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Leading Ebola doctor dies of ... Ebola

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Steak Snabler, Jul 29, 2014.

  1. KJIM

    KJIM Well-Known Member

    This one's been going on since March.
     
  2. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Ebola doesn't spread in a way that effectively leads to widespread global outbreaks. In part because people who have it are most often too sick to travel, and in part because it spreads most efficiently in primitive settings.

    Outbreaks can be intense, but mostly contained to relatively small geographical areas.
     
  3. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Now we have disease control experts on this site.
    What are you guys doing here?
    Go help ameliorate the crisis.
     
  4. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    Yep, I believe I've read that the virus' deadliness is the very thing that prevents it from spreading into a pandemic.

    What made something like AIDS, for example, so sinister is that the HIV virus can hibernate for years before the disease/symptoms show themselves. So infected people would spend years traveling around infecting others before they realized they even had it. But with Ebola the infected get terribly sick within a week or two after contraction. Which is horrible for them and those in near proximity, but the bright side is it limits how far they can spread it.
     
  5. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

    There was a bit of a panic at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow when an athlete from Sierra Leone had to be quarantined for four days over possible Ebola. Given the all-clear, but apparently a number of the athletes from Sierra Leone are going to make full use of their three-month entry visas ...
     
  6. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Not only that, but it's a contact disease, so if you don't come into physical contact with it, you don't get it.

    Now if it ever developed an airborne strain? Then it would be time to panic.
     
  7. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    I've heard Ebola compared to HIV in that it's spread mainly by bodily fluids. But I've been told for Ebola that includes feces and urine, which in undeveloped areas are abundantly present. And obviously, Ebola is much more fast-acting.

    For us, it's not exactly Captain Trips, but for vast areas of Africa already hammered by HIV, it could be the aforementioned reset.
     
  8. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

  9. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    We are begging for catastrophe here.
     
  10. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    On the one hand, these two are going to be isolated in quarantine, likely until they die in a few days, and ebola is very hard to contract in that type of situation. The CDC folks might even be able to learn something by studying and trying to treat them, which I'm guessing is the thought behind this as much as anything. In addition, it's highly likely everyone on the plane with them will be tested for the disease immediately upon arrival.
    On the other hand, it's FUCKING EBOLA!
     
  11. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    They're bringing the two patients in one at a time?

    MSNBC just said the plane in in the air, and headed to Atlanta with one patient. It will then return to Africa to get the second patient.
     
  12. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    The jet has an isolation bubble that can only accommodate one patient at a time.
     
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