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Old 07-28-2014, 11:12 AM  
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I don't want to panic anyone, but Ebola may be coming to a town near you

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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
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Old 08-05-2014, 08:44 AM   #121
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Heard it's confirmed ebola
The guy at Mount Sinai Hospital?
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Old 08-05-2014, 09:06 AM   #122
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Heard it's confirmed ebola
Link? I can't find anything saying that.
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Old 08-05-2014, 10:36 AM   #123
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Now a woman in Ohio who was recently in one of the hotspot countries is being tested for Ebola.

http://www.wkrn.com/story/26201803/4...possible-ebola
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Old 08-05-2014, 10:38 AM   #124
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Link? I can't find anything saying that.
Overheard that at work from someone who should know or receive some kind of notification. Can't vouch for the veracity of it.
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Old 08-05-2014, 10:43 AM   #125
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Africa should be on lockdown.

only medical personnel in/out of the country and when coming out there has to be a quarantine time to make sure they aren't sick.
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Old 08-05-2014, 10:46 AM   #126
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British Airways has suspended flights to Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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Old 08-05-2014, 12:15 PM   #127
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I am so glad we let these people back into our country. I mean, nothing like spreading a disease that until a few weeks ago, wasn't within our borders.

Edit: Wait, I forgot...we don't have borders anymore.
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Old 08-05-2014, 12:30 PM   #128
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Though many in the developed world are understandably fearful of the disease, many health officials claim that the only reason this particular outbreak has grown as large as it has is because of where it hit. The areas that have been hit the hardest lack sufficient health care systems and are unable to provide necessary treatment for the patients or personal protective equipment for health care workers. Unsanitary conditions would allow the outbreak to grow incredibly rapidly.

For those living in developed countries, such as the US, it is not likely that the virus will spread. CDC Director Thomas Frieden has said that there is not the potential for Ebola to spread throughout the US like it has in West Africa. The virus can only be transmitted when someone is sick, and all major ports of entry have received quarantine stations to find travelers who may be ill. However, the CDC has issued a Level 3 travel warning to Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone to prevent exposure. Even if it did manage to get across the Atlantic, it requires very unsanitary conditions to spread. It's very unlikely that ebola will ever spread in a developed country.


Read more at http://www.iflscience.com/health-and...eFk0qY9XPPo.99
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Old 08-05-2014, 12:31 PM   #129
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Good grief, people.....
The CDC can't even prevent their own people from being exposed to the pathogens they work with, and they want us to believe they have this under control? It was a bad idea to, 1) bring the two infected Americans back here, and, 2) to not create travel restrictions soon after the outbreak started.
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Yeah, no one gets sick in the U.S.....evah!
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Old 08-05-2014, 12:55 PM   #132
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The CDC can't even prevent their own people from being exposed to the pathogens they work with, and they want us to believe they have this under control? It was a bad idea to, 1) bring the two infected Americans back here, and, 2) to not create travel restrictions soon after the outbreak started.
That's not true. The CDC has never had any of its workers infected by Ebola that I know of. The two US citizens were humanitarian workers, not CDC employees. They accepted the risks when they went to Africa on humanitarian missions, where conditions actually allow Ebola to be transmitted.

They absolutely have it under control.

And it's not like we don't have the Ebola virus in the US. It's been safely studied at infectious disease centers in the US since its discovery.
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Old 08-05-2014, 01:04 PM   #133
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That's not true. The CDC has never had any of its workers infected by Ebola that I know of. The two US citizens were humanitarian workers, not CDC employees. They accepted the risks when they went to Africa on humanitarian missions, where conditions actually allow Ebola to be transmitted.

They absolutely have it under control.

And it's not like we don't have the Ebola virus in the US. It's been safely studied at infectious disease centers in the US since its discovery.
Americans are a bunch of sensationalist pussies.
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Old 08-05-2014, 01:05 PM   #134
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That's not true. The CDC has never had any of its workers infected by Ebola that I know of. The two US citizens were humanitarian workers, not CDC employees. They accepted the risks when they went to Africa on humanitarian missions, where conditions actually allow Ebola to be transmitted.

They absolutely have it under control.

And it's not like we don't have the Ebola virus in the US. It's been safely studied at infectious disease centers in the US since its discovery.
I'm talking about all the recent news about CDC staff being exposed to Anthrax, and the bird flu samples found in an unsecured storage closet, etc.
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I'm talking about all the recent news about CDC staff being exposed to Anthrax, and the bird flu samples found in an unsecured storage closet, etc.
Those caused outbreaks, right?
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