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Ebola Has Made It To the United States
An anonymous reader sends news that the CDC has confirmed the first case of Ebola diagnosed on U.S. soil.
An unnamed patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas was placed in isolation while awaiting test results for the dreaded virus. Apparently, the patient had traveled recently to a West African country, where the disease is spreading, and later developed symptoms that suggested Ebola. A blood specimen from the patient was sent to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, a testing process that can take 24 to 48 hours to confirm an Ebola infection — or not. The results came back about 3:32 p.m.
In other Ebola news, outbreaks in Nigeria and Senegal appear to be completely contained.
... crack each others heads open and feast on the goo inside?
Best solution right now is to panic and start looting. Mostly because looting looks fun and angry mobs make for good tv
Time to cut off texas from the rest of the US... oh wait they've been working on that for us for years.
> By tolerating corrupt government, they squander resources, and have nothing left to spend on healthcare infrastructure.
Hey, come on now, the USA isn't that bad.
A fool and his hard drive are soon parted.
rabies virus, it could result in the infected person becoming insane and attacking everyone that he sees. But unlike regular rabies, you don't have to get bitten to become infected... Ebola can be transmitted simply by touching someone. This could result in extremely rapid disease transmission, perhaps triggering a worldwide pandemic.
If this happens, millions of Resident Evil fans all over the world will be writhing on the floor in full nerdgasm.
> By tolerating corrupt government, they squander resources, and have nothing left to spend on healthcare infrastructure.
Hey, come on now, the USA isn't that bad.
I was going to mod you +1 funny, but you stole my joke.
...it's the only way to be sure.
Left MS Windows for Linux Mint and never looked back!
Vote for Bernie in 2016!
Overheard at the TSA: OMG NAIL CLIPPERS, TACKLE HIM!!
Whew, that was close! Hey Lou, what about this guy? He's bleeding from his eyeballs! Let 'im through Joe, nothing in the book about that.
Is the end of humanity due to the Ebola virus an acceptable excuse for adultery?
Asking for a friend.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Well, those flight cancellation fees are pretty outrageous.
That it's not a 'dark, dismal world', that it's a ''what you make of it'' world, depending on your attitude towards it.
The important question we need to ask is if we want to live in a world of single quotes or double quotes.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
My advice is not to tongue kiss people who just got off the plane from west African countries and you should be fine.
The terrorists have already won.
Monstar L