ebola, anyone else mildly terrified?

[Puggit]

FCO are reporting more cases in Nigeria

[otolith]

Doctor who treated the guy who died in Nigeria has got it.

[AstonZagato]

I've noticed that "Homeopaths Sans Frontières" isn't rushing to help sort out the Ebola outbreak.

[otolith]

AstonZagato said:

I've noticed that "Homeopaths Sans Frontières" isn't rushing to help sort out the Ebola outbreak.

[Terminator X]

Kills people too quick, need something stealthy like HIV to really do some damage.

TX.

[Terminator X]

otolith said:

It typically kills less than 90% of patients, so if everybody caught it there would still be around 700,000,000 of us left.

Yeah but Zombies.

TX.

[dudleybloke]

AstonZagato said:

I've noticed that "Homeopaths Sans Frontières" isn't rushing to help sort out the Ebola outbreak.

The last thing they need is a load of psychotic gay frenchmen.

[otolith]

One of the nurses who treated Patrick Sawyer (the Liberian case who died in Nigeria) has died of Ebola. There are five other confirmed cases in Nigeria, all thought to be medical staff who treated the man.

Tragic but, to be blunt, that looks like incompetence. Have they not been trained and equipped to deal with this scenario?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/06/ebola...

[dudleybloke]

There's been an ebola death in Saudi Arabia.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28678699

[B17NNS]

Currently reading The Hot Zone. Doesn't sound like the nicest of ways to go.

[Campo]

dudleybloke said:

There's been an ebola death in Saudi Arabia.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28678699

Ebola type symptoms - not confirmed yet.

[Croutons]

Now in Spain

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/s...

Can't see them having 1000 + protective thingies like he's in (that's the technical term) if it goes Pete Tong...

[otolith]

Interesting that the priest has tested positive but does not have fever or bleeding. Some people carry a mutation which cell culture experiments suggest should make them naturally immune to Ebola - although the particular mutation they tested is usually itself fatal in childhood.

[Jimbeaux]

Both of the aid workers returned to the US are improving, at Emory University hospital in Atlanta.

[QuantumTokoloshi]

The outbreak in Lagos is gathering steam, from 9 suspected cases at the beginning of the week, we are now looking over a 100 being quarantined. Lagos will not be able to cope with a large scale outbreak, it will collapse.

The book, the hot zone, by Richard Preston gives an idea about this disease. There is even evidence for it having a partial airborne transmission ability.

[B17NNS]

Potential case in Canada.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/08/08/brampto...

[anonymous-user]

i am not worried, it is a storm in a tea cup, there are worser viruses out there and Ebola seems with little hygiene cleanliness to be containable, as well as natural immunity it seems.

the media love this st.

[QuantumTokoloshi]

I am not sure this is minor, a little cleanliness is not a barrier to Ebola. This virus is highly contagious in the bodily fluids of an infected person, and the virus can survive outside of the body for several weeks, including in aerosol droplets and being sexually transmitted.

An indication of the virulence of this virus is the large number doctors and nurses who have been infected, who should know about infection control and proper protection from the virus.

Quick scenario, Nigerian arrives in the UK, does not know he is infected, and for a few days moves around London, exactly the way the outbreak in Lagos or Kinshasa, Nairobi (previous outbreak) started. There is no way you can quarantine or even find all the possible exposed people. It has potential to explode in a big city, as it seems to have started in Lagos. This is a very nasty virus.

Edited by QuantumTokoloshi on Saturday 9th August 17:16

[benjj]

I have a sneaking suspicion that this is being massively under-reported in both Africa and mainland Europe.

[B17NNS]

benjj said:

I have a sneaking suspicion that this is being massively under-reported in both Africa and mainland Europe.

Our press are certainly making a meal of it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2713707/Se...