Ebola? Who Cares?? It's all about MERS now.

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What's Atlanta like for living in lid?

Its for some future stuff I is planning.

It's a hot, crappy version of Baltimore

 

[RaleighBlue]

As long as you don't go to Sierra Leone and snog someone bleeding from a combination of orifaces, you'll be alrite.

This.

Don't lick someone that is sick. Or engage in their fluids.

So unless you're a medical professional explicitly dealing with ebola victims or in West Africa, nothing to worry about.

 

[Elong]

This.

Don't lick someone that is sick. Or engage in their fluids.

So unless you're a medical professional explicitly dealing with ebola victims or in West Africa, nothing to worry about.

Not really, if I've read it right, if someone who has it sneezes in public or has a sweaty palm and handles something like a door handle or rail and you touch it, you're in the mix to catch it too. Full body suit for me.

 

[RaleighBlue]

Not really, if I've read it right, if someone who has it sneezes in public or has a sweaty palm and handles something like a door handle or rail and you touch it, you're in the mix to catch it too. Full body suit for me.

Sure, I was being somewhat blase about it, but it's not nearly the public health menace that is being talked about, not to a first world nation. A large part of the issue in West Africa is a distrust of western medical practitioners, and the fact that cultural burial practices can lead to infection.

Really simply stuff stops ebola - gloves, hand washing, wearing masks, and of course quarantining infected people. It's a horrifying disease, certainly, but it's a bit like plague in that it isn't spread very easily, and thus in modern societies would have a limited impact at best.

 

[Elong]

Sure, I was being somewhat blase about it, but it's not nearly the public health menace that is being talked about, not to a first world nation. A large part of the issue in West Africa is a distrust of western medical practitioners, and the fact that cultural burial practices can lead to infection.

Really simply stuff stops ebola - gloves, hand washing, wearing masks, and of course quarantining infected people. It's a horrifying disease, certainly, but it's a bit like plague in that it isn't spread very easily, and thus in modern societies would have a limited impact at best.

I dunno, there's plenty of filthy people in the first world, I'm going out bush for a month if it hits NZ lol

 

[bluelife]

Sure, I was being somewhat blase about it, but it's not nearly the public health menace that is being talked about, not to a first world nation. A large part of the issue in West Africa is a distrust of western medical practitioners, and the fact that cultural burial practices can lead to infection.

Really simply stuff stops ebola - gloves, hand washing, wearing masks, and of course quarantining infected people. It's a horrifying disease, certainly, but it's a bit like plague in that it isn't spread very easily, and thus in modern societies would have a limited impact at best.

But if a few people in the UK get it then it sounds like it can easily spread. For instance at a festival, imagine someone sweating for 3 days and in almost constant contact with people. Could spread very quickly...

 

[LocalNative]

But if a few people in the UK get it then it sounds like it can easily spread. For instance at a festival, imagine someone sweating for 3 days and in almost constant contact with people. Could spread very quickly...

Someone with Ebola will not be fit for a festival.

 

[bluelife]

Someone with Ebola will not be fit for a festival.

Isn't there something like a 10-15 day period where there are no symptoms though?

 

[Elong]

Isn't there something like a 10-15 day period where there are no symptoms though?

Yep, and a long time after you get over it too.

 

[RaleighBlue]

But if a few people in the UK get it then it sounds like it can easily spread. For instance at a festival, imagine someone sweating for 3 days and in almost constant contact with people. Could spread very quickly...

It requires direct fluid to fluid contact. It is not airborne.

So you'd have to ingest their sweat, or get it in your eye, or wipe it on a cut.

It is only spread with direct contact with the secretions of someone showing signs of infection.

Don't lick sick people.

 

[RaleighBlue]

Isn't there something like a 10-15 day period where there are no symptoms though?

Not infectious if you're not showing signs. And it's 2-3 days.

 

[LocalNative]

Yep, and a long time after you get over it too.

Isn't there something like a 10-15 day period where there are no symptoms though?

I was not aware of that, apologies.

 

[Elong]

I was not aware of that, apologies.

No dramas, there's a lot of scare mongering and sensationalism going arount too, it's hard to get to the truth of it.

I don't think it'll take them long to build a vaccine for it in any event.

Plus, with over population in a lot of areas, probably about time we had another spanish flu or plague or something to thin the population.

 

[LocalNative]

No dramas, there's a lot of scare mongering and sensationalism going arount too, it's hard to get to the truth of it.

I don't think it'll take them long to build a vaccine for it in any event.

Plus, with over population in a lot of areas, probably about time we had another spanish flu or plague or something to thin the population.

My thoughts exactly. I recall swine flu being labelled a global pandemic once upon a time.

 

[RAFUH]

Not infectious if you're not showing signs. And it's 2-3 days.

Incubation period can be up to 21 days (infected, but non-symptomatic/non-contagious)

Has been found in semen 61 days after symptoms resolved

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/