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American doctors test positive for Ebola
Posted on 7/27/14 at 3:20 pm
Posted on 7/27/14 at 3:20 pm
This is it. That's how the virus crosses continents. Either with the sick of the warm corpses. We're doomed.
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Posted on 7/27/14 at 3:24 pm to RedRifle
Oh, goddammit! Just burn the bodies.
This post was edited on 7/27/14 at 3:30 pm
Posted on 7/27/14 at 3:25 pm to RedRifle
Ebola has been in the US before. Go read The Hot Zone.
Fortunately, it was only a strain that killed monkeys.
Fortunately, it was only a strain that killed monkeys.
Posted on 7/27/14 at 3:26 pm to RedRifle
Contagion freaked me out.
Posted on 7/27/14 at 3:27 pm to CT
quote:Awesome read.
The Hot Zone
Posted on 7/27/14 at 3:30 pm to CT
quote:
Fortunately, it was only a strain that killed monkeys.
Posted on 7/27/14 at 3:37 pm to RedRifle
I posted this a few minutes before you, in the current thread about Ebola about two inches below yours.
Posted on 7/27/14 at 3:38 pm to LSUTigers1986
Actual monkeys you racist frick.
Posted on 7/27/14 at 3:44 pm to CT
Yea. Im guessing he doesn't know that the disease is carried primarily by bats and monkeys.
Posted on 7/27/14 at 3:46 pm to LSUTigers1986
I opened this thread expecting to find out the disease was over here now.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 4:48 pm to RedRifle
And this is how it happens here.
Foothold accomplished - Ebola Normandy achieved.
quote:So if said infected person makes it through US customs, symptom-free, and then flies or takes a train, or even drives his/her own car to their little suburban hamlet or a town out in the uninformed boondocks somewhere and then, BAM! the symptoms kick in and it's a full-blown case of ebola. Right there in the 24 hour ER. And then, suppose this infected person pukes in the waiting room where all kinds of people are, or has a major bowel episode in the public bathroom. And the ER docs are stumped by this unresponsive fever they have never seen before...
The virus... has an incubation period of a few days to three weeks
Foothold accomplished - Ebola Normandy achieved.
This post was edited on 7/28/14 at 4:58 pm
Posted on 7/28/14 at 4:51 pm to RedRifle
Ebola isn't super communicable. It's not airborne. You have to come into intimate contact with a carrier (some kind of their fluid or waste). It wouldn't create a situation like the one depicted in contagion.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 5:01 pm to Navytiger74
quote:Yes, it isn't all that easy (at first). But before you speak with such certainty about the small likelihood of a breakout, I suggest you read the USA Today article I linked with and study the pictures. It is not outside the realm of real possibilities.
. It wouldn't create a situation like the one depicted in contagion.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 5:07 pm to JawjaTigah
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It is not outside the realm of real possibilities.
Nothing's outside the realm of possibility, but the probability is extremely low. Let's put it this way; our protocols for containing this kind of eventuality far outstrip Africa's, and the disease has yet to "break out" in one of their cities. Most of those infected are close family/friends of to a host and/or the medical and mortuary staffs who handle the victims and their bodies.
Papers want to sell copy. This isn't anything for use to freak out over.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 5:08 pm to Navytiger74
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Let's put it this way; our protocols for containing this kind of eventuality far outstrip Africa's, and the disease has yet to "break out" in one of their cities. Most of those infected are close family/friends of to a host and/or the medical and mortuary staffs who handle the victims and their bodies.
This.
There are far scarier things than ebola running around, and we have them pretty much under control.
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