Holy moly! There’s a case of Ebola in the U.S.!

That first reaction was understandable. There’s no question the disease is scary. The World Health Organization now  http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1411100 - estimates  that the virus has killed about 70 percent of people infected in West Africa.

The Ebola case in Dallas is the first one diagnosed outside Africa, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. And the health care system in Texas didn’t quarantine the man right away. He was sick with  http://www.npr.org/tags/147820238/ebola - Ebola  — and contagious — for four days before he was admitted to the hospital.

But when you look at health officials responding to the case in Dallas, they seem cool as cucumbers, despite the initial misstep.

“I have no doubt that we will control this importation, or case, of Ebola so that it does not spread widely in this country,”  http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/30/352815781/first-u-s-case-of-ebola-confirmed-in-dallas - said  the director of the CDC, Dr. Tom Frieden.

Why is Frieden so sure this virus won’t spread beyond a handful of cases?

It boils down to something called “ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8261248 - R0 .”

https://richarddawkins.net/2014/10/no-seriously-how-contagious-is-ebola/

can anybody say when an ebola pt becomes contagious ???

eg

the experts and MSM keep repeating that unless your running a fever your not contagious

38.6 centigrade is the # used

so at noon I don't have a temp and am not contagious?

but at 1pm I spike a fever so presto chango now I can spread it ?

and I wasn't spreading it at noon or 11:30 ???

does that even make sense?

but that is what we are being told

sorry

I've got a good imagination

but it's not that damn good

something ain't right here

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/one-country-unequal-rights-harmful-practices-discriminatory-laws/ - One country, unequal rights, harmful practices ...

http://www.mydailynewswatchng.com/govt-assist-widows-prof-onadeko/ - Govt should assist widows – Prof. Onadeko | Daily Newswatch

www.mydailynewswatchng.com/govt-assist-widows-prof-onadeko/

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=R0&rlz=1C1SKPC_enAU399AU465&oq=R0&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.1067j0j8&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8# -

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Apr 8, 2014 - ... dies, the widow would be made to drink the water used in washing the corpse. ..... How Nigeria used Android App, Facebook to fight Ebola ...

1. Why did you focus on UCH/College of Medicine and not other institutions?

   God instructed me to start from my place of work. Afterwards, I can launch the foundation in other institutions so that they can replicate this idea too. We want to go beyond this confine; therefore, we are trying to implore the government to come to the aid of widows. The plight of widows is dreadful; the way widows are treated in our communities is really bad. In some ethnic groups, when the husband dies, the widow would be made to drink the water used in washing the corpse. The reason for doing this is that she can confess if she killed her husband. Also in some ethnic group, they would cut the hair of the widow and make her sleep on the bare floor for forty days and she would be served unpalatable meals, all their belongings would be carted away by the family members of the husband. Therefore, I’m pleading to the government to come to the aid of the widows by offering scholarships to the children of widows and by providing a low housing scheme for widows to alleviate their sufferings and what they go through in the hands of their landlords. They should also be given tax relief in their place of work by giving them some waiver so that they are not taxed heavily. More so, there should be job opportunity  for the children of the widows because many widows struggled to send their children to school.

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(b) To sleep either alone or on the some bed or be locked in a room with corpse of the husband

(c) Not to receive condolence visits from sympathisers during the period of mourning

(d) To be re-married by a relative of the late husband

(e) To sit on the floor or be unclad during any period of the husband’s burial rite

(f) To drink the water used in washing the corpse of the husband

(g) To weep and wail loudly at intervals at any time after the death of the husband, except at one’s own volition or involuntary action;

(h) To remain in confinement after the death of the husband for any given period;

(i) To vacate the matrimonial home;

(j) To do any other thing which contravenes the fundamental rights entrenched in the Constitution or is degrading the person.