CDC Screws Up Again with Ebola Virus

This isn't weird, cool or even fun. It's downright awful.

What was it, last month when we read about the CDC transporting Anthrax around in Ziploc bags?

Then a week or two before that, they found some cardboard boxes in an old storage room near Washington that were supposed to have been stored by the CDC that contained some decades-old vials of smallpox packed away that everybody seems to have forgotten about. 

Then another time, the CDC apparently mishandled some Anthrax and had to give their employees tons of antibiotics because they figured they might be infected. Wait a go, guys!

Now it seems they've screwed up again. This time it's with Ebola. This poor guy from Liberia flies to Dallas with Ebola and nurses there treat him. One nurse then comes down with the virus and another is planning to fly out of Dallas and starts to feel sick, so she decides to call the CDC and ask them if it's OK to fly on a plane with dozens of other healthy people. 

What do they say? They tell her YES, it's just fine. Her temperature is only 99.5 degrees so go ahead, you're fine, and it's perfectly OK to take your trip.

This has got to be just about the biggest OOPS! you could possibly find in the annals of human history.

Now they've figured out, finally, that the nurse, Amber Vinson, also has the Ebola virus. Wow, what a coincidence! Of course, she's been isolated, and now they're running all over the place trying to locate all the other 260 or so passengers that were on the Frontier Airlines flights she was allowed to travel in back and forth from Dallas to Cleveland and back after she was told it was OK to fly by the infamous CDC.

Almost 5,000 people have died so far, most in West Africa, during this year's horrific Ebola outbreak. So far, cases in the U.S. and Europe have been limited. The disease was only identified back in 1976, and causes fever, diarrhea and vomiting. It only spreads through bodily contact, they think, but it's highly contagious.

The motto of the CDC (US Government Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is ...

"Saving Lives, Protecting People, Reducing Health Costs"

Yeah, right.