Ebola Comes to the US

Captain Trips is a bitch.

Oh, here we go. As a voracious reader of Robin Cook and Stephen King over the years, this is just the scary thing that resonates with me. I'm heartened that it's difficult to catch Ebola, and that its gestation is so fast that people don't go around as carriers for extended periods. That should keep it from becoming an epidemic here. But yikes, let's hope this is one time that truth is stranger than truth. Meanwhile, we can delight in how FOX News and Right Wing world will turn this into: a) President Obama's fault, and b) somehow a distraction from and related to Benghazi.

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First U.S. case of Ebola diagnosed in Texas after man who came from Liberia falls ill

A man who flew from Liberia to Dallas this month was diagnosed with Ebola on Tuesday, becoming the first person to board a passenger jet and unknowingly bring the disease here from West Africa, where it has killed thousands of people in recent months. . .

Read more at: Washington Post

Swine Flu: It's Deja-Vu All Over Again

I knew I wasn't just getting a sense of deja vu. There really was a swine flew scare when I was a kid. Picture it: 1976, year of the bicentennial, the Freedom Train, and star-spangled bunting everywhere. Farrah Fawcett's poster was on every boy's wall (even mine). But somebody got too cozy with some pigs, and we were faced with swine flu!

Here's how the Ad Council reacted: