{"id":140434,"date":"2014-10-07T18:13:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T18:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=140434"},"modified":"2014-10-07T18:13:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T18:13:13","slug":"pentagon-claims-ebola-huge-risk-troops-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/pentagon-claims-ebola-huge-risk-troops-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Claims Ebola Not a Huge Risk to Troops in West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>KIT DANIELS<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 4,000 service members being deployed to \u201ccombat Ebola\u201d in West Africa will be \u201ckept safe\u201d from the virus, the Defense Department claimed, despite the fact that health officials have failed to contain Ebola which is now spreading on multiple continents.<\/p>\n<p>During a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/ebola-virus-outbreak\/u-s-troops-fighting-ebola-africa-will-be-safe-pentagon-n220176\" target=\"_blank\">Pentagon news conference today<\/a>, U.S. Army Gen. David Rodriguez, the commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), said the military is using \u201cstrict protocols\u201d to protect the troops and will implement \u201ccareful reintegration\u201d once they return to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am confident we can ensure our service members\u2019 safety and the safety of the American people,\u201d he said, adding that any soldier who contracts Ebola will be flown back into the U.S. for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Considering that efforts to contain Ebola have so far failed, with the disease now spreading in Europe and America, the Pentagon\u2019s reassurances carry little weight.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a nurse\u2019s assistant in Spain contracted Ebola from a source outside of Africa in what is now the first confirmed case of Ebola transmission in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, Ebola continues to rage out of control in West Africa,\u201d journalist Michael Snyder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/there-will-be-pestilences-why-are-so-many-deadly-diseases-breaking-out-all-over-the-globe-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt is being reported that Sierra Leone just added 121 new Ebola deaths to the overall death toll in a single day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/pentagon-claims-ebola-not-a-huge-risk-to-troops-in-west-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KIT DANIELS The 4,000 service members being deployed to \u201ccombat Ebola\u201d in West Africa will be \u201ckept safe\u201d from the virus, the Defense Department claimed, despite the fact that health officials have failed to contain Ebola which is now spreading on multiple continents. During a Pentagon news conference today, U.S. Army Gen. David Rodriguez, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,955],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-140434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}