As a Liberian (at least before you edited your post), you should probably be in quarantine. On the serious, please take your troll show to the D&D, where lots of people enjoy debating the free market.
The sicker the patient gets, the more infectious it becomes. That mother****er knows it's about to kill its host and starts seeking out a new one.
All I know is that if there are reports of ebola in my area, I am keeping my kids and family at home.
I remember a story from Liberia a few weeks ago that described how the body collectors would wear 3 protective suits so they wouldn't infect themselves while removing them. Two I could understand -- three seemed overzealous. Maybe that's the right number after all.
as a distinguished member of /r/conspiracy I find it awfully curious that Ebola has mainly only struck in West Africa. A place with abundant natural resources such as oil. If Western governments slowly wipe out the local population, these companies will be free to extract whatever oil they have from these resource rich countries. Isn't it odd there is no Ebola in a place like New Zealand where there is no oil to be found? Just follow the paper trail. The answers are all out there. Just look at previous history. The USA passed out small pox blankets to the Native Americans and then finally stole all their gold and land when the Natives died from small pox. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
http://abc13.com/news/dallas-nurse-with-ebola-identified/348577/ Nurse identified. I'm glad that they're going to take care of her dog. Can dogs get ebola? I have no clue.
Seems to me they could at *least* carry it, which is kind of scary. As Ottomaton posted in this or a similar thread, the real worry for America is that the virus finds a reservoir host (like bats or some other mammal), so that it can spontaneously generate outbreaks from time to time, like it does in Africa. edit: poor dog, though. It's like WTF, where is my human?
I heard some some bigwig from the WHO say on the BBC, speaking of another dog, say that it was "extremely improbable" that a dog could spread the disease. I know that in some species diseases manifest very differently. Ebola in pigs shows up as a lung problem, while for chickens, SARS is like a stomach flu. Also, rabies only is capable of infecting animals whose blood temperature is close to the human 98.5 degrees. If the temp of blood is significantly different, the animal is immune.
I was reading comments on the news outlets FB pages...the health workers especially nurses are very upset about this and feel that CDC did a ****ty job of dealing with this and for insinuating that it was the nurse's fault for getting infected (breach in protocol). I'm hoping that the nurse pulls through!
Nurse will be fine. If I was working around an ebola factory I would want more than a surgical mask but the reality is she probably did mess up. That is much more her superiors fault than hers though.
I hope so. She has the best chance possible, but the mortality rate is so high. She may have slightly better than a 50/50 chance with good care, hydration, and catching it as early as possible. She's still got a big fight ahead of her. God bless.
Getting treated with just fever and not violently ill. Got a blood transfusion. Has a healthy 26 year old immune system.
Worldwide rates are right at 50% mortality so her current good condition seems to put her on the side of surviving. Does anyone know if you have a 'bad' case of Ebola and live are there effects of the virus on you the rest of your life?
I agree with this. If she breached protocol, it's a training issue and its on leadership. I think that's what rubs wrong about intimating is was somehow her fault for doing something wrong. You have a lot of 26 year-old workers out there doing the dirty work and you can't put the responsibility of containing an outbreak on each of them. Leadership takes the responsibility for containment, which means they have responsibility for training, which means they screwed up on training if anyone breaches protocol. I'm not outraged or something because you can't really know you've got everything right until you go live. Hopefully, they're learning from this and we won't have a repeat.
Yeah you could have liver and kidney failure. I have no idea how many people survive yet not make a full recovery though. Probably a narrow window.
