collective asses??

Hey gorgeous. Why would someone post such a thing? It certainly isn't funny,

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by J Diddy

Mostly because the forum exists for a purpose: to keep BS political stuff from the main forum (as it did before the creation of DC).

I believe you have wonderful eyes.

Not as wonderful as your eyes...

[In58men]

Now Obama has a reason to declare Marshall Law.

Shits a hoax

[kepp]

Originally Posted by Inmem58

Now Obama has a reason to declare Marshall Law.

Shits a hoax

He must be from that hospital in Dallas.

[J Diddy]

Originally Posted by kepp

He must be from that hospital in Dallas.

His name is Ted. He's a great guy.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Inmem58

Now Obama has a reason to declare Marshall Law.

Shits a hoax

Is it "Marshal Law" or "Marshall Law"? I've seen both variations.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by Donger

Is it "Marshal Law" or "Marshall Law"? I've seen both variations.

Two L's.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Donger

Is it "Marshal Law" or "Marshall Law"? I've seen both variations.

...and both variations come from idiots.

The correct term is MARTIAL LAW.

mar·tial
ˈmärSHəl/
adjective
adjective: martial

of or appropriate to war; warlike.
"martial bravery"
synonyms: military, soldierly, soldier-like, army, naval; More

[Donger]

Originally Posted by loochy

...and both variations come from idiots.

The correct term is MARTIAL LAW.

mar·tial
ˈmärSHəl/
adjective
adjective: martial

of or appropriate to war; warlike.
"martial bravery"
synonyms: military, soldierly, soldier-like, army, naval; More

Martial Loochy laying down the law!

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Donger

Martial Loochy laying down the law!

My martial attitude did not sit well with the Marshal that pulled me over for speeding near Marshall Junction.