gcreptile 10,963 Posted September 23, 2014 Ebola outbreak going to cross the one-million line? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/23/ebola-cases-january-prediction_n_5868146.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rotten Ali 600 Posted September 30, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29437070 Ebola in the USA... And a three hundred person follow up programme to trace all the passengers who traveled on the same plane from Liberia... Watch out CarolAnn, it's just down your road today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,271 Posted October 2, 2014 Not to be confused with the E-bola virus where you turn on your computer and are hit in the face by a weighted cord. 4.6/10 About the same rating as half my favourite movies have on IMDB so dont feel too bad Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rotten Ali 600 Posted October 6, 2014 Now a case in Spain. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29514920 Gets me thinking, can you get Ebola twice or more... Ask came back with this... Yes, it is possible to get ebola twice. Although your body will immunoglobulins against the virus from the first infection (if you survive), the virus is so destructive that it is not enough. That combined with your body being seriously weakened from the first infection means a second infection would be unsurvivable. Maybe after medical research and technology progresses, this will change. So I fear all those people who are survivors at the moment may be doubly at risk in the future during an ongoing endemic situation in the three core countries. Sorry, but I think the borders need to be, as much as possible, hermetically sealed. Anyone wishing to exit need go through a 28 day solitary confinement quarantine procedure prior to passing over any border checkpoint. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,586 Posted October 8, 2014 Eric Duncan, the US victim has died. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tempus Fugit 214 Posted October 8, 2014 Eric Duncan, the US victim has died. Does Ebola only kill blacks, or have any whites died? Only once you start to get a few dead whities will the shit hit the fan. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted October 9, 2014 Eric Duncan, the US victim has died. Does Ebola only kill blacks, or have any whites died? Only once you start to get a few dead whities will the shit hit the fan. If the shit really does hit the fan, the whities are likely to end up looking brown... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rotten Ali 600 Posted October 9, 2014 Nice to see Ebola is now the main headline. Shame it's taken this long. If the world had taken as much notice as I had, back in March, then this may have been over by now. However so many people are still not on topic. Jese Jackson in the USA for one. "Liberia does not need travel restrictions". Anyway. Current plans allow for 9000 cases to be treated by 750 troops in a UK military hospital over the next 6 months. Shame the problem needs 20,000 isolations now and 40,000 next month, 80,000 in month 3, 160,000 in month 4, 320,000 in month 5 and 640,000 in month 6. Notice the shortfall... Much better to give out 10 million noddy suits, and ask that everyone in the core nations stay home for periods of 4 days at a time when not wearing it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted October 9, 2014 IS must be be one mean bunch of fuckers if we'd rather throw troops at a contagious disease than face them! Not that I'm advocating the tiresome new cliché of "boots on the ground" over in Syria/Iraq or that we shouldn't do something to help quell the Ebola virus... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted October 9, 2014 Brit died in Macedonia it seems... (Took it with him). Better not fuck up my bet on Macedonia tonight..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,639 Posted October 9, 2014 Oi, is it only me that felt for that poor dog, belonging to the Spanish nurse? Put to sleep yesterday. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,271 Posted October 9, 2014 Oi, is it only me that felt for that poor dog, belonging to the Spanish nurse? Put to sleep yesterday. Yeah me too, big soft spot for the pups here. The poor dogs will suffer most during the coming apocalypse. Having to transport all the still-somehow-morbidly-obese Western people across the nuclear-winter ashlands on sledges. And don't forget how much Halibuts hate them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rotten Ali 600 Posted October 10, 2014 Not sure that I've heard the term connected yet but hey, this is not just a war on Ebola but WW3, more particularly the Third World War. WW1 or WWI was 1914 to 1918 - about 4 years WW2 or WWII was 1939 to 1946 - about 6 years I predict that that this will take about 8 years to either kill everyone or for us to irradicate this wave. WW3 or WWIII - 2014 to 2021 Planers, Politicians and Pundits prove me wrong. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted October 11, 2014 The biggest problem with Ebola is it's highly contagious and there's no vaccinne? So yes, I'm fucking scared when the Chief Medical Officer Britain says that a handful of cases are likely in Britain, as it will spread like a fucking wildfire in rolf harris's bush. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted October 12, 2014 As if to back up my point, a US health worker who was treating the guy who died in the US has caught the disease? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29587803 Are we really staring down the barrel of the end of civilisation, is this the biggest threat to humanity since the Cold War? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,271 Posted October 12, 2014 As if to back up my point, a US health worker who was treating the guy who died in the US has caught the disease? http://www.bbc.co.uk...canada-29587803 Are we really staring down the barrel of the end of civilisation, is this the biggest threat to humanity since the Cold War? It's certainly scary that some of these doctors/health workers are catching it from the patients despite the fact that they presumably would have had tons of layers of protective clothing. Or at least they would have been working with the knowledge that it wasn't a good idea to go licking a puddle of the patient's vomit. However 8,000 is still a lot smaller than it could be when you consider how bad healthcare/general awareness is in the major epicentral African countries. I'm not quite ready to panic yet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted October 12, 2014 So what your really saying is all doctors are cretins? Preaching to the converted here doc Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted October 12, 2014 As if to back up my point, a US health worker who was treating the guy who died in the US has caught the disease? http://www.bbc.co.uk...canada-29587803 Are we really staring down the barrel of the end of civilisation, is this the biggest threat to humanity since the Cold War? It's certainly scary that some of these doctors/health workers are catching it from the patients despite the fact that they presumably would have had tons of layers of protective clothing. Or at least they would have been working with the knowledge that it wasn't a good idea to go licking a puddle of the patient's vomit. However 8,000 is still a lot smaller than it could be when you consider how bad healthcare/general awareness is in the major epicentral African countries. I'm not quite ready to panic yet. 8000 in a matter of a months, and that's just confirmed cases. It's a realistic possibility that the number in rural areas of West Africa is double. triple maybe even quadruple that and they haven't been accounted for? So yes I'm ready to panic, especially as there's no cure. It only takes one health worker/family member of a health worker/tourist to contract it over here and we're doomed to eternity. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted October 12, 2014 Not sure that I've heard the term connected yet but hey, this is not just a war on Ebola but WW3, more particularly the Third World War. WW1 or WWI was 1914 to 1918 - about 4 years WW2 or WWII was 1939 to 1946 - about 6 years I predict that that this will take about 8 years to either kill everyone or for us to irradicate this wave. WW3 or WWIII - 2014 to 2021 Planers, Politicians and Pundits prove me wrong. World Wars require a human enemy, otherwise the AIDS epidemic could have probably been considered WW3. Unless your suggesting Ebola has been let loose by a human deliberately? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted October 12, 2014 On topic for a change, I don't know how widely reported it is that the outbreak in DRC is different to the one in Liberia. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,271 Posted October 12, 2014 So what your really saying is all doctors are cretins? Preaching to the converted here doc Does this mean you saw my post in the Hollywood thread? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rotten Ali 600 Posted October 12, 2014 Health worker case in the USA. This involved someone who had biohazard protection. Tricky... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CarolAnn 926 Posted October 14, 2014 Sorry guys - been out contemplating ebola here in Dallas and I decided that I had a paper and a midterm so I didn't have time for that shit. Basically, here's what happened, at least according to that bastion of journalistic excellence, the Dallas Morning News: Eric Duncan got a visa to the US after trying for something like 20 years. Just before he left Liberia he helped take a pregnant woman with ebola to the hospital and then back home to die. When he boarded the flight to the US he did not admit to having been around someone with an active ebola infection. So, he gets to Dallas, hangs out for a few days, gets sick and heads over to the Presbyterian Dallas hospital emergency room. He tells them he came over from Liberia, and despite his display of classic ebola symptoms someone somewhere f's up and the brain trust sends him home with antibiotics. Two days later he is so sick he has to be ferried back to Presbyterian in an ambulance. As we all know, this story does not have a happy ending. As far as the nurse goes, she is in stable condition. She is working with the US Centers for Disease Control to determine how she was exposed. The hospital staff followed all ebola protocols, so the assumption is that somewhere there was a protocol violation. I don't know. I only live here. Eric Duncan's family will soon own Presbyterian Medical Center, or at least its endowment. The racial card is being played heavily in the local media, and I hate to admit that there may be some truth there. Remember, we don't have universal healthcare, and what we do have is not accessible by foreign nationals. If Duncan had gone to the county hospital he probably would have been isolated and treated from his first visit - whether he would have lived or not can be debated, but no one is debating that his chances would have been better. Presbyterian is a corporate hospital, and there is a lot of attention to the bottom line in those places. An impoverished foreigner can fall through the cracks very easily, and unfortunately being black in the American South doesn't help. Sadly, Duncan's son never saw him. His son came to the US as a small child with his mother, which was why Duncan had fought to get a visa for so long. His son had graduated from high school and gone to college, and was supposed to come home the weekend after his father was taken to the hospital. Needless to say, the son wasn't allowed to see his father, and upon death his father was cremated. I feel a lot of compassion for the boy. In recent news, the chief medical correspondent for NBC News, who happens to be a doctor, was exposed to ebola when her cameraman came down with it and entered a 21 day quarantine which she then violated to get some soup. Sometimes I despair for my countrypersons. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,963 Posted October 14, 2014 First Ebola death in Germany: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/un-medical-official-dies-ebola-german-hospital Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
