The Ebola outbreak continues to spiral out of control. Near the epicenter of the epidemic in West Africa, more than 3,400 people have died and more than 7,000 people have been infected with the virus. Officials are scrambling to contain the outbreak at its source and keep it from spreading. The World Health Organization is […]
by FRANCES MARTEL: A global health professor at Georgetown University expressed concern this week that new measures announced to keep Ebola out of the United States are merely a response to “political outcry” meant to make the public believe the government is working to prevent its spread, not actual proven methods of securing our travel. […]
By Timothy Birdnow : It has taken five days for authorities to get around to decontaminating the apartment of Liberian Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan. Five days with a level four hot bioagent alive and well in a crowded apartment complex. And when they finally got to it they hired a private firm that specializes in […]
By Alan Caruba: What does it tell you when Britain and France have stopped flights to and from the nations in Africa where Ebola has become a threat and the United States has not taken a similar measure? What does it tell you when the President sends 3,000 U.S. troops on a “humanitarian” mission to West […]
A Texas man just back from West Africa has been confirmed as having the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the U.S. due to the government not restricting travel from disease stricken countries. It can take 3 weeks for symptoms to appear, who knows how many hundreds of people he has came into contact with since […]
(Source: Deutsche Welle) A top German virologist has caused shockwaves by asserting that it’s too late to halt the spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia and that five million people will die, noting that efforts should now be focused on stopping the transmission of the virus to other countries. Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit of the […]
ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta/AP) — The director for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says that the Ebola outbreak is going to get worse. Speaking to “CBS This Morning” following his trip to the West African countries dealing with the outbreak, Dr. Tom Frieden explained that they have to act now to try to get Ebola under control. […]
President Barack Obama drew the diplomatic line somewhere at the first ever U.S-Africa summit at the White House this week by not inviting Zimbabwe’s brutal dictator Robert Mugabe. But the guest list still included several other African leaders with only slightly better human rights records. The White House promoted the summit as the largest-ever gathering […]
BY REBECCA BUCKWALTER-POZA You’ve seen Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fevers depicted on screens both large and small, but what health care workers are currently fighting in West Africa is worse than anything writers have dreamed up. In sixth grade, I molded a human hand out of clay and then used acrylic paints to map the […]
LUBBOCK, Texas — A leaked intelligence analysis from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reveals the exact numbers of illegal immigrants entering and attempting to enter the U.S. from more than 75 different countries. The report was obtained by a trusted source within the CBP agency who leaked the document and spoke with Breitbart Texas […]
