Dallas
Ebola Patient Planes By Patricia Doyle
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| Hello, Jeff - What ever happened to "an abundance of caution?"
Or even 'an ounce of prevention'? Why haven't United Airlines, and the other
carriers, taken the planes Duncan flew to the US and professionally disinfected
them? I am sure that he used the bathrooms on the flight, why aren't they
at least being sanitized? They just keep on flying coast-to-coast! Some of the other carriers fly internationally. This is just begging for ebola to spread worldwide. This has been the worst managed case I have seen to date. It is almost as though they want Ebola to spread. I am sure the vaccine companies soon to release Ebola vaccine, don't mind the bungles. This means profits in their pockets. I am sure the majority or maybe all of the Ebola experts are in Africa leaving those at the CDC who are not really Ebola specialists and maybe handled diseases like Lyme or West Nile virus to make decisions on Ebola containment here in the US. So we get bungle after bungle. The airlines probably don't want to lose money by taking possibly infected planes out of service. Dollars and cents you know…and no common sense. Patty As The CDC Chases Down Ebola, Victim's Planes Continue Flying By Tim Wood October 02, 2014 The Centers for Disease Control has vowed that the Ebola brought to the U.S. by Thomas Duncan will be contained quickly and not spread. The CDC has science on its side — the Ebola virus spreads through contact with infected body fluids, not by mere touch. So the odds for a rapid spread of the virus are much smaller than for an airborne virus like the flu. That said, the number of flights both United planes have taken since Thomas Duncan deboarded on Sept. 20 is staggering. Duncan took a United flight from Brussels to Washington, D.C. on Sept. 20 and had a three-hour layover at Dulles International Airport before boarding another United flight from D.C. to Dallas. Using FlightAware.com, we tracked where the Boeing 777 (the Brussels-to-Washington flight) and Airbus A320 (D.C. to Dallas) have flown since Sept. 20. The data shows these planes have made stops in 27 cities since. The Airbus A320 has made stops in 20 different U.S. cities since Sept. 20, as far north as LaGuardia Airport in New York on the east coast to Seattle/Tacoma and Portland, Ore. in the west. It is scheduled to visit its 21st U.S. city, Albany, N.Y., later today. The long-haul Boeing 777 has had a much more international itinerary, but has been contained to seven airports over that span — Brussels, Washington Dulles, Frankfort, Sao Paulo-Gaurulhos, London Heathrow, Newark Liberty and Chicago O'Hare. The CDC has said that it is building its investigation through concentric circles, with the first circle full of everyone Duncan could have exposed and the second circle representing those the exposed could have then come in contact with. But including his layover in Washington and all the people he may have talked to after leaving the airport, the search becomes a bit of a needle in a haystack. All those suspected to have come in contact with Duncan or someone Duncan exposed will be monitored during the three-week Ebola incubation period. CNN is reporting that more than 100 people are being monitored in Dallas alone. http://www.travelpulse.com/news/airlines/as-cdc-chases-down-ebola-victims-planes-continue-flying.html |
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