Ebola

[debso]

from what i read they both took a turn for the worse. this is crazy.

i hope they both survive and that NOBODY gets infected in the u.s.

 

[picasso swerve]

Well the good news is...we are in a more advanced and modern world where containment and treatment is manageable. This isnt like the black plague where containment and treatment is basically at a zero.

People get spooked with movies like World War Z and other epidemic movies. Im sure we have virus' that have the capability but to be a super large scale like the movies is not also unlikely but also very preventable.

 

[dman14]

just transporting them and treating them when they are in the air is gonna be a challenge itself
wonder how prepared the people flying with these patients are

 

[degenerate423]

RIP to the victims of Ebola

.

Will be praying and hoping people with it can recover.

 

[nazdrowie]

[h3]Phillippines reports possible Ebola cases[/h3]
CCTV.com

08-02-2014 12:56 BJT

The Phillipines has reported the country's first suspected cases of the Ebola virus. According to the country's health officials, seven workers who returned to the Phillipines from Sierra Leone are showing symptoms symilar to that of the tropical virus.

There are currently over 1,300 suspected cases worldwide. The World Health Organization says there is little risk of the virus spreading outside of West Africa, but countries outside of the affected region are still taking precautions to prevent a spread.

The outbreak is the biggest since Ebola first emerged in Africa nearly 40 years ago. So far, more than 700 people have died in West Africa.

http://english.cntv.cn/2014/08/02/VIDE1406955241574888.shtml

 

[picasso swerve]

Not the homeland. 

I have a feeling anyone whos been in those countries and are feeling even a bit sick are going to suspect that its ebola automatically since its the trend (with good reason but still).

Anyways, read that someone from Mt Sinai is suspected to have ebola, but officials are saying its probably not.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/.../why-youre-not-going-to-get-ebola-in-the-u-s/

This was a good article. Makes me feel a little safer bros.

 

[dmbrhs]

Not the homeland. 


I have a feeling anyone whos been in those countries and are feeling even a bit sick are going to suspect that its ebola automatically since its the trend (with good reason but still).


Anyways, read that someone from Mt Sinai is suspected to have ebola, but officials are saying its probably not.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/.../why-youre-not-going-to-get-ebola-in-the-u-s/


This was a good article. Makes me feel a little safer bros.

There are plenty of other things you can pick up in that part of the world with similar symptoms. Dengue fever is a common one, and that's transmitted by mosquitoes. People get it all the time.

 

[souljaman22]

This needs to be bumped. Cdc says that the spread of ebola into the us is inevitable and that our hospitals arent ready. Smh

 

[ishnaga]

Please no. Don't come here please Ebola

 

[360waves]

What evidence is there to suggest that humans are capable of engineering a virus with the complexity of ebola? 

Great question that involves research, not claims.

This needs to be bumped. Cdc says that the spread of ebola into the us is inevitable and that our hospitals arent ready. Smh

Antibiotics will be useless in the next 30 years. The small bugs are adapting. Imagine ebola :x

 

[360waves]

Please no. Don't come here please Ebola

its already in GA

 

[dropten]

its already in GA

Isnt GA where The Walking Dead is based?

Ebola+ Experimental drugs being used on humans = Zombies

 

[dman14]

^that's where the CDC hq is, if i'm correct?

from google reviews

Rick Grimes
Rick Grimes
3 months ago
We came looking for help as we were in desperate need. I was banging on the door but no one answered and my best mate Shane told me to leave it but I didn't I knew someone was in there because I saw the camera move. Eventually we were let in by a lone scientist with an M4A1. All seemed great at the start we had food, water, shelter and basic necessities to survive. I put my stuff and thangs down and settled then BUT THEN Dr Jenner the whacko told us he was gonna blow up the building and tried to kill us too but we convinced him and we legged it out and got to the cars. THEN BOOM MASSIVE EXPLOSION AND NO MORE CDC! What a lousy guy all we did was come for help and he tried to kill us!

 

[ishnaga]

Yea I know but it's not running through folks..
My sister lives in GA, I'm slippin, I need to put her on.

 

[nawghtyhare]

Coulda sworn I read a confirmed case in NYC the other day

 

[djyoung08]

Dang ebola, you scary

 

[1c3m4m]

Coulda sworn I read a confirmed case in NYC the other day

Na person came from Africa with fever so they tested him/her, but the results were negative

 

[yjaybrooks]

that ebola!!!  no joke make aids look like  a fever

 

[mangudai954]

I love how people can say off the wall things, and then go "well we don't know either way" or "you're just fighting opinion with opinion" like that makes their point anymore valid.

Why not just say "I don't know what I'm talking about, but I think __________________."?

It would make alot more sense and be alot more accurate if you did so.

Lol I ask myself this everyday I read posts on the internet.

 

[deleted]

This needs to be bumped. Cdc says that the spread of ebola into the us is inevitable and that our hospitals arent ready. Smh

"But we are confident that there will not be a large Ebola outbreak in the US"

No need to be a scaremonger.

 

[cobra kai]

Got mad arrows for these zombies.

 

[legendairy stinson]

Coulda sworn I read a confirmed case in NYC the other day

Na person came from Africa with fever so they tested him/her, but the results were negative

Every media outlet was screaming Ebola in NYC but didn't follow up with the negative result.

 

[picasso swerve]

Every media outlet was screaming Ebola in NYC but didn't follow up with the negative result.

Theres no ratings in that. *shrug*

 

[nazdrowie]

CBS/APAugust 17, 2014, 9:02 AM
[h1]Armed men attack Liberia Ebola clinic, freeing patients[/h1]
Liberian officials fear Ebola  could soon spread through the capital's largest slum after residents raided a quarantine center for suspected patients and took items including bloody sheets and mattresses.

The violence in the West Point slum occurred late Saturday and was led by residents angry that patients were brought to the holding center from other parts of Monrovia, Tolbert Nyenswah, assistant health minister, said Sunday.

Local witnesses told Agence France Presse  that there were armed men among the group that attacked the clinic.

"They broke down the doors and looted the place. The patients all fled," said Rebecca Wesseh, who witnessed the attack and whose report was confirmed by residents and the head of Health Workers Association of Liberian, George Williams.

Up to 30 patients were staying at the center and many of them fled at the time of the raid, said Nyenswah. Once they are located they will be transferred to the Ebola center at Monrovia's largest hospital, he said.

The attack comes just one day after a report of a crowd of several hundred local residents, chanting, 'No Ebola in West Point,' drove away a burial team and their police escort that had come to collect the bodies of suspected Ebola victims in the slum in the capital, Reuters reports.

West Point residents went on a "looting spree," stealing items from the clinic that were likely infected, said a senior police official, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the press. The residents took medical equipment and mattresses and sheets that had bloodstains, he said. Ebola is spread through bodily fluids including blood, vomit, feces and sweat.

"All between the houses you could see people fleeing with items looted from the patients," the official said, adding that he now feared "the whole of West Point will be infected."

Some of the looted items were visibly stained with blood, vomit and excrement, said Richard Kieh, who lives in the area.

The incident creates a new challenge for Liberian health officials who were already struggling to contain the outbreak.

Liberian police restored order to the West Point neighborhood Sunday. Sitting on land between the Montserrado River and the Atlantic Ocean, West Point is home to at least 50,000 people, according to a 2012 survey.

Distrust of government runs high in West Point, with rumors regularly circulating that the government plans to clear the slum out entirely.

Though there had been talk of putting West Point under quarantine should Ebola break out there, assistant health minister Nyenswah said Sunday no such step has been taken. "West Point is not yet quarantined as being reported," he said.

While the armed attack is likely the most brazen attack on health workers trying to contain the deadly outbreak, it is far from the first in the region worst-hit by it.

There have been numerous reports of locals attacking those trying to stop the disease  by throwing stones at aid workers, blocking aid convoys and forcibly removing patients from clinics. Many locals blame foreigners for bringing the disease, saying it had never been there before they arrived.

The mistrust of central government and help from outside runs deep in this part of West Africa. All three countries worst-hit by the outbreak -- Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea -- are relatively fresh off decades of either brutal civil war or iron-fisted dictatorships.

The Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 1,100 people in West Africa could last another six months, the Doctors Without Borders charity group said Friday. One aid worker acknowledged that the true death toll is still unknown.

New figures released by the World Health Organization showed that Liberia has recorded more Ebola deaths - 413 - than any of the other affected countries.

Tarnue Karbbar, who works for the aid group Plan International in northern Liberia, said response teams simply aren't able to document all the erupting Ebola cases. Many of the sick are still being hidden at home by their relatives, who are too fearful of going to an Ebola treatment center.

Others are being buried before the teams can get to remote areas, he said. In the last several days, about 75 cases have emerged in Voinjama, a single Liberian district.

"Our challenge now is to quarantine the area (in Voinjama) to successfully break the transmission," he said.

There is no cure or licensed treatment for Ebola and patients often die gruesome deaths with external bleeding from their mouths, eyes or ears. The killer virus is transmitted through bodily fluids like blood, sweat, urine and diarrhea. A handful of people have received an experimental drug whose effectiveness is unknown.

Liberia's assistant health minister, Tolbert Nyenswah, said three people in Liberia were receiving the ZMapp on Friday. Previously, only two Americans and a Spaniard had gotten it. The Americans are improving, but it is not known what role ZMapp played. The Spaniard died.

The American doctor infected with Ebola while working in Liberia said Friday he is "recovering in every way" and holding onto the hope of a reunion with his family.

Dr. Kent Brantly remained hospitalized Friday at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. His comments came in a statement issued through the Christian aid group Samaritan's Purse.

The World Health Organization has approved the use of such untested drugs  but their supply is extremely limited.

The U.N. health agency has said the focus on containing the outbreak should be on practicing good hygiene and quickly identifying the sick and isolating them. That task is made harder, however, by the shortage of treatment facilities.

Beds in such centers are filling up faster than they can be provided, evidence that the outbreak in West Africa is far more severe than the numbers show, said Gregory Hartl, a spokesman for World Health Organization in Geneva.

There are 40 beds at one treatment center that Doctors Without Borders recently took over in one quarantined county in Liberia. But 137 people have flocked there, packing the hallways until they can be sorted into those who are infected and those are not, said Joanne Liu, the group's international president.

Nyenswah described a similar situation in a treatment center in Liberia's capital of Monrovia: In one ward meant to accommodate up to 25 people, 80 are now crowded in. Another treatment center with 120 beds is expected to open Saturday outside Monrovia.

"It's absolutely dangerous," said Liu, who recently returned from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. "With the massive influx of patients that we had over the last few days, we're not able to keep zones of patients anymore. Everybody is mixed."

Liu likened the situation to a state of war because the "frontline" was always moving and unpredictable. She said the outbreak could last six more months.

The death toll is now 1,145 people in four countries across West Africa, according to figures released Friday by the World Health Organization. At least 2,127 cases have been reported in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria, WHO said.

Sierra Leone's president, Ernest Bai Koroma, told journalists Friday that the country has lost two doctors and 32 nurses to Ebola.

"We need specialized clinicians and expertise and that is why we are appealing to the international community for an enhanced response to our fight" against Ebola, he said.

The Ebola crisis is also disrupting food supplies and transportation. Some 1 million people in isolated areas could need food assistance in the coming months, according to the U.N. World Food Program, which is preparing a regional emergency operation.

Amid a growing number of airline cancellations, the U.N. will start flights for humanitarian workers on Saturday to ensure that aid operations aren't interrupted. In the coming weeks, they will also ferry staff to remote areas by helicopter.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-armed-men-attack-liberia-ebola-clinic-freeing-patients/

 

[dmbrhs]

Nice work, a-holes.