Ebola Outbreak

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

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.

HMMMM.....Hit our little island yesterday with a death at Gatwick i believe.........and as for ''our quarantine procedures and departments in hospitals are on their game'' you obviously haven't made a visit to A&E recently 'cos if you had you could see that they can't cope with a saturday night let alone a full blown outbreak ......

 

[Lancet Fluke]

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.

HMMMM.....Hit our little island yesterday with a death at Gatwick i believe.........and as for ''our quarantine procedures and departments in hospitals are on their game'' you obviously haven't made a visit to A&E recently 'cos if you had you could see that they can't cope with a saturday night let alone a full blown outbreak ......

I spent time in a hospital when they supposedly had some patients in quarantine and it was a fucking joke. They were putting on plastic pinnies and face masks when going in to the isolation cubicles for the first day or so but then you just saw the way they got sick of it and couldn't be arsed with any of the procedures very quickly. After a couple of days quite a few of the nurses weren't even washing their hands when they came out of the cubicles. Not all of them but quite a few of them. There were cleaners just wandering in and out of the cubicles, doors to the cubicles being left open. Honestly it was pathetic and I came to the conclusion that a fair amount of the staff were fucking morons. The situation ended up where they had to cancel all operations for a couple of weeks because it got worse and they stopped all visitors to the ward for a couple of weeks too and these cunts were still wandering in and out of the cubicles without a care in the world.

 

[Damocles]

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.

HMMMM.....Hit our little island yesterday with a death at Gatwick i believe.........and as for ''our quarantine procedures and departments in hospitals are on their game'' you obviously haven't made a visit to A&E recently 'cos if you had you could see that they can't cope with a saturday night let alone a full blown outbreak ......

Then you believe wrong.

And the second part is just stupid. So what you're suggesting is that an incredibly deadly disease will spread because A&E at one hospital is busy therefore all of the staff are somehow morons that will kill us all?

 

[supercity88]

Has no one seen Shaun of the Dead? We are screwed!!!

 

[Blue Is the Opposite of Blue]

HMMMM.....Hit our little island yesterday with a death at Gatwick i believe.........and as for ''our quarantine procedures and departments in hospitals are on their game'' you obviously haven't made a visit to A&E recently 'cos if you had you could see that they can't cope with a saturday night let alone a full blown outbreak ......

It hasn't reached the UK.

Headline: Ebola scare at Gatwick: Fears disease may reach Britain grow after passenger collapsed and died after getting off flight from Sierra Leone

Line from story: The woman was reportedly vomiting heavily and sweating profusely, but tests last night showed that the woman did not have the virus

Last night the Department of Health said that tests on the woman proved negative for Ebola. A spokesman for Public Health England said the woman’s symptoms had suggested Ebola was very unlikely but the tests were carried out as a precaution.

 

[metalblue]

Has no one seen Shaun of the Dead? We are screwed!!!

Page 8 mate, me and Dazdon are ok.

 

[metalblue]

In the dailyscare talking about it mutating into an airbourne pathogen, however this little piece caught my eye:

Experts say this extreme virulence is its weak spot. The virus can be contained because it kills its victims faster than it can spread to new ones.

In some dusty book I remember reading that a virus doesn't want to kill it's host as it kills itself (or something like that).

 

[RP2]

Media scaremongering.

Ebola has been around for centuries, and has had many 'outbreaks' before.

Sad for the countries involved, but just as dangerous to us as SARs and the flesh-eating bug we were all going to die of.

 

[LJ75]

They just confirmed today that the doctor who was treating the patient who died here in Lagos is infected.

Fu*k that, at least it was not in the hospital where I was treated, but it really scared me. The problem is 'bodily fluids' and if you have a cut, and both of you have sweaty hands, and then, well, you shake hands, theoretically you can get it.

 

[BlueBearBoots]

887 deaths now and a second case in Nigeria