Confirmed Ebola case in the US has many Jamaicans worried
On Tuesday (September 30) health officials confirmed that a patient undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dallas Texas has the deadly Ebola virus.
This patient is now the first person to be diagnosed outside of Africa.
According to The Guardian, the patient, who has not yet been identified, is being treated in Dallas, Texas.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said the patient left Liberia in west Africa on 19 September, but did not develop symptoms until a few days after arriving in the US. He was admitted to the Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in Dallas on Sunday.
Thomas Frieden, the director of the CDC, said the patient was being treated in strict isolation, and that all measures would be taken to ensure that the disease would not spread in the US.
Following this announcement, many Jamaicans have taken to social media platforms and various websites to voice their concerns.
A few of their comments included:
“Jeeezas save wi please nuh mek dis reach a yaad wi caaan manage”
“Jamaica is totally unprepared to manage a deadly virus like this”
“I pray this nasty killer never makes its way to Jamaica’s island atmosphere”
“US. Hope it’s not Jamaica next. We couldn’t handle it. We need to pray that it doesn’t reach us.”
In recent days there have been rumours circulating around Jamaica that the virus has already reached the island but it is being kept “hush hush”.
How scared are you of Ebola reaching Jamaica? Let us know in the comments.
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And we let in Americans like they are our last hope? Good God! The implication is staggering! God help us!
Blood of Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! against it
come against it in JESUS NAME……………….
I plea de blood of JESUS against dis deadly virus, i hope it doesn’t come to JAMAICA we can’t manage it!!!
funny when ever danger get nears we remember Jesus
Only when serious things like this is close to home we Jamiacans believe and call on Jesus..otherwise wi dnt even take time to give him thnx for a new day….
Only when serious things like this is close to home we Jamiacans believe and call on Jesus..otherwise wi dnt even take time to give him thnx for a new day….
kmt afta him na no life fi live
we people are lost far from reality we dont even see whats coming. first, chikungunya, now ebola. it is alleged they have found the cure for ebola but it only works on white people because of the melatonin in black people skin seem to counteract the vaccine. check this again, 2104-2015 is the year the tetrad and since the first blood moon in april, war has broken out in Israel already. ISIS, does it rings a bell. so we have the wars, the major sicknesses and guess what, the chip in forearm and forehead. I bet this will be the… Read more »
y is it that tourists from America still aloud in and out of Jamaica? The government is not taking the Ebola virus outbreak seriously. It’s better we loose 3 million rather than the entire Jamaican population.
smh as always the craziness of jamaicans.
Watch di priest Dem a fret, god naa save none a unno dead unno a go dead… Dyam fool. Instead a force di government to tek action and try prevent di outbreak unno a go pray. Yea Mon pray an go a heaven dat ma deh.
http://scgnews.com/ebola-what-youre-not-being-told
No weapon,no Ebola no virus nothing that is a treat to Jamaica can destroy us in Jesus name. When Jesus in our island no virus can touch…
I THINK GLOBAL POPULATION REDUCTION IS IN THE WORKS!! WAKE UP WORLD, WE ARE IN THE END TIMES. KNOW THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES AND SEEK SALVATION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!! TOMORROW IS NOT PROMISED TO ANY MAN.
The entire world will be affected so let us brace ourselves!
I am not saying I want it here but its only a matter of time, because for one tourist coming in and out of the country aren’t been properly supervised, there is noway we can go to their country without doing a throughly checkup so why can they do the same when coming into ours? This system is stupidness and its been runnedby people that cares for themselves
I firmly believe that travel from infected countries (including now apparently the US) should require quarantine measures, meet people at the planes and make them stay in quarantine for 21 days. Just “looking for people who exhibit symptoms” in ludicris. This isn’t bird flu, this thing is 90% fatal even in developed countries. opening ourselves up to this is insanity.
Lets practice SAFER HYGIENE & continue with hard prayers . Yes Lord !!!
Oh lord hear my humble prayer…wi caah manage it
Oh lord hear my humble prayer…wi caah manage it