CDC Spokesman Dave Daigle stated that the US would not be preventing flights from countries with massive outbreaks of the Ebola virus from coming in to the United States, despite seemingly admitting that the case of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan showed that airport screening cannot catch every case of Ebola on CNN’s “OutFront” on Wednesday.
When asked whether he would recommend the US simply not allow flights from countries like Sierra Leone and Liberia, Daigle responded, “I don't think so, and that’s certainly not, I'm not even sure if that’s a CDC call.”
He then said, “I think he [Duncan] got on the plane asymptomatic, without any symptoms whatsoever… the symptoms occurred after he landed or after he arrived in the US so it’s very difficult to prevent that. I mean the viruses don't respect borders,” despite this admission that airport screening failed in this instance because the infected individual had no symptoms, and that people can carry Ebola into the US without showing any symptoms that would be noticed by a screener, Daigle again expressed confidence in the screening system and argued that a flight ban was unnecessary.
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Once they land they have to go through customs, how about a health screening right then before they are admitted?
ReplyDeleteThen maybe they should ban all flights from Liberia. The country as well as the people and anyone going in or coming out tend to be "shady".
ReplyDeleteOutbreak coming to a city near you...
ReplyDeleteAmericans won't be sympathetic until they have it here. It's a plain.
ReplyDeleteAll of this is so wrong. Ban all flights in and out of the United States.
ReplyDeleteCDC is lying. They have reversed their guidelines twice in this week alone. They are getting the names of all people on the flight and yet they say it is not transmitted in the air. WAKE UP PEOPLE
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