ebola, anyone else mildly terrified?
Discussion
QuantumTokoloshi said:
I have been talking to a good friend of the doctor,now deceased, who treated the Liberian parient in Nigeria. A very close run thing for Nigeria. The Liberian, was the son of an ex president of liberia, and diplomatic pressure was brought on her to release him. Which she resisted
And stopped. It was during this episode and his violent reaction to it, that she got infected.
Hearing the families experience from a close friend was shocking, imagine having to check your children, every few hours to see if they have a raised temperature and probably will go on to die if they do, sounds soul destroying. All this after their mother had already died.
The friend is also a doctor, and he made no mistake, he was petrified of this disease having seen how his colleague died from it.
When you say 'talking' you covered your mouth and washed your hands and wiped the keyboard and monitor after, right? And stopped. It was during this episode and his violent reaction to it, that she got infected.
Hearing the families experience from a close friend was shocking, imagine having to check your children, every few hours to see if they have a raised temperature and probably will go on to die if they do, sounds soul destroying. All this after their mother had already died.
The friend is also a doctor, and he made no mistake, he was petrified of this disease having seen how his colleague died from it.
B17NNS said:
Not for all the tea in Tesco.
Come on down, weather is beautiful, sunny and warm, perfect pool weather.I find it worrying, when people on here demonstrate an almost arrogant disregard for this disease. When you speak to a doctor, of many years experience, who has direct experience of the disease, his view does not hold that same hubris, in fact it is fear, mixed with a weary admiration for this organism.
Nigeria has dodged a catastrophe here. The one useful side effect of this, is the huge improvement in the immigration procedures now, it can almost be described as moderately efficient now.
2013BRM said:
As Richard Preston said in his summary, it doesn't go away, merely hibernates till the next time when it'll be stronger, unless we eradicate it we are in for a nasty surprise
Not practical really; it exists in animal carriers in the wild and short of killing every monkey(not very green) or vaccinating all of them(not very practical) in Africa how do you get rid?hidetheelephants said:
2013BRM said:
As Richard Preston said in his summary, it doesn't go away, merely hibernates till the next time when it'll be stronger, unless we eradicate it we are in for a nasty surprise
Not practical really; it exists in animal carriers in the wild and short of killing every monkey(not very green) or vaccinating all of them(not very practical) in Africa how do you get rid?hidetheelephants said:
Not practical really; it exists in animal carriers in the wild and short of killing every monkey(not very green) or vaccinating all of them(not very practical) in Africa how do you get rid?
Worse than that, it's believed that the natural host is fruit bats. They live in colonies which can contain literally millions of animals, they migrate distances of up to 2500km and you can't go wiping them out because they are important pollinators of plants. 
I'll just leave this here. Hopefully some will donate.
I've just given the same as I was going to spend on shooting this weekend. If we all do similar we could do some good.
Link to DEC appeal
I've just given the same as I was going to spend on shooting this weekend. If we all do similar we could do some good.
Link to DEC appeal
chris1roll said:
I'll just leave this here. Hopefully some will donate.
I've just given the same as I was going to spend on shooting this weekend. If we all do similar we could do some good.
Link to DEC appeal
They might do a bit better if they weren't so greedy. I've just given the same as I was going to spend on shooting this weekend. If we all do similar we could do some good.
Link to DEC appeal
chris1roll said:
I'll just leave this here. Hopefully some will donate.
I've just given the same as I was going to spend on shooting this weekend. If we all do similar we could do some good.
Link to DEC appeal
Already donated to Medecins Sans Frontieres a while back. On the basis that MSF have the most experience in dealing with ebola. They have been on the ground since the start of the outbreak and they are the most successful at treating it (their treatment centers have the highest recovery rate). They also have no political agenda unlike some of the DEC members,I've just given the same as I was going to spend on shooting this weekend. If we all do similar we could do some good.
Link to DEC appeal
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