Ebola Virus - should we be worried?



To contract Ebola, one has to come into direct contact with a sick patient’s bodily fluids: things like saliva, excrement, blood.
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Looks like we're going to have to call off future plans for gay webmaster makeout sessions and possibly even putting the breaks on charging the JO crystals.
 
All the articles about "WHAT WILL WE DO IF EBOLA COMES TO THE US" from last week look pretty silly now that we've decided that we're going to roll out the red carpet for this pathogen.

CHECKMATE EBOLA.

I bet you never thought we'd invite your hemorrhagic ass in through the front fucking door, did you?

I guess we have a short window of opportunity here while the virus is still confused about getting a first class flight to a new theater to eradicate it once and for all...
 
Ice, you should probably stop doing that. More because it's creepy as fuck than anything else.

But seriously, we have very little to worry about. It's not an airborne virus. Just about every hospital in the country has clean rooms and have been put on alert to watch out for symptoms. Anything that looks even remotely like ebola means automatic clean room quarantine until tests can be run to see if you have the virus. The CDC has decontamination/quarantine facilities in every state in the country.

Could there be an outbreak here? Sure, it's possible. Is an outbreak of significant proportions going to happen in the US or any other developed nation? Not fucking likely.

Everybody just keep on keepin on, we're good. Except you Ice; you keep drinking that cadaver bathwater and you're asking for trouble. Good luck bros.
 
statelizard said:
Ice, you should probably stop doing that. More because it's creepy as fuck than anything else.
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This is not an entirely uncommon practice in Africa, it's probably one of the ways Ebola is being spread...

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No real reservoir for Ebola in the USA unless it got on a pig farm and even then it might not find winter too friendly, either.

Easy disease to contain and most models predict the African outbreak fizzling out in a few weeks. There will be a ton of great data from this outbreak but in the greater scheme of things Ebola is a disease we've only seen a handful of times in the past few decades and it has killed very few people.

The vector of infection is just too easy to account for with Western medicinal procedure and even in under-developed countries tradition and ritual will eventually be eschewed for social isolation practices which are plenty effective at containing Ebola.

Seriously though, don't eat monkey brains - like, ever.
 
^^ +1

I would imagine that probably is one of the ways it's spreading over there. I was unaware of the bathwater drinking ritual. I will restate that it is still, first and foremost, creepy as fuck, but I see how it could also be dangerous to your health.

TIL: Ice is a nigerian widow.
 
Send a delivery of irish spring over the Africa and cure the people....
 
lukep said:
I'll just leave this insignificant little link here...

Executive Order -- Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases | The White House
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It is insignificant. The only thing it does is update the SARS definition to include things like ebola since all of the previous SARS worries dealt with airborne communicable viruses. Ebola can only be passed by way of fluid transmission through direct contact with infected fluids or indirect contact with a contaminated surface, it's not an airborne pathogen. Since there's currently an outbreak in Africa and we're purposefully bringing two infected Americans back to the states, it makes sense to update quarantine protocols.

There are conspiracies out there. This isn't one of them. It's just good medical science. Maybe a little more time reading the New England Journal of Medicine and a little less time reading InfoWars is in order.
 
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