Ebola (1 Viewer)

[matuski]

I'd rather world health care organizations overreact than underreact when it comes to potential catastrophic plagues.

Over reaction in terms of preventative measures is far different than over reaction in emotional terms.

"Wear more PPE" is far more rational and productive than the completely counterproductive "ITS IN THE RIVERS AND GOING TO KILL EXPONENTIALLY".

 

[matuski]

Also, if it were in the rivers.. surely by now it is in the oceans?

 

[jon_mx]

The context you guys post is so off base. It absolutely did grow exponentially for many months until appropriate action was taken. And the improper disposal of dead bodies including families throw bodies into rivers to avoid mandatory costs was also a problem. many points have been mis characterized.

In fact travel restrictions and isolation which many fought against were a positive factor in Saving lives.

 

[msommer]

It's a good thin jon_mx and his fellow republicans started fear mongering raising concerns. Otherwise Africa would have been wiped out and we'd have outbreaks growing exponentially on all continents - because, really, until they did that, no one really did anything. That isolation tent in NJ really saved lives!

 

[dhockster]

Also, if it were in the rivers.. surely by now it is in the oceans?

That's what's causing all the shark attacks. Ebola makes sharks crazy.

 

[Sinn Fein]

Also, if it were in the rivers.. surely by now it is in the oceans?

You thinking maybe Ebola killed those people on Malaysia Air that crashed into the Indian Ocean?

 

[Sinn Fein]

You know, if we had let Ebola run a little more rampant, Cecil the Lion would still be alive today.

 

[Sinn Fein]

Plague outbreak in Colorado?

2nd person to die of the plague this year. Not sure if cases are increasing exponentially yet...

 

[NCCommish]

Plague outbreak in Colorado?

2nd person to die of the plague this year. Not sure if cases are increasing exponentially yet...

People have been dying of plague in the US for a while. Since the 1900s. Mostly the bubonic variety. It's been concentrated in the Southwest. We average 7 deaths a year according to the CDC.

 

[Lutherman2112]

Plague outbreak in Colorado?

2nd person to die of the plague this year. Not sure if cases are increasing exponentially yet...

People have been dying of plague in the US for a while. Since the 1900s. Mostly the bubonic variety. It's been concentrated in the Southwest. We average 7 deaths a year according to the CDC.

OMG! It's in the deserts!

 

[NCCommish]

Plague outbreak in Colorado?

2nd person to die of the plague this year. Not sure if cases are increasing exponentially yet...

People have been dying of plague in the US for a while. Since the 1900s. Mostly the bubonic variety. It's been concentrated in the Southwest. We average 7 deaths a year according to the CDC.

OMG! It's in the deserts!

Armadillos are carriers. Sorry that's not right armadillos carry leprosy, my bad.

 

[jon_mx]

Plague outbreak in Colorado?

2nd person to die of the plague this year. Not sure if cases are increasing exponentially yet...

People have been dying of plague in the US for a while. Since the 1900s. Mostly the bubonic variety. It's been concentrated in the Southwest. We average 7 deaths a year according to the CDC.

OMG! It's in the deserts!

Brownies or pies?

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Plague outbreak in Colorado?

2nd person to die of the plague this year. Not sure if cases are increasing exponentially yet...

It's already doubled!!!

 

[gianmarco]

Plague outbreak in Colorado?

2nd person to die of the plague this year. Not sure if cases are increasing exponentially yet...

It's already doubled!!!

And it's only expected to go higher!

 

[grateful zed]

August 07, 2015 5:00 pm

HAMILTON – Andrea Marzi celebrated Thursday night. The Rocky Mountain Laboratory staff scientist had good reason.

Earlier that day, her manuscript documenting a study that showed a single dose of an experimental Ebola vaccine would protect a macaque primate against the current and most deadly strain of the disease if given seven days before exposure was officially published.

http://missoulian.com/hamilton-scientists-develop-vaccine-for-most-deadly-ebola-strain/article_b9b8c404-4643-5642-b3da-152e01b648d5.html

 

[NorvilleBarnes]

Ebola May Stay in Survivors' Semen for Many Monthshttp://www.livescience.com/52485-ebola-stays-semen-many-months.html?cmpid=514627_20151016_53995056&adbid=10153049517526761&adbpl=fb&adbpr=30478646760

 

[Ditka Butkus]

Yep it ain't over.

 

[Sinn Fein]

It will explode exponentially

 

[Doug B]

Ebola May Stay in Survivors' Semen for Many Months

http://www.livescience.com/52485-ebola-stays-semen-many-months.html?cmpid=514627_20151016_53995056&adbid=10153049517526761&adbpl=fb&adbpr=30478646760

Strange article. I know that this was mentioned a lot in articles from last fall. But this link, dated 10/14/2015, makes it sound like a just-now discovery. Maybe the study mentioned in this livescience link is felt to be proving something that was previously only strongly suspected.

 

[matuski]

Ebola May Stay in Survivors' Semen for Many Months

http://www.livescience.com/52485-ebola-stays-semen-many-months.html?cmpid=514627_20151016_53995056&adbid=10153049517526761&adbpl=fb&adbpr=30478646760

So that is how they were putting it in the rivers. It is all making sense now.

 

[NCCommish]

I can't help but notice we still haven't succumbed to the great plague yet.

 

[NorvilleBarnes]

Ebola isn't "coming back" . . . it never went away.

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/ebola-is-coming-backbut-it-never-really-went-away/

 

[Fennis]

Ebola isn't "coming back" . . . it never went away.

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/ebola-is-coming-backbut-it-never-really-went-away/

well that sucks. I guess that could explain how it appears it be gone and then another outbreak occurs.

 

[matuski]

Ebola isn't "coming back" . . . it never went away.

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/ebola-is-coming-backbut-it-never-really-went-away/

Ball Ebola

the squiggly virus collects in certain hidey-holes the immune system doesn’t patrol as well—eyes, brains, testes, and even semen—where it can then lurk for months before replicating and causing problems for its host.

 

[NorvilleBarnes]

Another relapse

 

[Das Boot]

World Health Organization Declares End of Ebola Virus in Guinea

 

[fatness]

There are elections coming up next year. Going to have to ramp up this Ebola thing before then.

 

[Psychopav]

I just finished watching my dvr'd This Week with George Stephanopoulos (look at me! I watch Sunday morning political shows! ) and George was interviewing some doctor about funding to research the zikka virus. George asks if it's fair of some to call the concern overblown after the alarm was shunned about Ebola in the U.S. yet the number of cases in the U.S. only ended up being "about 25,000".

Were there really that many cases of Ebola here? WTF? 

Exponential? 

 

[Doug B]

George asks if it's fair of some to call the concern overblown after the alarm was shunned about Ebola in the U.S. yet the number of cases in the U.S. only ended up being "about 25,000".

Were there really that many cases of Ebola here? WTF? 

Nope -- Stephanopoulos made a huge gaffe.

 

[msommer]

Exponential?

And in the rivers!