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2014-09-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Ebola Screening for Nigeria's Mecca-Bound Pilgrims

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-09-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 A totally genius plan whose only flaw is that it takes from 2 to 21 days after infection for symptoms to appear, according to WHO.

Posted by SteveS 2014-09-20 02:42|| 2014-09-20 02:42|| Front Page Top

#2 And if hand sanitizer and rubber gloves are all you need then there should be no problem, right?

Mecca. Yeah. What are we paying the CIA for, by the way? What would the Church Committee say to a MASSIVE outbreak of Ebola in Mecca? No? Only 8 cases of Ebola death in Nigeria? Can't do much in Mecca with that. Even 8,000 would be insufficient. But it depends on the Will of Allah...and hand sanitizer.

Posted by Big Thromoth3646 2014-09-20 07:47|| 2014-09-20 07:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Bingo, SteveS.

Nigeria is the only country of the five in the region . . . that has been given permission to send its pilgrims to Mecca

That's good. As is the fact that there are only 4 people still under surveillance in Lagos.

However: they're monitoring 344 people in Port Harcourt?? Because of one infected person in Lagos who slipped away a couple of weeks ago. That's all it takes to start a new chain of transmission.

Posted by RandomJD 2014-09-20 10:28|| 2014-09-20 10:28|| Front Page Top

#4 As a final precaution, they're being flown on Malaysian Airways.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-09-20 12:22|| 2014-09-20 12:22|| Front Page Top

#5 The Haj could be the real apocalypse for Islam.

Given the ease with which Ebola/Marburg transmits and its ability to breach all but the most rigid of Class IV biohazard protection, a couple of incubating cases of Ebola amongst the millions of people in Mekkah congregating around the Kabah, Ebola could find itself in every Moslem country in the world and the disease could become a ghastly pandemic for everyone.

The potential for horrendous mass deaths on the scale of the great plagues of the middle ages is nothing to sneeze at. Once this stuff gets to Mekkah and spread among the pilgrams, who also come from the US, and other Western countries, it will spread like wildfire.

I don't think we want to wish the plague of Ebola on the Moslems right now, Ebola is nothing to hope for.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-09-20 12:40|| 2014-09-20 12:40|| Front Page Top

#6 "Ebola cannot spread because we have sanitisers, we wash our hands, we have soap, we have masks, we have (latex) gloves,"

Bullshit.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-09-20 13:41|| 2014-09-20 13:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Hajj: "come for the Kaaba, stay for the fever and hemorrhaging"

Posted by Frank G 2014-09-20 14:00|| 2014-09-20 14:00|| Front Page Top

#8 dammit ed, I was just figuring out the buttons for that monitor too.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-09-20 14:35|| 2014-09-20 14:35|| Front Page Top

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