Aw, Sh!t – Not Again
Liberia confirms third Ebola case in new outbreak
That “show” kinda sucked the first time around. We could do without a sequel.
But if we get a sequel, I’m guessing the clueless group of fools in DC current Administration will have the same attitude that they did last time. You know: “Don’t worry, be happy, can’t happen here”. And that means they’ll again fail to implement common-sense travel policies and safeguards.
Play with fire often enough, and eventually you’re gonna get burned. As far as I know, that little truism remains . . . true.
Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", Foreign Policy
Hey, just in time for season 2 of “The Last Ship.” How poetic.
TOW,,You took the thought right out of my mind.
Ebola isn’t new, and it isn’t going away. And our government is refusing to deal with it.
Anybody have any updates on those vaccines that were in development that were supposed to be out sometime last fall? Nah, me neither.
SSDD.
Actually, it looks like those have progressed to field trials in Sierra Leone and Guinea.
http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2015/p0414-ebola-vaccine.html
http://time.com/3758011/ebola-vaccine-trial-guinea/
Keep your fingers crossed. A reasonably effective vaccine here would be a “good thing”.
I do pray those vaccines prove effective, because I wouldn’t wish that virus on my worst enemy.
Oh c’mon PN, there is the DRG……
Anyone besides me ever watch the BBC series “Survivors”?
1% of the population survives the first wave.
1% of the remaining population survives the second wave.
And so forth and so on until there were none.
I have to disagree with you on this one, Hondo. Absent a complete and utter breakdown of the medical services, Ebola doesn’t pose a serious threat to a First-World country like the United States. Last year’s events should be enough to support that.
Ebola, like SARS, or H1N1 is just a biological boogey-man the media likes use to boost their ratings. CNN had just about run out of crazy MH370 theories when Ebola swooped in to rescue them.
I have to dig it up, but I read an article last year from the UK, can’t remember if it was the BBC or something else, but they basically laid out how incredibly difficult it would be for Ebola to gain a foothold in any “advanced” country. Of course, our media, which never let’s a good crisis go to waste, convienently missed that memo.
All that being said, an Ebola vaccine would indeed be a very good thing.
Google “Dark Winter” and “smallpox”. Thankfully that was only an exercise/simulation.
Smallpox is indeed somewhat more easily transmitted than Ebola. But it’s less deadly, and an effective vaccine exists. Like Ebola, there’s no effective cure after infection; all treatments are palliative.
The results of the exercise were bad. Very bad. “Steal Jobu’s rum” bad.
It was very bad because medical services were among the hardest hit – just like they are during an Ebola outbreak. (If I recall correctly, they effectively collapsed in outbreak areas.) 7-figure casualties were being predicted at the time those running the exercise halted it.
You may be right, but I’d rather we err on the side of caution.
I would be interested in seeing the article, if you can find a link.
Don’t be too quick to scoff. The Spanish Flu epidemic laid out quite a few of our fellow countrymen, and we did our level best to contain it. Certain conditions have to be met for a plague to get going, but once it does…just don’t be so sure it couldn’t happen here. It might be harder for one to get going here, but it’s not impossible.
11B, the Spanish Flu WAS H1N1. There were tissues from people who had died of the flu, from which the genome was extracted. It matches the H1N1 bird flu that threw people for a loop.
The smartest thing to do is get the flu vaccine. Get a tetanus booster, too.
Fruit bats carry the ebola virus. They are immune to it because they have built genetic immunity to it.
I’d like to remind you that Hanta fever, which is carried by deer mice was a mystery to CDC until they finally figured out that it was that species of mice, which is very widespread, that carried it.
We’ve already seen that there is a certain amount of carelessness and a somewhat lackadaisical attitude toward people who self-report and self-diagnose in regard to a deadly disease like ebola.
Ignorance is not bliss, in any case.
Do you really believe this government would act smartly when it came to an Ebola outbreak? If so, I have a really nice bridge that could be yours with just three easy payments.
Flagwaver, this ‘government’ wouldn’t act quickly if a ship full of meat-eating dinosaurs crashed into Fisherman’s Pier in San Francisco. This ‘government’ is a joke that the American people foisted on themselves. They got what they deserve. I hope they don’t have to regret it some day.
Oh, wait… spring of 2013. How could I forget?
B. Hussein 0bama & Company did their best to let Ebola come to American soil, and the apocalyptic epidemic never happened here. Could it be that American has too much sanitation for it to get a foothold here? After all we don’t defecate in our yards or on our sidewalks and leave it there, nor do we flush raw sewage into our creeks and rivers for the most part.
How about we have stronger immune systems, we wash our hands regularly, and we have better sanitation, AND we don’t handle or touch the corpses of the diseased dead because some quack tradition demands it.
And we generally don’t go around eating fruit bats and bush meat.
Have you seen the homeless population in most big cities? In Portland, shops have to hose down their entrance ways because the homeless urinate and defecate in the sunken doorways all the time. The same is true in Grand Central Station, New York according to a news report the other night. You can kiss that population goodbye with the first wave.
Also, we don’t really have a legal precedent for forced quarantine. It gets into the courts and then it only takes one bleeding heart to say its wrong and the person is released.
Then there’s the incubation time, after the person is contagious. It’s what, two weeks? Heck, in just one week of your normal routine, how many people do you come in contact with?
We were lucky with the two cases reported. There were no secondary infections, and the one possible quarantined herself while waiting the the hospital to get back to her… after half a dozen phone calls.
That’s why I said “…for the most part”, yeah, there always have been and always will be shit like that in inner cities, homeless camp sites, etc, and yeah, they’ll be the first ones gone.
Sorry, I did NOT mean to report your comment!
Most of the people who came from the affected countries were careful to place themselves in quarantine, out of consideration for their host country. We did get a taste of what could happen if less considerate people immigrated. When that happened, a person on-site with medical training protected her mother, herself, her family and the rest of us, from the mother’s boyfriend. This was the Houston case, and it was stopped in its tracks by a nurse’s aide, not the CDC.
This is one of those cases where both sides handle it poorly. The fed’s screwed Fido by not enacting basic quarantine protocols. All it takes is a patient zero and some bad luck and while the casualties wouldn’t be as significant as we’re seeing in Africa, plenty of preventable deaths could happen. Conversely, the other side is overreacting to some degrees. Just remember, wash your hands and don’t touch your face.
Speaking of Ebola (and not to start any conspiracy theories or anything), whatever happened to Thomas Duncan’s family after he died? I’ve done some poking around on the internet, but they seem to have dropped off the earth. I’m curious, because they spent quite a bit of time with him after he became contagious. I wondered if any of them caught the virus? If so, it didn’t seem to make the news.
With the current spin doctors in the government, they probably all succumbed to their illnesses and it was just not mentioned because it would make the Campaigner-in-Chief look bad.
See above. His fiancé’s step-daughter insisted on getting him medical care, and also on quarantining him, and cleaning her mother’s apartment, and keeping her mother from using his bedding after he left the apartment.
All of y’all can relax. I have it on good authority that ICE agents at the ports of entry are asking all travelers from Liberia if they are sick or if they have handled any dead bodies lately. If the immigrant hesitates when answering, they are asked “Are you sure?”. ICE has got this. We are safe.
Ben and Jen are getting a divorce for gosh sake. Focus!
It ain’t one thing its another…
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/07/02/california-woman-21-killed-by-brain-eating-amoeba/?intcmp=trending