Ebola Outbreak

[blueonblue]

How the hell can we send 400 "Volunteers" from a health service that regularly has to cancel operations due to staff shortages ?, on what fucking planet does it make sense to ship out trained staff when there is a good chance we will be needing them even more here before much longer.

Ebola is being down played by the nonsensical idea that it could be contained with the levels of healthcare available here, yet we have a shortage of IC beds just for normal hospital cases, they are just going to stop are they ?, do people think we have isolation unit beds just stood about fully staffed waiting for this kind of shit to hit the fan.

As the previous poster says, sending people over there is stupid in the extreme when it makes far more sense to restrict travel to and from the region.

 

[Patientman63]

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.

This^^

 

[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...

We are all doomed I tell you, DOOMED

Well we won't know for a few months and until shit hits the fan most people will just assume that it can't possibly happen over here which is fair enough. But I like to think that those in power wouldn't be complacent about a virus that is very contageous and kills upwards of 70% of those who get infected. Unfortunately, all I hear is complacency which is the thing that particularly bothers me. We were told that flying in people infected with Ebola for treatment wasn't any risk at all, the protocols we have in Europe for this kind of thing are too good for it to be a problem. Turns out that was horse shit. I have just heard some expert on 5live say with utter conviction that the chances of this becoming a problem in Europe is 0%. It won't surprise me in the slightest if that turns out to be horse shit too. But who knows maybe the western world is magically impervious to Ebola. I hope so.

 

[scotty123]

Spanish nurse contracted the virus in full bio hazard containment conditions with a supposed 100% controlled risk. She's been out and about and contagious for at least a week.

My guess is that Ebola will cause the cancellation of the Champions League and if it continues to spread league matches might be affected.

I cannot see the African cup of Nations going ahead in January and February, loads of African players from all over the World going back to their clubs would be a cause for concern

 

[jacko74]

Ebola has the potential to be the saviour of the planet... I personally hope it doesn't turn out to be a damp squib.

 

[BlueHammer85]

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.

This^^

Over 3000 dead and rising...

 

[Nightmare Walking]

Has any virus ever mutated to change the way it infects people? HIV has been around for years and infected millions yet it has never mutated and gone airborne.

 

[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.

This^^

Over 3000 dead and rising...

And run of the mill flu kills 30,000 a year in the US alone on average.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Has any virus ever mutated to change the way it infects people? HIV has been around for years and infected millions yet it has never mutated and gone airborne.

Syphilis killed within a year of catching it in the 15th century.

It then mutated into the much slower killer of today.

Apparently even if you are one of the 10% who catch it and survive, the virus remains in your semen for 3 months!

Not that you'd get any takers.

 

[BlueHammer85]

This^^

Over 3000 dead and rising...

And run of the mill flu kills 30,000 a year in the US alone on average.

oh right then, lets just let ebola take its corse and not try and prevent it.