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

[Donger]

CNN - In Ohio, 1 person quarantined and 6 others quarantining and monitoring themselves for possible Ebola symptoms, official says.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Donger

CNN - In Ohio, 1 person quarantined and 6 others quarantining and monitoring themselves for possible Ebola symptoms, official says.

Does quarantined mean they can fly to other cities on a crowded airplane?

[Jimmya]

There have been a few false alarms in Amarillo & Lubbock Texas.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Jimmya

There have been a few false alarms in Amarillo & Lubbock Texas.

Dat dere dang ol cow gave me the bola

[Donger]

CNN - Yale student recently back from Liberia is in isolation and being tested for Ebola. Watch live now on CNNgo.

[Dave Lane]

Flu season is going to be a treat this year. Ought to get a box of Kleenex some fake vomit and do Halloween as a Ebola patient.

[Dave Lane]

There will be 1200 people a day suspected of having Ebola.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

Flu season is going to be a treat this year. Ought to get a box of Kleenex some fake vomit and do Halloween as a Ebola patient.

Might not be the best idea...

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

Flu season is going to be a treat this year. Ought to get a box of Kleenex some fake vomit and do Halloween as a Ebola patient.

http://www.halloweencostumes.com/adu...FcRzMgodQycALQ

[Window Licking Whiner]

Just ban Ebola from us. I mean that works with gun crime...

Or maybe U.S. citizens getting Ebola will be a red line... Wha? No good?

Ok ok. If only those evil repubs had given cdc more money...wha? Cdc budget increased...

Well you are just racist.... You and Ebola are racist

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

You're a mod and he just posted a fake news report

admits that he knew it was fake and hope people would fall for it



why is he still here?

Originally Posted by J Diddy

I don't DaFace is a mod anymore. He's just got supermod powers.

For the record, I have no powers whatsoever, other than the ability to call up the guy who is in charge to have him temporarily grant me access to stuff from time to time when something needs fixed.

[sedated]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

There will be 1200 people a day suspected of having Ebola.

or people will just attribute their sickness to the flu and continue to live their lives until they projectile vomit all over a co-worker.

[kepp]

Originally Posted by Donger

CNN - In Ohio, 1 person quarantined and 6 others quarantining and monitoring themselves for possible Ebola symptoms, official says.

I'm betting it's the Dallas nurse's fiance that is quarantined.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by Donger

CNN - In Ohio, 1 person quarantined and 6 others quarantining and monitoring themselves for possible Ebola symptoms, official says.

Thanks a lot negligent bitch

[kepp]

Originally Posted by Pasta Giant Meatball

Thanks a lot negligent bitch

From what's being reported, she contacted the CDC and got the OK to do it. I don't know if that's true or not. IMO, they're both negligent.