well, i guess i won't have to get residency after all. I will surely die of chicky or ebola before they have a chance to deport me.
If Ebola spreads to the DR it would devastate this country. Its a land where there is no soap,no hot water, people cannot read and write and the government is totally corrupt and ineffectual. For example my wifes mother lives near Santo Domingo and believes that Chickungunya is spread by contaminated ocean water. Where she got this idea I do not know. Wife tried to explain it to her to no avail.
I have heard numerous people discuss this story about a contamination dump of bio hazard material in Haina sometime around the same time CHIKV appeared in April-2014. Don't rule out any of this as there has been numerous evidence of high lead levels in the blood and Haina has a long history of being the Dominican Chernobyl.
Note this part in the story here: "Health officials note that, at the present time, the spread of the disease has declined in the Greater Santo Domingo and San Cristobal, where the disease began."
Where the disease began. Where did "it" begin? It began in March-April in Haina and Nigua. I posted the article here dated May 1, 2014, in the CHIKV thread. You can look it up. What we know about Haina is that it is the Dominican Cherbobyl with a lead plant that released many pollutants. The fact that people keep discussing that there was a bio hazard release in Haina during this time is something that ought to be taken seriously and investigated to confirm that this is not a contributing factor (lead-Mercury poisoning) with similar symptoms to CHIKV.
Fortalecer la frontera es la ?nica defensa contra el ?bola para RD, seg?n presidente CMD - Acento - El m?s ?gil y moderno diario electr?nico de la Rep?blica Dominicana
Somehow this sounds like an attempt to inflame sentiments ... especially in light of the legalization of the statuses of residents of Haitian descent.
Note this part in the story here: "Health officials note that, at the present time, the spread of the disease has declined in the Greater Santo Domingo and San Cristobal, where the disease began."
Where the disease began. Where did "it" begin? It began in March-April in Haina and Nigua. I posted the article here dated May 1, 2014, in the CHIKV thread. You can look it up. What we know about Haina is that it is the Dominican Cherbobyl with a lead plant that released many pollutants. The fact that people keep discussing that there was a bio hazard release in Haina during this time is something that ought to be taken seriously and investigated to confirm that this is not a contributing factor (lead-Mercury poisoning) with similar symptoms to CHIKV.
Oh boy, it looks like it could be inevitable in the DR. Let's hope they can begin
to take drastic measures, whatever that may be. I do not see how that can be
accomplished.:ermm:
Lawmaker urges more control against Ebola
Santo Domingo.- Deputy Vinicio Castillo on Thursday asked Public Health minister Freddy Hidalgo to include the border with Haiti among its measures to keep the Ebola virus out of the country, citing previous epidemics that arrived from there.
The minority FNP party lawmaker warned Haiti’s direct weekly flights to the African continent, source of the deadly disease, makes it necessary to include the border in the control measures, in addition to ports and airports.
He said both the chikungunya and cholera viruses that have hit the country in recent months come from Africa, and in the latter’s case, entered the Dominican Republic from Haiti.
He said he doesn’t want to create alarm, but to urge the authorities to adopt measures along the border and protect the Dominican population.
"I believe and there’s the precedent of the cholera which was in America or in the Caribbean came precisely through members of Minustah (UN peacekeepers) who brought it from Africa," Castillo said.
He said chikungunya also came via Martinique aboard direct contacts with flights to Africa, for which special preventive measures had to be taken on the border, “especially taking into account the number of flights."
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2014/8/8/52382/Lawmaker-urges-more-control-against-Ebola
Or they could just shoot the patient. That would probably be faster and cheaper.
Fortalecer la frontera es la ?nica defensa contra el ?bola para RD, seg?n presidente CMD - Acento - El m?s ?gil y moderno diario electr?nico de la Rep?blica Dominicana
Somehow this sounds like an attempt to inflame sentiments ... especially in light of the legalization of the statuses of residents of Haitian descent.
Even though there may not be DIRECT FLIGHTS from Africa to Haiti, ebola has a long
incubation period of 21 days. So when passengers take CONNECTING flights it can easily find
its way to other countries.
With a mortality rate of 90% nobody wants to take any chances.
No, right. There are no direct flights to Africa from Haiti. Probably some of the Haitian diaspora live in Africa. Most live in the United States, the Dominican Republic, then Canada, then France. I think that the idea that Ebola could come in from a person travling from Haiti implies that the Haitians are more likely to be traveling there because of some common African ancestry. The flight costs the annual wage of most Haitians and as far as I know, none of the Haitian elite have any connection with Africa (large investments, family names, etc), except Aristide, who lived in South Africa in exile and is now forbidden to leave the country.
No, right. There are no direct flights to Africa from Haiti. Probably some of the Haitian diaspora live in Africa. Most live in the United States, the Dominican Republic, then Canada, then France. I think that the idea that Ebola could come in from a person travling from Haiti implies that the Haitians are more likely to be traveling there because of some common African ancestry. The flight costs the annual wage of most Haitians and as far as I know, none of the Haitian elite have any connection with Africa (large investments, family names, etc), except Aristide, who lived in South Africa in exile and is now forbidden to leave the country.
There are direct flights into Africa from the United States, however. But even those are rare. Direct Flights to Africa From the US
Many of the flights into the affected region have been cancelled. Airlines cancel flights over Ebola worries - Aug. 6, 2014
All are being monitored.
Borders with the affected nations WHICH areSierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria, are being closed.
Here is the map of the outbreak
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=...949863934429.0004c658eb30f9c4fb1c0&dg=feature
The DR does NOT have the fruit bat which is the animal resevoir for this virus so it cannot become endemic.
Folks get all upset over the news.
961 people have died so far in this outbreak.
Every day, 1400 children die from lack of safe drinking water but we do not get in an uproar over it.
We just get scared about perhaps our OWN death?
Face it, no one gets out of here alive.