[Daily Caller] A Maine official said Friday that Kaci Hickox's roommate while she helped Ebola patients in Africa has been diagnosed with Ebola, WAGM-TV reports.
"The respondent's roommate in Africa became infected without knowing how she became infected with Ebola," said Sheila Pinette with the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adding that "any potential risk to respondent from that incident has passed."
It's also unclear exactly how Dallas nurses Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, the only two people to become infected with Ebola within the U.S., contracted the disease.
Okay, legal beagles and Maine judges, NOW tell me that isolation and observation aren't warranted...
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"without knowing how she became infected with Ebola"
we have our Top Men on it.
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Men.
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Sold Besoeker !
Put an electric motor on it for me, I'll call the velocipede "The E-Bola Rolla" and invite all my no so dear friends over to caress this beautiful, historic, acquisition.
Normally this would go in Opinion as a blog post, but the writer is simply presenting the math, strictly keeping any opinions out of it. Anon1, are these the same calculations you've been making?
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Forget my moniker for just a second, I think Anon1 has been attempting to enlighten many readers of Rantburg to the consequences of the poor choices, lack of leadership, inaction and in general, malfeasance many organizations/governments have shown in response to 2014 Ebola epidemic.
I have been impressed with Anon1's systematic analytical approach in posting information on Ebola to Rantburg. Unfortunately this "Math Just Is " article will unlikely receive the MSM readership it needs to impress upon the general public the breadth and potential enormity of the problem. The leadership in the USA promotes solutions, which in my opinion, will exacerbate rather than quell the spread of Ebola.
Travel restrictions, quarantines, united coordinated medical programs are not in evidence, leadership is lacking from the traditional leadership in the West. Frankly - Math is knocking at your door, DC, but you are afraid to open it.
P.S. Keep up the good posting Anon1 and BrerRabbit, I for one appreciate it.
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Jiggs the Batty3387, you needn't keep the nym Fred's anonymizer machine assigned, if you don't like it. Just click on Pic-a-Nic below the comment box to explore your randomized options, or type into the Your Name box any non-obscene name or nym that you'd prefer.
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Amazing how the CDC which is supposed to be the bastion of knowledge on things of the sort as Ebola, have seemingly forgotten Epidemiology 101 with their rank silliness and jaw dropping feats of irrational thought.
I believe the Pakistani Prime Minister would be proud of you.
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I'll second Jiggs: anon1, you keep at it.
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Thanks for the offer TW, but I am enjoying this moniker, it fits my overall demeanor today, as I read and comment on the pathetic state of affairs, we have fallen into recently.
Hope and Change - Hope this BS goes away soon, not optimistic it will change, as long as Moochie and Obe are unchallenged by the Legislative Branch, MSM and the Judiciary.
Really, its a very good nym anonymizer Fred has designed and operates here, entertaining, encouraging, and a precognizant aid to my commentary.
I'd say "Ooooh spooky" but Halloween just passed me by...
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While I appreciate Anon1's diligence, I am not sure I agree with his numbers. There is something new going on over there that is just emerging. It may be that enough people have stopped moving around that rather than model the whole population as one big group, instead it needs to be set up as many smaller groups. And if so, then the smaller groups will quickly either die or become immune. Without mixing between them, this event is peaking at the moment. With mixing, it will be as Anon1 is calculating. Right now the rate of subgroup mixing is unclear.
To paraphrase that Conan movie, the greatest thing in life is to find a straight line on a log-scale graph. Short term predictions can be accurate, but woe onto him who extrapolates too far into the future. You end up concluding that after a year, 15 billion people will have died.
One form of disease model divides people up into categories - infected, susceptible, recovered and dead. These populations change over time which makes the math a little more complicated and more interesting.
An Egyptian court has convicted eight men for "inciting debauchery" following their appearance in an alleged same-sex wedding party on a Nile boat, sentencing each of them to three years in prison.
The Internet video shows two men exchanging rings and embracing among cheering friends. In September, a statement from the office of Egypt's chief prosecutor said the video clip was "shameful to God" and "offensive to public morals."
The judge ruled that they would also be subject to police supervision following the completion of their prison sentence.
The sentence was met with uproar from the families of the defendants, who demonstrated outside the courthouse in downtown Cairo and were cleared by police. The defendants, who had denied the charges, stood silent in the court room cage as the verdict was read, one of them holding up a copy of Quran.
The men were first charged in September when a public prosecutor's statement said that the images were "humiliating, regrettable and would anger God", concluding that they constituted a criminal act. The prosecutor ordered the coroner to carry out physical examinations as part of the investigation.
The sentence can be appealed.
Good luck with that...
Saturday's verdict is the latest in a crackdown by authorities against gays and atheists. The campaign also targets liberal and pro-democracy activists and violators of a draconian law on street protests.
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Burkina Faso's top military officials have thrown their support behind presidential guard Lieutenant Colonel Issac Zida as leader of a transitional government after President Blaise Compaore was forced from power, the Reuters news agency has reported.
The move on Saturday sidelines Compaore loyalist General Honore Traore, the joint chief of staff, who had announced a competing plan to lead the country following Zida's departure.
"Lieutenant Colonel Yacouba Issac Zida has been elected unanimously to lead the transition period opened after the departure of President Blaise Compaore," read a statement issued after military chiefs met to discuss who should take power. "You don't understand, General..."
"Now I do. Put the gun down."
The statement came shortly after Burkina Faso's deposed president reportedly arrived in neighbouring Ivory Coast, less than 24 hours after being forced from power.
Maybe he can do something less dangerous than run an African dictatorship: perhaps go work in an Ebola clinic...
Compaore, who resigned on Friday amid mass protests against his 27-year rule, arrived in the capital Yamoussoukro on Saturday with his family.
Zida and Traore both announced they would lead a transition to democracy after Compaore was pushed out. Zida said in a recorded address posted early on Saturday on the website of a national television station that he was filling the vacuum.
"While we wait to define in a consensual manner, with all of the political parties and civil society organisations, the contours and composition of this peaceful democratic transition," Zida said. "I will henceforth assume, from today, the responsibilities of the head of this transition and the head of state."
The announcement came just hours after Traore made the same declaration. It was not immediately clear if Traore accepted Zida's announcement on Saturday.
When he resigned, Compaore had said a vote would be held in 90 days, but Zida said the "length and make-up of the transitional body will be decided later".
Jen Psaki, spokesperson for the US State Department, called for democratic elections.
"We condemn any attempts by the military or other parties to take advantage of the situation for unconstitutional gain and call on all parties to respect the people's support for the democratic process," she said in a statement released late on Friday.
Ah shaddup, no one listens to you anyway...
Compaore stepped down after protesters stormed the country's parliament and set it on fire as he was seeking to pass a vote that would allow his re-election for the fifth term.
While he was respected on the international stage, critics noted that, under Compaore's semi-authoritarian rule, the country of 18 million people remained mired in poverty. The landlocked country's fortunes rise and fall with gold and cotton prices - and adequate rain in a region plagued by drought.
Compaore's exit will have significance throughout the region, where many leaders have pushed through constitutional changes to prolong their rule and others are attempting to, West Africa expert, Philippe Hugon, said.
It makes a mockery of 'constitutions', but that's what thugs do.
In the end, Compaore was pushed from power by violent protests and an emboldened opposition that would accept nothing short of his resignation.
"I declare that I'm leaving power," Compaore said in a statement. "For my part, I think I have fulfilled my duty."
"That's it! I'm outta here!"
Thousands of opposition protesters gathered Friday in a square in the capital and burst into cheers when they heard the announcement of his resignation on hand-held radios.
"This is a new revolution" and a chance to get it right, said Donald Fayama, a shopkeeper who was among the demonstrators. "At least tomorrow, we are not going to wake up with the same face of the same president."
Burkina Faso hosts French special forces and serves as an important ally of both France and the United States in the fight against Islamic militants in West Africa.
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[NATION.PK] A young man killed his sister for honor today and escaped the scene.
Police said that accused hailing from Chaman Shah, in a suburb of Layyah was suspicious about the character of his sister. He asked his sister to mend her ways and both exchanged hot words over the issue after which the youth opened fire, killing the girl on the spot and fled with the murder weapon.
The body was shifted to hospital and later handed over to heirs after medico-legal formalities. Police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the murderer and started raids for his arrest.
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Fluker is also known as Carmen Simmons, Carmen Lacy and Luscious.
"Luscious" is just a Democrat stay-at-home mom trying to start a home business--an entrepreneur. Were it not been for her 13 year old bartender son, the court might be a little more gentle regarding her time in the Graybar Hotel.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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