Yep. The borders we should worry about aren't our own but the ones that define every country that has substandard health care. Can you imagine if Ebola got to the slums in Mumbai or Mexico City or Rio or Karachi or Cairo? If we get one Ebola outbreak somewhere like that (or multiple places simultaneously) who knows what would happen? Economic and political upheaval aren't out of the question. In the worst case here, we may lose some lives and have to spend a bunch of money, but we are not going to have a major outbreak in the US. Over there, who knows?
To be fair, I think people had the same dire predictions for Lagos. But... Lagos doesn't have spicy food, so you may have a point. On a more appropriate and serious note, I don't see how it can *not* get to one of these places if it hits 100,000 or more cases in western africa. seems like too much to fight statistically. Also, on the Liberia front from another poster's comments, they definitely don't have it under control there. You may be thinking of *Senegal*, to the north of Guinea.
Hysteria, for sure... http://www.click2houston.com/news/m...ite=nbcnews.com&cm_ven=nbcnews&cm_cat=Article
Are any of these "ebola" patients footing a bill for anything? Maybe not the hazmat crews and disinfecting but at least the hospital trip? It's stupid to see these people cry wolf.
Good news for the American reporter -- he's going to make it (and tweet about it). http://abcnews.go.com/Health/journalist-contracted-ebola-now-disease-free/story?id=26349550
from the article: Authorities say the man told a nurse he was afraid he had Ebola because he had been in contact with people from Africa. REALLY?? SPECIFICS PLEASE
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>New photo of Amber Vinson at Emory. Doctors now say they are "no longer able to detect [Ebola] virus in her body." <a href="http://t.co/n7Uti4AowU" title="http://twitter.com/CBSEveningNews/status/525065704568270848/photo/1">pic.twitter.com/n7Uti4AowU</a></p>— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSEveningNews/status/525065704568270848" data-datetime="2014-10-22T23:26:33+00:00">October 22, 2014</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
So i guess as long as they catch it right away, ppl can survive. How long did Duncan go wihthout getting treatment?
Glad to hear Vinson is better as well as that journalist. People can survive, they just need to have really strong immune systems and good care. As with any illness, the earlier it's caught, the better the prognosis. Hope to hear some good news about Pham later. Duncan was at least 2 days ill, the days between hospital visits, but he was probably feeling feverish and sick prior to that. I'd guess 4 days or so.
The issue with Duncan was that he was probably a full week into showing symptoms. He was turned away 2 days after showing, and then had to come back because the fever became far too high. I'm guessing due to the fact that he caught everybody off-guard, it also took them more time to get the proper medications into his system. Didn't they wait until the weekend AFTER he was admitted to start administering the experimental drug on him?
The CDC has a good FAQs about transmission, including your question. http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html
