Drastic action needed on Ebola

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#52
Clearly the CDC didn't watch the last season of The Walking Dead.


Somebody call Carol. :)
 
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..."Three top secret, experimental vials stored at subzero temperatures were flown into Liberia"...

Flight of the Ebola Gay?????
 
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Won't be long before this stuff comes across our southern border and entire towns are quarantined and/or under Marshall law.

This can get nasty real damn quick.
 
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Obsessed said:
Won't be long before this stuff comes across our southern border and entire towns are quarantined and/or under Marshall law.

This can get nasty real damn quick.
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It's only transmittable via bodily fluids, if everyone follows basic health standards it's not easily spread. An outbreak, such as we're seeing in Africa, would not happen in Western styled states. It's being spread rapidly in Africa because they're poor, uneducated, and would rather go to the local witch doctor instead of the regional medical building.
 
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Burhead said:
It's only transmittable via bodily fluids, if everyone follows basic health standards it's not easily spread. An outbreak, such as we're seeing in Africa, would not happen in Western styled states. It's being spread rapidly in Africa because they're poor, uneducated, and would rather go to the local witch doctor instead of the regional medical building.
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I've seen and read science literature that says it can possibly go airborne.

Mexico doesn't have the best health regiment among its people. It could very easily spread through its normal ways ( blood,saliva) rather quickly. That's not a risk I'm taking lightly.
 
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Obsessed said:
I've seen and read science literature that says it can possibly go airborne.

Mexico doesn't have the best health regiment among its people. It could very easily spread through its normal ways ( blood,saliva) rather quickly. That's not a risk I'm taking lightly.
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Sure anything could mutate to being transmitted via air but as it stands now it's not. Once the virus is contained it burns itself out very quickly.
 
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Obsessed said:
I've seen and read science literature that says it can possibly go airborne.

Mexico doesn't have the best health regiment among its people. It could very easily spread through its normal ways ( blood,saliva) rather quickly. That's not a risk I'm taking lightly.
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At least you can get any meds you want very easily & much cheaper.
 
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Burhead said:
Sure anything could mutate to being transmitted via air but as it stands now it's not. Once the virus is contained it burns itself out very quickly.
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From Pigs to Monkeys, Ebola Goes Airborne | HealthMap

The team, comprised of researchers from the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, the University of Manitoba, and the Public Health Agency of Canada, observed transmission of Ebola from pigs to monkeys. They first inoculated a number of piglets with the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus. Ebola-Zaire is the deadliest strain, with mortality rates up to 90 percent. The piglets were then placed in a room with four cynomolgus macaques, a species of monkey commonly used in laboratories. The animals were separated by wire cages to prevent direct contact between the species.

Within a few days, the inoculated piglets showed clinical signs of infection indicative of Ebola infection. In pigs, Ebola generally causes respiratory illness and increased temperature. Nine days after infection, all piglets appeared to have recovered from the disease.

- See more at: From Pigs to Monkeys, Ebola Goes Airborne | HealthMap
 
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Obsessed said:
From Pigs to Monkeys, Ebola Goes Airborne | HealthMap

The team, comprised of researchers from the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, the University of Manitoba, and the Public Health Agency of Canada, observed transmission of Ebola from pigs to monkeys. They first inoculated a number of piglets with the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus. Ebola-Zaire is the deadliest strain, with mortality rates up to 90 percent. The piglets were then placed in a room with four cynomolgus macaques, a species of monkey commonly used in laboratories. The animals were separated by wire cages to prevent direct contact between the species.

Within a few days, the inoculated piglets showed clinical signs of infection indicative of Ebola infection. In pigs, Ebola generally causes respiratory illness and increased temperature. Nine days after infection, all piglets appeared to have recovered from the disease.

- See more at: From Pigs to Monkeys, Ebola Goes Airborne | HealthMap
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And when we have the first confirmed case of human to human transmission I'll be concerned. Until that, while scary, isn't making me nervous as others seem to be.
 
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