Ebola scaremongering?

Energize said:
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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And if they didn't and our worst fears came true which we were generally concerned about at the time then they would have been damned.

We get it you don't like the World Health Organisation. It was the media who desensitised the public and the fact most of the public have no clue on such things. The World Health Organisation didn't ask the media to scare everyone and make it a cover story they did that themselves to sell papers.
 
Osprey said:
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.
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Screw it, if I have ebola I'm infecting everyone on the central line.
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Xordium said:
And if they didn't and our worst fears came true which we were generally concerned about at the time then they would have been damned.

We get it you don't like the World Health Organisation. It was the media who desensitised the public and the fact most of the public have no clue on such things. The World Health Organisation didn't ask the media to scare everyone and make it a cover story they did that themselves to sell papers.
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Please, the pandemic alert scale they use is a pure scare monger tool compared to more realistic models. It's directly comparable to the ridiculous terrorist threat level meter that the government publish where the alert level is always set near maximum.
 
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Energize said:
Please, the pandemic alert scale they use is a pure scare monger tool compared to more realistic models. It's directly comparable to the ridiculous terrorist threat level meter that the government publish where the alert level is always set near maximum.
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Well I they have done a lot of soul searching since then and they would agree they didn't handle it in the best fashion. No-one did really. But the media are to blame for sensationalist way they handle things and the message they send. This thread being a specific example.
 
Well apparently there's dozens of infected unaccounted for in Sierra Leone.

According to health ministry data and officials, dozens of people confirmed by laboratory tests to have Ebola are now unaccounted for in Sierra Leone, where the majority of cases have been recorded in the country's east.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ra-leone-hunts-kidnapped-patient-9630359.html
(Same link as above).

That it managed to get on an aeroplane at all is worrying(I know long incubation period). If it were up to me if ground all flights in/out except for medical reasons.
 
The arrival of an Ebola-infected air passenger in Nigeria has airlines and airports scrambling to respond around the world

A MAN collapses at an international airport: It’s a hackneyed scene from almost every plague film ever made. But now it has happened — airports around the world are on high alert as fears mount that the deadly Ebola virus is on the move.

Nigerian health authorities are racing to stop the spread of the flesh-eating Ebola virus after a man sick with one of the world’s deadliest diseases carried it by plane to Lagos, Africa’s largest city with 21 million people.

Nigeria is so concerned it has ordered the establishment of “disease isolation centres” at international airports across the country to prevent any further entry of the untreatable disease.

But the horse may have already bolted.
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http://www.news.com.au/world/the-ar...around-the-world/story-fndir2ev-1227004137380
 
This is the kind sensationalist article which I have been on about. Flesh eating what a load of rubbish. Not shocked you posted that tbh.
 
Well in fairness I have seen many people pass in many not so nice ways. By far the worse I have consistently seen is disseminated intravascular coagulation and ebola causes that. Just to cheer you up. :p
 
Plus saying it's the worlds deadliest virus is a bit misleading? Sure it has a high mortality rate, but compare it to HIV.

Ebola - A thousand or so deaths.
HIV - Over 30 million deaths, according to the WHO.

I just wish journalism would focus on the details and leave the sensationalism to Hollywood.

There's no denying, it is the worst outbreak seen so far http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ebola_outbreaks but we're a far cry from an international pandemic.

Caution is very much appropriate, informing the relevant agencies is appropriate, informing travel hubs is appropriate, spreading fear through sensationalist media outlets is just a sad attempt to garner website visits :(
 
Xordium said:
Well in fairness I have seen many people pass in many not so nice ways. By far the worse I have consistently seen is disseminated intravascular coagulation and ebola causes that. Just to cheer you up. :p
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Yay and there was me thinking it was a mild flu :D.

"disseminated intravascular coagulation" really doesn't sound as bad as "widespread blood clotting resulting in multiple organ death"

I do honestly wish there was someway I could help out those infected. I'm pretty sure I'd just add to the body count :(.
 
Xordium said:
Well in fairness I have seen many people pass in many not so nice ways. By far the worse I have consistently seen is disseminated intravascular coagulation and ebola causes that. Just to cheer you up. :p
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Well you've just got to expand on that now, since we're all gonna die of Ebola. Does morphine touch it at all?
 
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