Ebola Outbreak Summer 2014

Officials credit tighter border controls, good patient-tracking and other medical practices, and just plain luck with keeping Ebola confined mostly to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea since the outbreak was first identified nearly seven months ago.

Border closings may also be helping halt the spread of Ebola.

Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, all of which share borders with at least one of the three most affected countries, have closed those borders.

The disease continues to ravage Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, overwhelming their health systems.

If the CDC had been working on DESEASE CONTROL instead of 350k grants to study rabbit massage, bike path studies and all the other non germane activities that now constitute most of their efforts and consume most of their budget, maybe they'd be a bit more prepared and not making complete fools of themselves.

On many levels, this line of attack is absurd.

Obama’s Republican predecessor oversaw big increases in public-health sector spending, and both Democrats and Republicans in recent years have broadly supported efforts to rein in federal spending. Sequestration resulted from a bipartisan agreement. In some years, Congress has allocated more money for NIH and CDC than the Obama administration requested. Meanwhile, contrary to the suggestion of the DCCC ad, there never was a specific vote on funding to prevent Ebola.

There’s no doubt that spending has been cut, or at least failed to keep pace with inflation, but the fingerprints of both parties are on the knives. This blame game earns Four Pinocchios.

Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, all of which share borders with at least one of the three most affected countries, have closed those borders.

To start with the constitutionally mandated duty to protect the borders.

If the feds had been doing their job the first patient would have never got here. (and we wouldn't be dealing with dead children from enterovirus that came with the recent invasion of illegals)

Retarded comments about "big government" and "small government"...

And the heroes deliviering "massive response" in Africa would be you and your family, I assume?

What will be the extent of the outbreak inside the U.S. before real common sense proticols, including travel restrictions, are put in place?

Excellent question! Weren't we discussing this a week ago? There are still no comprehensive travel bans/restrictions in place . . . seems like this should be the first defense in the containment "effort".

No, that would you and the other morons who don't think it's the government's job to do these sorts of things or that you and your armed posse can do things so much better. Well, boys, here's your chance to really 'protect the borders' - suit up and head for Africa.

The global death toll from Ebola stands at 1,229, with the bulk of cases in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

the months-long outbreak in West Africa, where all but a few of the roughly 9,200 reported Ebola cases and 4,555 deaths have occurred, according to the World Health Organization.