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Ebola is here
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/30/health/ebola-us/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
First case found in Dallas. Wonder how many this person contaminated.
First case found in Dallas. Wonder how many this person contaminated.
"He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and politician
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and politician
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Captain Trips!
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
I really don't get the gist of your post but I hope you're not making light of this. I've been keeping up with most of the info that I can find about this ebola outbreak and it has the potential of being the new black plague. That one person in Dallas could eventually be the cause of hundreds if not thousands of deaths. It has already caused over three thousand deaths and it likely started with one person a little over a month ago.
H5N1, mad cow, H1N1, SARS, chronic wasting, ad nauseam.
Yawn.
Adam J. McCleod
Baby can you dig your man?
Adam J. McCleod
I didn't get it either. It worries me also. I have a sister and daughter that work in a hospital, another that works in a lab that gets samples from all over the world. Of course it's probably just like buying meteor insurance.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and politician
Wonder how the folks on his flight(s) feel right now? In the Dallas hospital where he went for treatment, then left and came back later. They say he probably wasn't contagious yet while flying...........I dunno. They then said a doctor in Africa said none of his patients had it, then he died from it.
I'm not overly concerned about it, but think folks who may come in contact with possible carriers need to take precautions and get checked out.
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
This...unless you are coming into contact with the body fluids of an infected person...it's just not an issue to worry about...
This is the upside to to living in a rural environment and only having occasional contact with people in general...
Hint...use disinfectant wipes on shopping cart handles when you absolutely,positively HAVE to go to Wal Mart....
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and politician
For shopping carts in general, also use the disinfectant wipes on the flip down plastic seat thingy for babies to sit on with their legs sticking out the back of the cart. Those brown stains aren't from a leaky half gallon of chocolate ice cream. :fan: :vomit:
The Ebola virus is carried by animals over there, mostly bats and monkeys, if I understand it correctly. Not like we don't have bats here. And that sewage and bodily fluids that make into the sewage system may not get treated enough to kill the bacteria. Bats got to drink, too, and so do other animals. I know that I don't know what I don't know. But it's something to think about.
― Douglas Adams
Not likely. The virus is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids from an infected person. Even hanging around in the airborne petri dish that commercial airplanes are, it's highly unlikely that any transmission of the disease could have occurred, let alone would have occurred.
Treat this 'outbreak' like AIDS. So long as you don't...you know...you're going to be just fine!
George Carlin
I understand that working in a hospital setting increases one's risk....however, in the last decade or so, the use and disposal of things like sharps and other bio-hazards has improved vastly...even working in the relatively chaotic environment of an ambulance isn't as risky as you might think as long as you use appropriate universal precautions...HIV patients never really scared me...HEP C patients on the other hand were an altogether different critter...
No, I'm not taking it lightly although it probably isn't the real life "Captain Trips".
Wonder if he thinks it is so easy to contain if he visited the Dallas hospital where the patient with Ebola is, how many layers of protective clothing and suits would he be wearing?
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
So you're suggesting that the missionaries that contracted the virus were doing..."you know"... with the locals?
Ebony and Ivory................:jester: :devil:
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
The missionary protested that the child wasn't his, and tried to explain to the tribe leader the theories of genetics and mutations. "For example," he said, "Look at your flock of sheep grazing over there. Now, all of your sheep are white, but you see that one gave birth to a black lamb last week."
The tribe leader quieted down and whispered, "OK look, you don't say anything about the sheep and I'll keep quiet about the baby."
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
Now that is funny Buffy, don't care who you are :tooth::roll2::roll2::roll2:
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
As a husband/father whose family members have gone on missions trips, no, I most emphatically do not suggest that. Caring for an ebola patient is a messy business at it's best and things are rarely if ever 'at their best' concerning ebola. Projectile expulsion of body fluids (vomit, feces, sweat, blood, and various other emissions) is the new normal.
:that: :agree:
George Carlin
Indeed. So many things with the potential promise to clear up the traffic on the 405. Ain't one of 'em delivered yet.
Aside from things like thinking antibiotics will cure viral diseases, folks in nations outside the third world seem to have a pretty good understanding of disease vectors, and it has the media capability to get specific education out there in a hurry. We might get a few outbreaks, but pretty easily squashed if the local guy with a bone through his nose isn't seen as the first line of defense.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
I have considered the news over the past year and it doesn't seem good. I cancelled my information coverage 8 years ago (CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, Reuters) because I got tired of watching commercials! TV that is.
Now I wake up to internet coverage, of those same news sources. All I see each morning is what I would call negative news items. Almost no news is positive. It seems every news source accentuates the NEGATIVE aspects of our world on a continuing basis. If this is there way of gathering viewers . . . more power to them. I'm not one of them!
For the past year or more, I have had a strange feeling in my gut. I cannot explain what it is, but it is a kind of feeling of a foreboding. It seems to me there is something happening in our world that is not quite right. I wish I could articulate what I mean, but it is difficult to do. It would easy to say something like "Isis is coming" or something like that, but that doesn't satisfy my thoughts.
I truly believe, as many do, the United States of America is at a crossroads. Sure, President Obama is the prime target, but I say there is much more to this crisis. At the top of the pile, not Congress or the Senate, is the American people. We Americans have the opportunity to vote for our representatives. This is not a privilege to be taken easily. Vote for what you feel is right . . . !
Any and all comments welcome. Is the U.S. going down the tubes?
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AFRICOM was wanted into Liberia to get after their oil and gems for years now.
.... Me neither. Yes Ebola is here and is spreading rapidly. I had a touch of it last week. Some Robitusson cured that right up.