Ebola scaremongering?

al4x said:
But isn't ebola particular virulent as well?
I don't know the numbers but I thought it very much was
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Afaik its direct contact with infected blood, secretion, bodily fluids and organs(not an average person issue). I assume any of those would also be an issue via transfer ie walls, toilets and so on. I believe its contact with open wounds rather than it seeps into the skin.

Edit: apparently men can still transfer the virus through their semen 7 weeks after recovering;

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/
 
Even sweat is enough to pass it on so in theory just shaking hands with someone would be enough to get infected. I know i've usually got some cut or scrape on my hands more often than not.
 
al4x said:
I have to say I thought it was much shorter than that
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from wiki

up to 3 weeks ! ouch

bola virus disease (EVD) or Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) is the human disease caused by ebola viruses. Symptoms start two days to three weeks after contracting the virus with a fever, throat and muscle pains, and headaches. There is then nausea, vomiting and diarrhea along with decreased functioning of the liver and kidneys. At this point some people begin to have problems with bleeding
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I'd rather not catch this as it would likely put a downer on my day. So if you guys find yourself feverish et al., kindly stay at home and do not use the tube.
 
Mynight said:
That's all it needs idiots to spread a disease. Why would they take her from hospital :confused:
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Because they often don't trust medical staff. When I worked in Central Africa that was one of the real problems. My wife spent ages over there when she was in MSF and that was one of their key goals - building trust.
 
Xordium said:
Because they often don't trust medical staff. When I worked in Central Africa that was one of the real problems. My wife spent ages over there when she was in MSF and that was one of their key goals - building trust.
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I didn't realise that was the case.

Do you know why they don't? (Google isn't being too helpful in this case).
 
Well there were a number of factors I found. A large proportion of people will still trust the word of a village elder over an outsider - I kind of find this perfectly understandable. Compounding this you have several unfortunate incidents which have cast Westerners in a rather bad light. Eg tobacco companies giving away cigarettes, infant formula companies telling women not to breast feed but to use their products - now you don't need a PhD to see after time that someone was giving you bad advice. Then you have direct medical intervention eg where we vaccinated people to suit our agenda but never did anything to sort out the resulting population explosion. You have to remember across large swathes of these regions there is little to no education. It is hardly shocking then if people don't trust outsiders who have shown time and time again to not act in their best interests.

You only have to have a look at the complete 'tards we get on here with their tinfoil hat conspiracies etc. Could you imagine what (I think it's best I don't name but I am sure you know who) and the likes would be telling these people - they are stealing your people from the hospitals for research!

When you look at it that way it's hardly shocking is it.


Ebola is not the threat people think it is. It would never get to that critical peak to overwhelm a modern health service. Now bird flu that positively scares me but everyone lols at that but worries about this. :confused:
 
Indeed. The only reason it's doing quite well in this case is a combination of ideal conditions for the virus: dense population, large volumes of internal and cross border migration, poor public health and containment provisions, as well as a general lack of trust and unwillingness to seek help.
 
gothic_hobbit said:
What happened to bird flu and swine flu ?

Those were meant to kill millions of people if you believed the tabloids at the time.
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No but they did a good job to desensitise the public to the fears of pandemics.

this won't help either.

Meanwhile, residents of Kenema in eastern Sierra Leone threw stones at a hospital and a police station, spurred by a rumour that health workers were using Ebola as a ruse to kill people and collect body parts.

The rumour was spread by a mentally ill former nurse, now in custody, who went to the city's main market and told people Ebola was a hoax, police assistant inspector general Karrow Kamara said. Police had to use tear gas to stop the crowd from destroying the Kenema Government Hospital, he said.
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Mynight said:
That's all it needs idiots to spread a disease. Why would they take her from hospital :confused:
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People are stupid as the above quote demonstrates, a total lack of ability to think critically and mob mentality that demonstrates an inherent lack of intellect. A case of natural selection at work in any case as those same individuals have quite possibly contracted the disease from her now anyway.

Xordium said:
Now bird flu that positively scares me but everyone lols at that but worries about this. :confused:
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A natural consequence of organisations like the WHO which behave like a tabloid newspaper and set the pandemic alert levels to over level 9,000 (which of course is then picked up by the media) which leads to the discrediting of pandemic warnings in general and the public desensitization to any genuine threat.
 
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