ebola, anyone else mildly terrified?
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QuantumTokoloshi said:
otolith said:
One thing which is a worry in a big city is that it can be transmitted sexually.
By the time you are infectious, getting down and funky is not high on your mind.otolith said:
QuantumTokoloshi said:
otolith said:
One thing which is a worry in a big city is that it can be transmitted sexually.
By the time you are infectious, getting down and funky is not high on your mind.Just finished reading The Hot Zone. Frightenign how little they know about Ebola, how quickly it appears to mutate, and that the Reston strain appeared to be airborne transmission (albeit it also seemed to be harmless to humans). It'll be a virus or anti-biotic resistant bacteria that does for us as a human race one day.
Yes, Reston is scary.
This paper around HIV/AIDS and the living conditions of Lagos prostitutes sums up what worries me about it getting into the Lagos sex trade;
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1729037...
This paper around HIV/AIDS and the living conditions of Lagos prostitutes sums up what worries me about it getting into the Lagos sex trade;
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1729037...
Two more things that stuck in my head from the book:
1) That the construction of the Kinshasa Highway is responsible (indirectly) for more than 10 million deaths
2) That AIDS could "significantly thin out the population of Africa, India, Bangladesh and Thailand"
Although it is a disease which has a limited impact in the West it continues to ravage less prosoperous parts of the World.
1) That the construction of the Kinshasa Highway is responsible (indirectly) for more than 10 million deaths
2) That AIDS could "significantly thin out the population of Africa, India, Bangladesh and Thailand"
Although it is a disease which has a limited impact in the West it continues to ravage less prosoperous parts of the World.
Rocksteadyeddie said:
Two more things that stuck in my head from the book:
1) That the construction of the Kinshasa Highway is responsible (indirectly) for more than 10 million deaths
2) That AIDS could "significantly thin out the population of Africa, India, Bangladesh and Thailand"
Although it is a disease which has a limited impact in the West it continues to ravage less prosperous parts of the World.
This effect is to be seen in South Africa, which had a dramatic reduction in life expectancy, from 62 years of age in 1989, to 51 in 2005, due to HIV.1) That the construction of the Kinshasa Highway is responsible (indirectly) for more than 10 million deaths
2) That AIDS could "significantly thin out the population of Africa, India, Bangladesh and Thailand"
Although it is a disease which has a limited impact in the West it continues to ravage less prosperous parts of the World.
Edited by QuantumTokoloshi on Monday 11th August 13:05
Experimental Ebola drug to be supplied to Liberia
Although I was slightly bemused by the "not tested for safety on humans" statement. I suspect this is not top of the list of concerns of those suffering from Ebola.
Although I was slightly bemused by the "not tested for safety on humans" statement. I suspect this is not top of the list of concerns of those suffering from Ebola.
sideways20vT said:
Just on sky news that an armed gang has attacked a treatment centre in Liberia forcing 29 people to flee.
That'll help....
The locals seem to think that ebola is a government hoax.That'll help....
"At least 17 ebola patients have fled a quarantine centre in Liberia after it was attacked by armed men.
The sufferers fled after looters broke into the clinic in a Monrovia slum, stealing blood-stained matresses and sheets, and claiming ebola was a hoax"
"They broke down the doors and looted the place. The patients all fled," Rebecca Wesseh, who witnessed the attack, told AFP news agency.
She heard the raiders shouting that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf "is broke", adding: "She wants money. There's no ebola" in Liberia.
http://news.sky.com/story/1320190/ebola-spread-fea...
t, think its time I get out of here!American Ebola patients released from hospital after treatment, seems like a cure is available but the cost may be pretty high.
greygoose said:
American Ebola patients released from hospital after treatment, seems like a cure is available but the cost may be pretty high.
It is still undetermined if Zmapp aided in their cure or if they fought it off on their own with standard care.A suspected case in Ireland now, yet to be confirmed, but I guess we'll find out very quickly.
TBH I'm surprised we haven't seen a few more cases here in the 'West' - seems like travellers returning from the region could come into contact with lots of people before symptoms set in.
TBH I'm surprised we haven't seen a few more cases here in the 'West' - seems like travellers returning from the region could come into contact with lots of people before symptoms set in.
TheExcession said:
A suspected case in Ireland now, yet to be confirmed, but I guess we'll find out very quickly.
TBH I'm surprised we haven't seen a few more cases here in the 'West' - seems like travellers returning from the region could come into contact with lots of people before symptoms set in.
Not ebola - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28893892TBH I'm surprised we haven't seen a few more cases here in the 'West' - seems like travellers returning from the region could come into contact with lots of people before symptoms set in.
Seems a Brit has tested positive. And he's being flown home.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2732679/BR...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2732679/BR...
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