Ebola scaremongering?

So it turns out the transmission vectors are sufficient to screw us over like I originally thought.
It's potent enough to get round our quite frankly pathetic measures which can easily be implemented

Well. I can see it now. Voluntary inbound security checks, in adequate hospital measures. It is going to get here and probably established simply due to too little too late.

I wonder how bad it'll get
 
No1newts said:
So there have been around 8k cases in the world to date over the course of months then the WHO say by the end of the year there will be 10k more per month?

Lol much, talk about ******* scaremongering and they are auplosed to be a responsible body!
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They are saying 5-10k new cases per week not month by the start of December. This seems pretty much inevitable as we know there aren't going to be enough beds available on the ground before then to reduce the infection rate.
 
Interesting chap. Can't find any info if he's got any qualifications in anything or he's another wordpress expert :D.

I doubt the human population will be halved although that could help conserve resources.
 
No, he's got no relevant qualifications at all - that doesn't mean what he's writing isn't interesting though. This day and age, with a billion articles on any subject you can think to look up - the onus is squarely on the reader to take or leave anything they read. Internet 101 surely?
 
Quite.

However I would prefer to read interesting from someone with a background in a subject.

I mean I find conspiracies interesting but they're so often done by the aforementioned wordpress experts that they lack any factual evidence :D.
 
Honestly, I dunno why anyone is scared, in fact the media would do infinitely more damage than any bacteria/virus/whatever.

Ebola is a pretty sucky example tbh.
 
Mynight said:
Quite.

However I would prefer to read interesting from someone with a background in a subject.

I mean I find conspiracies interesting but they're so often done by the aforementioned wordpress experts that they lack any factual evidence :D.
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Yes, which is why I initially recommend Quammen's book - he has done his homework (Won awards for his 'Spillover' book). Also the edX course - for those interested in doing their own homework. The WHO are also producing clear information... even if some folk can't tell the difference between weeks and months.

I'd rank those three sources of information above and mentioned them before Orlov (who doesn't talk about conspiracies?) but I still find his take interesting - especially when someone specifically asks how bad it'll get.
 
I work in a hospital lab where we test blood, if we got a ? Vhf/ebola sample we just test it for malaria which upto now is all they have been, but if we got a negative for malaria then we are screwed because usually the doctors dont tell us its ? Vhf until we have run it through the analysers which involves taking the lid off the sample and exposing the scientist on duty to the virus which would probably lead to infection. Even then we dont know its ebola until we send it in a taxi to the reference lab, yes you heard me right in a taxi!!
There was a meeting today with the consultant infectious diseases doctors when we told them this happens quite often they just went ummmm and scratch their heads!!! They dont have a clue.
 
heh sounds like a few new expensive process protocols might eventually be written, right after a politician or senior civil servants uses the phrase 'lessons will be learned'
 
danoliver1 said:
I work in a hospital lab where we test blood, if we got a ? Vhf/ebola sample we just test it for malaria which upto now is all they have been, but if we got a negative for malaria then we are screwed because usually the doctors dont tell us its ? Vhf until we have run it through the analysers which involves taking the lid off the sample and exposing the scientist on duty to the virus which would probably lead to infection. Even then we dont know its ebola until we send it in a taxi to the reference lab, yes you heard me right in a taxi!!
There was a meeting today with the consultant infectious diseases doctors when we told them this happens quite often they just went ummmm and scratch their heads!!! They dont have a clue.
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which hospital is that ? If its something serious (which it appears to be) blow that whistle like your like depends on blowing a whistle .. to the papers obviously not your boss. because its the nhs and they are too busy earning big bucks and doing very little actual work, you could be literally saving the whole of humanity here .. everyone depends on you right now .. go .. go.. go .. do for GD.. the future of GD


report back though and tell us what happened :p
 
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The truth is we are not equiped to handle catagory 4 pathogens, do you know where we test these ?vhf/ebola samples, in a negative pressure fume cupboard with hermetically sealed double doors i hear you say? NO its on an open bench in the middle of the lab where people just walk past willly nilly. CRAZY its only a matter of time before a uk hospital has its first case.

Edit this is standard procedure for all uk hospitals.

And this ebola screening at airports is a joke, fill out a questionair, do you have a high temp?
People there is no easy test, you need blood and a virology lab not a airhostess with a termometer.
What if someone does have it on the plane do you quarantine every single passenger? Because you should!
 
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Ebola simply won't be allowed to get a foot-hold in the U.K, people who think we will see a significant/dangerous outbreak here are being just as hysterical and ridiculous as the media!

Over 20+ ebola outbreaks have occurred since 1976 all of which were ultimately dealt with and resolved, admittedly this is the worse one to date (mainly because of slow international response allowing the virus to get a foot-hold!) however it's not anything that can't be dealt with by a co-ordinated medical response from the medical community.
(Which is what is happening right now)
It isn't anywhere near as threatening or dangerous to us as the pathetic media are making out imho.
 
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