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RE: Ebola coming to a town near you?
(08-01-2014 10:58 PM)ODUsmitty Wrote: It is arrogant to think American medical services know with absolute assuredness the routes of transmission, especially with two AMericans that should know all the precautions with this disease. If there is any guiding premise for disease, it should be that "nature finds a way".
If this strain has airborne transmission capability, which some reports are suggesting, the opportuity to contain is much less. Still do not understand the rush to come to the US, when support in a hot zone, or other isolated area, makes more sense. Bringing them to a heavily populated city seems foolish, at best.
Yeah, and in Atlanta in a few weeks. Pretty f'd up.
At least if they die, they have done all they can for them, and they die in their home country. Near their relatives.
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RE: Ebola coming to a town near you?
It still makes me nervous though. All the assurances in the world aren't always enough to make you feel safer.
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08-02-2014 06:06 PM |
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RE: Ebola coming to a town near you?
You have millions of people entering our country that we know nothing
about and a world of Islamic terrorists that want us dead. Not too
concerned.
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08-02-2014 06:32 PM |
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Ebola coming to a town near you?
Then if it truly is Samaritans Purse ...them Franklin Graham will have blood on his hands if there is a "problem" with any of this. I just can't see any good ending taking place here. The individual is not greater than the whole!!!
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RE: Ebola coming to a town near you?
UK gripped in fear as passenger from Sierra Leone collapses and dies as she got of the plane that arrived in London. Authorities say her symptoms are not consistent with Ebola, but she is being tested as a precaution.
So again travelers from the region don't need to be quarantined? This is a pandemic waiting to happen.
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RE: Ebola coming to a town near you?
People put in place to protect us are incompetent. Its inevitable that they fail.
(This post was last modified: 08-03-2014 06:27 PM by SumOfAllFears.)
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08-03-2014 06:26 PM |
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RE: Ebola coming to a town near you?
(07-29-2014 08:21 PM)blah Wrote: (07-29-2014 06:31 PM)john01992 Wrote: (07-29-2014 06:26 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote: (07-29-2014 06:23 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote: (07-29-2014 05:58 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote: Yup
Those nations and the UN have handled it pretty well.
The Gabonese have contained outbreaks on their own.
You shouldn't be this scared over this.
Seriously?!?
Mr. Sawyer collapsed after the second flight, no way he was not showing symptoms of some illness when he boarded the first. Had the timeline played out just one week different he would have likely made it back to the US symptom free and exposed countless people to this.
No way this is being effectively contained based purely on this one incident. It only take one infected individual to turn in to hundreds, maybe thousands of cases.
You do know this disease has been around since the 70s and the outbreaks have been contained, right?
I'd say we were lucky that we did contain them, but there's no need to use that precedent to say this is not something we should worry about.
It's like a hurricane, just because one didn't hit you this year doesn't mean you are immune from future hurricanes. Already this Ebola virus is more deadly than any of the previous ones.
Actually this strain of Ebola seems to be less deadly, which is why I think it is so scary. A lot of Ebola strains go as high as 90% mortality, killing off victims quickly before they have a chance to spread the disease. This strain is only about 60% meaning those infected have time to spread it around before they die or get too sick to move around. I think this has the potential to get way worse before it gets better.
Thought this thread was worth a bump. Anyone who said this wasn't a big deal want to change their mind now?
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RE: Ebola coming to a town near you?
(07-29-2014 04:59 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote: No they shouldn't be quarantined.
Ebola is dangerous, no doubt, but the level of business and trade in the region can't be compromised over an overblown fear.
The disease can be contained by even these minimally functional governments in that region.
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RE: Ebola coming to a town near you?
(07-29-2014 06:37 PM)EverRespect Wrote: HoD is right. This virus is not easily spread like the flu.
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RE: Ebola coming to a town near you?
(07-29-2014 08:25 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote: (07-29-2014 06:33 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote: (07-29-2014 06:26 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote: (07-29-2014 06:23 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote: (07-29-2014 05:58 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote: Yup
Those nations and the UN have handled it pretty well.
The Gabonese have contained outbreaks on their own.
You shouldn't be this scared over this.
Seriously?!?
Mr. Sawyer collapsed after the second flight, no way he was not showing symptoms of some illness when he boarded the first. Had the timeline played out just one week different he would have likely made it back to the US symptom free and exposed countless people to this.
No way this is being effectively contained based purely on this one incident. It only take one infected individual to turn in to hundreds, maybe thousands of cases.
You do know this disease has been around since the 70s and the outbreaks have been contained, right?
You do know the number of flights into/out of this region increased exponentially since the 70's greatly increasing the risk that an exposed individual will eventually board a flight and make it to the US, Europe or somewhere where the mobility of that nation will allow exposure to many more people in many more areas. Part of why this has been limited especially in the past is the people of this region used to rarely travel beyond their village and had few western visitors. That has all changed significantly over the last 20 years.
I don't entirely disagree.
The nations in the regions have taken steps to combat the disease, along with the WTO and UN.
My point is that a quarantine of people who travel to the region is not a viable solution. It would be an extreme overreaction.
John missed this...
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RE: Ebola coming to a town near you?
(08-02-2014 06:06 PM)Ole Blue Wrote: It still makes me nervous though. All the assurances in the world aren't always enough to make you feel safer.
Hard not to be a little nervous; however, ebola is not spread through the air and requires direct contact with bodily fluids to spread. Given that, the nervousnes subsides. If ebola was spread via the air then the situation would be much much worse.
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Ebola coming to a town near you?
Explain how the Americans that have been infected that were wearing protective garb and space suits acquired the virus?
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RE: Ebola coming to a town near you?
(10-01-2014 09:12 AM)South Carolina Duke Wrote: Explain how the Americans that have been infected that were wearing protective garb and space suits acquired the virus?
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of the 4 americans that happened to
1 never had his identity released so we don't know
1 caught it while performing a surgery
the last 2 the CDC & WHO are absolutely dumbfounded as to how it happened.
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Ebola coming to a town near you?
Exactly.
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RE: Ebola coming to a town near you?
Uh, you seem to think they were wearing that garb at all times while in that region.
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