Ebola Outbreak

[BlueHammer85]

Just seen sky news report , a little 8 year old boy totally dazed and just tired, the doctor asking him to open his mouth and he can barely respond. His father around the corner outside just died and they are covering his body. Has really upset me.

 

[BlueBearBoots]

COUNTRIES MOST AT RISK
The researchers at Northeastern University, in Boston, calculated the countries most at risk in the short term, are:
Ghana
UK
Nigeria
Gambia
Ivory Coast
Belgium
France
Senegal
Morocco
Mali
Mauritiania
Guinea Bissau
U.S.
Germany
South Africa
Kenya


With 6000 flights a week coming to the UK they reckon there is a 50% chance Ebola will reach the UK by the end of October

 

[Lancet Fluke]

COUNTRIES MOST AT RISK
The researchers at Northeastern University, in Boston, calculated the countries most at risk in the short term, are:
Ghana
UK
Nigeria
Gambia
Ivory Coast
Belgium
France
Senegal
Morocco
Mali
Mauritiania
Guinea Bissau
U.S.
Germany
South Africa
Kenya


With 6000 flights a week coming to the UK they reckon there is a 50% chance Ebola will reach the UK by the end of October

Nigeria already had it a month or two ago and managed to contain it, I wonder if they are actively trying to make sure that they don't get it again. I'd be surprised if they are actively flying infected people in to their country like some western states that's for sure. I wonder if we would be prepared to put in place as swiftly the same kind of measures Nigeria did in order to contain their outbreak?

 

[PSmyth07]

People would never lie about exposure to get to countries with better treatment available.

It should have been contained months ago, as Churchill once said,

“When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story. It is as old as the sibylline books. It falls into that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong–these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.”

 

[scall11]

I don't see how the whole of Sierra Leone wasn't quaranteened weeks ago. Now it's started to spread abroad then we've already lost the chance of containing it.

In Executive Orders, terrorists deliberately spread the virus at trade shows around the US. The spread of it is horriffic.

I'm pretty concerned as to how this is going to be contained.

I was quite suprised when they patients had been taken abroad for treatment. Yes they can say they're taking all these precautions, but that's not really helped the medical staff who have been infected too.

No matter what country it started in, the international procedure should have been lockdown and isolation in the hope it would kill itself out.

 

[scotty123]

Besides the nurse who has been diagnosed another 3 people who were in contact with her have been quarantined all could be infected, Spanish interviewed on TV not happy that the priest was brought back, one said he had been there 30 years he should have been left to die there, panic is setting in

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Besides the nurse who has been diagnosed another 3 people who were in contact with her have been quarantined all could be infected, Spanish interviewed on TV not happy that the priest was brought back, one said he had been there 30 years he should have been left to die there, panic is setting in

And quite right too. On the news last night they were saying that 400 volunteers from the NHS are going over shortly to help out in Africa. Now this is all very noble but I assume they aren't going there indefinitely and will return home and then to work within a few weeks or at a push months. If I was trying to think of mad plans to deliberately spread Ebola to the UK, I think sending hundreds of people there to nurse the infected and then bringing them back to work in our health service would be my best plan...

 

[AlgarveBlu]

Really concerning how this nurse could of got infected with all the precautions they would have taken...

Saw this article n the BBC which was prior to the current outbreak about how one strain of the ebola virus was sort of airborne but not in a flu like way (I think). Basically the monkeys were separate from the pigs who had the virus but half the monkeys caught it as well, seems like they panicked and just killed all the monkeys whilst the pigs were sent to Tesco's special range shelves.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20341423" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20341423</a>

 

[scotty123]

Besides the nurse who has been diagnosed another 3 people who were in contact with her have been quarantined all could be infected, Spanish interviewed on TV not happy that the priest was brought back, one said he had been there 30 years he should have been left to die there, panic is setting in

And quite right too. On the news last night they were saying that 400 volunteers from the NHS are going over shortly to help out in Africa. Now this is all very noble but I assume they aren't going there indefinitely and will return home and then to work within a few weeks or at a push months. If I was trying to think of mad plans to deliberately spread Ebola to the UK, I think sending hundreds of people there to nurse the infected and then bringing them back to work in our health service would be my best plan...

We are all doomed I tell you, DOOMED

 

[Pell]

Its the latest fear porn they do every so often. Just like African bees, bird flu, swine flu, Y2K, the hole in the ozone layer, etc.