Ebola Outbreak

[idahoblues]

An infected US doctor said to have contracted Ebola in Liberia has been flown to the US for treatment.

Here we go.

2 of them JOTS one mistake and it's game over for USA

BTW if it starts in the States it is only a very short amount of time before it is in London, Manchester, Glasgow, Paris, Berlin, etc...

Horrible decision by Obama and the U.S. govt to bring these two to the 1st world.

It does seem like a pretty stupid idea

 

[BlueBearBoots]

Sorry JOTS they only brought Dr Brantly back Ms Writebol has remained in Liberia.



So Dr Brantly is in Atlanta, what's the general feeling in America about this anyone living there can tell me if it's a hot topic or is no one really talking about it?

 

[Lancet Fluke]

When the only treatment seems to be keeping patients hydrated, it seems ludicrous that they would take such a huge risk to do nothing more than they could do where he was. Stupid American shitheads.

 

[stonerblue]

It's all part of God's great plan.
We get these scares every so often - I recall folk saying bird flu was a pandemic that would kill millions, yet it only killed about half a dozen folk, and sadly none of them was Kerry Katona.
It will probably scare elderly Daily Mail readers, who will probably call for tighter border controls and the return of the ducking stool as combat measures.

My daughter had bird flu when she was pregnant, it was fucking scary. She was in isolation, barrier nursing etc.

Ebola does sound like a terrible death though fetters and it seems to be spreading.

I'm glad your daughter pulled through BBB, and whilst in no way diminishing the serious nature of these viruses, I do think that the media can sometimes scare us to death with largely unfounded paranoia.
Ebola probably isn't the best way to go, but scientists will have it all wrapped up soon - Damocles hasn't been posting much of late, so he's likely on the case as I type.
Then we can worry about something else instead.

Despite years of research there is still no vaccination for ebola and one isn't going to spring up overnight.
Even if it did, the administering of it would take years.

 

[allan harper]

The mirror paper running with this headline tomorrow.


Ebola terror at Gatwick as passenger collapses and dies getting off Sierra Leone flight
03 August 2014 10:30 PM By Rebecca Younger, Andy Lines
Staff tell of fears as jet from Africa is quarantined after the death of passenger who was 'sweating and vomiting' before she collapsed.



Just be confirmed the test for Ebola proved negative.

 

[bluethrunthru]

When the only treatment seems to be keeping patients hydrated, it seems ludicrous that they would take such a huge risk to do nothing more than they could do where he was. Stupid American shitheads.

Well if they need to keep him hydrated then bringing him to Atlanta - the home of Coca Cola - is the right move.

I am sure a healthy westerner should be able to run this off after the magic sponge has been stuffed down the shorts?

 

[waspish]

Read somewhere they have a drug they want to test...

 

[DiscoSteve]

watch this one peeps... could get as nasty as AIDS in the 80's

 

[Damocles]

My daughter had bird flu when she was pregnant, it was fucking scary. She was in isolation, barrier nursing etc.

Ebola does sound like a terrible death though fetters and it seems to be spreading.

I'm glad your daughter pulled through BBB, and whilst in no way diminishing the serious nature of these viruses, I do think that the media can sometimes scare us to death with largely unfounded paranoia.
Ebola probably isn't the best way to go, but scientists will have it all wrapped up soon - Damocles hasn't been posting much of late, so he's likely on the case as I type.
Then we can worry about something else instead.

Despite years of research there is still no vaccination for ebola and one isn't going to spring up overnight.
Even if it did, the administering of it would take years.

This isn't an issue of vaccination, more an issue of quarantine. I said earlier in the thread that our quarantine procedures and departments in hospitals are on their game not doing things like "using witchcraft" or "eating dead birds off of the ground" so we'll be fine. If it ever hit Britain, and it's unlikely, we have the finance and organisational skill to clear it quite rapidly. Exactly as we have done with other "supposed pandemics" in the past.

 

[stonerblue]

I'm glad your daughter pulled through BBB, and whilst in no way diminishing the serious nature of these viruses, I do think that the media can sometimes scare us to death with largely unfounded paranoia.
Ebola probably isn't the best way to go, but scientists will have it all wrapped up soon - Damocles hasn't been posting much of late, so he's likely on the case as I type.
Then we can worry about something else instead.

Despite years of research there is still no vaccination for ebola and one isn't going to spring up overnight.
Even if it did, the administering of it would take years.

This isn't an issue of vaccination, more an issue of quarantine. I said earlier in the thread that our quarantine procedures and departments in hospitals are on their game not doing things like "using witchcraft" or "eating dead birds off of the ground" so we'll be fine. If it ever hit Britain, and it's unlikely, we have the finance and organisational skill to clear it quite rapidly. Exactly as we have done with other "supposed pandemics" in the past.

That may well be the case on our little island but globally things are a bit different.