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Scientists say that we are way over due for a epidemic. Through out history, famines, disease, wars, etc have kept the world's population at a manageable number. But in the 20th century, we learned how to cure disease, grow more food, and fight more efficiently. Scientists say that nature itself won't let us continue, and that we have the world severely over populated. They say it will be a microorganism though that puts us back in check. A virus. Something we can't treat. This could be it.

If stink bugs ever become a vector we're all doomed..

They shouldn't be allowed back in the states

This is also scary - From CDC.Gov "The first locally acquired case of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne disease, was reported July 17 in Florida. This newly reported case represents the first time that mosquitoes in the continental United States are thought to have spread the virus to a non-traveler"

The ebola epidemic has recently mutated, and become at least partially airborne transmissible. This is very concerning. Even though the new strain is slightly less deadly (60% death rate vs. 90%).

That's why all the health workers have been getting it; despite full hazmat procedures.

Flying known ebola patients around the world on passenger airlines doesn't sound like too bright of an idea if you ask me.

Man's desire for exotic woods from the rain forests caused the depletetion of ebola's hiding place.

This is so sad this man has itHe is from my home town Boone.I hope he will stay where he is untill he is betterWe Need to Pray for the ones who has risk their life's to helping people in need.

A woman from Sierra Leone just got off a plane in Britain, collapsed vomiting and died. http://www.mirror.co.uk/new...es-3977051

You are much more likely to be exposed that way than from the Americans the in Atlanta.

We bring another one back to America and threaten all of America. Someone is trying to make a Vaccine. I pray it works and does not mutate into something worse. These people will still be carriers for life even if they get better. This virus stays alive inside people just like HIV does. You have threatened all of America by bringing these people here. One terrorist attack in the right place and half of us could die just like that!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014....html?_r=0

Bestill (view profile)

Posted 10:23 am, 08/03/2014

The only good in any of it is that people in future will have the advantage of a vaccine.

How id this going to help with the vaccine do you think the CDC is going to learn something they already don't know.

Because now they will start the human trials of the vaccine. They already have a vaccine, but the Drug Companies thought the problem was too small to make it worth their while. Now things will speed up, maybe.

All kinds of diseases are being introduced or re-introduced into the US in recent weeks. And many are saying that it's perfectly fine and we need to be humane and what all.

I wonder what those same folks will say when THEIR family members contract these diseases and die?

That they deserved it because they are American?

Seems to be the crucial point to me: shame and guilt for being American.

And willing to die for it.

I agree with Gherrie!

The only good in any of it is that people in future will have the advantage of a vaccine.

The simple fact of the matter is that there is no best practice medical justification for bringing a pathogen with no known cure to a part of the world where it did not previously exist.The idea that the doctors find the disease "interesting" to use their term and the fact that we have facilities here doesn't change that fact. The American doctor and nurse that have Ebola worked with the disease, knew the risks, and took the precautions a medically trained individual would take and still ended up with Ebola.

The idea that the staff at Emory is somehow immune from the word "accident" that is in most English dictionaries is absurd. The CDC and the doctors can spin it any way they want to and have, but pretending it is the appropriate thing to do is a stretch at best. The idea that the two could not have had treatment brought to them is preposterous as just the fact that the doctor has been transported here proves beyond doubt that facilities are mobile.

"Ebola virus was isolated from semen 61 days after onset of illness in a man who was infected in a laboratory."
from the WHO website

Captain Trips

That says there is no cure for it. What will they do keep them in isolation until they die?