Doctors call the risk is “minimal”.
Via NY Post:
Two American aid workers infected with Ebola in Africa will be brought back to the United States for treatment, it was announced Friday — sparking panic online that the deadly virus would create a US epidemic.
Instead of an outpouring of compassion for the two infected workers who will be brought from Liberia to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Twitter exploded into a hotbed of anxiety as users — including such celebs as Donald Trump — blasted feds for allowing the virus to enter the country for the first time.
“Stop the EBOLA patients from entering the U.S. Treat them, at the highest level, over there. THE UNITED STATES HAS ENOUGH PROBLEMS!” Trump tweeted Friday.
An outbreak of the virus has killed more than 700 people in West Africa and infected 1,300 more since March, the World Health Organization reports.
In the words of the inimitable James Woods:
The hypothetical question on some minds is, "Can the same people who gave us ObamaCare and Fast and Furious manage an apocalyptic epidemic?"
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) August 2, 2014