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Barak Obama has pledged to send 3,000 troops to West Africa to help fight the Ebola outbreak that is spreading across the continent.
Reports state that the military contingent will be educating health workers and overseeing the building of new treatment centres.
Could this be the catalyst that brings Ebola Zaire to U.S soil? Hundreds of health workers have been sickened and many have died in the current outbreak which started earlier this year. With predictions of tens of thousands more people dying before the outbreak is contained now does not seem a good time to be sending military personnel to the area.
The timing of the announcement could be telling. Mac Slavo published an article just yesterday detailing the State department order for 160,000 hazmat suits. You can read the article here.
Over and over the government have told us that Ebola will not be a problem in the United States, that the chances of an uncontrolled outbreak are next to non-existent, well if that’s the case why have they ordered he suits?
In’s an established fact that every person that comes into the United States from an area where Ebola is running rampant is a risk. Bringing back 3,000 troops could be the catalyst that changes everything.
I know, as you do, that we will be assured that they will be screened and quarantined and all the rest of it, but are there enough facilities to do that?
Will these men and women be afforded the same treatment as Dr Kent Brantly et al should they fall sick?
US officials said the aim of the anti-Ebola initiative is to:
Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea are the worst-hit countries in an outbreak that has killed more than 2,400 people. (source)
The New York Post reports:
The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the plans ahead of Obama’s announcement, said the cost of the effort would come from $500 million in overseas contingency operations, such as the war in Afghanistan, that the Pentagon already has asked Congress to redirect to carry out humanitarian efforts in Iraq and in West Africa.
The officials said it would take about two weeks to get U.S. forces on the ground.
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations African affairs subcommittee, applauded the new U.S. commitment. Coons earlier had called for the Obama administration to step up its role in West Africa.
“This humanitarian intervention should serve as a firewall against a global security crisis that has the potential to reach American soil,” he said.
Hardest hit by the outbreak are Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The virus also has reached Nigeria and Senegal. Ebola is spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of sick patients, making doctors and nurses especially vulnerable to contracting the virus that has no vaccine or approved treatment.
The U.S. effort will include medics and corpsmen for treatment and training, engineers to help erect the treatment facilities and specialists in logistics to assist in patient transportation.
Obama’s trip to the CDC comes a day after the United States also demanded a stepped-up international response to the outbreak. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, on Monday called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Thursday, warning that the potential risk of the virus could “set the countries of West Africa back a generation.” (continue reading here)
Symptoms of Ebola include:
If Ebola does make it to our shores there are several ways to minimize your chance of getting Ebola:
You can read an excellent article on infectious body disposal here.
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Fruit bats? Lots of batty fruits around. Why 3000 troops sent into harm’s way from ebola, when ISIS needs dealing with?
I sure hope these men and woman are all volunteers going over there. This POS has more balls than brains when we need the troops here.
Why in the hell would this “make-believe” President of ours send soldiers into a Country running rampant with the Ebola virus? This literally makes NO SENSE whatsoever.
Moronic…..
What??
Kiss those 3000 stupid Americans on the ass and send them away each with a plank wood coffin under the arm. Maybe put $20 US (you know the blood money kind that nobody in the rest of the world to use any more) in their pockets because if the get to tell the tale that they more or less survived Ebola they won’t be able anyway to get back to America. They will be left to die in Africa.
But anyway, it’s 3000 American nasty troops whom I just don’t care about because still in my mind lingers the cruelty American people imposed on invading Iraq and Afghanistan because they had “weapons of mass destruction” as Rumsfield pointed out. And now America is blaming Russia for violence in Ukraine, shooting a maylasian flight down and who knows what else, it’s all lies and deceit from any and every Americans mouth. Americans cannot be trusted – point 1!
So those troops can go and die in peace after contracting Ebola. They won’t come back to America and rightly so too. America deserves what’s coming unless they stop instigating war!!
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