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Re: Ebola Catastrophy

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Luckily it seems he did not get ebola. It's not very likely to get it from body fluids left in a room after a day or so but there's no way id risk my life by going in without proper protective gear.

Sad thing is no one seems to be properly educated or equipped. Being Texas the deputy probably thought if he saw ebola he'd pop off a few rounds into that bugger and finish him off for good. Sending law enforcement or other medical/civil workers to deal with this with out the right gear and information is the cause of things like that poor Spanish nurse to whom catching ebola and dying never crossed her mind. Sad thing is last i heard her condition worsened and in my opinion will probably now die from it. It's only going to get exponentially worse if scientific thinking and adequate measures dont prevail.

So we are basically doomed. I guess if the only good that comes from this is people take disease and vaccines seriously that's better than no good coming from it.
I think they put her dog to sleep. Even if they say no sign of Ebola in pets they weren't taking any chances.

Now they have a man joking on a plane coughing yelled, "I've got Ebola and came from Africa." Held up the plane 2yrs didn't have Ebola and never been to Africa :/

I was on the train in Manhattan yesterday to visit family my weekend off college. A man coughed and the teens yelled, "He got Ebola run....People are making light of the situation. You know what they say about the boy who cried wolf..
Joking about ebola on a plane is about as smart as whippin open your trenchcoat in the tsa line and shouting "I've got a bomb nobody move!!" I hope they file felony criminal charges against that idiot.

Yea i hope that it can be contained before it hits a full blown epidemic status but sadly i don't have that much reason to be hopeful. On cnn they are comparing it to the aids epidemic but it's nowhere near the same thing. They need to compare it to a major flu outbreak where millions die. It's just most people aren't old enough to remember the last time a bad strain of flu killed so many.
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Re: Ebola Catastrophy

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Ebola has the potential to be much worse than SARS
I think people arent taking it seriously because the last "major" virus was swine flu which turned out to almost nothing. People are skeptical but also afraid to believe it so they joke about if
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Re: Ebola Catastrophy

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Ebola has the potential to be much worse than SARS
I think people arent taking it seriously because the last "major" virus was swine flu which turned out to almost nothing. People are skeptical but also afraid to believe it so they joke about if
The thing that pisses me off isnt so much as making jokes because of a hype, but because true, good people have died, and as soon someone dies, the jokes should stop.
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Re: Ebola Catastrophy

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Ebola has the potential to be much worse than SARS
I think people arent taking it seriously because the last "major" virus was swine flu which turned out to almost nothing. People are skeptical but also afraid to believe it so they joke about if
http://www.flu.gov/pandemic/history/

It's hard to compare potential but SARS has killed about 800 people since 2000 while ebola has killed over 4000 people now in just the last few months with a worst case projection of 1.6 million cases by January (with about 1 million dead).

I would draw a comparison to the 1918-1919 outbreak of flu that killed 50 million people worldwide including 675k in the United States. There have been several outbreaks including the one in the late 50s that also killed millions.

People just aren't educated enough about history or are old enough to have experienced those particular horrors. The worst part is overloaded medical facilities, panic, reduced trade and services will cause many to die in the collateral damage left by ebola.
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Re: Ebola Catastrophy

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Ebola has the potential to be much worse than SARS
I think people arent taking it seriously because the last "major" virus was swine flu which turned out to almost nothing. People are skeptical but also afraid to believe it so they joke about if
The swine flu never scared me, as soon as ive heard of the Ebola it seemed so much worse, mostly the signs.

Idk who could joke at Ebola, i joke a lot yet i cant find it funny at all, this thing is scary and generally deseases imo are a bit more deadly than wars.
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Re: Ebola Catastrophy

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The problem is Africans have ritual, a burial which require close contact to a dead person that means they come into contact of bodily fluids which help spreads Ebola. Not only does Ebola infect primates but bats also. I doubt that it will spread all over America since America is more developed than Africa is.
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Re: Ebola Catastrophy

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SARS was actually a highly contagious and severe infection. However, the countries it was detected in and spread to took very quick action before it could do anything major. SARS, like Ebola, has no cure. What's more, let's not forget that SARS was a respiratory disease and so is significantly easier to transmit than Ebola: SARS can be transmitted through the aerosol droplets of sneezing or coughing whereas Ebola can't, for example. The main reason why Ebola is spreading is because of its country of origin and its sanitation and availability of healthcare.
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Re: Ebola Catastrophy

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The problem is Africans have ritual, a burial which require close contact to a dead person that means they come into contact of bodily fluids which help spreads Ebola. Not only does Ebola infect primates but bats also. I doubt that it will spread all over America since America is more developed than Africa is.

Quite racist to apply this to "Africans"
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Re: Ebola Catastrophy

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The problem is Africans have ritual, a burial which require close contact to a dead person that means they come into contact of bodily fluids which help spreads Ebola. Not only does Ebola infect primates but bats also. I doubt that it will spread all over America since America is more developed than Africa is.

Quite racist to apply this to "Africans"
There's racism and then there's facts. They do have such rituals and though they dont all practice them a fair enough amount do that it becomes an issue. Its sort of obvious he's not being racist about it... Just because someone lists a persons race followed by unfortunate details doesn't mean they naturally think they're superior to them.
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Re: Ebola Catastrophy

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The problem is Africans have ritual, a burial which require close contact to a dead person that means they come into contact of bodily fluids which help spreads Ebola. Not only does Ebola infect primates but bats also. I doubt that it will spread all over America since America is more developed than Africa is.

Quite racist to apply this to "Africans"
I dont think its a topic that needs to be dragged to racism right now.
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