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damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
Fri Oct 3, 2014, 07:04 AM Oct 2014

Prescription for avoiding Ebola airport screening: ibuprofen

(Reuters) - People who contract Ebola in West Africa can get through airport screenings and onto a plane with a lie and a lot of ibuprofen, according to healthcare experts who believe more must be done to identify infected travelers."

"And people can take ibuprofen to reduce their fever enough to pass screening, and why wouldn't they? If it will get them on a plane so they can come to the United States and get effective treatment after they're exposed to Ebola, wouldn't you do that to save your life?"

*CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden cautioned on Thursday that a more restrictive approach to travel could make the Ebola outbreak harder to contain.

"The approach of isolating a country is going to make it harder to get help into that country," he said. "

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/10/03/us-health-ebola-screening-idINKCN0HS09J20141003

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Prescription for avoiding Ebola airport screening: ibuprofen (Original Post) damnedifIknow Oct 2014 OP
Flying to an Ebola HOT Spot is an entirely different matter than leaving with possible virus DhhD Oct 2014 #1
One more reason to panic needlessly. marble falls Oct 2014 #2
No need to panic damnedifIknow Oct 2014 #6
I've been wondering how much bodily fluids can sell for. JohnnyRingo Oct 2014 #3
^^this^^..if I were a suicidal ISIS maniac, I'd be plotting something along these lines zazen Oct 2014 #5
I'd think West Africa's crushing poverty would be the biggest travel deterrent. Barack_America Oct 2014 #4

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
1. Flying to an Ebola HOT Spot is an entirely different matter than leaving with possible virus
Fri Oct 3, 2014, 08:40 AM
Oct 2014

particles, to fly to a country with appropriate medical care and technology to deal with the disease. And do those visiting in West Africa have appropriate medical insurance?

damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
6. No need to panic
Fri Oct 3, 2014, 10:21 AM
Oct 2014

It does make me uneasy though knowing an ebola infected person can mask their symptoms long enough to enter the states. I don't blame them for seeking the best medical treatment they can possibly get but still.

JohnnyRingo

(18,563 posts)
3. I've been wondering how much bodily fluids can sell for.
Fri Oct 3, 2014, 09:47 AM
Oct 2014

Though that sounds like an opening for a kinky Craig's List inquiry, it would seem to me that such fluids could make for a hard to detect terror weapon.

If someone can devise a way to administer infected urine to even a small group of unsuspecting people it would act as a sort of medical time bomb. Infected people who are completely unaware could spread it faster than a California pyramid scheme.

I don't know how hard it would be to smuggle it out of the country, but I doubt it would be expensive to procure.

zazen

(2,978 posts)
5. ^^this^^..if I were a suicidal ISIS maniac, I'd be plotting something along these lines
Fri Oct 3, 2014, 10:14 AM
Oct 2014

And I'd justify the murder of devout Muslims who contracted it as it winded its way through North America by saying it's part of the greater Jihad, or I'd say they were sinful for living in a corrupt Godless western society or some such nonsense.

I'm glad we're sending our military to West Africa for a range of reasons (humanitarian, largely), though I'm sure we already have Special Forces assets in there sussing out just this kind of activity.

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