EBOLA

[cuznjohn]

so what is your thinking on what is going on, the news just said that MT. SINI HOSPITAL in new york city is testing a person who came i with the symptoms of it. i think this will become a problem in the states sooner or later.

 

[Bob Denman]

The Ebola virus could devastate our Country! nojoke
Do you recall the story of what happened to the Indians almost 400 years' ago?
Smallpox decimated their numbers!
They had no exposure whatsoever to it, so they had no natural immunity...
Unlike the native Africans who have been exposed to this killer; we've developed no immunities...
Watch it run through our Country, just like crap through a goose! :shocked:

 

[sddinnh]

Let's hope not. At least it's a "contact" disease, not airborne.

 

[Dan_Ashley]

1956 Russian Nukes
1967 Watts Riots
1968 Chicago Salt Shortage
1970 Viet Nam
1974 Oil Embargo
1979 Inflation
1985 AIDS
1993 Resolution Trust
2000 Y2K
2007 Real Estate Crash
2012 *****care
2014 Ebola

...and I'm still here.

...so are you.


Edit: I'm sure your list of "catrostophies" that were supposed to destroy our nation would be better than my list.

 

[DJFaninTN]

Ebola flares up and then burns itself out over time. I'd be more worried about something like TB than Ebola.

 

[NZSpyderRyder]

Ebola (UK football joke)

Chelsea and Liverpool were interested but Liverpool pulled out when they found out it wasn't from Southampton.

 

[Bob Denman]

:roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack: :clap: :2thumbs:

:shocked::hun:

 

[PrairieSpyder]

The Ebola virus could devastate our Country! nojoke
Do you recall the story of what happened to the Indians almost 400 years' ago?
Smallpox decimated their numbers!
They had no exposure whatsoever to it, so they had no natural immunity...
Unlike the native Africans who have been exposed to this killer; we've developed no immunities...
Watch it run through our Country, just like crap through a goose! :shocked:

I think smallpox was killing white folks, too, back then, Bob. The smallpox vaccine wasn't brought to the States until 1800, and even President Lincoln contracted smallpox in 1863. I believe it was measles that affected the indigenous population worse than the whites.

I haven't heard that Africans have any more immunity to eblola than anyone else. We actually have a better chance of surviving because of our better healthcare delivery system, hygiene, etc.

Also, someone said it's spread by contact instead of by air. It's true that the virus isn't airborne, but if you are in the vicinity of someone with the virus and they sneeze, you could come into contact with the virus. It's very dangerous, and very scary.

For me, I'm glad that those 2 infected Americans are back in the States for treatment, but I'm glad they were carried on specially equipped private planes and are being treated in qualified hospitals where the disease can be contained. What scares me is the possibility of someone who just thinks they have a cold getting onto a commercial flight to the US and exposing everyone in arm's length to the disease!

 

[Bob Denman]

It was... But we had SOME resistance to it. :shocked:
Unlike this potential nightmare! :yikes:
I hate to say it; but I wish that they had been kept out of the Country... pps:
Treat them abroad! :thumbup:

 

[ChasCS]

Sooner or later, we all go beyond

The Dr. They flew back to Atlanta seems to be doing much better.
But it would be nice if they had an available vaccine that would protect the care givers working in those areas affected. Now there are two people in the isolation ward.

Chas

 

[ARtraveler]

Ebola: I think we are just waiting for an Oooooooooooops! to happen.

Don't even want to think about what may happen then.

Consider all the glitches we have been reading about lately with the CDC and their mis-handling of viruses.

 

[ChasCS]

We are working hard

Canadian scientists are frantically working on fast tracking an Ebola virus vaccine that will hopefully be ready before a major outbreak reaches us living in the first world.
TKM Ebola
Let's all hope they get it figured out soon.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/04/investing/ebola-drug-tekmira/index.html

Chas

 

[Dan_Ashley]

I think smallpox was killing white folks, too, back then, Bob. The smallpox vaccine wasn't brought to the States until 1800, and even President Lincoln contracted smallpox in 1863. I believe it was measles that affected the indigenous population worse than the whites.

The gift of smallpox infected blankets to the American Indians by the Spanish was not an attempt to infect and kill the Indians. The germ theory of disease was not even thought of until the mid-16th century, well after the blankets had been gifted to the Indians. It was not until Louis Pasteur between 1860 and 1864 that the theory was popularized. Before that scientists thought that disease was caused by miasma--bad air.

 

[wyliec]

It was... But we had SOME resistance to it. :shocked:
Unlike this potential nightmare! :yikes:
I hate to say it; but I wish that they had been kept out of the Country... pps:
Treat them abroad! :thumbup:

Would you feel the same way, if it was a loved one that contracted it?

 

[bruiser]

Excerpt from World Health Organization media fact sheet dated April 2014.

"Ebola spreads in the community through human-to-human transmission, with infection resulting from direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and indirect contact with environments contaminated with such fluids".


Here is the link to the factsheet. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

It's easier to get the flu than Ebola.

 

[PrairieSpyder]

Excerpt from World Health Organization media fact sheet dated April 2014.

"Ebola spreads in the community through human-to-human transmission, with infection resulting from direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and indirect contact with environments contaminated with such fluids".


Here is the link to the factsheet. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

It's easier to get the flu than Ebola.

That is not direct​ contact!

 

[wyliec]

Here's an update of what may have saved the drs.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/04/health/experimental-ebola-serum/

 

[SNOOPY]

Would you feel the same way, if it was a loved one that contracted it?

Good point.


I think the story behind the doctors in this story right now is awesome.

Amazing the love this one doctor has given to those people, then to give his vaccine to the other doctor and accept a blood transfusion from a person who survived the disease.

I don't know the specifics, but it seems again we just hear in the mainstream media the bad stuff.

 

[SNOOPY]

 

[IGETAROUND]

Excerpt from World Health Organization media fact sheet dated April 2014.

"Ebola spreads in the community through human-to-human transmission, with infection resulting from direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and indirect contact with environments contaminated with such fluids".


Here is the link to the factsheet. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

It's easier to get the flu than Ebola.



True, however most infected will survive the Flu; not so with Ebola:yikes::yikes::yikes: