Dallas patient diagnosed with EBOLA. How many did he come in contact with?

MLD Woody

@dste-ace said:

The WHO announced that 70% of people who contract Ebola can expect to die.

That's pretty fucking grim.

What percentage of those infected are in Africa with no access to adequate modern health care?

MLD Woody

@pumpkin-eater said:
Honesty I hope you are right. No one wants to see an Ebola pandemic. But until officials are honest with the public about the real danger we are all in, the risk of a pandemic is greatly increased because people will not be as careful as they should be. It may already be too late. And yes, flights from west Africa should be banned.

And if people choose to constantly believe the man is lying to them, there is nothing that can change that. Look at climate change and the scientific backing there. It means nothing to people that already know what answer they want to hear.

mohican

@dste-ace said:

Which prompts me to ask, am I being over-the-top reactionary in thinking that it's time

to ban flights from Liberia, Nigeria, etc. from landing in the U.S. until they start to get

a handle on this?

No - that would make sense. Other nations are doing this, including African nations.

Dste Ace

@mld-woody said:
What percentage of those infected are in Africa with no access to adequate modern health care?

No idea. I would guess that it is vital to diagnose it and begin treatment as soon as symptoms begin to appear.

But the guy in Dallas showed up at the hospital and was sent home. Does your average hospital have the capability

to institute extreme quarantine measures if a case shows up? Apparently, the nurse who has contracted it in

Dallas was wearing the hazmat suit but removed it improperly. When I say extreme quarantine measures I mean

CDC level measures. I honestly question whether your average hospital can implement the extreme measures required

to prevent the spread of this disease.

I don't consider myself a "run for the hills, save yourselves" kind of person but I'm hearing health officials say that Ebola is

not nearly as contagious as the flu. What they fail to mention is that the flu doesn't kill 70% of the people who get it.

While I'm not heading for the survival bunker--yet --I do believe there is cause for concern. I honestly don't think banning

flights from Liberia, East Africa, et al is an unreasonable action.

MLD Woody

My point was that they said 70% of the people that get it will die. This is across the globe I'm guessing. I'd assume the fatlity rate in Africa will be higher than the US. Not that it isn't extremely dangerous in both cases.

I think the important thing to note here us that we aren't Africa...

DieHardBrownsFan

You're an ignorant little fuck aren't you.

MLD Woody

oh hey, look... another post by DieHard without anything backing it up... shocker

go to bed old man

Pumpkin Eater

We aren't Africa. But viruses don't discriminate. Some of our population centers are probably just as dense or denser in population. Our health care system and most likely our government won't last through a pandemic affecting 40 million people.

MLD Woody

So our health care system, infrastructure, overall cleanliness, average intelligence about this sirt of thing, etc etc is the same as Africa?

DieHardBrownsFan

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/10/15/texas-health-officials-say-second-healthcare-worker-at-dallas-hospital-tests/

Pumpkin Eater

Yep

The Cysko Kid

And it begins. How many did this scumbag come into contact with that WONT report fever to the hospital immediately?

The Cysko Kid

Shits going to get real bad by Christmas

The Cysko Kid

By now people in Texas are fleeing north probably carrying the virus with them

Westside Steve

Just a reminder gentlemen that there is another crisis on our door steps every so often whenever rumors of what will be next deadly influenza pandemic is reported.

My prediction is now the same as it has been throughout the rest of these diseases. In 6 months it will be all but forgotten. Rest in peace bird, swine, chicken, goat, kangaroo, wallaby or whatever different flu was the latest rage.

Six months from now with no American plague. Anybody want to bet a beer?

WSS

DieHardBrownsFan

I hope you're right, but Ebola is not influenza.

DieHardBrownsFan

http://www.flu.gov/pandemic/history/

Westside Steve

@westside-steve said:

Nope. But it is a virus, like SARS right? Which is much harder to control than a bacterial infection. Well until bacteria starts to mutate...

And hopefully my opinion hasn't been tainted by the previous cries of wolf.

WSS

calfoxwc

Even the CDC is "rethinking" how they handle ebola.

That is bad. It's more dangerous than they've said?

Just one sick illegal having ebola being shipped somewhere else, along

with others on a bus, in our country, could start a pandemic, right?

..."no big deal....just...eh....stocking up on food and water...to stay indoors for

weeks if we have to.....nothin going on really....just buying some stuff to boost

our immune systems, and staying away from the public places......everything is fine........"

Let's all just figure everything will ...mostly...be just fine.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-chief-says-u-s-must-rethink-how-it-handles-ebola/

Osiris

Influenza is more contagious than Ebola because Ebola does not commonly cause sneezing/coughing like the flu does, therefore it doesn't spread as easily. I agree with WSS, two cases of Ebola are not a reason for everyone to freak out.

I don't the problem is how dangerous Ebola is, it is in our hospitals knowing how to handle it properly. In Cal's article, they speculate that the nurse could've gotten it from not taking off the protective suit properly. I immediately had to wonder why the suit wouldn't be decontaminated before she even had to take it off. It seems stupid not to do so.