Misc I don't want to panic anyone, but Ebola may be coming to a town near you - Page 20

Skyy God · 07-28-2014, 11:12 AM

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

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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

**DaFace** · 10-13-2014, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

Close the ports!

(But seriously, who travels by ship these days?)

**Bugeater** · 10-13-2014, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by rabblerouser

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-new...tober_10012014

What if...

I am soooo glad I happened to click on this thread and see this, it just confirms that you are a whack job and nothing you ever say should be taken even a little bit seriously.

rabblerouser · 10-13-2014, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Baconeater

I am soooo glad I happened to click on this thread and see this, it just confirms that you are a whack job and nothing you ever say should be taken even a little bit seriously.

Why? ?

Because you were starting to really question if the NFL was rigged??

Lol

**banyon** · 10-13-2014, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by DaFace

Close the ports!

(But seriously, who travels by ship these days?)

Maybe he was trying to avoid airport screening?

TambaBerry · 10-13-2014, 05:23 PM

This is all by design, the government is purposely infecting us with Ebola.

**Bugeater** · 10-13-2014, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by rabblerouser

Why? ?

Because you were starting to really question if the NFL was rigged??

Lol

Well FWIW, I thought there was a possibility that you were slightly less of a whack job than ram29jackson, but now I know you're right there with him. My god.

BWillie · 10-13-2014, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by dingleberry

This is all by design, the government is purposely infecting us with Ebola.

That's what many actually believe in Africa.

BWillie · 10-13-2014, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

This sounds effing terrible. Certainly sounds plausible the dude could have it. Hope we find out otherwise tomorrow.

If this is the case, I'm not leaving my lair until this shit is figured out. I'm not eating any fast food, any food whatsoever that is not prepared by me. And that sucks, because I don't cook, at all.

rabblerouser · 10-13-2014, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Baconeater

Well FWIW, I thought there was a possibility that you were slightly less of a whack job than ram29jackson, but now I know you're right there with him. My god.

This may come as a shock to you...but I couldn't care less what you think of me.

KCCHIEFS27 · 10-13-2014, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by dingleberry

This is all by design, the government is purposely infecting us with Ebola.

Quite possibly. Is what I've read true? The CDC and DoD can claim royalties on the distribution and sale of Ebola vaccines?

rabblerouser · 10-13-2014, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by KCCHIEFS27

Quite possibly. Is what I've read true? The CDC and DoD can claim royalties on the distribution and sale of Ebola vaccines?

And that is why I don't care when people like Baconeater call me a 'whack job.'

**SAUTO** · 10-13-2014, 05:47 PM

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Not sure if this is bullshit or not, but I read that taking 1-2g of Vitamin C per day will help against getting ebola, as ebola allegedly acts like an advanced "sped-up" type of scurvy.

I'm not too concerned, taking Vitamin C is a good practice, regardless.

It's a pirate disease? Makes sense

ChiliConCarnage · 10-13-2014, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by BWillie

This sounds effing terrible. Certainly sounds plausible the dude could have it. Hope we find out otherwise tomorrow.

There have been lots of these though and they mostly come back as flu or something. Boston had one a day or so ago where they shut down a clinic and quarantined the hospital but they're saying it's unlikely to be ebola now.

When you think about it, we're probably safer now with all the attention on it due to the big outbreak in Africa than we are regularly where it's out of public consciousness. Unless we get a 1980's style Magic Johnson who can nail/make out with hundreds of women over a couple of days.

**Bugeater** · 10-13-2014, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by rabblerouser

And that is why I don't care when people like Baconeater call me a 'whack job.'

Of course you care, you whack jobs love attention. Why else would be running your mouth about that kind of nonsense?

Fish · 10-13-2014, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by rabblerouser

Excuse me; 'coffin liners'.

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

I hope you're just joking around here, and you don't actually believe that absurd nonsense....

http://www.snopes.com/politics/consp...emacoffins.asp

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