Ebola (1 Viewer)

[fantasycurse42]

I'm just confused as to who goes to Liberia... If there was no Ebola outbreak and I received an all expense paid trip to Liberia with first class accommodations, I still decline.

 

[McGarnicle]

First class accommodations in Liberia means you get separate buckets for urine and feces.

 

[fantasycurse42]

Take the funny talk over to the other Ebola thread, guy.

 

[El Floppo]

I'm just confused as to who goes to Liberia... If there was no Ebola outbreak and I received an all expense paid trip to Liberia with first class accommodations, I still decline.

people have family, work, etc in Liberia.

this is difficult to comprehend?

 

[TheIronSheik]

I'm just confused as to who goes to Liberia... If there was no Ebola outbreak and I received an all expense paid trip to Liberia with first class accommodations, I still decline.

people have family, work, etc in Liberia.

this is difficult to comprehend?

I was supposed to go over to the Ivory Coast for work one time and they told me to be careful "with the whole Ebola thing."

 

[fantasycurse42]

I'm just confused as to who goes to Liberia... If there was no Ebola outbreak and I received an all expense paid trip to Liberia with first class accommodations, I still decline.

people have family, work, etc in Liberia.

this is difficult to comprehend?

"Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and its economy is extremely underdeveloped."

Total exports in the entire country were $775MM last year, during an Ebola outbreak, we can sacrifice missing out on that

To your family point, fine if you have family there, take a trip, but not during Ebola Season...

 

[culdeus]

I'm having lunch across the street from the hospital where this guy is. Anyone want me to stop in and say hi?

 

[UniAlias]

I'm having lunch across the street from the hospital where this guy is. Anyone want me to stop in and say hi?

Red Hot and Blue? Jason's Deli? The Mediterranean place?

 

[fantasycurse42]

I'm having lunch across the street from the hospital where this guy is. Anyone want me to stop in and say hi?

Just curious if you have school age children? Love to hear perspective from a parent who might have a kid in this school district.

 

[Henry Ford]

I'm just confused as to who goes to Liberia... If there was no Ebola outbreak and I received an all expense paid trip to Liberia with first class accommodations, I still decline.

people have family, work, etc in Liberia.

this is difficult to comprehend?

"Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and its economy is extremely underdeveloped."

Total exports in the entire country were $775MM last year, during an Ebola outbreak, we can sacrifice missing out on that

To your family point, fine if you have family there, take a trip, but not during Ebola Season...

In Western Africa, it's always the season for some kind of disease. It's been AIDS season for about a decade.

 

[Jobber]

I'm having lunch across the street from the hospital where this guy is. Anyone want me to stop in and say hi?

Just curious if you have school age children? Love to hear perspective from a parent who might have a kid in this school district.

Good question. I have three kids all school age. Thankfully, I think if the SHTF, the district is prepared enough for all kids to continue schooling from home for a while. They have no books, and each kid has an ipad. Makes the transition pretty easy really.

 

[Fennis]

pretty interesting AMA on Ebola on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2hy3r9/science_ama_series_ask_your_questions_about_ebola/

 

[fantasycurse42]

I'm just confused as to who goes to Liberia... If there was no Ebola outbreak and I received an all expense paid trip to Liberia with first class accommodations, I still decline.

people have family, work, etc in Liberia.

this is difficult to comprehend?

"Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and its economy is extremely underdeveloped."

Total exports in the entire country were $775MM last year, during an Ebola outbreak, we can sacrifice missing out on that

To your family point, fine if you have family there, take a trip, but not during Ebola Season...

In Western Africa, it's always the season for some kind of disease. It's been AIDS season for about a decade.

HIV the disease that causes AIDS is only transmitted via unprotected sex, needle sharing, or blood transfusion.

 

[cstu]

In Western Africa, it's always the season for some kind of disease. It's been AIDS season for about a decade.

AIDS season...Ebola season

AIDS season...Ebola season

AIDS season...Ebola season

Ebola season...I say it's AIDS season!

 

[cstu]

pretty interesting AMA on Ebola on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2hy3r9/science_ama_series_ask_your_questions_about_ebola/

Interesting? I did not see one Africa pun in the whole thread.

 

[cstu]

HIV the disease that causes AIDS is only transmitted via unprotected sex, needle sharing, or blood transfusion.

True, but it's been unprotected sex season for awhile over there.

 

[Fennis]

pretty interesting AMA on Ebola on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2hy3r9/science_ama_series_ask_your_questions_about_ebola/

Interesting? I did not see one Africa pun in the whole thread.

better hurry before it gets deleted.

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2hy3r9/science_ama_series_ask_your_questions_about_ebola/ckxkjk4

 

[TheIronSheik]

I'm just confused as to who goes to Liberia... If there was no Ebola outbreak and I received an all expense paid trip to Liberia with first class accommodations, I still decline.

people have family, work, etc in Liberia.

this is difficult to comprehend?

"Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and its economy is extremely underdeveloped."

Total exports in the entire country were $775MM last year, during an Ebola outbreak, we can sacrifice missing out on that

To your family point, fine if you have family there, take a trip, but not during Ebola Season...

In Western Africa, it's always the season for some kind of disease. It's been AIDS season for about a decade.

When I worked for the oil company that would have me travel, they would give out snippets about each country we operated in. One of the things was diseases that you needed to be aware of. I think it may have been Congo, but when I was prepping to go there I read the snippet and the three diseases they listed were African Sleeping Sickness, Ebola and the Plague. Luckily, that trip fell through.

 

[TheIronSheik]

HIV the disease that causes AIDS is only transmitted via unprotected sex, needle sharing, or blood transfusion.

True, but it's been unprotected sex season for awhile over there.

Thanks a lot, El Niño.

 

[Henry Ford]

I'm just confused as to who goes to Liberia... If there was no Ebola outbreak and I received an all expense paid trip to Liberia with first class accommodations, I still decline.

people have family, work, etc in Liberia.

this is difficult to comprehend?

"Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and its economy is extremely underdeveloped."

Total exports in the entire country were $775MM last year, during an Ebola outbreak, we can sacrifice missing out on that

To your family point, fine if you have family there, take a trip, but not during Ebola Season...

In Western Africa, it's always the season for some kind of disease. It's been AIDS season for about a decade.

HIV the disease that causes AIDS is only transmitted via unprotected sex, needle sharing, or blood transfusion.

False. Breast milk and in utero transmission are also ways to get HIV, and other methods of bodily fluid (especially blood) sharing can cause transmission in rare cases. You can get AIDS from being bitten, for instance.

 

[Ditka Butkus]

I'm no neocon, but I don't quite understand how borders haven't been sealed until there is some better containment on this thing. It will be cheaper and more efficient than the alternative.

I'm with you...If anybody is traveling to the US check their passport and see if they have been to the Ebola region in the last 3 weeks....If so, into the Ebola isolation pen until you clear the threat timeframe. Why should the rest of us be potentially exposed because your dumb ### was stupid enough to be over there. Selfish SOB Dallas Ebola jerk.

 

[Gary Coal Man]

Dallas braces for second Ebola case

The Hill, 10/1/2014

Dallas health officials are bracing for a possible second case of the deadly Ebola virus connected to the infected man now in isolation. Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson said there is one particular contact of the patient who he fears may have Ebola.

"Let me be real frank to the Dallas County residents: the fact that we have one confirmed case, there may be another case that is a close associate with this particular patient," Thompson said Wednesday morning in an interview with local ABC affiliate WFAA. "So this is real. There should be a concern, but it's contained to the specific family members and close friends at this moment."

Thompson did not provide further detail about the potential case, only saying that he or she is under strict monitoring as a precaution. A visitor to Dallas from Liberia was officially diagnosed with Ebola Tuesday afternoon, the first case ever confirmed outside of Africa.

Details are increasingly leaking out about the unidentified man. He arrived in the United States on a commercial flight on Sept. 20 and initially sought care for Ebola-like symptoms on Sept. 26. The patient was admitted to the hospital on Sept. 28 and placed in isolation. He was staying with family members in the Dallas area, not in a hotel, officials said.

The case is raising fears about an Ebola outbreak in the Liberian community in Dallas. At least 11 people from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were dispatched this week to trace the patient's contacts, some of whom were children, according to WFAA. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has reportedly activated the city's emergency operations center.

Three first-responders who cared for the infected man are also under close medical surveillance. Members of the ambulance crew tested negative for Ebola but will still be quarantined until they can be confirmed Ebola-free. Thompson and CDC Director Thomas Frieden have sought to reassure Texans that they are not at risk. Travelers who may have had contact with the patients are also unlikely to have the virus since no symptoms were present at the time, they said.

Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) was expected to echo these comments at a noon press conference on Wednesday.

Still, surveys have shown that Americans do harbor fears about Ebola. A poll released in late August found that nearly four in 10 worried about a large outbreak of the disease in the United States.

Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever that presents with flu-symptoms and eventually causes massive internal bleeding. It is transmitted through bodily fluids and typically kills one in two of the people its infects.

 

[Henry Ford]

I'm no neocon, but I don't quite understand how borders haven't been sealed until there is some better containment on this thing. It will be cheaper and more efficient than the alternative.

I'm with you...If anybody is traveling to the US check their passport and see if they have been to the Ebola region in the last 3 weeks....If so, into the Ebola isolation pen until you clear the threat timeframe. Why should the rest of us be potentially exposed because your dumb ### was stupid enough to be over there. Selfish SOB Dallas Ebola jerk.

Sequel to Dallas Buyers Club.

 

[Fennis]

I'm no neocon, but I don't quite understand how borders haven't been sealed until there is some better containment on this thing. It will be cheaper and more efficient than the alternative.

I'm with you...If anybody is traveling to the US check their passport and see if they have been to the Ebola region in the last 3 weeks....If so, into the Ebola isolation pen until you clear the threat timeframe. Why should the rest of us be potentially exposed because your dumb ### was stupid enough to be over there. Selfish SOB Dallas Ebola jerk.

plus we should do the same for more deadly diseases like the flu.

 

[fantasycurse42]

I'm just confused as to who goes to Liberia... If there was no Ebola outbreak and I received an all expense paid trip to Liberia with first class accommodations, I still decline.

people have family, work, etc in Liberia.

this is difficult to comprehend?

"Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and its economy is extremely underdeveloped."

Total exports in the entire country were $775MM last year, during an Ebola outbreak, we can sacrifice missing out on that

To your family point, fine if you have family there, take a trip, but not during Ebola Season...

In Western Africa, it's always the season for some kind of disease. It's been AIDS season for about a decade.

HIV the disease that causes AIDS is only transmitted via unprotected sex, needle sharing, or blood transfusion.

False. Breast milk and in utero transmission are also ways to get HIV, and other methods of bodily fluid (especially blood) sharing can cause transmission in rare cases. You can get AIDS from being bitten, for instance.

These are true, but other instances that you mention are extremely rare. And for purposes of this conversation, neither of these two methods described above will impact any of us.

Also to note, once blood is outside of the body, the virus typically dies very quickly. HIV needs a host to survive.

 

[Jobber]

I'm no neocon, but I don't quite understand how borders haven't been sealed until there is some better containment on this thing. It will be cheaper and more efficient than the alternative.

I'm with you...If anybody is traveling to the US check their passport and see if they have been to the Ebola region in the last 3 weeks....If so, into the Ebola isolation pen until you clear the threat timeframe. Why should the rest of us be potentially exposed because your dumb ### was stupid enough to be over there. Selfish SOB Dallas Ebola jerk.

plus we should do the same for more deadly diseases like the flu.

What's the mortality rate for the flu?

 

[Henry Ford]

I'm just confused as to who goes to Liberia... If there was no Ebola outbreak and I received an all expense paid trip to Liberia with first class accommodations, I still decline.

people have family, work, etc in Liberia.

this is difficult to comprehend?

"Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and its economy is extremely underdeveloped."

Total exports in the entire country were $775MM last year, during an Ebola outbreak, we can sacrifice missing out on that

To your family point, fine if you have family there, take a trip, but not during Ebola Season...

In Western Africa, it's always the season for some kind of disease. It's been AIDS season for about a decade.

HIV the disease that causes AIDS is only transmitted via unprotected sex, needle sharing, or blood transfusion.

False. Breast milk and in utero transmission are also ways to get HIV, and other methods of bodily fluid (especially blood) sharing can cause transmission in rare cases. You can get AIDS from being bitten, for instance.

These are true, but other instances that you mention are extremely rare. And for purposes of this conversation, neither of these two methods described above will impact any of us.

They will if you get bitten in Liberia. Or Dallas.

 

[snogger]

Dallas braces for second Ebola case

The Hill, 10/1/2014

Dallas health officials are bracing for a possible second case of the deadly Ebola virus connected to the infected man now in isolation. Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson said there is one particular contact of the patient who he fears may have Ebola.

"Let me be real frank to the Dallas County residents: the fact that we have one confirmed case, there may be another case that is a close associate with this particular patient," Thompson said Wednesday morning in an interview with local ABC affiliate WFAA. "So this is real. There should be a concern, but it's contained to the specific family members and close friends at this moment."

Thompson did not provide further detail about the potential case, only saying that he or she is under strict monitoring as a precaution. A visitor to Dallas from Liberia was officially diagnosed with Ebola Tuesday afternoon, the first case ever confirmed outside of Africa.

Details are increasingly leaking out about the unidentified man. He arrived in the United States on a commercial flight on Sept. 20 and initially sought care for Ebola-like symptoms on Sept. 26. The patient was admitted to the hospital on Sept. 28 and placed in isolation. He was staying with family members in the Dallas area, not in a hotel, officials said.

The case is raising fears about an Ebola outbreak in the Liberian community in Dallas. At least 11 people from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were dispatched this week to trace the patient's contacts, some of whom were children, according to WFAA. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has reportedly activated the city's emergency operations center.

Three first-responders who cared for the infected man are also under close medical surveillance. Members of the ambulance crew tested negative for Ebola but will still be quarantined until they can be confirmed Ebola-free. Thompson and CDC Director Thomas Frieden have sought to reassure Texans that they are not at risk. Travelers who may have had contact with the patients are also unlikely to have the virus since no symptoms were present at the time, they said.

Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) was expected to echo these comments at a noon press conference on Wednesday.

Still, surveys have shown that Americans do harbor fears about Ebola. A poll released in late August found that nearly four in 10 worried about a large outbreak of the disease in the United States.

Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever that presents with flu-symptoms and eventually causes massive internal bleeding. It is transmitted through bodily fluids and typically kills one in two of the people its infects.

No Need to worry .. we have this under control.. "At this moment"

 

[Fennis]

I'm no neocon, but I don't quite understand how borders haven't been sealed until there is some better containment on this thing. It will be cheaper and more efficient than the alternative.

I'm with you...If anybody is traveling to the US check their passport and see if they have been to the Ebola region in the last 3 weeks....If so, into the Ebola isolation pen until you clear the threat timeframe. Why should the rest of us be potentially exposed because your dumb ### was stupid enough to be over there. Selfish SOB Dallas Ebola jerk.

plus we should do the same for more deadly diseases like the flu.

What's the mortality rate for the flu?

doesn't matter. it kills in the 10s of thousands of Americans.

 

[Jobber]

I'm no neocon, but I don't quite understand how borders haven't been sealed until there is some better containment on this thing. It will be cheaper and more efficient than the alternative.

I'm with you...If anybody is traveling to the US check their passport and see if they have been to the Ebola region in the last 3 weeks....If so, into the Ebola isolation pen until you clear the threat timeframe. Why should the rest of us be potentially exposed because your dumb ### was stupid enough to be over there. Selfish SOB Dallas Ebola jerk.

plus we should do the same for more deadly diseases like the flu.

What's the mortality rate for the flu?

doesn't matter. it kills in the 10s of thousands of Americans.

Oh, it sure does matter. How many are infected with the flu in the US each year? If that same number were infected with Ebola...ah nevermind.

:spits out hook:

 

[Fennis]

I'm no neocon, but I don't quite understand how borders haven't been sealed until there is some better containment on this thing. It will be cheaper and more efficient than the alternative.

I'm with you...If anybody is traveling to the US check their passport and see if they have been to the Ebola region in the last 3 weeks....If so, into the Ebola isolation pen until you clear the threat timeframe. Why should the rest of us be potentially exposed because your dumb ### was stupid enough to be over there. Selfish SOB Dallas Ebola jerk.

plus we should do the same for more deadly diseases like the flu.

What's the mortality rate for the flu?

doesn't matter. it kills in the 10s of thousands of Americans.

Oh, it sure does matter. How many are infected with the flu in the US each year? If that same number were infected with Ebola...ah nevermind.

:spits out hook:

The flu is a far greater threat to your mortality than Ebola.

 

[El Floppo]

On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas was the first person to be diagnosed in the United States with the Ebola virus.

The patient left Liberia on Sept. 19 and arrived in Dallas the following day. On Sept. 26, he sought treatment at the hospital after becoming ill but was sent home with a prescription for antibiotics. Two days later, he was admitted with more critical symptoms, after requiring an ambulance ride to the hospital.

So... you come in from Liberia, and start feeling sick enough to go to the hospital- but I assume don't feel the need to tell them that you've just come back from LIBERIA!? wtf. And that's making the assumption that he didn't tell them... if he told them and they didn't keep him under observation?

 

[lod01]

I'm no neocon, but I don't quite understand how borders haven't been sealed until there is some better containment on this thing. It will be cheaper and more efficient than the alternative.

I'm with you...If anybody is traveling to the US check their passport and see if they have been to the Ebola region in the last 3 weeks....If so, into the Ebola isolation pen until you clear the threat timeframe. Why should the rest of us be potentially exposed because your dumb ### was stupid enough to be over there. Selfish SOB Dallas Ebola jerk.

plus we should do the same for more deadly diseases like the flu.

What's the mortality rate for the flu?

doesn't matter. it kills in the 10s of thousands of Americans.

Oh, it sure does matter. How many are infected with the flu in the US each year? If that same number were infected with Ebola...ah nevermind.

:spits out hook:

The flu is a far greater threat to your mortality than Ebola.

For now.

 

[Parrothead]

I'm no neocon, but I don't quite understand how borders haven't been sealed until there is some better containment on this thing. It will be cheaper and more efficient than the alternative.

I'm with you...If anybody is traveling to the US check their passport and see if they have been to the Ebola region in the last 3 weeks....If so, into the Ebola isolation pen until you clear the threat timeframe. Why should the rest of us be potentially exposed because your dumb ### was stupid enough to be over there. Selfish SOB Dallas Ebola jerk.

plus we should do the same for more deadly diseases like the flu.

What's the mortality rate for the flu?

doesn't matter. it kills in the 10s of thousands of Americans.

Oh, it sure does matter. How many are infected with the flu in the US each year? If that same number were infected with Ebola...ah nevermind.

:spits out hook:

The flu is a far greater threat to your mortality than Ebola.

so given the choice, you would choose to get ebola over the flu?

 

[fantasycurse42]

On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas was the first person to be diagnosed in the United States with the Ebola virus.

The patient left Liberia on Sept. 19 and arrived in Dallas the following day. On Sept. 26, he sought treatment at the hospital after becoming ill but was sent home with a prescription for antibiotics. Two days later, he was admitted with more critical symptoms, after requiring an ambulance ride to the hospital.

So... you come in from Liberia, and start feeling sick enough to go to the hospital- but I assume don't feel the need to tell them that you've just come back from LIBERIA!? wtf. And that's making the assumption that he didn't tell them... if he told them and they didn't keep him under observation?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/01/health/ebola-us/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

He didn't tell them... This guy is a ####### moron and an #######, bad combo.

 

[Fennis]

I'm no neocon, but I don't quite understand how borders haven't been sealed until there is some better containment on this thing. It will be cheaper and more efficient than the alternative.

I'm with you...If anybody is traveling to the US check their passport and see if they have been to the Ebola region in the last 3 weeks....If so, into the Ebola isolation pen until you clear the threat timeframe. Why should the rest of us be potentially exposed because your dumb ### was stupid enough to be over there. Selfish SOB Dallas Ebola jerk.

plus we should do the same for more deadly diseases like the flu.

What's the mortality rate for the flu?

doesn't matter. it kills in the 10s of thousands of Americans.

Oh, it sure does matter. How many are infected with the flu in the US each year? If that same number were infected with Ebola...ah nevermind.

:spits out hook:

The flu is a far greater threat to your mortality than Ebola.

so given the choice, you would choose to get ebola over the flu?

No of course not. But the flu is a far greater threat to me.

It like worrying over getting hit by a meteor vs dying in a car accident. Getting hit in the head by meteor has a higher mortality rate than car accidents. But I am far more likely to die in a car accident than get hit in the head by a meteor.

 

[Ditka Butkus]

I'm no neocon, but I don't quite understand how borders haven't been sealed until there is some better containment on this thing. It will be cheaper and more efficient than the alternative.

I'm with you...If anybody is traveling to the US check their passport and see if they have been to the Ebola region in the last 3 weeks....If so, into the Ebola isolation pen until you clear the threat timeframe. Why should the rest of us be potentially exposed because your dumb ### was stupid enough to be over there. Selfish SOB Dallas Ebola jerk.

plus we should do the same for more deadly diseases like the flu.

What's the mortality rate for the flu?

doesn't matter. it kills in the 10s of thousands of Americans.

Oh, it sure does matter. How many are infected with the flu in the US each year? If that same number were infected with Ebola...ah nevermind.

:spits out hook:

The flu is a far greater threat to your mortality than Ebola.

Thank you for trying to comfort us, Dr.Rosenpenis.

 

[Fennis]

I'm no neocon, but I don't quite understand how borders haven't been sealed until there is some better containment on this thing. It will be cheaper and more efficient than the alternative.

I'm with you...If anybody is traveling to the US check their passport and see if they have been to the Ebola region in the last 3 weeks....If so, into the Ebola isolation pen until you clear the threat timeframe. Why should the rest of us be potentially exposed because your dumb ### was stupid enough to be over there. Selfish SOB Dallas Ebola jerk.

plus we should do the same for more deadly diseases like the flu.

What's the mortality rate for the flu?

doesn't matter. it kills in the 10s of thousands of Americans.

Oh, it sure does matter. How many are infected with the flu in the US each year? If that same number were infected with Ebola...ah nevermind.

:spits out hook:

The flu is a far greater threat to your mortality than Ebola.

For now.

forever

 

[TheIronSheik]

I'm no neocon, but I don't quite understand how borders haven't been sealed until there is some better containment on this thing. It will be cheaper and more efficient than the alternative.

I'm with you...If anybody is traveling to the US check their passport and see if they have been to the Ebola region in the last 3 weeks....If so, into the Ebola isolation pen until you clear the threat timeframe. Why should the rest of us be potentially exposed because your dumb ### was stupid enough to be over there. Selfish SOB Dallas Ebola jerk.

plus we should do the same for more deadly diseases like the flu.

What's the mortality rate for the flu?

doesn't matter. it kills in the 10s of thousands of Americans.

Oh, it sure does matter. How many are infected with the flu in the US each year? If that same number were infected with Ebola...ah nevermind.

:spits out hook:

The flu is a far greater threat to your mortality than Ebola.

For now.

I picture this same conversation going down during the early days of the Black Plague. "The cold is much more worrisome than the 10 people who have the Bubonic Plague, Thomas."

 

[Fennis]

Thank you for trying to comfort us, Dr.Rosenpenis.

got your whole fist up there doc?

 

[fantasycurse42]

I'm no neocon, but I don't quite understand how borders haven't been sealed until there is some better containment on this thing. It will be cheaper and more efficient than the alternative.

I'm with you...If anybody is traveling to the US check their passport and see if they have been to the Ebola region in the last 3 weeks....If so, into the Ebola isolation pen until you clear the threat timeframe. Why should the rest of us be potentially exposed because your dumb ### was stupid enough to be over there. Selfish SOB Dallas Ebola jerk.

plus we should do the same for more deadly diseases like the flu.

What's the mortality rate for the flu?

doesn't matter. it kills in the 10s of thousands of Americans.

Oh, it sure does matter. How many are infected with the flu in the US each year? If that same number were infected with Ebola...ah nevermind.

:spits out hook:

The flu is a far greater threat to your mortality than Ebola.

For now.

forever

I've survived the flu before

 

[cstu]

On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas was the first person to be diagnosed in the United States with the Ebola virus.

The patient left Liberia on Sept. 19 and arrived in Dallas the following day. On Sept. 26, he sought treatment at the hospital after becoming ill but was sent home with a prescription for antibiotics. Two days later, he was admitted with more critical symptoms, after requiring an ambulance ride to the hospital.

So... you come in from Liberia, and start feeling sick enough to go to the hospital- but I assume don't feel the need to tell them that you've just come back from LIBERIA!? wtf. And that's making the assumption that he didn't tell them... if he told them and they didn't keep him under observation?

Now you understand why so many people are dead from ebola over there. They're ####ing clueless.

 

[Fennis]

I'm no neocon, but I don't quite understand how borders haven't been sealed until there is some better containment on this thing. It will be cheaper and more efficient than the alternative.

I'm with you...If anybody is traveling to the US check their passport and see if they have been to the Ebola region in the last 3 weeks....If so, into the Ebola isolation pen until you clear the threat timeframe. Why should the rest of us be potentially exposed because your dumb ### was stupid enough to be over there. Selfish SOB Dallas Ebola jerk.

plus we should do the same for more deadly diseases like the flu.

What's the mortality rate for the flu?

doesn't matter. it kills in the 10s of thousands of Americans.

Oh, it sure does matter. How many are infected with the flu in the US each year? If that same number were infected with Ebola...ah nevermind.

:spits out hook:

The flu is a far greater threat to your mortality than Ebola.

For now.

forever

I've survived the flu before

and you will never catch Ebola.

 

[cstu]

doesn't matter. it kills in the 10s of thousands of Americans.

Let it go...people love to fear monger.

 

[TheIronSheik]

and you will never catch Ebola.

"You'll never have to worry about catching the plague, Thomas. Now help me pick up these dead rats."

 

[Fennis]

and you will never catch Ebola.

"You'll never have to worry about catching the plague, Thomas. Now help me pick up these dead rats."

my link

 

[Smack Tripper]

I've seen concern for the panic a closed border would cause.

So I can't go buy me a Cuban cigar but the Ebola patients, come on down!

 

[El Floppo]

re: flu

I am neither geriatric or a baby and I have proximity and availability to doctors... teh chances of the flu killing me are nada.

but I get your point.

 

[Ditka Butkus]

Gesundheit!...Manute Bol... would you like a kleenex

 

[El Floppo]

ok... I've been hearing different things-

Is this transmitted only while symptomatic, or even pre-symptomatic? Can it be transferred during the incubation period?