Ebola Flights

[General Lee]

Quick turns? Hell ya, sign me up.

It's called efficiency Genny, look it up. Meanwhile, when you do bid domestic 737 CA, you can work on that Delta 3 hour terminal walk. It will give you plenty of opportunity to eat more which might lead to you needing to let out your double breasted blazer.


Full Steam Ahead doosh. Such an idiot.

Efficiency? I do ONE flight somewhere, then one flight back. Where is it not efficient? And 24 hour layovers usually allow for two workouts. I look fantastic.


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[kevin_p]

Back to the Ebola flights, there are no direct flights from the US to the three West African countries that are currently affected by Ebola (Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia).

There are direct flights from the US to Dakar Senegal (had one Ebola case, but contained it), Accra Ghana (0 cases), and Lagos Nigeria.

Nigeria had one Liberian guy fly in with Ebola, and he infected several health care workers, but Nigeria contained it with only 8 deaths. They have had no new infections since August...significantly longer than the 21 day period during which symptoms of new infections can appear. It is only about a week or so away from being officially declared Ebola free by the World Health Organization.

 

[freightdogfred]

Nigeria had one Liberian guy fly in with Ebola, and he infected several health care workers, but Nigeria contained it with only 8 deaths.

Nigeria-speak for they locked them in a room until they expired.

This is serious stuff. Even a nurse wearing a hazmat suit in Dallas comes down with it, what chance do the rest of us have

 

[luckytohaveajob]

911 Slowed the Flu

Air Travel Drop After 9/11 Slowed Flu
Less Air Travel Might Slow Spread of Flu Virus, Study Suggests By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

Sept. 11, 2006 -- The drop in U.S. air travel following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 delayed America's flu season by two weeks, according to a new study.

The finding suggests lessening air travel could affect the spread of a flu virus.

The research appears in the October edition of Public Library of Science Medicine.

Researchers included John Brownstein, PhD, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Children's Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School.

Brownstein's team tracked air travel, flu's spread, and the flu season's peak in the U.S. from 1996-2005. For five of those nine years, U.S. flu deaths peaked on Feb .17, give or take two days.


But after 9/11, the U.S. flu season had a "markedly delayed peak, on March 2, 2002, 13 days later than average," write the researchers.

The following flu season's peak was also later than normal, coming at the end of February 2003. Air travel hadn't fully recovered by then.

Over the next two years, flying picked up, and flu season returned to its normal peak time, the researchers note.

For comparison, France, which had no similar downturn in flying after 9/11, saw no delay in flu season for any year during the study, the researchers say.

September may be the critical month for new flu strains to enter the U.S. from other countries, the researchers say, adding that U.S. flu seasons start in October or November.

Brownstein's team isn't blaming flu's spread totally on air travel. Flu has been around a lot longer than airplanes, and you don't have to be a jetsetter to catch the flu.

It's still unclear exactly how flu seasons work.

But the findings "do suggest that fluctuations in airline travel have an impact on large-scale spread of influenza," the researchers write.

Would banning flights halt a major, global flu outbreak? The researchers aren't sure.

Even with a "significant travel ban" flu might spread faster than vaccines could be made and distributed, write Brownstein and colleagues

 

[IslandDriver]

when the nurses got infected they were not in hazmat suits. Just gloves gowns and masks like you see in an OR.

 

[luckytohaveajob]

3000 US soldiers without Hazmat Suits

These Americans are Bullet proof. Are they Obola proof?


101st Airborne Won?t Get Full Protective Hazmat Suits for Ebola Mission in West Africa
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, October 18, 2014, 7:50 PM

Unbelievable. Troops from the 101st Airborne Division will not receive full protective Hazmat suits for their mission in West Africa.
They?re being sent to West Africa ? but won?t get full protective Hazmat suits.

US troops prepare for deployment (US Army Africa)

The 101st Airborne is a U.S. Army modular light infantry division trained for air assault operations. The division was renowned for its role on D-Day. Major General David H. Petraeus (?Eagle 6″) led the Screaming Eagles to war in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The administration says they won?t need them.

 

[luckytohaveajob]

when the nurses got infected they were not in hazmat suits. Just gloves gowns and masks like you see in an OR.

3000 US soldiers don't need Hazmat suits either? I guess they can all just hold their breath and not touch. Give me a break.

 

[luckytohaveajob]

October 15, 2014

Ann Coulter,"But the Obama administration refuses to impose a travel ban.

This summer, the U.S. government imposed a travel ban on Israel simply to pressure Prime Minister Netanyahu into accepting a ceasefire agreement. But we can't put a travel restriction on countries where a contagious disease is raging."

 

[Freebrd]

just send Jenny over there, hopefully all the Ebola cooties will attach to her

 

[maru657]

Please keep in mind that the last 3 repub administrations cut funding to the center for disease control and the national center for health. Kind of tough to explain those cuts now.