Atlanta hospital receives hate mail for treating American aid workers stricken by Ebola

[Cali_Democrat]

The Atlanta hospital treating one of the US aid workers stricken with the Ebola virus, and preparing to receive a second, has appealed to the public to show compassion, after receiving “nasty emails” asking why the patients were allowed back into the country.

Emory University Hospital is expecting the arrival of Nancy Writebol early next week. She will be treated in a specially equipped isolation unit alongside one occupied by Dr Kent Brantly who arrived over the weekend.

Officials there are striving to reassure nervous members of the public that the aid workers’ presence in the city did not imply a risk of an Ebola outbreak on US soil.

“I hope our understandable fear of the unfamiliar does not trump our compassion when ill Americans return to the US for care,” said Dr Tom Frieden, director of the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC), also based in Atlanta. He noted the agency had received some “nasty emails” and about 100 calls from people questioning why the sick aid workers should be let into the US.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/atlanta-hospital-receives-hate-mail-for-treating-aid-workers-stricken-by-ebola-9645199.html

[malthaussen]

1. We should make them wear little bells and shout "unclean, unclean."

Well, plague and sickness will always bring out the best and worst.

-- Mal

[brucefan]

2. Thanks Donald Trump!

Asshole.

[Initech]

3. What the fuck is wrong with people??

[cwydro]

6. Those haters are on this site too.

Check out any Ebola thread here.

Though suddenly they've gone quiet.

[Avalux]

4. The CDC has also been getting hate mail and calls.

I think some people live in fear of everything. I feel sorry for them....

[treestar]

5. Indeed, it is crazy to think that

the CDC can't handle this.

Or that these two people coming back and known to have it and thus quarantined are more of a problem than someone out there coming to the US infected with it but coming from anywhere in the world. Unless Liberia has been on lock-down and no one has been able to leave for a time period, there are people out there who might have it. International borders are not going to protect anyone from a communicable disease.