EBOLA!!! *10/6* Spain, you a goner.

[foghorn67]

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html

Don't touch blood, saliva, mucus, vomit, urine, or feces.

Safe.

And avoid touching your face without washing your hands.

 

[WelshBloke]

Hmm, nice timing.

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I'm not sure that a shotgun would be idea in this case. A nice aerosol spray of infected blood and tissue floating around would be less than ideal.

 

[Greenman]

I was laughing and confused at the level of panic in this thread, then I remembered that this is ATOT where people flush toilets with their feet and avoid touching toilet doors at all times.

I didn't see any panic in this thread. I do see a lot of people making light of an illness that's often fatal, is readily communicable, is within the US borders right now, and may have been spread to the general public. To say that it's no big deal is first order stupidity, of course it's a big deal. It's not something you panic over, but it's absolutely time that direct action is taken. Everyone who came in contact with the infected fellow should be placed in quarantine, air traffic from anywhere within five hundred miles of the affected area should be halted. Containment is the only effective treatment, so it should be used liberally.

 

[MongGrel]

I didn't see any panic in this thread. I do see a lot of people making light of an illness that's often fatal, is readily communicable, is within the US borders right now, and may have been spread to the general public. To say that it's no big deal is first order stupidity, of course it's a big deal. It's not something you panic over, but it's absolutely time that direct action is taken. Everyone who came in contact with the infected fellow should be placed in quarantine, air traffic from anywhere within five hundred miles of the affected area should be halted. Containment is the only effective treatment, so it should be used liberally.

This.

 

[BoberFett]

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html

Don't touch blood, saliva, mucus, vomit, urine, or feces.

Safe.

Take away all of that, and what's the point of living?

 

[trmiv]

This is the part that gets me:

On Sept. 26, he sought treatment at the hospital after becoming ill but was sent back to the northeast Dallas apartment complex where he was staying with a prescription for antibiotics. Duncan's sister, Mai Wureh, said he notified health-care workers that he was visiting from Liberia when they asked for his Social Security number and he told them he didn't have one.

So he has symptoms, they inform the hospital he was visiting from motherfucking Liberia, and they still just say "put some tussin on it" and send him home????? No one at that hospital put it together and thought hey maybe this sick guy from Liberia where almost 2000 people have died from this is something we should be slightly concerned about? The CDC may be confident about their ability regarding Ebola, but it local hospitals, who are the first line of defense on this are just sending sick people from Liberia home, we've got problems.

 

[WelshBloke]

I didn't see any panic in this thread... (goes on to post panicky passage)

Okay then.

 

[Phoenix86]

I'm not sure that a shotgun would be idea in this case. A nice aerosol spray of infected blood and tissue floating around would be less than ideal.

This isn't a zombie invasion, if a panic were to happen I'd be far more worried about the healthy than the sick.

 

[BoberFett]

Okay then.

He didn't say anything panicky. Are you mental? I see little to no panic anywhere here.

 

[Ns1]

This is the part that gets me:



So he has symptoms, they inform the hospital he was visiting from motherfucking Liberia, and they still just say "put some tussin on it" and send him home????? No one at that hospital put it together and thought hey maybe this sick guy from Liberia where almost 2000 people have died from this is something we should be slightly concerned about? The CDC may be confident about their ability regarding Ebola, but it local hospitals, who are the first line of defense on this are just sending sick people from Liberia home, we've got problems.

so much this.

 

[Sephire]

 

[jtvang125]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/world/africa/ebola-victim-texas-thomas-eric-duncan.html?_r=0

Holy sh!t! If it's true that he was already showing signs of symptoms before his flight there's a possibility someone on that plane may have caught it.

 

[BeeBoop]

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html

Don't touch blood, saliva, mucus, vomit, urine, or feces.

Safe.

Obviously nobody wants to directly touch any of the fluids you listed. Modes of transmission are normally second hand like someone coughing in a room with an open container of food.

 

[Ns1]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/world/africa/ebola-victim-texas-thomas-eric-duncan.html?_r=0

Holy sh!t! If it's true that he was already showing signs of symptoms before his flight there's a possibility someone on that plane may have caught it.

well that was an unpleasant article to read.

 

[WelshBloke]

He didn't say anything panicky. Are you mental? I see little to no panic anywhere here.

You don't think that forcibly quarantining lots of healthy people and having a no flight zone over texas might be a slight over reaction?

Everyone who came in contact with the infected fellow should be placed in quarantine, air traffic from anywhere within five hundred miles of the affected area should be halted. Containment is the only effective treatment, so it should be used liberally.

 

[BoberFett]

I guess we'll know how widespread this is in 3 to 21 days...

 

[IronWing]

You don't think that forcibly quarantining lots of healthy people and having a no flight zone over texas might be a slight over reaction?

A no flight zone would interfere with my plan to have A-10s circling the state destroying all outbound traffic.

 

[Ruptga]

Welsh, we're talking about Murricah here. There is no kill like overkill.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

If you basically need to exchange fluids for this to spread then why are so many getting it?

 

[WelshBloke]

Welsh, we're talking about Murricah here. There is no kill like overkill.

Fair enough.

I'm quite liking IronWings plan though, as long as it's televised.

A no flight zone would interfere with my plan to have A-10s circling the state destroying all outbound traffic.

 

[Mai72]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/world/africa/ebola-victim-texas-thomas-eric-duncan.html?_r=0

Holy sh!t! If it's true that he was already showing signs of symptoms before his flight there's a possibility someone on that plane may have caught it.

Planes are incubators for disease. You're in an air tight compartment with 300 other people.

 

[BeeBoop]

If you basically need to exchange fluids for this to spread then why are so many getting it?

This guy has a good explanation as to how it is spread. As Boberfrett said, we'll know in as little as 2 weeks how wide spread it is in America.

 

[Ruptga]

If you basically need to exchange fluids for this to spread then why are so many getting it?

Obviously nobody wants to directly touch any of the fluids you listed. Modes of transmission are normally second hand like someone coughing in a room with an open container of food.

A hearty cough or sneeze can aerosolize (spray tiny droplets of) saliva, mucus, and/or blood. Small amounts of sweat are transferred every single time someone touches anything with their skin, not to mention the times you end up using a chair in the computer lab right after some fatass has been sitting there for an hour.

Life is gross, if you look very closely at all.

 

[Greenman]

Okay then.

You need to look up the definition of "panic". Taking measured action to mitigate the effects of a serious situation is called a "response".

 

[MomentsofSanity]

A hearty cough or sneeze can aerosolize (spray tiny droplets of) saliva, mucus, and/or blood. Small amounts of sweat are transferred every single time someone touches anything with their skin, not to mention the times you end up using a chair in the computer lab right after some fatass has been sitting there for an hour.

Life is gross, if you look very closely at all.

Thing with ebola is that the epithelial cells lining the throat, lungs and windpipe lack the necessary receptors for ebolas proteins to infect the cells. Without the ability to unlock those cells it can't replicate in those areas of the body.

Very rarely do viruses mutate altering which host cells they can infect.