ebola, anyone else mildly terrified?

[superkartracer]

Brill news indeed

[superkartracer]

http://news.sky.com/story/1414262/ebola-nurse-leav...

[Laurel Green]

superkartracer said:

http://news.sky.com/story/1414262/ebola-nurse-leav...

[Mr GrimNasty]

She looks much fitter for losing a few pounds!

[anonymous-user]

McWigglebum4th said:

vescaegg said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30932578

At turning point now its reported

And mostly down to people like the british nurse who went over there and put their lifes on the line

If we had followed the sage advice of the wise ones then it would be killing a huge amount in africa and instead of one or 2 cases in europe it would be hundreds


So those that wanted the UK nurse left to die in africa you should be ashamed

Who said that then?


There is no doubt this whole affair coils have been handled more effectively and safely, anyone who commented on that made quote fair criticism, whatever the holier than thou do gooders think. If it was safe and right for her to return to the UK as she did, there should have been no need for the palaver that accompanied her hasty transfer from Scotland to England.

The African situation could be managed just as effectively with NO risk to Europe or the rest of the world.

[Ali G]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30967337

[Bill]

REALIST123 said:

The African situation could be managed just as effectively with NO risk to Europe or the rest of the world.

Just as it is being.

[soad]

Ali G said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30967337

"Ms Cafferkey was treated with blood plasma from an Ebola survivor and an experimental treatment drug closely related drug to ZMapp".

[TTmonkey]

Scientists have confirmed that Ebola has mutated.

Tests are being done to see if this makes it easier to transmit.

Could see this back on the radar if the change is significant.....

[Mr GrimNasty]

Also reports of asymptomatic cases.......... be afraid.

[Muncher]

But the number of new cases is now at the lowest level since the outbreak began apparently

[B17NNS]

TTmonkey said:

Scientists have confirmed that Ebola has mutated.

[Bill]

Mr GrimNasty said:

Also reports of asymptomatic cases.......... be afraid.

Huh? By asymptomatic do you mean people have been exposed and fought it off then this is a good thing, no?

[B17NNS]

Bill said:

Huh? By asymptomatic do you mean people have been exposed and fought it off then this is a good thing, no?

I thought it meant a symptomless carrier?

[vescaegg]

B17NNS said:

I thought it meant a symptomless carrier?

I thought that was the case now until you pretty much keel over and start bleeding from everywhere?

[B17NNS]

vescaegg said:

I thought that was the case now until you pretty much keel over and start bleeding from everywhere?

I think with regular Ebola you're most infectious at the end when you start to bleed out. You die shortly afterwards so the window for passing the virus is quite small. If you can walk around oblivious and infected indefinitely whilst being capable of transmitting the disease you can do a whole heap more damage to a population.

[soad]

Ebola outbreak: Virus mutating, scientists warn

[otolith]

The question is whether significant virus amplification occurs in asymptomatic infections. If there are people who are seropositive for Ebola without ever showing any symptoms it could mean that they have been infected and infectious but asymptomatic, or it could mean that they were exposed, generated an immune response and fought it off without ever getting sick.

This letter to the Lancet assumes the latter;

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/P...

I'd like to know what the viral load is, if any, in these cases.

[Bill]

B17NNS said:

I think with regular Ebola you're most infectious at the end when you start to bleed out. You die shortly afterwards so the window for passing the virus is quite small. If you can walk around oblivious and infected indefinitely whilst being capable of transmitting the disease you can do a whole heap more damage to a population.

But that's where the virus fails as a pandemic contagion, it needs contact between fluids and someone's mucus membranes and the fluids element doesn't happen until you're highly symptomatic.

[otolith]

I could easily see a less-lethal Ebola evolving into an STD.