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I am a medical professional

who in all likelihood will be involved in the direct care of an Ebola patient should my tertiary care hospital receive one.

The current national panic over Ebola is reminiscent of the panic and sloppy logic that ensured after the discovery of HIV.

That our politicians insist on politicizing issues such as this in an effort to swing votes by letting the public think they're doing something is regrettable. And that goes to the White house too, thinking that taking peoples temperatures at the airport will prevent anything having to do with a disease whose incubation period is 8-10 days under normal circumstances. It didn't prevent anything in Hong Kong during the SARS outbreak and it will do little for Ebola except delude the uninformed that the government is doing something. Everybody who has developed Ebola in the US has passed through such airport screening!

Has anyone noticed that of the hundreds of people who came in contact with Eric Duncan only two developed Ebola And that includes members of his immediate family who shared the same apartment with him! Ebola is not tuberculosis or influenza, it is difficult to contract. Those nurses in Dallas spent days immersed in his diarrhea and vomit and urine, that's how they got Ebola, not through some mystical vapor.

What we need are legions of healthcare workers on the ground in west Africa helping care for these folks. Consigning this returning volunteer to tents with no shower or other amenities likely is a violation of her civil rights. Taking her blood for Ebola testing (predictably negative at this point even if she is incubating Ebola) likely violates her fourth amendment rights. Taking her bloos without scientific evidence of the need to test her likely is an unreasonable search and seizure. I hope some bright lawyer sues the pants off of Christie, pro bono.

How do we expect folks to volunteer for this dangerous and arduous task if what they have to look forward to is the leper colony. Can you say Salem witch hunt or Spanish inquisition? This madness is just the opposite of what we need.

One parting comment is that significant blame for the panic lies with our elected officials who told us they weren't spying on us, and were, and who told us they didn't torture people at G'itmo, and did. Whys should anyone believe anything such a government tells us about Ebola.





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