Why Ebola is the next global health crisis: Americans must understand that Ebola is not just an African problem

Christian Post ^ | 01/02/2020 | Scott Arbeiter, President, World Relief

[Rebelbase]

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six.

[Calvin Locke]

I read that it was the do-gooders that spread HIV.

There was a group that was making its way through Africa, giving vaccinations for something or another, reusing needles.

So, some poor schmuck got bitten by a infected chimp or whatever, in an isolated village, when this group comes traipsing through, taking away the HIV bug with them in one or more needles, going on to infect village after village at that point.

[353FMG]

I see your ebola and raise you a swine flu.

[olesigh]

let’s let more africans across the southern border and send them to San antonio like we did last year

[353FMG]

Why send money? They’re all coming to the despised West. Especially the muzzies.

[IndispensableDestiny]

We don’t play dress up with our dead or eat bush meat. Not yet at least.

[mmichaels1970]

The virus still has the potential to bring devastation on a massive scale, unless we work together with communities within Africa

So....send money...gotcha.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Infectious Disease Ping - Ebola Update(Africa) - A Global Concern

"There have been over 2,000 deaths since Ebola reemerged in the DRC this year.
Rwanda closed its border with the DRC after cases of the virus were confirmed,
but Ebola spreads quickly, and dangerously. By June, it had spread to Uganda."

"The virus still has the potential to bring devastation on a massive scale,
unless we work together with communities within Africa to ensure that people
don't just have access to the vaccine, but are educated about how to contain the spread of the disease."

Increased transportation via airlines, with physical and cultural migration occurring,
with world-wide organizations calling for border less boundaries,
we all are at risk at contracting various viral diseases.
No longer does a geographically isolated viral disease remain within the confines of that country,
but now it becomes a world-wide concern.

[david1292]

First off, it’s not very easily contracted. It spreads through bodily fluids and a bigger problem in Africa because hygiene isn’t very good, some never go to the hospital and die at home because they don’t trust doctors or the government, and family members can’t keep their hands off the deceased. It does not spread like the flu. The virus itself is actually pretty fragile outside the body.

Second, isn’t there a vaccine now?

There are pathogens that exist that would be much scarier than Ebola if they break out. An Ebola outbreak in the west would be contained pretty fast. But something like a Spanish Flu that broke out in the early 1900s would be spread all over the place today before we even know it.

[Jim Noble]

As the most well-resourced country in the world, the United States has not only the ability but the imperative to extend aid to those suffering overseas

No statements in that are true.

[Jim Noble]

THIS is the problem. Don't do this and you will be fine.

[John O]

Yet another great reason to close the borders

[PerConPat]

Article: Americans must understand that Ebola is not just an African problem...

I'm sure some of those Americans who don't get it now (eg.the open borders crowd) will quite possibly start understanding it after the disease gets a toe hold here. /sarc

[Bikkuri]

Actually, the first use of it in this series, was in the book right before “Rainbow Six”; “Exectutive Orders” (1996).

[surroundedbyblue]

If you take that vaccine you’re nuts

[null and void]

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...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[Freedom56v2]

IMHO World Relief has infiltrated the Evangelical Church with their “restitution for immigrants” movement...They use a Faith-based facade—very altruistic, etc. to deflect criticism ...

Yet are they truly faith based when they receive 70% of their budget funding by US taxpayers...the majority of the rest from Leftist groups like Open Border Society and Ford Foundation...

I read a while back that they were having to shut down some refugee relocation offices due to Trump refugee reductions, so maybe this is another revenue stream for them?

Sadly, they have duped a number of well known denominations and their leaders. Evangelicals think they are doing God’s work, yet they are responsible for more liberal dems and leftists immigrating here to destroy our country as it was founded—on Judeo-Christian values...

[riri]

Ya really think that was a limited event? They care coming in every day. I am seeing Africans, straight outta, regularly now in Arizona. Entire clans.

[MD Expat in PA]

First off, it’s not very easily contracted. It spreads through bodily fluids and a bigger problem in Africa because hygiene isn’t very good, some never go to the hospital and die at home because they don’t trust doctors or the government, and family members can’t keep their hands off the deceased. It does not spread like the flu. The virus itself is actually pretty fragile outside the body.

Second, isn’t there a vaccine now?

There are pathogens that exist that would be much scarier than Ebola if they break out. An Ebola outbreak in the west would be contained pretty fast. But something like a Spanish Flu that broke out in the early 1900s would be spread all over the place today before we even know it.

In total, the CDC estimates that up to 42.9 million people got sick during the 2018-2019 flu season, 647,000 people were hospitalized and 61,200 died.

Ebola is a highly infectious disease but it is not highly contagious. By that I mean that you can’t contract Ebola by something like merely sitting next to a person who has it, or by touching something they have recently touched, especially if they aren’t yet showing symptoms and you do not come in direct contact with their bodily fluids - infected bodily fluids, the most infectious being blood, faeces and vomit, hence the risk of infection and precautions needed for health care workers treating Ebola patients. In that respect it is not unlike AIDS.

That’s not to say I’d want to sit next to an Ebola infected person on a long plane ride or anywhere for that matter, but the chances of contracting it are very low, unless they start bleeding on me or craping or throwing up on me.

On the other hand, influenza is quite contagious. People with influenza can spread it to others up to about 6 feet away and are most contagious in the first three to four days after their illness begins, but may be able to infect others beginning 1 day before symptoms develop and up to 5 to 7 days after becoming sick.

Measles is a highly contagious virus that lives in the nose and throat mucus of an infected person. It can spread to others through coughing and sneezing. Also, measles virus can live for up to two hours in an airspace where the infected person coughed or sneezed. It is so contagious that if one person has it, 9 out of 10 people of all ages around him or her will also become infected if they are not protected by acquired immunity from having had it previously or from the vaccine.

Just to put it in perspective, worldwide more than 140,000 people died from measles in 2018 and an estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications.

As others have mentioned in many places in Africa, where their burial and mourning practices dictate close personal contact with the dead, ritual bathing, etc., regardless of cause of death combined with a mistrust of modern medicine, make Ebola outbreaks endemic in those regions but not as likely to be on any great scale here.

[LadyDoc]

Yes ebola is a world wide concern, and a lot is being done to fight it, including vaccinations with new vaccines.

However, Ebola requires direct contact with body fluids.

So simple isolation, washing, and barriers would stop it from spreading.

The real danger will be a flu like bird flu, SARS, MERS, etc that spreads in the air. Or a new varient of smallpox or measles..

Or the spread of mosquito borne illnesses...Zika, dengue, or yellow fever, or even a resistant form of malaria.

The recent outbreak of a flu like illness in China worries me more, as does the basic failure of the public heath system in cleaning up feces and trash in US cities.