Ebola scaremongering?

[Mynight]

Since this is one of the big news scares recently coming after the mp scandles (well soon to be).

What do you think? Any chance the uk is at risk? Or are all the papers doing their standard scaremongering?

Personally I could see one or two cases pop up but I think the medias going into a selling frenzy again.

Obligatory link;

http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/06/briti...dly-symptoms-as-killer-virus-hits-uk-4789186/

 

[Participant]

Somebody call Dustin Hoffman!

 

[Boycey0211]

Somebody call Dustin Hoffman!

Made me lol, one of my favourite films even though a bit morbid.

In all Ebola is ******* scary stuff, I thought it was being underplayed personally, however it does break out every now and again and doesn't get very far so probably not an issue

 

[Mynight]

Somebody call Dustin Hoffman!

Lol took me a while to get what you were on about

 

[Craig321]

Isn't there something like this every few months?

 

[Qitarah]

Words like epidemic and pandemic get thrown about too much. Just the media trying to find something to write about. Same old.

 

[The Funktopus]

What would make Ebola even more scarier than it already is, would be if it were to become less virulent. The only reason these outbreaks flare up, then die down so quickly is because it debilitates and then kills it's victims before they have the chance to spread it that far.

 

[Mynight]

What would make Ebola even more scarier than it already is would be if it were to become less virulent. The only reason these outbreaks flare up, then die down so quickly is because it debilitates and then kills it's victims before they have the chance to spread it to that far.

That and it becoming airborne would get me ******** myself

 

[McBain]

Massive scaremongering.

 

[Rroff]

Urgh I'm suffering from the exact initial symptoms right now :S

 

[kindai]

That and it becoming airborne would get me ******** myself

You know the most deadly form is already airbourne?

 

[Grimley]

Urgh I'm suffering from the exact initial symptoms right now :S

Well you've got a Fortnight. Ebola has a 14 day Incubation Period.

 

[Boycey0211]

Well you've got a Fortnight. Ebola has a 14 day Incubation Period.

only 3 days if you've watched Outbreak though, so go to the cinema and sneeze before its too late

 

[StoutMeister]

 

[Mynight]

You know the most deadly form is already airbourne?

Can you give me a source? I've had a look and they suspected it was but it wasn't. I thought that was as scary as it got

 

[piggeh]

My housemate knows someone going over to the area affected for their work (to the city where they are having cases of it), apparently not a concern as it's difficult to transmit. It's not like it's airborne.

 

[kindai]

Can you give me a source? I've had a look and they suspected it was but it wasn't. I thought that was as scary as it got

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20341423

 

[batsy]

*looks at pet monkey*

*dons condom*

 

[Mynight]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20341423

Balls. I thought you were going to link me to a newspaper using a study that showed the Reston straine rather than zaire. All I can say is ****e let's hope due to it only being one experiment it was a fluke somewhere(doesn't appear to have been discredited though).

Well thank you (I think ).

 

[Boycey0211]

Balls. I thought you were going to link me to a newspaper using a study that showed the Reston straine rather than zaire. All I can say is ****e let's hope due to it only being one experiment it was a fluke somewhere(doesn't appear to have been discredited though).

Well thank you (I think ).

Indeed the worry could be unwarranted, but how many are doing Ebola research anyway?

I read a link someone posted last week of an autobiography by a Russian bioweapons rat, most of it seemed made up, as if they were doing almost pointless research with antibiotic treatable bacteria.

I call BS all round!