Ebola Outbreak

[cucumberman]

Getting headlines now.

What do you all think of it? Scaremongering or legit?

It doesnt help that I recently watched Contagion the one with Paltrow and Jude Law.

 

[TCIB]

Nobody knows the exact moment it becomes contagious.
Rule of thumb is when symptoms become apparent it is contagious.

With the world now becoming more interlinked the danger rises exponentially.
That said we have robust enough methods of isolation now. Basically if your envisioning the rage virus then no we are fine.
This does no help those who do catch it though, it was here once and the lab tech who caught it survived.

 

[BlueBearBoots]

I think the more the media hype it up the more hysterical officials are going to get and maybe rightly so. Are they going to stop everyone flying in from west Africa if they look remotely I'll, slightly sweating or sneeze?

 

[west didsblue]

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.

Religious nutter;-)

 

[mammutly]

Unfortunately what we have here is a tough virus. Recent analyses by WHO are suggesting that the infectious period predates symptoms. The measures currently being taken by African States are necessary and hopefully sufficient, but I have my doubts about this one. Previous flu outbreaks were not as severe as predicted because western standards of health care and infection control proved a match for the virus and its effects when contracted. Infection control has to be up to scratch for Ebola, because even with good health care, once contracted,the fatality rate is high and the infectious period may be anything up to 28 days.

 

[dazdon]

I'm going to stock up on quavers and tango and retire to my upside down tin bath in the yard until it all blows over.

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

Unfortunately what we have here is a tough virus. Recent analyses by WHO are suggesting that the infectious period predates symptoms. The measures currently being taken by African States are necessary and hopefully sufficient, but I have my doubts about this one. Previous flu outbreaks were not as severe as predicted because western standards of health care and infection control proved a match for the virus and its effects when contracted. Infection control has to be up to scratch for Ebola, because even with good health care, once contracted,the fatality rate is high and the infectious period may be anything up to 28 days.

This^^^^^^^^^^we should be closing borders now. If this gets into a highly populated environment there'll be no stopping it

 

[smudgedj]

Unfortunately what we have here is a tough virus. Recent analyses by WHO are suggesting that the infectious period predates symptoms. The measures currently being taken by African States are necessary and hopefully sufficient, but I have my doubts about this one. Previous flu outbreaks were not as severe as predicted because western standards of health care and infection control proved a match for the virus and its effects when contracted. Infection control has to be up to scratch for Ebola, because even with good health care, once contracted,the fatality rate is high and the infectious period may be anything up to 28 days.

Is it airborne or do you need to be in contact to become infected?

 

[dazdon]

Unfortunately what we have here is a tough virus. Recent analyses by WHO are suggesting that the infectious period predates symptoms. The measures currently being taken by African States are necessary and hopefully sufficient, but I have my doubts about this one. Previous flu outbreaks were not as severe as predicted because western standards of health care and infection control proved a match for the virus and its effects when contracted. Infection control has to be up to scratch for Ebola, because even with good health care, once contracted,the fatality rate is high and the infectious period may be anything up to 28 days.

Is it airborne or do you need to be in contact to become infected?

You need to have contact of some sort.

We are talking bodily fluids.

 

[metalblue]

I'm going to stock up on quavers and tango and retire to my upside down tin bath in the yard until it all blows over.

I'll see you in the winchester