EBOLA FEAR IN AMERICA - The CDC Wants People To Be Fearful & Scared of Ebola Outbreak

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Tom Frieden vowed to “stop Ebola in its tracks” in the United States while acknowledging that the Dallas outbreak could become larger than one case.

“I’m not going to promise that we can stop this at just one case, but I can tell you we have the advantage because the right steps are being taken,” Frieden wrote late Thursday in an op-ed “Even if we tried to close the border, it wouldn’t work,” Frieden said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “People have a right to return, people transiting through could come in, and it would backfire because by isolating these countries will make it harder to help them.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials were called to Newark Liberty International Airport Saturday after a passenger believed to be from Liberia showed signs of possible Ebola symptoms.

The passenger was reportedly vomiting as the flight landed in New Jersey and was immediately taken to University Hospital in Newark for further evaluation, according to ABC News.

A CDC Hazmat crew, fully dressed in protective gear, removed the passenger and his daughter from United Airlines flight 998 arriving from Brussels, ABC reported.

The remaining passengers were quarantined, but have since been allowed to leave after the passenger in question was reportedly determined noncontagious.

A senior federal official told ABC News that the man exhibited “flu-like” symptoms.

“He’s now being treated with protocols as if he has it, but no clear indication at this point that he does,” the official said.

The airline’s immediate statement:

“Upon arrival at Newark Airport from Brussels, medical professionals instructed that customers and crew of United flight 998 remain on board until they could assist an ill customer,” the statement said. “We are working with authorities and will accommodate our customers as quickly as we can.”

“I’m not going to put a floor or ceiling on this,” Kirby said. President Obama initially ordered 3,000 troops to West Africa to help build hospitals, labs and treatment centers and provide logistics help. They are not going to treat Ebola victims.

A travel ban to the countries facing an Ebola outbreak could paradoxically make the problem worse, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden said during a Saturday press conference.

Frieden said the CDC would consider any and all precautions, but warned that a travel ban could make it harder to get medical care and aid workers to regions dealing with the outbreak.

He cited the recent delay African Union aid workers experienced trying to get to Liberia. “Their ability to get there was delayed by about a week because their flight was canceled and they were stuck in a neighboring country,” he said.

An American patient treated for Ebola in Nebraska then released is now in isolation in a hospital in Massachusetts. And an Ebola patient in Dallas has slipped into critical condition.

Dr. Richard Sacra, who had been previously treated for Ebola, went to an emergency room early Saturday in Boston with a cough and fever, said missionary organization Serving in Mission. He was afraid he might have pneumonia. KCTV in Kansas City reports this morning that an apartment building in the city was sealed off after a person who lives there was suspected of coming down with Ebola. Authorities said they wanted to take every precaution they could and treated the situation seriously. It is unknown at this time what the patient is suffering from or if anyone else is sick. The patient is being treated at Research Medical Center Brookside Campus for treatment, and all or part of the medical facility was quarantined as well, a source close to the situation said. Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States, is now in critical condition, a Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital spokeswoman said Saturday.