| Ebola on 20:17 - Jul 23 with 1494 views | DwightYorkeSuperstar |
If fruit bats are the sole cause of this virus then I'm all for wiping them out. |  |
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| Ebola on 12:27 - Jul 30 with 1311 views | Highjack |
Is this one going to kill us before or after SARS and Bird Flu? |  |
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| Ebola on 13:43 - Jul 30 with 1252 views | Brynmill_Jack |
| Ebola on 12:27 - Jul 30 by Highjack |
Is this one going to kill us before or after SARS and Bird Flu? |
We're all f*cked as the last anti biotic to be developed was in the 80's |  |
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| Ebola on 13:45 - Jul 30 with 1248 views | Highjack |
| Ebola on 13:43 - Jul 30 by Brynmill_Jack |
We're all f*cked as the last anti biotic to be developed was in the 80's |
Well since Ebola is a virus antibiotics would do bugger all anyway. | |
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| Ebola on 13:51 - Jul 30 with 1234 views | Brynmill_Jack |
| Ebola on 13:45 - Jul 30 by Highjack |
Well since Ebola is a virus antibiotics would do bugger all anyway. |
Oh right. I'm not a doctor really you see.I just impersonate one from time . | |
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| Ebola on 13:57 - Jul 30 with 1230 views | Liam |
There's no threat they're just whipping up a panic as a distraction.
Although contagious, the difficulty in catching it other than from blood/bodily fluid contact in addition to the incredibly debilitating symptoms making any carrier immobile is a no brainer. There is no threat. |  | | |
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| Ebola on 14:49 - Jul 30 with 1198 views | Catullus |
| Ebola on 13:57 - Jul 30 by Liam |
There's no threat they're just whipping up a panic as a distraction.
Although contagious, the difficulty in catching it other than from blood/bodily fluid contact in addition to the incredibly debilitating symptoms making any carrier immobile is a no brainer. There is no threat. |
Immobile......apart from the fella who got on a plane and flew to a different country?
Incubation can take up to 21 days, you can go a long way in three weeks. What if a European based pro footballer got it. At this time of year he could visit 3/4 countries before knowing he was ill.
And international travel is so common now that this has to be treated seriously. After all, it is 90% lethal
And worse of all, things like this cause panic and people run away. If they are unwittingly infected, they spread it further. But with 600 dead and a further 1200 infected (up to this morning) We can't afford to be blase. |  |
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| Ebola on 14:54 - Jul 30 with 1193 views | Highjack |
"But with 600 dead and a further 1200 infected (up to this morning) We can't afford to be blase."
I would argue that common influenza has killed and infected more people worldwide recently and that's a million times more contagious. | |
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| Ebola on 15:01 - Jul 30 with 1184 views | Brynmill_Jack |
| Ebola on 14:54 - Jul 30 by Highjack |
"But with 600 dead and a further 1200 infected (up to this morning) We can't afford to be blase."
I would argue that common influenza has killed and infected more people worldwide recently and that's a million times more contagious. |
Malaria has killed over half the human beings ever to have lived on this planet. FACT | |
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| Ebola on 15:01 - Jul 30 with 1184 views | Catullus |
| Ebola on 14:54 - Jul 30 by Highjack |
"But with 600 dead and a further 1200 infected (up to this morning) We can't afford to be blase."
I would argue that common influenza has killed and infected more people worldwide recently and that's a million times more contagious. |
And how lethal is influenza? Is it 90% lethal? We cannot allow Ebola to hit Europe where we are all crammed in so tight. It could spread worldwide in days.
In America when H1N1 hit, about 60 million Americans contracted it, about 12000 died. Now imagine if that was Ebola, that would read 54 million deaths. | |
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| Ebola on 15:07 - Jul 30 with 1172 views | Flashberryjack |
| Ebola on 15:01 - Jul 30 by Brynmill_Jack |
Malaria has killed over half the human beings ever to have lived on this planet. FACT |
Now how in gods name do you know that to be a fact ? |  |
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| Ebola on 15:11 - Jul 30 with 1164 views | Highjack |
| Ebola on 15:01 - Jul 30 by Catullus |
And how lethal is influenza? Is it 90% lethal? We cannot allow Ebola to hit Europe where we are all crammed in so tight. It could spread worldwide in days.
In America when H1N1 hit, about 60 million Americans contracted it, about 12000 died. Now imagine if that was Ebola, that would read 54 million deaths. |
Ebola isn't that contagious so it would take an awful long time to spread amongst 60 million people. | |
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| Ebola on 15:47 - Jul 30 with 1136 views | Brynmill_Jack |
| Ebola on 15:07 - Jul 30 by Flashberryjack |
Now how in gods name do you know that to be a fact ? |
It is. Read up on it. It's really not that outlandish when you think that a cure/treatment for Malaria has only been known for two centuries tops | |
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| Ebola on 15:49 - Jul 30 with 1126 views | Highjack |
The prospect of a stubbed toe is morr terrifying than the ebola thing. | |
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| Ebola on 15:50 - Jul 30 with 1126 views | ScoobyWho |
| Ebola on 20:17 - Jul 23 by DwightYorkeSuperstar |
If fruit bats are the sole cause of this virus then I'm all for wiping them out. |
Are The people of Sierra Leone fruit bats ? [Post edited 30 Jul 2014 15:51]
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| Ebola on 19:30 - Jul 30 with 1054 views | scottishjack |
All good publicity for the new Planet of the Apes film... Virus wipes out mankind etc... |  | | |
| Ebola on 19:46 - Jul 30 with 1041 views | Catullus |
| Ebola on 15:11 - Jul 30 by Highjack |
Ebola isn't that contagious so it would take an awful long time to spread amongst 60 million people. |
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/14/health/gupta-ebola-guinea/
Maybe it's not that easy to catch, but if you are more worried about a stubbed toe then you are either being a wum or a fool.
I hope it's WUM! I never took you for a fool. | |
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| Ebola on 19:50 - Jul 30 with 1036 views | exiledclaseboy |
Ooh, the latest disease that's going to wipe us all out. Terrified. |  |
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| Ebola on 19:58 - Jul 30 with 1017 views | Onslow |
Stupidity will kill us all before any former Leeds Utd centre forward |  |
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| Ebola on 21:01 - Jul 30 with 976 views | Tycoch_Tyrant |
| Ebola on 15:01 - Jul 30 by Catullus |
And how lethal is influenza? Is it 90% lethal? We cannot allow Ebola to hit Europe where we are all crammed in so tight. It could spread worldwide in days.
In America when H1N1 hit, about 60 million Americans contracted it, about 12000 died. Now imagine if that was Ebola, that would read 54 million deaths. |
It would be very unlikely for ebola to spread any further than a localised epidemic. There are a few reasons for this:
1. I am no expert on ebola disease dynamics, but generally when an infected person is not yet showing symptoms (as in the air travel man) they are also usually of low infectivity. It's only when they are showing signs of the disease that they are of maximum infectivity - ebola is such a dramatic disease that at this point they are too sick to go much further than bed aka effectively quarantined
2. Ebola spreads by fruit bats and close human contact. The fruit bats do increase risk within the local region for disease contraction, however close human contact is actually a really inefficient way for a disease to spread, particularly when the disease has obvious clinical signs. An exception would be something like HIV where the resulting clinical signs can be absent for a number of years while remaining intermittently infectious, allowing spread.
3. In a bit of a grim way the disease actually limits itself by being so deadly. In the same way as severe clinical signs limit disease transmission, so does a swift death as obviously a dead person isn't wandering around infecting other people.
4. You bring up a point about H1N1. Whilst 12,000 deaths is obviously a tragedy, actually in context of 60 million americans, that's a mortality rate of 0.02%. If you got a disease and were told you are 99.98% likely to survive would you be massively concerned? Contrast this with ebola at 50-90% and you can see what I've explained above in action with previous outbreaks being in 100's to 1000's rather than the millions you fear. | | | |
| Ebola on 00:55 - Jul 31 with 904 views | jackportis |
Didnt dustin hofman find a cure for this in that film vomgo? Keep up. |  |
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| Ebola on 01:09 - Jul 31 with 896 views | Highjack |
| Ebola on 19:50 - Jul 30 by exiledclaseboy |
Ooh, the latest disease that's going to wipe us all out. Terrified. |
Yeah it's not quite as deadly as goat herpes which is going to be the next thing that'll kill us all in about 5 years. | |
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