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Is anyone else having trouble taking a thread started by "Sr. Poop" seriously?
I always read it as "Señor Poop." But no.
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Is anyone else having trouble taking a thread started by "Sr. Poop" seriously?
Is anyone else having trouble taking a thread started by "Sr. Poop" seriously?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/15/health/ebola-outbreak/index.html?c=world
Over 2,000 now infected
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CDC predicts 1.4 million infected by 2015.
Scared yet?
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I am not because here in the West we have the resources to deal with Ebola (which doesn't spread easily). In Africa, they don't have the resources to deal with it, which is why this outbreak has been so bad and will continue to get worse.
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It's here
Texas
You should be scared buddy.
We have "limited" resources. Clotting factors and blood is what will save us and clotting factors are very expensive and there is very few available.
And, yes, it does not spread easily but you don't now that you're sick for up to weeks and that can leave lots of time to infect others an spread the virus.
My wife is a professor at a prominent university here in the U.S. with lots of students from the areas in Africa that are having problems. All it takes is one of these students to bring it over and infect and campus --> city --> country.
We are on thin ice and people here think they can't touched. You people should be fucking terrified. I don't think you realize how close we are to the shit hitting the fan... we are NOT prepared here and if you think we are you are mistaken.
I am not for the fear mongering. But I do believe it can spread a little easier than what you describe.
I'd like to know how this man got those fluids from an infected person into his system.
Enough with the fear mongering. Influenza remains a bigger threat. Why? Because it's much more communicable than Ebola. Ebola transmission requires direct contact with blood, urine, feces and is only communicable once symptoms appear. This greatly slows transmission rates in industrialized countries.
Should we take it seriously? Of course. It's a dangerous disease. However, as we saw with the Americans who contracted it in Africa, US pharma is already taking it seriously.
Enough with the fear mongering. Influenza remains a bigger threat. Why? Because it's much more communicable than Ebola. Ebola transmission requires direct contact with blood, urine, feces and is only communicable once symptoms appear. This greatly slows transmission rates in industrialized countries.
Should we take it seriously? Of course. It's a dangerous disease. However, as we saw with the Americans who contracted it in Africa, US pharma is already taking it seriously.
This has never happened before
I hope it isn't spread through unsolicited massage.
Ebola is not a bigger threat to the US than influenza at this stage. The flu has a part in the death of at least 30,000 Americans every year and that number is quite steady. Sorry that I'm not ready to buy into ebola fear mongering with only the unknown to support it. Obviously the potential is terrifying, but the CDC is taking this very seriously.
I agree with you that it's not a bigger threat at this time but the reference to deaths from influenza is totally irrelevant.
The vast majority of people who die of influenza are the sick, the old, the very young and the immunocompromised. That is NOT the case with Ebola at all, which is actually what makes it much more frightening.
5 schoolchildren had contact with Ebola patient
Los Angeles Times | October 1, 2014 | 10:55 AM
Five students who attend four different schools have had contact with a man diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas, Texas officials said today.
The elementary, middle and high school students are being monitored and show no symptoms, officials said. The children attended school earlier in the week and will be monitored at home, authorities said. There have been between 12 and 18 people who have had contact with the patient, health officials said.
Also, a health official said information about the patient’s travel from Liberia was not relayed to the full clinical team that initially treated him at a Dallas hospital on Friday. The patient was sent home with antibiotics. He was brought back to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Sunday and was placed in isolation. Tests confirmed Tuesday that he is infected with the Ebola virus. He is in serious but stable condition.
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