OT: Ebola – Global Pandemic?

[UCGal]

For those looking for good news.

No one who wasn’t a health care worker directly involved in the care of Duncan was infected. Even his fiance and son. Apparently he was cleaning up after himself before he went to the hospital, so they weren’t exposed, directly, to his bodily fluids.

All of the other cases in the US, with the exception of the camera man, were health care workers who’d been in west Africa. Duncan wasn’t a health care worker – but was exposed helping a pregnant neighbor, apparently unaware she had ebola, and not just complications from her pregnancy.

The doctor in NY did not expose an entire ER while showing symptoms. NYC and the doctor seemed to handle it well. The bowling alley was visited before he showed symptoms.

To date – no one from the flight that Vinson took has shown symptoms.

You may now return to your previously scheduled panic.

[Zeitgeist]

[img_assist|nid=19354|title=Government in charge of Ebola|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=65][quote=outtamojo][quote=FlyerInHi]Who exactly is “they”?

We have a decentralized, disparate, private health care system. But a few cases of ebola, and we want the government to swoop-in and instantly control the whole situation.

It seems me like an opportunity not to be wasted.[/quote]

Political nutjobs please stay away. This is, or should be, all about safe handling of ebola cases and not getting anyone killed due to inadequate processes.[/quote]

[NotCranky]

[quote=outtamojo][quote=FlyerInHi]Who exactly is “they”?

We have a decentralized, disparate, private health care system. But a few cases of ebola, and we want the government to swoop-in and instantly control the whole situation.

It seems me like an opportunity not to be wasted.[/quote]

Political nutjobs please stay away. This is, or should be, all about safe handling of ebola cases and not getting anyone killed due to inadequate processes.[/quote]
Not much different than the Ferguson case , Brian, not at all.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=Blogstar][quote=outtamojo][quote=FlyerInHi]Who exactly is “they”?

We have a decentralized, disparate, private health care system. But a few cases of ebola, and we want the government to swoop-in and instantly control the whole situation.

It seems me like an opportunity not to be wasted.[/quote]

Political nutjobs please stay away. This is, or should be, all about safe handling of ebola cases and not getting anyone killed due to inadequate processes.[/quote]
Not much different than the Ferguson case , Brian, not at all.[/quote]

Yes, I can definitely see your point. Same but different. The devil’s in the details.

[NotCranky]

[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=Blogstar][quote=outtamojo][quote=FlyerInHi]Who exactly is “they”?

We have a decentralized, disparate, private health care system. But a few cases of ebola, and we want the government to swoop-in and instantly control the whole situation.

It seems me like an opportunity not to be wasted.[/quote]

Political nutjobs please stay away. This is, or should be, all about safe handling of ebola cases and not getting anyone killed due to inadequate processes.[/quote]
Not much different than the Ferguson case , Brian, not at all.[/quote]

Yes, I can definitely see your point. Same but different. The devil’s in the details.[/quote]
You know I was with you until you added that bit about devils and details. Both are serious matters though.

[FlyerInHi]

Ebola is all about science. All the medical and scientific experts I’ve heard said that we’ve handled Ebola very well so far, with some mistake we’ve learned from.

[NotCranky]

[quote=FlyerInHi]Ebola is all about science. All the medical and scientific experts I’ve heard said that we’ve handled Ebola very well so far, with some mistake we’ve learned from.[/quote]
O.k very unlike Ferguson then.

[ltsddd]

[quote=outtamojo][quote=flu]Nina Pham is cured… That’s good news.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/24/health/ebola-nurse/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Also Vinson seems to be almost there too…

Good news.[/quote]

Yes, very good news. Less frightening to know that 1rst world medical care can make this level of virus less of a death sentence.[/quote]

Is she really cured and ebola-free? Or is she now a carrier of the virus that still can be transmitted to others (a la HIV)?

[moneymaker]

Yes I’m surprised somebody can be “cured” so quickly. Too bad that is not true with AIDS. I was surprised to see the president hug her, just a little curious about the before and after scenario.

[FlyerInHi]

Maybe the hug is part of a conspiracy.

[Aecetia]

“The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented; there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past four months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years. Each new infection represents trillions of throws of the genetic dice.”

[zk]

[quote=Aecetia]”The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented; there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past four months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years. Each new infection represents trillions of throws of the genetic dice.”

A lame and disappointing article. Just another fear monger with incomplete and incorrect information. He’s afraid that ebola could go airborne. But no human virus has ever changed its mode of transmission:

http://online.wsj.com/articles/scientists-say-ebolas-transmission-route-unlikely-to-have-changed-1413475957

And the Canadian researchers did not prove that ebola “could be transmitted by the respiratory route from pigs to monkeys.”

http://healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/pigs-monkeys-ebola-goes-airborne-112112

Nevermind the sensational title of the above link. Read the article.

[zk]

[img_assist|nid=20532|title=Exactly|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=73]

[no_such_reality]

I’ll go on out on a limb and say that measles, once eradicated in the USA will kill more people in the States than ebola.

[CA renter]

[quote=zk][img_assist|nid=20532|title=Exactly|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=73][/quote]

That’s a pretty good one. 🙂

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