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Expert: U.S. Playing Russian Roulette With Ebola
‘Am I the only voice that is willing to speak against current policy?’
WND
NEW YORK – The United States is playing a game of Russian roulette by not closing its borders to the threat of Ebola from West Africa, contends a microbiology expert with 30 years experience in academics and private medical practice.
Dr. William Miller, author of the pioneering 2013 book “The Microcosm Within: Evolution and Extinction in the Hologenome,” said the establishment is on the wrong side of the issue.
“There seems to be a pushback against a travel ban by the media, national leaders and other persons of authority; yet everyone whom I speak to believes that we need to protect ourselves by every means,” said Miller in an exclusive WND interview.
Dr. William Miller
“Am I the only voice that is willing to speak against current policy? I deeply feel that we are playing infectious-disease roulette.”
As WND reported Thursday, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in his testimony before a House subcommittee, insisted the U.S. must not impose an air travel embargo on West Africa.
The first case of Ebola in the U.S. was Thomas Eric Duncan, who traveled by air from Liberia to Dallas before he had any evident symptoms of the disease.
On Friday, Washington-based watchdog group Judicial Watch announced the Obama administration is formulating plans to admit Ebola-infected foreigners into the U.S. for treatment.
Miller said that by “not imposing a travel ban to keep Ebola out of the country, the United States will be suffering a self-inflicted wound.”
“We have now seen the U.S. health-care system was unprepared and under-rehearsed for an outbreak of Ebola,” Miller said. “But what the CDC doesn’t understand is that that source of Ebola coming here is open-air travel.”
Numbers game
He explained an infectious disease “is a numbers game.”
“If we do whatever we can to reduce the incidence of a pathogen like Ebola making its way here on our soil, we are better off,” he said.
Miller rejected the Obama administration’s insistence that imposing enhanced screening at a select number of international airports in the U.S. will keep Ebola out of the country.
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If you look at the data, travel bans work. It is the only thing that has helped the other countries in Africa.
First you must seal your borders, then you must do effective quarantine of those exposed. Once done, in 21 days, you will have rid the population of Ebola.
Currently the US is tracking over 1000 people, do we want this to go on and on and on? If so eventually it will be endemic and people will then be afraid to go out in public, to go to work and even health care workers will be nervous since Ebola symptoms are pretty common. Do you want ER doctors and nurses to wear hazmat suit for every patient that they see. A 90 day travel restriction will not hurt anything in the scheme of things.