(and this map is 11 years old)
Posted on 09/11/2014 11:23:51 PM PDT by DouglasKC
THE Ebola epidemic in West Africa has the potential to alter history as much as any plague has ever done.
There have been more than 4,300 cases and 2,300 deaths over the past six months. Last week, the World Health Organization warned that, by early October, there may be thousands of new cases per week in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria. What is not getting said publicly, despite briefings and discussions in the inner circles of the world’s public health agencies, is that we are in totally uncharted waters and that Mother Nature is the only force in charge of the crisis at this time.
There are two possible future chapters to this story that should keep us up at night.
The first possibility is that the Ebola virus spreads from West Africa to megacities in other regions of the developing world. This outbreak is very different from the 19 that have occurred in Africa over the past 40 years. It is much easier to control Ebola infections in isolated villages. But there has been a 300 percent increase in Africa’s population over the last four decades, much of it in large city slums. What happens when an infected person yet to become ill travels by plane to Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa or Mogadishu — or even Karachi, Jakarta, Mexico City or Dhaka?
The second possibility is one that virologists are loath to discuss openly but are definitely considering in private: that an Ebola virus could mutate to become transmissible through the air. You can now get Ebola only through direct contact with bodily fluids. But viruses like Ebola are notoriously sloppy in replicating, meaning the virus entering one person may be genetically different from the virus entering the next. The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
...”If Ebola was coming to the United States to vote Republican, the government would find a cure.”...
Probably so..However, incurable and deadly diseases have changed the course of history in the past simply through infecting the left and the right equally. I suppose the well connected will get the best care when they fall ill, but that will not insure survival. The powers that be need to forget political correctness and get to work on this in every way they can.
The solution is quarantine, and quarantine amounts to a military solution.
You have a point there.
I didnt know about the dogs
Dogs are hunted down and killed in Arabia so maybe no big deal there
Everything you say about the taxi system and all public places (and the filthy money money that changes hands multiple times in a day - our own US dollars are contaminated with e coli)
I’m going to bet the “executive assistants” and other govt mucka muckas have cooks and housecleaners who don’t
have a flush potties at their homes or in their villages where they go every week to visit family and take stuff
and for the men, the prostitute business is as casual there as us going for a haircut- esp for the truckers who haul everything across the continent
given the lifestyle over there I truly do not see how it will be contained unless Black Death measures are adopted (total seal off until everyone dies or says alive because of immunity)
and Obama is pompously sending US troops over there to .... do this job? Quarantine Africans to their deaths?
True about the household help. Although many mansions over there have special quarters for the household help and their immediate families. Our apartment building had a special mini apartment over the garage for each apartment’s ‘butler’ to live in with his family. They too had flush potties and running water and electricity though. And this was 40+ years ago.
Prostitution is ‘casual’ in most of the world. Including most of the US, if you pay off the right people.
All good sounding precautions.
HOWEVER, I might remind you that when you FART, you expel FINE PARTICLES OF FECES into the air around you. If this were not true, then you could not SMELL A FART.
BUT YOU CAN, and every time you smell someone else's FART, you have inhaled particles of FECES.
OR perspiration, or flatulence.
AND, isn't that what it is doing right now ? According to the article it is mutating at an unprecedented rate.
(and this map is 11 years old)
Note how many of those cities have public transportation systems. And hospital systems that would very easily become overloaded if just 3 or 4 people per day, for a couple of weeks, turned up in the ER with ebola.
Old expression: “somebody left the door open and in-flew-enza!”
well thanks for sharing. lol
Ditto puke. If you can smell the puke of someone who has ebola, technically you’ve potentially inhaled ebola virons.
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The CDC and the WHO for that matter are waling a fine line with a lot of very irresponsible politicians.
They under no circumstances can tell them an unpalatable truth that will get them cut off from access to power because of the stakes.
An inadequate half a loaf policy that saves a few now and might let reality teach the politicos is better than being cut off by telling a truth that will result in hard reality denial until well after it is too late, with a blame the messenger
I guess it is safe to assume same would apply to body odor? bad breath?
Yup.
If you technically shouldn’t eat or drink it, you shouldn’t breathe it either. Unless you plan on never swallowing again.
That’s it. I’m committing suicide, rather than risk getting Ebola.
If we did just kill ourselves now, that might go a long way towards slowly the spread.
And this virus was truly airborne. It moved easily from room to room throughout the monkey house through the ventilation system.
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