Ebola Outbreak

[BlueBearBoots]

With the reporters and camera crew all there then flying back to Europe I can see it getting here eventually

 

[MCFCTrick]

It's coming .....

 

[Garrinchas---Dog]

With the reporters and camera crew all there then flying back to Europe I can see it getting here eventually

I read this book when it first came out,the world is a smaller place than it use to be
In theory is could be spread very easily with international travel
Lock the doors and don't let anyone in
http://richardpreston.net/preston-books/hot-zone

 

[mancity dan]

With the reporters and camera crew all there then flying back to Europe I can see it getting here eventually

Not heard anything about this?

 

[BlueBearBoots]

With the reporters and camera crew all there then flying back to Europe I can see it getting here eventually

Not heard anything about this?

Sky news has reporters in Liberia. As post above though international travel facilitates the spread of such diseases

 

[Timmmmahhhh]

Is this that awful virus that broke about 20 year ago in Africa? People bleeding to death all over the place? Fucking terrible

As long as you don't see any Capuchin monkeys or Dustin Hoffman running around you'll be alright.

Beat me to it.

Meh

 

[wayne71]

Reading up on the ebola virus I got sidetracked and ended up reading about how many thousands of people die from mosquitoes bites every day (or malaria to be exact). I found it shocking yet you hardly about it.

 

[RP2]

Ebola, whilst being a terrible disease/plague - has been around for a long time.

Media scaremongerers will have you believe the end is nigh.

They'll move on eventually, onto another version of the flu again probably.

 

[adrianr]

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.

Diseases coming over on immigrants, perhaps? 2 for 1!

 

[SWP's back]

Ebola, whilst being a terrible disease/plague - has been around for a long time.

Media scaremongerers will have you believe the end is nigh.

They'll move on eventually, onto another version of the flu again probably.

Yeah sure and the World Heath Organisation are always scare mongering. The do-gooding bastards.