Second Heathcare Worker Has ebola

[jonbird]

Just saw this on reddit: User involved with Dallas emergency broke that there was a 2nd healthcare worker infected yesterday. He also has a source that 5-6 more nurses and a doctor who worked with Duncan are showing fevers. : ebola

Apparently a user called the second infected health care worker yesterday, with another handful (5-6) supposedly presenting fever symptoms. Obviously only hear say, but it's pretty worrying if true. This outbreak supposedly has an R0 of 2 (number of people who catch the virus, on average, from each person infected.) Well, seems that the Dallas case has already hit that. MSF and others have been saying that reporting is a huge issue in West Africa - can't help but feel this is way more infectious than we've been told up until now.

Watching the politicians and public figures back peddling - and just hearing the tone they're speaking in - has got me pretty worried. They seem a lot more nervous than what they're letting on publicly.

OK, Spain wasn't geared up to deal with it in the first place and the Dallas hospital was not expecting it, so fingers fucking crossed, it's training/protocol issues.. Worrying times though. Still got a couple of weeks before we know whether the nurse managed to spread it in Europe or not.

Is the sky actually falling?

 

[WickedJoe]

The stock market is down almost 3% today, most likely because of this

Much more spreading and people wont be going out for fun to to spend money on basically anything.

Btw you guys should watch documentaries on the 1918 pandemic. It was so fucking horrific people back then just kind of stopped talking about it and tried to erase it from their memories. It spread the same way supposedly.. the US officials were too slow to shut down travel routes etc.

 

[3nyaw]

No you don't have it under control you fucking retard. It has up to a three week incubation period. The people she could have come into contact with on that plane might not show symptoms for weeks.

Fucking hell.

oh thanks for the kind words. i still know more about it than you do. You just want to have this delusion about the government being evil.

 

[3nyaw]

or no. Let's play that game. Please explain to me what an incubation period is. I've googled incu something and it came up with incubators. Does this mean there are people breeding babies for three weeks and then they get symptoms? Are babies ebola?

 

[WickedJoe]

Is the sky actually falling?

Doubtful but it's fun gettin hyped about it anyway. Then again this plane trip this cunt nurse went on is just fucking crazy..

 

[3nyaw]

btw, we've had one case treated in a specialist hospital dealing only with that kind of thing and nobody got infected.

You know the Germans make good products.

 

[Fatbat]

can't help but feel this is way more infectious than we've been told up until now.

I don't think it's any more infectious, it's just that there's been a complete disregard to the dangers by several people.

The Spanish health care worker that had been treating the missionary went to a different hospital than the one she worked at when she started to get sick, and didn't initially tell the staff who received her there that she had in fact been treating an Ebola patient at the other hospital. So she was dealt with by staff who were completely unprotected.

The guy that came to Dallas from Liberia straight up lied that he'd been in contact with Ebola victims. If nurses claims are true, he was treated for up to three days in the hospital by staff who were insufficiently protected. So it only stands to reason that more people are going to become sick.

Now you got a nurse who was supposed to have been under observation traipsing around the country when she should have been at home.

It's epic failure time all around.

 

[3nyaw]

fat bat scared

 

[Fatbat]

or no. Let's play that game. Please explain to me what an incubation period is. I've googled incu something and it came up with incubators. Does this mean there are people breeding babies for three weeks and then they get symptoms? Are babies ebola?

You can't possibly be this stupid :eek7:

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=incubation period

Incubation period - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=incubation+period+ebola

 

[Moxie]

Btw you guys should watch documentaries on the 1918 pandemic. It was so fucking horrific people back then just kind of stopped talking about it and tried to erase it from their memories. It spread the same way supposedly.. the US officials were too slow to shut down travel routes etc.

The flu spreads more easily and it did kill lots of people in 1918. It's still listed as the cause of 30,000 or so US deaths a year, which is a lot more than ebola has killed in its history.

 

[Fatbat]

i still know more about it than you do.

Highly doubtful.

 

[Fatbat]

...which is a lot more than ebola has killed in its history.

So far

 

[3nyaw]

Highly doubtful.

challenge me

 

[WickedJoe]

The flu spreads more easily and it did kill lots of people in 1918. It's still listed as the cause of 30,000 or so US deaths a year, which is a lot more than ebola has killed in its history.

Ya i know. But Ebola is more sexy.

 

[Fatbat]

challenge me

I believe I already have. "incubation period" was more than you could handle.

 

[3nyaw]

ok so you tell me. has shit hit the proverbial fan?

 

[Fatbat]

ok so you tell me. has shit hit the proverbial fan?

Not yet.

 

[3nyaw]

When?

 

[mpbiz]

Is the sky actually falling?

No. As much as this shit gives me goosebumps sometimes thinking about it, I really think we'll all be fine.

One thing this has proven though, is that it really doesn't matter what country you live in. We have great infrastructure, but what good is that if the people utilizing it are fucking twats? I'm AMAZED that dumb bitch got on a plane. Truly incredible.

She should be thrown in a mental ward (if she survives).

 

[Fatbat]

When?

Go away Pewep.