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Ebola outbreak watch
- Thread starter TomandJerry
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Only if you have a cut, or eat with your hands without washing them etc.
It's a pretty feeble virus that will be killed by soap and water.
Midfield Minton
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- Dec 18, 2013
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If it is transferred by body fluids it can be passed by coughs,sneezing.same way as gastrointerites(spelling) if your sick the bug is brought up from the gut.it can then become airborne in a cough
Bevendean Hillbilly
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It has been tracked since 1976 and hasn't mutated yet.
clippedgull
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I see the team of Sierra Leone (Commonwealth Games) are not wanting to go home for now, can't say I blame them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-28609896
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-28609896
seagullsovergrimsby
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Alarmingly 2 American aid workers who have contracted the virus are going to be flown back to Atlanta (GA) to be treated
TomandJerry
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Alarmingly 2 American aid workers who have contracted the virus are going to be flown back to Atlanta (GA) to be treated
It makes no sense to do that, it only increases the chances of it spreading!
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
Don't worry they weren't flown back by RyanAir!
seagullsovergrimsby
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Why on earth didn't the CDC in Atlanta fly out Dustin Hoffman to Africa to treat them ?
Midfield Minton
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Bit of a strange thing too ask.but here goes anyone on here had or know of anybody that's had E.coli HUS (haemolytic ureamic syndrome)
TomandJerry
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The withdrawal of some international medics from Liberia following the infection of two US health workers with the Ebola virus has exacerbated the healthcare crisis caused by the epidemic.
The overcrowded and understaffed Elwa hospital in the capital, Monrovia, where Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol worked, has been forced to turn away some Ebola cases. The virus, which is highly contagious and fatal in more than half of the cases in the current outbreak, has killed more than 700 people in west Africa.
The overcrowded and understaffed Elwa hospital in the capital, Monrovia, where Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol worked, has been forced to turn away some Ebola cases. The virus, which is highly contagious and fatal in more than half of the cases in the current outbreak, has killed more than 700 people in west Africa.
TomandJerry
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Breaking news:
"A test for Ebola has been carried out on a female passenger who died after arriving in the UK from The Gambia."
More to follow
"A test for Ebola has been carried out on a female passenger who died after arriving in the UK from The Gambia."
More to follow
More to follow?
This is the latest, and it's hardly new news:
The Department for Health said the test on the elderly woman, who landed at Gatwick Airport, came back negative on Sunday afternoon.
TomandJerry
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"A doctor who treated Nigeria's first Ebola victim has himself contracted the deadly virus, raising fears that the seven-month-long epidemic in three west African nations could spread in the continent's most populous nation.
The doctor was part of a team that attended to Patrick Sawyer, a 40-year-old Liberian-American civil servant who collapsed on arrival at Lagos airport last month. Sawyer had flown from Liberia's capital, Monrovia, with flight stopovers in nearby Ghana and Togo.
As of today, one of the doctors that treated the late Mr Sawyer has tested positive to the Ebola virus," the health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told reporters in the capital, Abuja. Officials said they had identified 70 people with whom Sawyer had been in contact, eight of whom had been transferred to isolation wards in Lagos."
The doctor was part of a team that attended to Patrick Sawyer, a 40-year-old Liberian-American civil servant who collapsed on arrival at Lagos airport last month. Sawyer had flown from Liberia's capital, Monrovia, with flight stopovers in nearby Ghana and Togo.
As of today, one of the doctors that treated the late Mr Sawyer has tested positive to the Ebola virus," the health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told reporters in the capital, Abuja. Officials said they had identified 70 people with whom Sawyer had been in contact, eight of whom had been transferred to isolation wards in Lagos."
No, because the US has the facilities to keep the two in isolation.
Your fear of this disease appears to be born out of ignorance, and it's rather boring to read repeatedly.
TomandJerry
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readingstockport
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And, to the surprise of absolutely no-one I'm sure, it turns out that in fact the US DOES have a treatment for Ebola but nobody has bothered investing money in developing it fully. http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2...la-we-have-it-we-just-dont-let-anyone-use-it/ After all, it was only poor black africans who were dying originally. But then 2 US citizens got infected and suddenly the 'experimental' treatment suddenly became available and further research began.
Thunder Bolt
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The two Americans had to agree to the treatment because it hasn't been tested. One was very close to dying, so basically had nothing to lose. The less ill aid worker took longer to recover, strangely enough. It meant injecting a small dose of ebola into mice and then extracting the antibodies from these mice.
http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/...ans-get-a-secret-serum-to-fight-ebola/375517/
The WHO is donating $120million for emergency assistance. The spread hasn't been helped by poor hygienic conditions.