Amateur hour continues.
Via CNS News:
One day after a bus that had departed from the Pentagon was quarantined on Capitol Hill in an Ebola false alarm, President Obama issued a video message to Americans telling them that “you cannot get it [Ebola] from just riding on a plane or a bus.”
“Ebola is actually a difficult disease to catch. It’s not transmitted through the air like the flu,” said Obama. “You cannot get it from just riding on a plane or a bus,” Obama said in his weekly video message released by the White House on Saturday.
But on Friday, a bus was quarantined on Virginia Avenue, SE, in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, D.C.
The bus was carrying a group of Marines and family members from the Pentagon to a ceremony that was going to take place at the Marine Barracks on Capitol Hill. While it was in the Pentagon parking lot, according to news reports, a woman boarded it and went into the restroom. Shen then exited the bus, vomited and collapsed. According to a Defense Department spokesman, “the individual indicated that she had recently visited Africa.”
The bus departed for the Marine Barracks, but the woman was brought to Inova Fairfax Hospital as a suspected Ebola victim. Meanwhile, the South Parking lot of the Pentagon was closed down, and when the bus approached the Marine Barracks on Capitol Hill it was quarantined.