Posted on 08/27/2014 6:10:25 PM PDT by Qiviut
NEW DELHI: The enormity of the Ebola outbreak hit home on Tuesday as 112 Indians and four Nepalese arrived in the country on different flights from Liberia. This West African country has seen over 600 deaths so far and is the worst affected. Till late in the night, 88 people had arrived — 71 in Mumbai and 17 in Delhi. More were on their way on different commercial flights.
Health ministry sources said of the 17 passengers who arrived at the Delhi airport, one person has been found to have fever and sore throat which is associated with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) besides other diseases. "The passenger suspected for EVD has been quarantined at the Airport Health Organisation (APHO), a specialized health centre run by the health ministry to screen international passengers for deadly diseases. We have sent the passenger's blood sample for test," said a ministry official.
At least six others, including two women and a child, were taken to APHO for detailed health screening and officials later claimed they did not have any symptoms of the disease. In addition, five passengers from routine flights from the affected countries — Sierra Leone, Republic of Guinea and Nigeria — with symptoms of fever have been quarantined at the isolation facility at Delhi airport, said health ministry sources.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
I’m glad I live in a white area on that map.
We spent a couple weeks roaming India several months ago. There appeared to be an absence of understanding and appreciation of both personal and public hygiene...everywhere. We were amazed that everyone wasn’t sick or dead.
Please provide a working link to back up that assertion.
Or, if the "all over the world" part proves too difficult, I'd settle for a link that shows it's loose anywhere outside of west and central Africa.
BTW, has your life been impacted by Fukushima?
Well, yes and no. The specialty hospitals that cater to medical tourism are state of the art in medical technology and pathogen control. The upper classes, especially those with a family member who has studied abroad, also tend to be western-like in that regard.
While living in India, my wife came into contact with many diseases unknown here in the states such as cholera. However, she personally is extremely circumspect about sanitation and cleanliness. But living in a slum, you're going to come into contact with that stuff.
Your comment: "We were amazed that everyone wasn’t sick or dead" shows that most of us are tougher than western ideas make us think we are. A properly functioning immune system can fend off a lot of day-to-day infectious threats. But not Ebola.
But, but ... we are assured that the only way the disease can be contracted is by sharing a long ‘soul kiss’ with someone who is actually foaming at the mouth and calling for “Brains!”.
Of course, the ones providing these assurances also assured us that they can’t find their e-mail records & that they don’t have your e-mail, and that they won’t pay for illegal aliens’ sex change operations.
Of course, the ones providing these assurances also assured us that they can’t find their e-mail records & that they don’t have your e-mail, and that they won’t pay for illegal aliens’ sex change operations.
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Not to worry if you get Ebola - they promised you can keep your doctor, too. Period.
Our immune systems functioned well there...we survived without illness.
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
“Turn me loose, set me free, somewhere in the middle of Siberia!”
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
India is one of the most crowded, and easily one of the filthiest places on the planet: public defecation is widespread, and human and animal corpses are routinely tossed into rivers.
Sounds like heaven if you're an Ebola virus.
...... total crap tornado ....
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I think that’s a good description of what the situation on the ground will be if it ends up on the loose in India.
Read away....
& I don't know if my life has been impacted by Fukushima yet...it has not shown up as something that is recognizable, but lets get together a year from now and see.
..and my man, if it impacts me, it will impact you. At the very least, I kind of acknowledge that Americans MAY be in danger from Ebola etc.
Seems like every map I’ve seen lately makes Wyoming look better and better.
From the scientist (Professor Peter Piot) who discovered Ebola:
With ever growing mobility of people and travel, it’s not unlikely that people during the incubation period of Ebola - which is between 2 and 21 days after infection - may go to another country.
Ebola outbreaks are always happening in a context of poverty, dysfunctional health services with poor infection control and hygiene practices. If someone with Ebola is admitted to such an environment anywhere in the world, that will give rise to outbreaks.
Link (another Times of India article dated Aug 1, 2014):
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Its-the-deadliest-strain-says-the-man-who-discovered-Ebola/articleshow/39434060.cms
Amen to that. Any people coming in from those countries, should be quarantined for about a month to make sure they don’t develop symptoms, and those with symptoms should be quarantined seperately.
If everyone knew that they would have to be quarantined before leaving and after arriving, maybe they’d quit jetting all over the world and some progress could be made on stopping this.
Mumbai is the most densely populated city in the world IIRC.
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