Ebola's back

[bitslice]

Try it out for size, no big deal, nothing. W.H.O. is worried!

Little own bubble?

Tell it someone who has it or seen it up close or affected by it.
But hey *** Please don't quote rude words *** - Will Gill em yeah?

Is that what I said?
Or did I actually say "the death toll is minuscule"

Another butthurt liberal wringing his hands over people he didn't give a second thought about, until it became Politically Correct to make a sad face and maybe Like something on a Facebook page.

Fact is nobody cares beyond the possibility that they might catch it themselves and next week they will forget all about Africans and their mostly self inflcited problems.

Anyway, Dr Kwerk has reliably informed me it only affects black people, and as I don't know any I haven't got anyone to ask

 

[FortuitousFluke]

Somebody needs to condense this into a warning system for us lazy folk. I want a colour coded alert system telling me exactly how terrified to be followed by a brief page of suggested actions ranging from; "stock up on tinned goods and barricade your doors" to; "form a gang of cannibalistic road warriors who can assist with the capture of human cattle during the coming apocalypse".

Come on people, is this a red flashing alert? Do i need to break out my spiked shoulder pads and nose ring?

 

[Energize]

The WHO have something similar, the scaremongering pandemic scale.

 

[neil3k]

Somebody needs to condense this into a warning system for us lazy folk. I want a colour coded alert system telling me exactly how terrified to be followed by a brief page of suggested actions ranging from; "stock up on tinned goods and barricade your doors" to; "form a gang of cannibalistic road warriors who can assist with the capture of human cattle during the coming apocalypse".

Come on people, is this a red flashing alert? Do i need to break out my spiked shoulder pads and nose ring?

I lol'd

 

[MooMoo444]

if this makes land in europe it will be game over for many many thousands of us.

stockpile food and water.

Wow, this post is filled with so much information and updates about the ebola virus, I can see why you bumped the topic.

Thanks. [Like]

 

[Angilion]

It doesn't sound that bad to me, the only way to get it is through exchange of bodily fluids, it's not airborne. Two americans got it, flew back to the USA, one died and one survived. So they sat on an airplane for what, 8 hours? Didn't infect anyone, and one of them didn't even die.

The media, and certain people, simply love this sort of pandemic bull-****, they lap it up and try and make it sound as bad as possible.

It has the potential to be very bad:

1) There is no cure, treatment or vaccine. All that can be treated is some of the symptoms.

2) It is highly contagious if exposure occurs.

3) There's a strain with a mortality rate of 90%.

4) There's a strain that appears to possibly be airborne but does not cause disease in humans.

5) The virus is able to cross species, which increases human exposure and the chance of changes to the virus.

The most dangerous possibility is a strain that infects humans and is airborne and/or which infects animals many humans are in close contact with. Given how rapidly viruses can evolve, it is a genuine possibility. Outbreaks have already been confirmed in pigs. The outbreaks were stopped by quarantining and the ebola strain was the one that's harmless to humans, but there's no guarantee that will continue to be the case.

I'm not digging a bunker, but there is some cause for concern.

 

[Fido McNasty]

Why once again is the UK government putting its head in the sand? We should be stopping all entry into the UK from Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast.

Unfortunately Human Rights laws won't stop pregnant HIV women entering the country. I would imagine any risk posed to be a LOT LESS to do with legitimate immigrants and a LOT MORE with the former. And you need to shift focus away from African states now in truth as the at risk groups are coming into major UK medical hubs in great numbers now from the Balkans and Eastern Europe too. Ok this is less to do with Ebola, but risk is risk and HIV creates a severely immune deficient state.

 

[Judgeneo]

Who is this Ebola chap, and why are we talking about his back?

 

[quad]

these guys I think. Ah brings it all back

 

[kindai]

From what I've seen on TV it only kills black people so I'm not worried.

not being black myself.

I nearly died from laughing at this quote... let alone the virus

 

[Xordium]

It has the potential to be very bad:

1) There is no cure, treatment or vaccine. All that can be treated is some of the symptoms.

2) It is highly contagious if exposure occurs.

3) There's a strain with a mortality rate of 90%.

4) There's a strain that appears to possibly be airborne but does not cause disease in humans.

5) The virus is able to cross species, which increases human exposure and the chance of changes to the virus.

The most dangerous possibility is a strain that infects humans and is airborne and/or which infects animals many humans are in close contact with. Given how rapidly viruses can evolve, it is a genuine possibility. Outbreaks have already been confirmed in pigs. The outbreaks were stopped by quarantining and the ebola strain was the one that's harmless to humans, but there's no guarantee that will continue to be the case.

I'm not digging a bunker, but there is some cause for concern.

1) There are treatment modalities and options. This is a virus - most viruses don't have specific treatments and all in one solutions like we do for bacteria.
2) It is not all that contagious if proper precautions are taken - in fact it is at the lower end of the contagious spectrum due to it's mechanism of transmission.
3) There is a strain that has a mortality rate in that ballparl figure in a few outbreaks but not in others. Insufficient and inadequate or even non-existent medical care skew the results - same could be said of many other diseases.
4) Irrelevant.
5) As can most viruses.

Just more media scaremongering. There are plenty of diseases you need to be worried about - ebola isn't really one of them unless you want have the desire to go to Central Africa and play around with bodily fluids.

 

[tom_e]

ebola isn't really one of them unless you want have the desire to go to Central Africa and play around with bodily fluids.

Dam that was my back up plan if my holiday to Spain falls through

 

[Monkeymatt]

If the WHO are there, the bodies will be burned to ash.

While they are infected they will be studied to see what strain it is and continue to research ways of defeating it.

Not so easy with it being one of the most virulent viruses in existence.

Though in general one must burn the body anyway even without a team of virologists there, though i imagine that hasn't been the case half the time.

Have you not seen World War Z? The WHO are useless against outbreaks.

 

[LOAM]

Why once again is the UK government putting its head in the sand? We should be stopping all entry into the UK from Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast. Saudi Arabia has already reacted to a potential influx of pilgrims by stopping all Visa issues to these and surrounding countries. Ebola has, (very fortunately), previously been contained in small pockets of fairly inaccessible regions, and a single case in a small city. It is now in Conakry, a rambling coastal city of around 2 million people. This outbreak in such a densely populated and quite affluent area is unprecedented. Movement of people into and out of the city is on a totally different scale to that to and from jungle regions. I am not one to be easily worried by sensationalist news of disease outbreaks, but the LACK of coverage has me wondering just what the hell is going on to make positive moves to protect our borders from travelers from these regions? Until this is quashed we should be banning all people movement to and from these places, as well as imports of foodstuffs and other suspect carriers. It may already be too late, there is possibly already European movement, Spain, France and the Channel Tunnel are a favourite destinations for many from these places, but all efforts should be made BEFORE a carrier is known to be outside of Africa. If it does come here you can be sure the government will procrastinate and fiddle about, having Cobra meetings and kow towing to the European Court of Human Rights, blah blah. I shudder to think how the NHS will react, the mind boggles over that one...

And the headline news on BBC at 1.00 PM. "Health Warning"........Ah, right, this Ebola outbreak....

But no, far more worrying!!!


Air pollution due to smog in he UK.....


Jeez, I remember the proper smogs of the 1950's and 60's. I had to hang a torch out of my father's car passenger window and tell him how far off the kerb we were coming out of Manchester on the main A34. Smokeless zones and the end of much UK manufacturing cleared those up. They know how to prioritize things. A few exhaust fumes, the like China and India would consider a breath of fresh air, and it's ignore Ebola, all get you inhalers out and hope to make it until tomorrow.

It may not be spread by airborne droplets, but it certainly can spread, and spread quickly given say an illegal immigrant afraid or not knowing how to seek medical attention and living an underworld existence in close proximity to others in a major UK conurbation.

LOL SAVE OUR CHILDREN FROM EBOLA!!!111 SEND THEM BACK !!!PENGUIN.

What complete tripe, globally 7 million people die annually from pollution related complications and illness as appose to about 100 from Ebola, and more people will die in this smog in the UK than from Ebola in the UK in the next few days. It is by far a bigger news story.

You are more likely to die from being eaten by a crocodile on Oxford street than you are from Ebola in the UK!

 

[Tonester0011]

Somebody call Morgan Freeman, and that other guy.