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Is it time to restrict U.S. travel to and from Ebola stricken nations?

Is it time to restrict U.S. travel to and from Ebola stricken nations?


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CNN said:
Atlanta (CNN) -- Global fears of Ebola spread Wednesday after two more countries reported deaths of citizens they suspect had contracted the disease in West Africa.
Nigeria reported that a nurse died after treating someone believed to have contracted Ebola in Liberia. And Saudi Arabia reported that a man died, apparently of the virus, after a trip to Sierra Leone. The World Health Organization did not immediately confirm.

If confirmed, the two deaths would bring the worldwide total to 889. Nearly all of the deaths have been in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.
The nurse in Nigeria had helped care for a Liberian-American man who had traveled to Nigeria, where he died, the country's Ministry of Health said Wednesday.
WHO: Ebola death toll rises; 932 confirmed - CNN.com

Is it time to refuse entry of anyone traveling into the US who have recently visited Ebola stricken countries - namely Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria and the State Department issue travel restrictions to these countries as they have not issued travel warnings or restrictions to these nations yet?
 
Yes hell yes. This needs to be contained now. It's gone on for to long in Africa. We need to stop it now. Now. Seriously NOW.
 
WHO: Ebola death toll rises; 932 confirmed - CNN.com

Is it time to refuse entry of anyone traveling into the US who have recently visited Ebola stricken countries - namely Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria and the State Department issue travel restrictions to these countries as they have not issued travel warnings or restrictions to these nations yet?

Quarantine at least.
 
WHO: Ebola death toll rises; 932 confirmed - CNN.com

Is it time to refuse entry of anyone traveling into the US who have recently visited Ebola stricken countries - namely Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria and the State Department issue travel restrictions to these countries as they have not issued travel warnings or restrictions to these nations yet?

Yup I think it is.
 
Yes, on the caveat that we do everything possible to get the people out of there that want to get out. I would definitely restrict travel TO those places to only CDC or equivalent type of personnel.
 
Yep and I don't think we should be bringing them back into the US.....set up some medical facilities on a remote island or something.

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That would be racist. I actually cant wait for it to get here and wipe out a whole city.
 
That would be racist. I actually cant wait for it to get here and wipe out a whole city.

Please tell me that was supposed to be funny.
 
Please tell me that was supposed to be funny.

Not funny at all, not meant to be. I just want to see how our nations feeble attempts at doing something without partisan politics will kill hundreds.
 
WHO: Ebola death toll rises; 932 confirmed - CNN.com

Is it time to refuse entry of anyone traveling into the US who have recently visited Ebola stricken countries - namely Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria and the State Department issue travel restrictions to these countries as they have not issued travel warnings or restrictions to these nations yet?
Travel should be restricted.Anyone who has Ebola should not be allowed into the US regardless if they are are a citizen or not.At least anyone in those countries who wish to come to the US should be quarantines in those countries and thoroughly tested.
 
I am not an Epidemiologist, so I think such decisions should be left to them.
 
Travel should be restricted.Anyone who has Ebola should not be allowed into the US regardless if they are are a citizen or not.At least anyone in those countries who wish to come to the US should be quarantines in those countries and thoroughly tested.

I'll go one step further. Unless they come up with a cure to the ****, kill and burn whoever has it. If I contracted it and there was no cure, I would want that so that my daughter didn't have a chance to get it from me.
 
I'll go one step further. Unless they come up with a cure to the ****, kill and burn whoever has it. If I contracted it and there was no cure, I would want that so that my daughter didn't have a chance to get it from me.

Thank you for demonstrating the folly of consequentialism.
 
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