Beginning of the end? Ebola patients coming to U.S.

Rodeo Burger wrote:Big Pharma already has the cure.  They just need a few million (white American) people to die before everyone is clamoring for the vaccine.

Rodeo Burger wrote:Big Pharma already has the cure.  They just need a few million (white American) people to die before everyone is clamoring for the vaccine.

Heat Miser wrote:

Wait...what!?!?! I assumed exposure would be limited to the "undesirables" on "the other side of the tracks".  

Or are you referring to downriver Walvie trailer park white trash types? Cuz I'd be fine with that.  

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:
A few million? 6. It will take 6.

Rodeo Burger wrote:

You make it sound like you have a list.   

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:
A few million? 6. It will take 6.

Jake from State Farm wrote:Docs get secret serum.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/04/health/experimental-ebola-serum/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Robert J Sakimano wrote:I tried to tell everyone that this is what would happen when we elect a muslim community organizer from Kenya..

thanks Obama!!  

Stugots wrote:I just read something that's kinda shocking to me:

"The reason the risk is so small for the American public is that individuals who have Ebola only become contagious when they begin to show symptoms of the disease -- and then can only transfer it via bodily fluids such as blood, vomit, and urine.

It does not spread through casual contact or by sharing the same air that an infected person is breathing.

Thus if a person in America began to show symptoms, they would be quarantined immediately and anyone with whom they had close personal contact with would be monitored closely for any signs that they had become infected."

From: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-patients-coming-us-safe/story?id=24804000

How is this disease so virulent if it can only be transferred through blood, vomit, and urine? My guess would be that conditions in much of Africa are much less sanitary than they are here in the U.S. Much of the continent still uses out houses and pits. Their drinking water is much more easily contaminated than it is in industrialized nations.

Any microbiologists in da house?

DroppedByADime wrote:Didn't read.    But I thought I read somewhere that the total deaths from Ebola, in the history of Ebola is like 350 ?    :/.

Measles whack like 10-12k / yr


Guess I don't have an Ebola vaccination .... But if it's in the hundreds- that's a D3 threat.    

DroppedByADime wrote:Didn't read.    But I thought I read somewhere that the total deaths from Ebola, in the history of Ebola is like 350 ?    :/.

Measles whack like 10-12k / yr


Guess I don't have an Ebola vaccination .... But if it's in the hundreds- that's a D3 threat.    

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:
More like 2,000. But, yeah.

Rodeo Burger wrote:

Yeah, but close to 900 have happened this year.  

I'm not worried about the 2 infected Americans they are bringing to Emory.  The dozens that have entered the US from the infected countries lately is more concerning, considering that if they've caught dozens, hundreds or thousands are actually getting in.

But the border issue is a non-starter for political reasons (assuming you're brand of politics relies on destitute, uneducated people to get elected).

Stugots wrote:

But given that we have proper sanitation in this country and the fact that we don't eat infected bush meat, I wouldn't consider this to be a very big threat. This isn't an airborne virus so it's actually fairly difficult to contract (unless you're improperly in contact with infected blood, urine, vomit). It's all media hype.

In an apparent attempt to avoid hysteria, U.S. health authorities are withholding details about a number of suspected Ebola victims from the public.

During a segment concerning the admission of a potential Ebola victim at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta revealed that there have been at least six cases at the hospital which prompted doctors to test for Ebola but that the details were not divulged publicly.

“There have been about a half a dozen patients who have had their blood tested because of concern, those particular patients their stories were not made public,” said Gupta, adding, “I’m not sure if that’s because of heightened concern by the hospital or what that means exactly.”

Gupta also appeared to suggest that patients being tested for the Ebola virus were not being kept in isolation when he stated, “This isn’t the kind of thing that they worry about spreading to other patients in the hospital, spreading to people who are walking around the hospital. This is not an airborne virus.”

However, at least in the case of the patient who was made public yesterday, hospital officials said the individual was immediately put into isolation as a precaution.

As we reported yesterday, despite health authorities downplaying the likelihood of Ebola going airborne, studies by Canadian scientists suggest that this is in fact likely, at least to a limited degree.