TheFinnFan
Finners
nah this will be another fashionable tabloid bug. birdflu, SARS, Aero-AIDS..
Ebola? Who Cares?? It's all about MERS now.
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Elong
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I don't think a 90% death rate is fashionable Finners. This is highly contagious.
TheFinnFan
Finners
bs i'll say...that's what media was foaming when all these others popped out. ofcourse it is vicious s*** but lets not get carried away here. few weeks and it wont be fashionable news anymore....
...anti-jinx----anti-jinx..
Elong
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Sorry mate, 700 dead in a few weeks is cause for alarm.
TheFinnFan
Finners
nah, horrible, but will be handled.
Elong
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Oh, good, that's all settled then, no need to panic.
TheFinnFan
Finners
pretty sure death toll has ben big in earlier outbreaks too but this time media is innit
harris78
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i must admit i am a little ignorant on this subject and it may seem rather callous, but why bring the virus to a country which has never had it? I sympathise for the two American doctors that have contracted it through helping others but why risk further contamination and the lethal spreading of a known highly infectious disease in another country?
From all accounts the death rate is 90% so what are they hoping to achieve by bringing it to the US? Is it more so that Doctors can see first hand the virus at work, or is it a rather futile attempt to save two lives?
Again forgive me for my ignorance, its a subject i am not well versed in.
Elong
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Last time man didn't have the ability to travel the world as frequently and easily. This has far more potential to spread due to how small our world now is.
Lock yourself up in your snow cabin with some seals and rum and hunker down Finners.
TheFinnFan
Finners
no to flu kisses!
ricardobee
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Good job I live on a boat far out in the English Channel
*snogs senagalese cabin cleaner to celebrate
*snogs senagalese cabin cleaner to celebrate
rascal
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I'll tell you why this one is different to the others. With the others I wasn't even a little concerned, just thought it was all much to do about nothing. This time I'm mildly concerned enough to track its progress.
Fair question.
US government could have blocked them.
The chances of spreading from these two cases is minimal. It's a private flight and they are going to a special unit that the CDC has at a hospital in Atlanta. It's specific for contagious diseases. It's probably set up like the labs the CDC has for researching all the scary viruses - separate sanitation, recirculating air, negative pressure rooms, etc. The people working there will have the best equipment to protect themselves and be highly trained in how to prevent the virus from spreading.
Compare that what's available to the countries in West Africa.
Good info on the Americans and the Atlanta facilities
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/01/health/ebola-outbreak/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenews
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/01/health/ebola-outbreak/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenews
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