Me, Now That Ebola Has Come To USA

[MidnightSensi2]

I heard weed cures ebola.

You should volunteer for a trial of that . I wonder what could be used for the placebo control? Oregano?

Kids first!

 

[mike c]

Outbreak movie 1995
Outbreak (1995) - IMDb

i thought back then, "they should be making vaccines by now ... "

19 years ... and the movie is still my reference "virus" movie.

 

[Alex2507]

Outbreak movie 1995
Outbreak (1995) - IMDb

i thought back then, "they should be making vaccines by now ... "

19 years ... and the movie is still my reference "virus" movie.

I read this book way back. This is just the kind of sh!t that happens when you mess with monkeys. Just sayin'.

 

[TLS Guy]

I read this book way back. This is just the kind of sh!t that happens when you mess with monkeys. Just sayin'.

Especially if you eat them!

Seriously we have to do better.

Once there is a case we need a specially equipped and staffed ambulance. In Dallas we had a contact under monitoring turn up in a clinic and then an emergency room! Any contact who gets a fever, should be told to call 911 and ask to be picked up by an ambulance with isolation procedures and taken into isolation for assessment.

If we keep this fiasco up we will sleepwalk to disaster, like seems to be happening in Spain.

 

[rnatalli]

All this talk about screening, what a bunch of BS; more about keeping the populace calm than anything else. You want to reassure me, deploy UV cleaners to every airport. Those machines are capable of wiping out Ebola within a minute or two with pulses of UV light.

 

[haraldo]

Ebola is not new. I seem to remember hearing about it for years. For something that causes the concern and resources now launched after one guy comes to the US with it, why are we still in the experimental phase for treatment, vaccine or a cure? With periodic outbreaks in Africa for years, was it really a stretch to imagine one day it would come here, or London, or Hong Kong, etc?

As far as I heard ebola appeared the first time something like 40 years ago, there has never been these large outbreaks as it has previously mainly been centered around very scarcely populated areas, so in the end it stops by itself.

The difference this time is that infected people went to main cities, where it's much easier to spread...

This is very scary but as long as it's not airborne (hope it will stay like this) it's possible to protect yourself.

There's also one infected patient at hospital in Oslo, a Norwegian doctor that got infected while helping people somewhere in one of the infected areas somewhere in West Africa....

 

[rnatalli]

Ebola outbreak: Texas nurse tests positive - CNN.com

Nurse who worked on Duncan infected. What is it with these healthcare workers? I would be a paranoid freak and follow protocol to the letter if I had to work on a patient with a disease like this.

 

[Alex2507]

I seem to remember it being way more lethal than 50%.

 

[haraldo]

I seem to remember it being way more lethal than 50%.

I read figures, something between 50% and 80%

 

[herbu]

As far as I heard ebola appeared the first time something like 40 years ago, there has never been these large outbreaks as it has previously mainly been centered around very scarcely populated areas, so in the end it stops by itself.

Are we talking about Ebola or AIDS?

 

[haraldo]

Are we talking about Ebola or AIDS?

Ebola !!!!!!

The first known outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD), was identified only after the fact, occurring between June and November 1976 in Nzara, South Sudan......

 

[MidnightSensi2]

What's our status? The suit is still on.

 

[Alex2507]

What's our status? The suit is still on.

In Miami? Take the suit off. Dare I say, break out the flip flops?

Meet any adversity with a smile and an umbrella drink.

 

[herbu]

A Dr in NYC has it. Rode 2 subways and went bowling the night before he decided he was sick. He worked with Doctors Without Borders, treating people with Ebola in Africa. Came home. Felt "fatigued". Didn't turn himself in until his fever went up.

 

[markw]

Great. Now everyone's gonna freak when someone sneezes in the subway.

 

[herbu]

Now 2 governors, New York & New Jersey, have implemented a mandatory 21-day quarantine in their states for health care workers who have been with Ebola patients. So I guess it's up to each state to handle as they see fit.

 

[markw]

When their airports handle such a massive influx of overseas passengers, it's better to be safe than sorry.

 

[Chu Gai]

The African response to Ebola. Disturbing.

http://news.yahoo.com/africans-worst-responders-ebola-crisis-093307593.html

 

[c.coyle]

The African response to Ebola. Disturbing.

This is what one would expect, given the state of political, economic, and educational affairs in many African countries. However, Nigeria has stopped Ebola dead in its tracks. Being a newbie here, I can't post a link yet, but just search Google News.

Just an observation: For all the agitation to "do something" or "do something more" about Ebola, a grand total of two (2) humans have so far contracted the disease on U.S. soil. Both of them had intentionally and directly exposed themselves to persons already infected.

This is not to suggest that we should ignore the potential harm, but to put it in perspective. Conservatively, 8,800 Americans alone died in the 2009 H1N1 Flu Pandemic, about 200,000 worldwide.

 

[Swerd]

This is what one would expect, given the state of political, economic, and educational affairs in many African countries. However, Nigeria has stopped Ebola dead in its tracks. Being a newbie here, I can't post a link yet, but just search Google News.

Just an observation: For all the agitation to "do something" or "do something more" about Ebola, a grand total of two (2) humans have so far contracted the disease on U.S. soil. Both of them had intentionally and directly exposed themselves to persons already infected.

This is not to suggest that we should ignore the potential harm, but to put it in perspective. Conservatively, 8,800 Americans alone died in the 2009 H1N1 Flu Pandemic, about 200,000 worldwide.

I still run into people with "Ebola-itis" (usually caused by watching too much cable TV news). If they rant and rave about the slow development of an Ebola vaccine, I ask them if they've gotten this year's flu vaccine yet.

Ebola this year has infected 13,567 and killed 4,951, as of Oct. 31st (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_epidemic_in_West_Africa).

In contrast, the 2009/10 H1N1 Flu killed somewhere between 105,700-395,600 worldwide (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza).

The Ebola death rate seems to be dropping from well over 50% to 36% according to the latest reports.