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Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:18 pm to Scruffy
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Would you call it "easily treatable" though?
No. But I just wanted to point out that your post, to the people who spend less time in healthcare, is a little more on the alarming side than it should be. Just like saying that "it's a self-limiting virus" leaves people less concerned than they should be, though it's true, assuming you can survive the viremic period.
Also, influenza and cholera are two more diseases that are not "easily treatable" that, historically, have had dramatic death counts that are not major concerns for the destruction of the country in the US at present day.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:18 pm to TigerLicks
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Good thing we have plenty of that experimental vaccine they used on the 2 aid workers brought back to Atlanta... oh wait.
How do you know what we do or do not have?
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:19 pm to lsu480
OOOOOOOOOOOOH HERE WE frickIN GO
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:20 pm to Boudreaux35
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Ebola in town
There goes the neighborhood......
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:20 pm to Hopeful Doc
quote:Well, let Scruffy state that no one should freak out over this.
No. But I just wanted to point out that your post, to the people who spend less time in healthcare, is a little more on the alarming side than it should be. Just like saying that "it's a self-limiting virus" leaves people less concerned than they should be, though it's true, assuming you can survive the viremic period.
This post was edited on 9/30/14 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:20 pm to WDE24
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However, it can remain detectable in semen up to 3 months post recovery, so recovered patients are advised to remain abstinent or where protection during that time.
Correct. Big word is "can." In a very small number of survivors that were followed up, they happened to find active virus in the semen months later. In others, it cleared long before then. I have not seen any reports or case studies that attribute the infectious load (:rimshot:) to semen in a recovered patient.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:20 pm to WDE24
ETA: doubled up
This post was edited on 9/30/14 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:22 pm to Scruffy
Yeah, as long as you have your HASMAT suit on and decontamination spray bottle by your side for the next few weeks like I do, there is very little to worry about.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:22 pm to Hopeful Doc
I bet RedRifle is really sad this thread is double the size of his 
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:24 pm to Hopeful Doc
As flu season starts, I wonder if there is a bit of Ebola panic in the general public over what turn out to be flu symptoms.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:25 pm to WDE24
Yea, this is going to happen. I think I feel some ebola coming on right now. Time to go home I guess
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:26 pm to TigerLicks
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Good thing we have plenty of that experimental vaccine they used on the 2 aid workers brought back to Atlanta... oh wait.
If you're referring to ZMapp, it's a humanized monoclonal antibody (not a vaccine) that, though used in the only two treated Ebola patients in America, has not been proven to be effective. You are correct in pointing out that its supply has been exhausted.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:27 pm to WDE24
Welp, bout time I took a World of Warcraft habit and locked myself in the house for the next year or so. You guys are my new e-friends and I love each of you dearly. Hello family 
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:28 pm to WDE24
There almost definitely will be people who think they have Ebola that have influenza. There will be healthy people that think they have Ebola. Most people wouldn't even know what to look for to say they had it.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:28 pm to Hopeful Doc
Yeah, it's not the Ebola that worries me. It's the idiots that overreact, panic, and cause mass hysteria
ETA: This is defcon 1 for hypochondriacs everywhere
ETA: This is defcon 1 for hypochondriacs everywhere
This post was edited on 9/30/14 at 4:30 pm
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:30 pm to Hopeful Doc
My infectious disease guy says not to worry about Ebola, he says if smallpox came back we'd all be screwed though.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:31 pm to tylerdurden24
I wouldn't wish Ebola on anyone, but if ISIS held a sword to my throat and made me choose one person to infect, it would be Harvey Updyke.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:33 pm to JB Bama
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he says if smallpox came back we'd all be screwed though
Plenty of US Military were vaccinated and would repopulate the earth.
...So I guess we would be screwed
Posted on 9/30/14 at 4:34 pm to WDE24
It a JV virus obviously, no need to worry.
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