Ebola scaremongering?

scorza said:
So why are doctors and nurses, who are presumably quite well educating, also contracting it?
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Well for example the bloke from this country who contracted was a muppet and should never have been there in the first place. He had only recently qualified and had no real experience post registration. Let's get this into perspective the chap wouldn't be allowed to in charge of a surgical ward in this country for a shift and yet he was working with something that requires a high degree of diligence and experience.
 
Basher said:
:confused: The earth has never been flat, but the death rate for Ebola has been 50% previously.
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Calculated from imprecise figures and inaccurate techniques means it is an opinion - an educated guess - not a FACT. Exactly the same mechanism. It hasn't changed overnight.

Silly me though I forgot that an average intelligence OCUK poster with a quick google trumps the World Health Organisation.
 
Xordium said:
Calculated from imprecise figures and inaccurate techniques means it is an opinion - an educated guess - not a FACT. Exactly the same mechanism. It hasn't changed overnight.

Silly me though I forgot that an average intelligence OCUK poster with a quick google trumps the World Health Organisation.
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Apart from he got it from the WHO website :confused:
 
Xordium said:
Calculated from imprecise figures and inaccurate techniques means it is an opinion - an educated guess - not a FACT. Exactly the same mechanism. It hasn't changed overnight.

Silly me though I forgot that an average intelligence OCUK poster with a quick google trumps the World Health Organisation.
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The 50% and 70% figures both cam from the WHO, not made up by some 'average intelligence OCUK poster' ...
 
It's an interesting point, one easily answered, but never really addressed.

The death rate of Ebola in western europe or North America could easily be 50% or less, but in a developing country, or where conditions for the virus are rife, the death rate percentile would be much higher (ie, 70%).

Pretty straightforward to me
 
ThundyCat said:
How did the two nurses in Dallas contract it if they were wearing protective clothing?
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Ebola is extremely infectious, the protective clothing they had available wasn't up to the task... And they weren't always wearing it.

We need to wait until the Belgium situation is confirmed, see if they can do better than US and Spain.
 
If it does reach 10,000 cases a week in Africa, do you think anything like this could be considered, or even Nuclear weapons?

I would presume it would be the easiest way of destroying the virus on a huge scale.

 
It's well past that now, it's far too widespread for something like that to be of much use in stopping it.
 
tom_e said:
It's well past that now, it's far too widespread for something like that to be of much use in stopping it.
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Nuke Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea? Would save the rest of the continent.
 
The second US Nurse also took a flight the day before she reported having symptoms so they now have to check all the passengers just in case.
 
Surely anyone who has been treating an ebola patient should be isolated for the incubation period until they are given the all clear? Obviously this is only really effective and workable at low numbers but then if followed then that's all there should be?
 
NeilMick said:
Surely anyone who has been treating an ebola patient should be isolated for the incubation period until they are given the all clear? Obviously this is only really effective and workable at low numbers but then if followed then that's all there should be?
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Indeed, it's that kind of logic that leads folk to suggest it's not a problem in first world countries. The reality is that exposed people are able to fly... In fact thay are even more mobile than those in developing countries.
 
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