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[angminas]

If it mutates and starts spreading more easily, it could cause major problems for large parts of the world. But it won't overrun the US...if it becomes a real problem over here, they'll shut the entire country down until it's under control. We have television here, and it won't take many pictures of cute white children covered in their own blood to get the National Guard and Coast Guard involved.

Make sure you've got some food and water stocked up, folks.

 

[maxi007]

i dont know why , every time many new disease invented from africans .

 

[amdhunter]

i dont know why , every time many new disease invented from africans .

It's the best place for governments to test new strains of disease.
Same way governments test weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.

 

[ZaneNBK]

Now they're saying there could be up to 1.4 million cases by Jan 20th: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/h...4-million-in-4-months-cdc-estimates.html?_r=1

They think there are actually 2.5x's more infected currently than have been reported.

 

[Hugo Drax]

So I wonder if looting will begin in texas.

 

[Carson Dyle]

But it won't overrun the US...if it becomes a real problem over here, they'll shut the entire country down until it's under control. We have television here, and it won't take many pictures of cute white children covered in their own blood to get the National Guard and Coast Guard involved.

The rich and powerful in the US wouldn't allow such a thing to happen. It would be a major blow to the economy and would totally wreck their stock portfolios.

It's a very good time in history to live alone and work at home.

 

[MrColin]

I'm more concerned that it might not spread. Just think how much worse off the world would be if it weren't for the 1918 influenza pandemic. There are too many people, way, way too many.

 

[Hugo Drax]

The rich and powerful in the US wouldn't allow such a thing to happen. It would be a major blow to the economy and would totally wreck their stock portfolios.

It's a very good time in history to live alone and work at home.

S&P futures are distressed right now.

 

[dmcowen674]

150 to 180 million projected to die in the U.S.

 

[WelshBloke]

150 to 180 million projected to die in the U.S.

Lol.

 

[brainhulk]

150 to 180 million projected to die in the U.S.

It has been written!!

 

[SlickSnake]

I have a new idea. What if we all post on various places - here, reddit, wherever, that there's been an outbreak of Ebola in New Orleans. 480 people have gotten ill, and 370 of them have already died? While that's not quite believable by itself, toss in a "Obama told the CDC to remove any reference to it, to avoid a panic." "Government agencies are deleting the information from websites such as Facebook almost as fast as it's posted." Add in a few phrases like that, and the conspiracy nutcases will defy Einstein and spread misinformation faster than the speed of light.

Now that EBOLA is confirmed in the USA less than 60 miles from me, is this still as hysterically funny as when you posted it?

 

[SlickSnake]

Absolutely zero worries from me. However, if something happened, and it started spreading more easily than it's capable of, I would be extremely worried - my wife is on the front line for stuff like that; I don't want her bringing it home to me.

Yea, I share that concern even more than you do, because first responders may be going into an infected house, without even knowing it. At least the wife will be a bit more prepared than myself or my fellow first responders probably will be if she works at a hospital. Who do you reckon will be the first to get it in mass if it breaks out of containment? The EMS and fire rescue, followed closely by the police, that's who. Just to put it in a little more serious perspective for you.

 

[mistersprinkles]

ROFL the number 1 answer is 1 billion. So if 1/7th of all people on earth got Ebola, we'd be concerned.

 

[cyclohexane]

150 to 180 million projected to die in the U.S.

Projected by whom? Your mom?

 

[Demo24]

Absolutely zero worries from me. However, if something happened, and it started spreading more easily than it's capable of, I would be extremely worried - my wife is on the front line for stuff like that; I don't want her bringing it home to me.

Your wife work for public health?

 

[DrPizza]

Your wife work for public health?

Manager of infection control; does a lot of reporting to the CDC. Plus, the wound nurse, so she's constantly dealing with stuff like decubitus ulcers.

 

[DrPizza]

Yea, I share that concern even more than you do, because first responders may be going into an infected house, without even knowing it. At least the wife will be a bit more prepared than myself or my fellow first responders probably will be if she works at a hospital. Who do you reckon will be the first to get it in mass if it breaks out of containment? The EMS and fire rescue, followed closely by the police, that's who. Just to put it in a little more serious perspective for you.

I would think that first responders are trained to wear latex gloves. When I last had training on the use of latex gloves, in a former position where gloves had a pretty good likelihood in some instances of being covered with certain infectious organisms, my training included how to take off the gloves, since it doesn't do any good to take off one glove with one hand, then with the clean hand, grab the outside of the other glove (contaminating that hand).

 

[VtPC83]

Good thing to keep in mind is that this virus has an incubation of 3-21 days where there are no symptoms. If there are no symptoms then it can't infect someone else. This is good news because it means CDC, etc have at least 3 days to find those people who might have been in contact with the person. Then you just quarentine those people until the 21 days are over. Pretty easy, especially in a country with as many records as ours (not to get to political but I guess this is a good reason to not have undocumented people in the country).

 

[brainhulk]

We are in full on panic mode here at my hospital. They called in infectious disease to clear someone who's caretaker was from Nigeria...lmao

 

[Jaskalas]

15,000... in the United States.

That'd have me very concerned.

 

[BeeBoop]

Ebola guy in Dallas died.

 

[Newell Steamer]

When this starts happening,.. we start to worry,..