So Ebola is an Islamic Terrorist - Weird Science: CNN Calls Ebola the 'ISIS of Bio-Agents'

That may explain Obama and his administration's reluctance to restrict air travel and closing the borders.
But at least they were calling Ebola a terrorist (sort of). m/r

Weird Science: CNN Calls Ebola the 'ISIS of Bio-Agents' | National Review Online

OCTOBER 6, 2014  By Tim Cavanaugh

One day after accusing Fox News of being unscientific, CNN uncorks this week's most hysterical metaphor.

One day after a highly self-aggrandizing CNN clip accused Fox News of trafficking in unscientific hysteria over the rash of hemorrhagic fever cases in the United States and Africa, the Most Trusted Name In News terrified its several viewers by calling Ebola the “ISIS of biological agents.”

CNN’s Legal View hostess Ashleigh Banfield on Monday gave heavy chyron rotation to a former Homeland Security official’s designation of the virus as a terrorist organization — a designation that is nonexistent from a medical standpoint and of extremely doubtful applicability from the legal point of view that Banfield is presumably familiar with. The Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) is a Sunni Islamist terrorist army operating in Iraq and Syria, while Ebola is a highly destructive virus originating in Africa.

The epithet originated in a New York Times contribution from Alexander Garza, former chief medical officer of the Department of Homeland Security, who wrote that the virus “is no ordinary communicable disease. It is the ISIS of biological agents. The response should mirror antiterrorism efforts.”

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