Ebola

debs 168 said:
this site was pretty helpful:

http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/ebola-virus-questions

touches on some of the questions i had earlier.
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Basically what I was alluding to earlier:

Let me put it this way: There are way more common infections that we’re much more likely to be exposed to that are much greater cause for concern.

Or another way: We all worry about the serial killer coming and killing us, but in actuality the real risks in our lives are the trampolines in our backyards, swimming, sports, driving a car drunk… those are the things that actually kill us.
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Ya'll focus on the worst-case, unlikeliest scenarios and ignore the dangers that surround you on a daily basis. You're more likely to get clipped by a drunk drive at an intersection than contract a deadly virus. Yet you still get in your car every day. It's the definition of a first world problem.
 
debs 168 said:
like i'm happy and its great that this person, who from what they're not saying, is a liberian citizen that was visiting fam, took it upon him/herself to notify ppl...but we live in a country and a world where ppl spread std's and know they have them. why on earth are we pretending like every scenario will be like what happened today/this passed week??

what if someone is in denial and we don't know until they're extremely sick or dead? and they've used public restrooms or came into contact with various ppl, while they were sick just not as sick and weak as they could be later on from the disease?

you can't tell me that every single case in west africa is because someone touched someones **** or ingested bush meat or touched a dead person. i'm just not buying that.
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I am with you bro. I think Ebola spreads a lot easier than they are making this sound. I understand where the virus is coming from is third world countries but still if you look at how "hard" the media is saying it is to get you would think that would be the same in other places. I don't think there would be such a widespread epidemic in other countries if it was that hard to catch.

Media is reporting it this way to keep everyone calm and not panic.
 
airblaster503 said:
I am with you bro. I think Ebola spreads a lot easier than they are making this sound. I understand where the virus is coming from is third world countries but still if you look at how "hard" the media is saying it is to get you would think that would be the same in other places. I don't think there would be such a widespread epidemic in other countries if it was that hard to catch.

Media is reporting it this way to keep everyone calm and not panic.
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If Ebola spreads "a lot easier than it sounds", then it would have had far more devastating effects over the last 40 years. Before this outbreak, not even 1,500 people had ever died from it. I could list a thousand things that have killed more people since 1976 and still...maybe I'd get to Ebola. Something that spreads easily (you know, like the flu, which kills hundreds of thousands of people every year,) doesn't function in that way. Also, combating Ebola has never been about "catching" it. It's always been about containment, because it works so fast that it dies out. The hosts die too quickly to spread it.

Unfortunately, this latest outbreak happened in a place where containment protocols are a joke, and with a mortality rate that isn't as high, either. You had families breaking into hospitals and stealing bodies of deceased loved ones WHO HAD THE VIRUS and promptly picked it up and spread it. Armed mobs stormed hospitals to either "rescue" patients, or also steal bodies back. Guess what? They got infected, too. The nice thing is that this CANNOT happen in the U.S. The CDC has protocols in place to prevent all that third world nonsense from going on. That patient in Dallas? You know what's happening right now? The CDC is probably tracking down every single person that guy came in contact with, from people on the airplane to the clerk at his neighborhood grocery store. And while that's going on, the guy is quarantined in a high-tech facility where the virus can't spread, and he's hooked up to machines pumping him full of run-of-the-mill antibodies (and possibly dialysis) that just aren't available to the masses in Africa. Unfortunately, that's not our problem. That's Africa's problem. Sounds harsh, but it's the truth.

Finally, you're actually accusing the media of downplaying pretty much the deadliest disease known to man? Remember, this is the same fear-mongering media that over just the last decade tried to convince everyone we were going to die of SARS and Bird Flu. How'd that work out? Anyone you know die from either of those? Stop worrying about it and let the CDC go to work.
 
I'm pretty sure its being down played. If the only way to contract it is by touching bodily fluids how are so many people getting it? How is 1.5 mill an estimate if it is so hard to contract? You're telling me every single one of those estimated people are gonna break into hospitals and take their sick relatives too?

I have reason to worry because even if we have the CDC and unlimited amount of resources to prevent a wide spread out break here, doesn't mean it won't or can't happen. Maybe not with Ebola but you'd be naive to say "it will never happen here".
 
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But it hasnt gotten to 1.5 million people. Its only been a few thousand. If it were in a largely populated city, the transmission rate would be much higher since people in general travel more. West Africa most people stay within their community and a few percentage of peopl travel and interact with far less people than your say average NYer would.
 
Dallas Hospital Initially Let Ebola Patient Go With Drugs 

A man with Ebola in Dallas was initially sent home from the hospital with antibiotics after seeking treatment for an unknown illness, officials said. He had no symptoms when he left Liberia and began to show signs of the disease on Sept. 24, the CDC said. He sought care on Sept. 26, was hospitalized two days later at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and is critically ill, said CDC Director Thomas Frieden. The agency is working to identify anybody who had contact with the man and track them down, he said.

After the patient sought medical care on Sept. 26 and was sent home with antibiotics, he returned in an ambulance to Texas Health Presbyterian two days later and was admitted, said Edward Goodman, an epidemiologist at the hospital. The ambulance workers and other health-care professionals who treated him are being monitored for symptoms, Goodman said.
 
AlBooBoo said:
Dallas Hospital Initially Let Ebola Patient Go With Drugs 

A man with Ebola in Dallas was initially sent home from the hospital with antibiotics after seeking treatment for an unknown illness, officials said. He had no symptoms when he left Liberia and began to show signs of the disease on Sept. 24, the CDC said. He sought care on Sept. 26, was hospitalized two days later at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and is critically ill, said CDC Director Thomas Frieden. The agency is working to identify anybody who had contact with the man and track them down, he said.

After the patient sought medical care on Sept. 26 and was sent home with antibiotics, he returned in an ambulance to Texas Health Presbyterian two days later and was admitted, said Edward Goodman, an epidemiologist at the hospital. The ambulance workers and other health-care professionals who treated him are being monitored for symptoms, Goodman said.
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^^ And I just moved down to Dallas from NJ.

:smh::smh::x:\

R.I.P.
 
the guy had 2 days to spread ebola. 
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guy is an idiot and selfish for not even mentioning that trip on his first visit to the hospital 
 
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Well Bros, it was good while it lasted. Hope everyone stays safe cause we all going out soon.

I refuse to believe that were safe from this virus. You have medical professionals taking extraordinary steps to protect themselves and yet the virus is somehow getting through biohazard suits? Nope. We're done.

Thanks a lot ******* who brought the virus back and didn't even tell anyone you went.
 
If it werent for NT I woudnt even of known this was such a "big deal."

News always blows things up so they can get viewers. H1N1 was far worse and actually way more transmittable.
 
DamokuNaSenshi said:
I refuse to believe that were safe from this virus. You have medical professionals taking extraordinary steps to protect themselves and yet the virus is somehow getting through biohazard suits? Nope. We're done.
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Where did anyone say the virus has gotten through biohazard suits? This is a virus, not acid.
 
DamokuNaSenshi said:
Well Bros, it was good while it lasted. Hope everyone stays safe cause we all going out soon.

I refuse to believe that were safe from this virus. You have medical professionals taking extraordinary steps to protect themselves and yet the virus is somehow getting through biohazard suits? Nope. We're done.

Thanks a lot ******* who brought the virus back and didn't even tell anyone you went.
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AlBooBoo said:
Situation keeps getting worse.







US Ebola Patient Exposed School Age Children, Governor Said


 
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-ebola-patient-exposed-school-age-children-governor/story?id=25885934
 
http://rt.com/usa/192284-ebola-us-home-antibiotics/
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AlBooBoo said:
the guy had 2 days to spread ebola. :smh:
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Souljaman22 said:
This is planned, do a little research.
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