"But the fact is that weak health systems, not unprecedented virulence or a previously unknown mode of transmission, are to blame for Ebola’s rapid spread." but but KingCheetah said this is a more virulent strain!!! i call bs on this article
This has been one of my worries. I'm planning on going to Asia in December and January to see family but am not sure how much (more) of a pain in the ass international travel will be by then. I've already dropped plans for a trip to Egypt.
^visited East Africa, not in Western Africa where Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the ebola outbreak is. No mention of any possible contact with contagious persons. Definite overreaction.
I had authentic African Cuisine at the International Festival in Florida a few weeks ago. Don't tell anyone, I don't want to get taped up in a bathroom stall for 24 hours.
So, is it mom or dad that's taking 3 weeks off of work to placate the paranoia of other parents? What, does he think it's genetic? Or that it's transmitted via Skype? With this criteria, we need to quarantine Bill Chapman until we know the background on him.
Maybe some of the people on the plane are suing the nurse or the hospital or the CDC or the airline is suing the hospital, etc... I can see it.
Spent some time last night with a friend, a PhD microbiologist who is a former CDC employee (about a decade ago) and now works as an epidemiologist in another country (not in Africa). This kind of virus is actually not her main specialty. But she did say it seemed awfully easy for healthcare workers to catch the current strain. She was surprised that the nurses in Dallas contracted ebola. Her big worry with America is that with all our hysteria about a handful of cases here, we would forget about the much larger and ultimately more important (to all of us) problem in Africa. Like, if we don't stomp on ebola over there, we'll keep getting people arriving by airplane, sooner or later. Interesting perspective. Her country currently has no cases, but they've tested a person of interest (results negative). Mainly, they've been working on training, communications and logistics, she said, getting ready for their first arriving case. Little doubt it will show up, from her perspective.
That's been my big thing. The other issue regarding US hysteria that was recently brought to my attention is flu season. Not that the flu is a bigger problem than ebola, but that thousands of people will mistake the flu for ebola and go to the hospital, possibly hiding real ebola cases in the crowd of false alarms. That makes it more likely that hospitals will misdiagnose ebola patients and discharge them.
WHO has stated there are no more cases in Nigeria or Liberia. Slowly but surely they will get a handle of it.
