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Ebola in the U.S.
Ebola in the U.S.
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FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#2Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 9/30/14 at 6:01pmIt's Rick Perry's opportunity to show off Texas's terrific infrastructure!
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#3Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 9/30/14 at 6:04pmDad-gummit! I JUST got over my swine flu, SARS, and bird flu. I think I may have gotten them all from those Africanized bees. From Africa.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#4Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 9/30/14 at 6:21pmIs this the thread where we can joke or the thread where we can't?
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#5Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 9/30/14 at 6:31pm
Look on the up-and-up: Stock in paper face masks will be soaring!
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#6Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 9/30/14 at 6:47pmI guess it all boils down to who's dying and where. Pal Joey, check back when a swing from your revival of On the Town gets sick.
#8Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 9/30/14 at 7:05pmMy apologies for being humorless. I have a good friend at the CDC who has left me with zero desire to find the levity in this situation.
#9Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 9/30/14 at 7:20pmThis guy was sick and wandering around for four days, not to mention all the fellow passangers on his flight to the US. Pardon me but this is sort of terrifying. It can take up to 21 days for an infected person to show symptoms.
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#10Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 9/30/14 at 7:26pm
From the link above:
"In reality, however, Ebola is not that easy to catch. While it is a communicable disease, it can only be spread through a sick person’s bodily fluids or by eating an infected animal. So unlike the flu, for instance, you can’t get Ebola by standing next to someone who coughs, sneezes, or breathes on you. For that reason, it’s relatively easy to contain; although it’s spreading rapidly in impoverished West African nations that lack adequate health care infrastructures to respond to the outbreak, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say there’s virtually no chance it could spread very far in the United States."
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#11Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 9/30/14 at 7:55pmHey, what great news. We're only at risk of losing one half of a continent! May the mirth resume.
#14Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 9/30/14 at 11:23pm
Donate her furs.
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#15Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 9/30/14 at 11:29pmMy criticism is of Rick Perry and the Libertarian wunderland of Texas.
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#16Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 10/1/14 at 1:14pm
"My apologies for being humorless. I have a good friend at the CDC who has left me with zero desire to find the levity in this situation."
That makes two of us. I've already received 14 emails today at work about revising emergency staffing plans on the off chance the DC Capitol Region is hit with a pandemic flu/ebola outbreak combo. So, loads of folks are taking this seriously.
#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#17Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 10/1/14 at 1:47pm
Ah Jeez!
One robin does not make a spring and one diagnosis does not make an epidemic.
Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone have very poor health care systems, limited resources and citizens who actually are afraid of Doctors, Hospitals et al. It is not the same situation in North America- PLUS after SARS I know that much more elaborate screening programs and isolation protocols were created.
Here I'll make you more comfortable-
ANTHRAX!!!! In the MAIL!!! ARRGGH!
#18Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 10/1/14 at 3:16pm
"Ah Jeez!
One robin does not make a spring and one diagnosis does not make an epidemic."
Is that what you said about Patient Zero?
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#19Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 10/1/14 at 3:49pm
YES.
Cos they r apples and peniss.
Updated On: 10/1/14 at 03:49 PM
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
Kavana
Featured Actor Joined: 5/16/03
#21Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 10/1/14 at 4:24pm
It's much more serious then SARS, Bird Flu, Etc.... Bishes need to read. It should also be seen as an STD considering "The Ebola" It should also be seen as an STD.
People remain infectious as long as their blood and body fluids, including semen and breast milk, contain the virus. Men who have recovered from the disease can still transmit the virus through their semen for up to 7 weeks after recovery from illness.
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#22.Ebola virus circulation in Africa: a balance between clinical expression a
Posted: 10/1/14 at 5:02pm
Nearly thirty years after the first epidemics, Ebola virus (EBOV) remains hardly described, its transmission unclear and its reservoir elusive. Soon after the Ebola fever outbreak and virus discovery in 1976 and in order to investigate the distribution of EBOV in Central Africa, several countries including a range of ecological zones were investigated in the early 1980s, using extensive survey: Central African Republic (CAR), Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Since 1992, ELISA antibody test along with a RT-PCR have been used to detect specific virus antibodies and characterize viral RNA. The widely separated geographic locations of outbreaks have suggested that the reservoir and the transmission cycle of EBOV are probably closely associated with the rain forest ecosystem, what is supported by the distribution of antibodies. The fact that outbreaks seldom occur suggests the presence of a rare or ecologically isolated animal reservoir having few contacts with humans and non-human primates. However various serological investigations showed a high prevalence in humans without any pathology reported. This suggests a circulation of both pathogenic and non-pathogenic strains as well as more frequent contacts with man than expected, and could partially explain fifteen years of Ebola fever silence between the emergence and re-emergence of Ebola virus in the Congolese basin. Nowadays, largely enlightened by the study of recent epizootic and epidemic manifestations of EBOV in Gabon and neighboring countries, EBOV natural history starts to be understood as for the fundamentals of epizootic in non-human primates and chains of transmission.
Updated On: 10/1/14 at 05:02 PM
#24Ebola in the U.S.
Posted: 10/1/14 at 5:08pm
@PalJoey,
Sometimes it's best to err on the side of caution, I suggest.
#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.
