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To: Smokin' Joe
The best hope lies in a new $489 million plan proposed by the World Health Organization...

Well - No.

The best hope is to shut down air travel from the afflicted regions and let the epidemic burn out.

Unless the disease changes, we are on track for 2-3 million deaths in the next twelve months. Most of these deaths will be in Africa. It is too late for medical intervention to stop this.

4 posted on 08/30/2014 8:18:26 AM PDT by flamberge (What next?)
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To: flamberge
Medical intervention will likely not stop it in Africa, at least in the areas already known to be affected.

What is needed now is a way to limit movement and interpersonal contact to reduce the geographic spread of the infection.

So far, reliance on tests that simply may not work to determine if people with Ebola-like symptoms have crossed international boundaries far beyond Africa may prove troublesome.

I recall instances where people were suspected of presenting symptoms in Ireland, England, Germany, Albania, and Italy, and there may be more non-African nations, but all tested negative. If early enough on in the mutation series, those tests may be valid (let's hope and pray they are). If not, and the people had a mutated variant, there is the possibility that they, those they came into contact with, and those those persons came into contact with are in grave danger, (and the chain continues).

Underestimating the disease is the greatest danger, any error should be on the side of caution.

20 posted on 08/30/2014 9:09:25 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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