Georgia: DeKalb County threatened to cut Emory sewer lines over Ebola virus
Nothing stirs fear like a global pandemic. According to the lede story in today’s New York Times, DeKalb County threatened to cut off sewer lines to Emory University back in August, when two patients infected with the Ebola virus arrived:
Federal health officials have offered repeated assurances that most American hospitals can safely treat Ebola, but Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, which had years of preparation for just such a crisis, found out how hard that is while it cared for three Ebola patients.
Your daily jolt on politics from the AJC's Political insider blogAs doctors and nurses there worked to keep desperately ill patients alive in August, the county threatened to disconnect Emory from sewer lines if Ebola wastes went down the drain. The company that hauled medical trash to the incinerator refused to take anything used on an Ebola patient unless it was sterilized first. Couriers would not drive the patients’ blood samples a few blocks away for testing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And pizza places would not deliver to staff members in any part of the hospital.
Proof that we have an electorate paying attention comes from the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll:
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they are concerned about an Ebola outbreak in the United States, and about the same amount say they want flight restrictions from the countries in West Africa where the disease has quickly spread.
A new poll from the Washington Post and ABC News shows 67 percent of people say they would support restricting entry to the United States from countries struggling with Ebola. Another 91 percent would like to see stricter screening procedures at U.S. airports in response to the disease’s spread.
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New headline:
Emory backtracks: DeKalb never threatened sewer cutoff over Ebola virus
Somebody must have marched into Emory University Hospital and delivered a stern harangue this morning, after they read that NYTimes article. Wait...no...they probably called it in.
from being buried in Lake Charles -- after they had been incinerated! 
