I don't want to panic anyone, but Ebola may be coming to a town near you

[Skyy God]

At least we won't have to slog through another 7-9 Chiefs season....

Now there are American casualties.

Not in Gaza, and not on the ill-fated Malaysian airliner. Now there are American casualties in another war very far away so maybe, goddammit, somebody should start paying more attention to it.

Kent Brantly, 33, an American doctor who has been working in Liberia since October for the North Carolina-based aid organization Samaritan's Purse, is receiving intensive medical treatment after he was infected with Ebola, according to a spokeswoman for the group. Melissa Strickland said Brantly, who is married and has two children, was talking with his doctors and working on his computer while being treated. A second U.S. citizen, Nancy Writebol, also has tested positive for Ebola, Samaritan's Purse said. Writebol is employed by mission group SIM in Liberia and was helping a joint SIM/Samaritan's Purse team treating Ebola patients in Monrovia. Writebol is married with two children, the organization said. "Both of them tonight are in stable condition," Ken Isaacs, Samaritan Purse's vice president of programs and government relations, said Sunday. "But they are not out of the woods yet."

That's some serious Damien-at-Molokai hero stuff right there, still being at your computer while you're being treated for one of the most vicious diseases on the planet. Other medical professionals, alas, are not as lucky.

A Liberian government official said Sunday that one of that country's highest-profile doctors has died in what the World Health Organization (WHO) calls the largest recorded outbreak of the disease...The first Liberian doctor to die of the disease was identified as Samuel Brisbane. He was working as a consultant with the internal medicine unit at the country's largest hospital, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Medical Center in Monrovia. Brisbane, who once was a medical adviser to former Liberian President Charles Taylor, was taken to a treatment center on the outskirts of the capital after falling ill with Ebola and died there, said Tolbert Nyenswah, an assistant health minister. He said another doctor who had been working in Liberia's central Bong County also was being treated for Ebola at the same center where Brisbane died. The situation "is getting more and more scary," Nyenswah said.

Yes, you could say that. The disease is now in both Nigeria and Liberia, and not in the backwater places any more, either, but in the capital cities. The ones with millions of people. And airports.

Over the weekend, health officials in Nigeria raced to stop the spread of Ebola after a man sick with the disease arrived on a flight in Lagos, Africa's largest city with 21 million people. He later died. The man's ability to board an international flight raised new fears that other passengers could carry the disease beyond Africa because of weak passenger inspection and the fact that Ebola's initial symptoms can resemble those of other illnesses. Isaacs said in an interview that "where it gets really scary" is that the disease, which was previously seen only "in very remote, small villages in Africa" is now being contracted by people in the capital cities of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. "Now the disease has been introduced into the big urban areas with millions of people," he said. "In the big cities, people can get on an airplane and fly out." Isaacs does not believe this outbreak his peaked. "I think the worst is yet to come," he said. "I hope I'm wrong."

Meanwhile, the local customs aren't helping a lot, either.

Koroma, 32, a resident of the densely populated Wellington district, had been admitted to an isolation ward while blood samples were tested for the virus, said Sidi Yahya Tunis, a health ministry spokesman. The results came back on Thursday. "The family of the patient stormed the hospital and forcefully removed her and took her away," Tunis said. "We are searching for her."

Jesus save us. I don't mean to sound like a cultural imperialist -- although I seriously doubt that the people in rural Sierra Leone are acting out of what they know about the Tuskegee experiments, or what happened in Guatemala in the 1940's -- but snatching an Ebola patient out of the hospital doesn't sound like a very good way to fight the disease, family networks notwithstanding. (The purloined patient eventually died.) This thing is one airplane flight away from being an international catastrophe, but there is no boom-boom, and without boom-boom, there is no news. However, you know, Americans are getting sick now. Hey, Wolf! Over here?

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politic...Ebola_Outbreak

[Skyy God]

Originally Posted by DaFace

What measures have not been taken that you feel should have been?

Cochise wants a travel ban.

[ThaVirus]

Just read on Facebook that there was a case in Jacksonville..?

Chick is a dumb **** and I don't feel like Googling so take it for what it's worth.

[Skyy God]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Just read on Facebook that there was a case in Jacksonville..?

Chick is a dumb **** and I don't feel like Googling so take it for what it's worth.

Is being screened, not diagnosed yet.

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/ne...d-ebola/nhhXr/

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Cave Johnson

Is being screened, not diagnosed yet.



http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/ne...d-ebola/nhhXr/

Wow, what a ****ing dumb bitch. She's getting deleted ASAP.

Thank you for clearing that up. People are seriously ****ing idiots and they piss me off.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by DaFace

What measures have not been taken that you feel should have been?

Asking a question in a response is a clever way to provide no insight on a topic. Some postees are very good at this. 21 day waiting period for anybody wanting to fly out of affected parts of W Africa. Thats your answer.

[teedubya]

Originally Posted by Donger

An apple a day keeps Ebola away.

But what if it's an Ebola apple?

[Skyy God]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Asking a question in a response is a clever way to provide no insight on a topic. Some postees are very good at this. 21 day waiting period for anybody wanting to fly out of affected parts of W Africa. Thats your answer.

So, mandatory quarantine in the U.S.?

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Asking a question in a response is a clever way to provide no insight on a topic. Some postees are very good at this. 21 day waiting period for anybody wanting to fly out of affected parts of W Africa. Thats your answer.

I have nothing to add because I think the current response is perfectly reasonable. You said you want more measures taken, so I think it's a reasonable question to wonder what you're wanting to be done.

As for your suggestion, what about Europe (since people frequently layover there when traveling between the U.S. and Africa)?

[Donger]

Originally Posted by teedubya

But what if it's an Ebola apple?

Then it would be covered in blood, puss and feces.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by BWillie

21 day waiting period for anybody wanting to fly out of affected parts of W Africa. Thats your answer.

Where would you have them wait? The airport?

[wazu]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Asking a question in a response is a clever way to provide no insight on a topic. Some postees are very good at this. 21 day waiting period for anybody wanting to fly out of affected parts of W Africa. Thats your answer.

So what happens during those 21 days? Are they somehow quarantined?

[kstater]

Not sure if true or not. But heard from the grapevine that blowing a goat will help prevent Ebola as there's a specific protein that fights it off

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Donger

Where would you have them wait? The airport?

They can be quarantined in Dongers rape lair.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

You just Q'ed yourself, dumb ass.

people insisted that it was perfectly safe to bring Ebola into the U.S. because the united state is far too advanced to ever have it be a problem like a '3rd world shit hole like Africa'.

Well ... you were wrong.

But hey, don't let that stop your snarkey,asshole mouth from spouting off more bullshit that will turn out to be wrong.

Director of the CDC(or his boss) has screwed this up and should quit.

I never insisted any such bullshit, and the director of the CDC was probably just following orders.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Donger

Where would you have them wait? The airport?

Are you serious??