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

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Elong said:
Bit harsh blaming medical workers, they're just doing their best like.

Also, a couple of people keep saying "it's airborne" or "if it becomes airborne". It isn't and it hasn't, scaremongering isn't helping anyone, the transfer thread is bad enough for bullshit.
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Hope you didn't think that was my intent. I am a healthcare worker. They are working in a horrible situation in a healthcare system understaffed, under supplied, underfunded, and not capable of handling something like this. That it isn't worse is to their credit
 
RAFUH said:
Why do people underestimate influenza?

Over the last 30 years, the seasonal viruses have killed in the range of 3,000-48,000 PER YEAR just in the US.

Swine flu world wide death toll using conservative estimates for the year 2009 are 200,000 with an upper range of 500,000.
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Ebola seems to be the shark attack of viruses. Horrible but very rare and prone to media amplification.
 
Elong said:
Bit harsh blaming medical workers, they're just doing their best like.

Also, a couple of people keep saying "it's airborne" or "if it becomes airborne". It isn't and it hasn't, scaremongering isn't helping anyone, the transfer thread is bad enough for bullshit.
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http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20341423

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7547435

not my bullshit, perhaps the bullshit of professionals. Blame them for scaremongering and drop the temper tone. TIA
 
It has spread unfortunately. Now it's in Nigeria as well. 5 people in Lagos has gotten sick with Ebola. All of them worked at the hospital were the sick person that came back from Liberia were treated.
 
magicjuan said:
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20341423

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7547435

not my bullshit, perhaps the bullshit of professionals. Blame them for scaremongering and drop the temper tone. TIA
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Reference #1 In the lab. Lot of things can be done in a lab that can't/don't occur outside that setting

Reference #2
the pigs carrying the virus were housed in pens with the monkeys in close proximity but separated by a wire barrier.
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Wire barrier - yeah, that's sufficient to ensure no cross contamination other than respiratory.

Reference #3 - researches manipulating the virus and transmission. Not observation of it actually happening in the normal course of infections.

My perspective in the "not airbourne" is that it hasn't been seen in natural outbreaks. Doesn't mean it can't or won't, but there is no evidence that it has in the field at this point.
 
Blue Wiz said:
It has spread unfortunately. Now it's in Nigeria as well. 5 people in Lagos has gotten sick with Ebola. All of them worked at the hospital were the sick person that came back from Liberia were treated.
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Saw that. They admitted they did not quarantine the patient quickly enough.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/nigerian-official-show-ebola-symptoms-24848708

It is often the sad lot of healthcare workers and first responders. They get exposed before they know what they are dealing with.
 
WHO has now declared it an international emergency.

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