The head of the CDC is finally getting a grip on the Ebola crisis.

[blueinindiana]

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/02/health/ebola-outbreak/index.html?iref=allsearch

I have been following the current ebola Zaire strain outbreak since initial reports started surfacing about it. I read in horror as nations especially the large industrialized nations pretty much blow it off or ignore it completely.

Finally when it came into the mainstream spotlight I was taken back by the lack of seriousness by at that time by the WHO and the CDC.

Those on the ground have been calling it out of control for months.

The WHO finally woke up to the disaster and now the CDC.

The director of the CDC in particular I find rather smug and dismisses until the last few days.

Some of the comments he has made such as and when ebola outbreak hits the U.S. It won't be so bad essentially he said only a few people would die until we found out what it was and contained it.

The CDCs leadership on this is sure is lacking so far, I hope this changes.

I fear however this current outbreak is impossible to regain control on. It's spread too far too fast and is more virulent than it's being portrayed.

This tragedy might have been slowed or prevent when it was isolated to a few places, sadly the world as whole dropped a deadly ball that will,have global consequences.

[Warpy]

1. That's because there has been one confirmed case here

outside of the two missionaries treated in Atlanta.

It is coming, you know, but not carried by black folks eating monkey meat, it will be brought mostly by returning missionaries and businessmen.

"It can't happen here" is the deadliest illusion people have.

[blueinindiana]

3. The CDC director said earlier..

If and when it comes here it won't be very bad.

Well the family and friends of person infected who will also get infected and the doctors and nurses who treat them before they realize it's ebola and their families that will get infected my disagree.

[Warpy]

9. Yes, it will be like you say it will

In addition, family members will always think they can outrun it, taking it with them. It was the same during every pandemic in our history. Let's hope the next pandemic isn't Ebola-Zaire. It is too efficient a killer.

At least the first world has the means to maintain quarantine. People have water in their houses here, unlike in the developing world where thy must go out at least daily for their water. We have refrigeration so we don't have to go to the market daily for our food.

However, while it's possible to maintain quarantine here, it is not always probable as people are unnerved and prone to cabin fever while they wait to see if they're the next to die.

Hospitals are short staffed now. The system will melt down quickly if there is a large scale outbreak anywhere.

[magical thyme]

4. there was a confirmed case here?

I've been watching and missed it. Where? When?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. no one says it cant happen here. they say the devastation will not be the same.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Page not found - did you mean this?

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/02/health/ebola-outbreak/index.html?iref=allsearch

[another_liberal]

5. I understand why the CDC might want to ere on the side of calm . . .

So as to avoid stoking fears and panic, but I do hope they are taking this more seriously than some of their statements might suggest.

[corkhead]

8. "stoking fears and panic" - We've got Faux Nooze for that and it is unavoidable

The gas station I go to has telescreens on their pumps. I have to hear their blathering when I am filling up my car

[FLPanhandle]

7. Culturally and First world practices would keep the spread minimal here.

Ebola, as bad as it is, it's not that contagious. Now if it ever evolved to be spread by airborne sneezing instead of direct contact with infected bodily fluids, then watch out.