Ebola epidemic
This could be a real nightmare in the making...
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Considering how poorly searches are done at airports despite the expense, loss of privacy, and hassles involved with air travel, I have no confidence that Ebola can be contained.
It is reportedly extremely infectious, all it would take is one person ill with the disease boarding an airplane to bring death to hundreds of millions of people, in my opinion. Here is an interesting article in today's New York Times, saying that villagers are apparently blaming the medical helpers fro spreading Ebola: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/28/wo...=57474085&_r=0 Given that it is well known in the US that hospital workers do spread infection by ineffective hand washing and this deficit apparently kills 'tens of thousands' in hospitals every year the villagers might have a point. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/forget-t...-in-hospitals/ |
I just heard that UTMB in Galveston, just down the road from me, is going to have an Ebola lab. While I have the greatest respect for research and for UTMB, I wonder about the wisdom of siting an Ebola lab where the danger from hurricanes is well known.
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Yeah, I wouldn't like the idea of having that organism anywhere near me at all.
I read a rather interesting book years ago that discussed some things concerning ebola, pandemics, drug resistant pathogens, etc. that all seem to now be coming true. The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett. Copyrighted in 1994. Highly recommended if you can pick up a copy. |
Sounds like an interesting (scary?) book.
I feel as if there is a lot not being told. Some of the articles are saying that transmission of Ebola is by blood/body fluids. I am sure the medical personnel took blood/body fluid precautions, yet some have been infected. For those living with and/or working with HIV patients for example, there is really very little danger of transmission if one takes basic precautions. There are families who have lived with HIV plus family members for many years and never been infected. Yet these medical personnel, working with patients many of who live just a short time, are coming up with the disease. Something is not adding up. |
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You may be right about something that we are not being told, but I doubt it will become a worldwide pandemic. An interesting older book about Ebola is called "the hot zone" by Richard Preston. |
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Hmmmm......
Ebola patients on way to Atlanta, Emory to treat at least 1 Story at -> http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local...ravel-w/ngrng/ |
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What to me is more horrifying is the absolute certainty in my mind that those with enough clout or bribe money would be able to walk away no matter what symptoms were presented.
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