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

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Donger

WTF is "marshal law"?



That is absolutely priceless.

Bro, you don't "realise"?

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by rabblerouser

What if...

The defense rests.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Donger

WTF is "marshal law"?



That is absolutely priceless.

Haven't you ever seen 'Walker, Texas Ranger'??

He was a Texas marshal, and he was the law.

[Jerm]

I'm not exactly an expert on Ebola soooo is it something that could be a lot more widespread and have infected more people than thought or is it something that we should have a pretty good grasp on how is infected and how it might spread?

I know it's only spread certain ways...I guess I'm asking more from the view of I didn't know if it could mutate and spread differently.

[banyon]

WATCH LIVE: Hospital officials: Kansas City patient at risk for Ebola

Posted: Oct 13, 2014 5:16 PM CDT
Updated: Oct 13, 2014 5:39 PM CDT
By Chris Oberholtz, Multimedia ProducerCONNECT


KANSAS CITY, KS (KCTV) -
Hospital officials in Kansas City say a patient at risk for Ebola is in strict isolation.


By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Chief Medical Writer

The University of Kansas Hospital reports an individual called and then came into the hospital early Monday morning with a high fever and other serious symptoms.

Because the patient had recently worked on a medical boat off the west coast of Africa, the patient was immediately isolated on a special infectious disease unit and is undergoing tests.

Hospital staff met the patient wearing personal protection equipment and followed the hospital's plan for this kind of illness.

Tests are underway to determine a diagnosis.

While the hospital cannot rule out Ebola at this time, Dr. Lee Norman, chief medical officer of The University of Kansas Hospital, says the patient is at low to moderate risk of Ebola.

Norman said there are many other diseases that fit the patient's symptoms, and the hospital is following guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control.

Care is being provided by a dedicated team of nurses and other health professionals.

The staff will not treat other patients during this period until diagnosis and treatment plans are completed, the hospital said.

The hospital is in close contact with federal, state and local health officials.

Regardless of the diagnosis, hospital officials said the patient is in an isolated area of the hospital and does not pose a health risk to other patients, staff or visitors in the hospital.

The area has its own ventilation system. All bedding and medical waste is being isolated from the regular hospital material under federal CDC and state transportation guidelines, the hospital said.

No other information on the patient is available due to federal privacy laws.


http://www.kctv5.com/story/26775426/...f80spY.twitter

[kstater]

I have a fever, I have ebola

[bsroyals54]

Do people actually worry about this shit?

[banyon]

press conference is about to start

[Sorter]

[Fish]

Originally Posted by rabblerouser

I know, the dollar is the bottom line.

Besides...this may explain all those body bags at the new FEMA camps around the country, and the bullet shortage.

Body bags, FEMA camps, and bullet shortages huh? Yeahhhhhhhhh.....

[Fish]

Originally Posted by banyon

WATCH LIVE: Hospital officials: Kansas City patient at risk for Ebola

It's here? Shouldn't you umm.... wait... till...... ahh nevermind........

[banyon]

Originally Posted by Fish

It's here? Shouldn't you umm.... wait... till...... ahh nevermind........

It was a little TIC, calm down.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Fish

Body bags, FEMA camps, and bullet shortages huh? Yeahhhhhhhhh.....

Excuse me; 'coffin liners'.

http://www.truthandaction.org/fema-o...coffin-liners/

[banyon]

KU MED Dr say the guy was a medic from West Central Africa involved in dealing with Ebola air evacuations. Came in on a ship. Says he cannot stand on his own power.

[banyon]

Will get official lab result back at 5PM tomorrow