re: A Dallas hospital worker now has Ebola

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You're out of your element Donny

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Keep playing that fiddle, Nero. By all objective measures I'm aware of, this thing is kicking our arse, and the arse-kicking is accelerating. It's gone global, and this latest outbreak has already killed 20 times as many people as the worst previous one. The Reston strain went airborne in monkeys, and Zaire has jumped into pigs through the air. It seems it is just a matter of time.

I'm not sure what you're arguing. The chances are still slim. The general public likes to think in absolutes and science is and always has been a numbers game. It is a cause for concern but it's not the apocalypse knocking on our door.

I'd be as concerned/more concerned about enterovirus 68 and Chikungunya

Gentlemen (and ladies)...

People don't have to go full retard for the Fed to be doing something about it.

Based on previous history, neither our or other governments have a track record of handling crises well. Katrina reaction, banking failures, Iraq, healthcare reform, etc.

To our knowledge, only one person has entered this country carrying Ebola with it unknown at the time of his entry. Only one person. We, as a country (Fed gov't, CDC, healthcare industry, local hospital in Dallas) failed to contain this disease to only him. Not such a good track record. 0 for 1.

How well do we expect us to handle other cases?

I hope our Fed gov't is planning action to protect us. In general, I have little faith in any group of men to handle a crisis, especially when it involves a governmental agency or three.

Ebola primed to go airborne-Purdue professor

At Purdue University, Dr. David Sanders has been studying the virus since 2003 – specifically how this particular Zaire strain of Ebola enters human cells.


"It can enter the lung from the airway side," Sanders said. "So this argues that Ebola is primed to have respiratory transmission.

I've already bought up most of the supplies. I will resale for a "fair" price.

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You're right

Everybody will die. Let's just drink some cyanide punch now and get it over with

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If this is your only conclusion to the conversation, feel free to bow out.

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If this is your only conclusion to the conversation, feel free to bow out.

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I gave up on contributing to this thread a while back. Too many people who are clueless or don't want to learn.

Which article?

What I've heard is they are just assuming that the nurse protocol, which is likely. They don't know for sure though because they haven't interviewed him/her yet.

I wasn't overly concerned with this until I read that this was a health care worker who treated an Ebola patient.

Texas Presbyterian made history in a very bad way. It's rare that Ebola gets transferred outside of Africa....and it's particularly embarrassing that the outcome of this case was that the patient died and someone else within the hospital was infected. The first patient was initially sent home even though he had fever symptoms and told the charge nurse that he had been to West Africa recently. That was a big enough mistake.

As it is now, they are expecting more cases to surface in Dallas because people did not follow protocol for whatever reason. The healthcare worker who is infected was not initially one of the 50 or so people being monitored.

I'm not saying that a pandemic is inevitable, but I think the recent news is indicative of our lack of preparedness for this type of illness.