Great article.
Good article.
He should have killed it then and there, but I guess he allowed it to live!
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Several things he said are worrisome:
“We Flemish tend to be rather unemotional, but it was at that point that I began to get really worried.”
“I really never thought that it could get this bad.”
“Even in 2014, we hardly have any way to combat this virus.”
“And it is clear that the virus is mutating.”
“... they died in their shacks and we couldn’t do anything except let them die. In principle, it’s still the same today. That is very depressing.”
In 1976 I discovered hang gliding, went on to graduate with a degree in electrical engineering, moved to San Diego and spent the next ten years as a mountain pilot.
It says the idiots in Africa transport dead O’Bola victims in taxis, in order to return them to their hometowns for burial !
Good grief, they’re as stupid as the CDC.
“A three-day curfew sounds a bit desperate.
“Yes, it is rather medieval. But what can you do? Even in 2014, we hardly have any way to combat this virus.”
Comments on this article in The Mail sound just like our comments….why can’t we keep infected people OUT OF OUR COUNTRY. Apparently we cannot.
In before the We are all screwed.
But seriously, folks...
He needs his fifteen minutes to cash in because it will not be as fearsome as he expects. Everything about ebola is hype, meant to get people to tune in to the TV news, so they can get the latest Democrat propaganda, just in time for the November elections. You watch, oil will go back up, unemployment will go back up, and they will stop bombing ISIS, unless they need it to distract from Executive Order Amnesty.
“In 1976 I discovered Ebola” - Al Gore ?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
The scientist seems to be most worried about people living in third world countries. We had a guy with TB in town awhile back that wouldn’t stay in quarantine. They caught the guy and confined him until the incubation period was over. Let say another patient zero get into cash strapped Detroit for example. Would there be enough resources to contain it if people didn’t want to be found?
In 1976 I. ........ was born!
On the one hand, it was because their African regional office isn't staffed with the most capable people but with political appointees
Sounds familiar.
MINIMIZE MOBILITY FOR ALL CIVILIANS. PERIOD!
And yes, I am yelling.
… also contributed to the catastrophe. Because the people there are extremely mobile, it was much more difficult than usual to track down those who had had contact with the infected people. Because the dead in this region are traditionally buried in the towns and villages they were born in, there were highly contagious Ebola corpses traveling back and forth across the borders in pickups and taxis. The result was that the epidemic kept flaring up in different places.
BAN CIVILIAN TRAVEL.
We urgently need to come up with new strategies. Currently, helpers are no longer able to care for all the patients in treatment centres. So caregivers need to teach family members who are providing care to patients how to protect themselves from infection to the extent possible. This on-site educational work is currently the greatest challenge. Sierra Leone experimented with a three-day curfew in an attempt to at least flatten out the infection curve a bit. At first I thought: “That is totally crazy.” But now I wonder, “why not?” At least, as long as these measures aren't imposed with military power.
A three-day curfew sounds a bit desperate.
Yes, it is rather medieval. But what can you do? Even in 2014, we hardly have any way to combat this virus.
BAN CIVILIAN TRAVEL TO AND FROM THE HOT ZONE. THEN QUARENTINE, QUARATINE AND QUARNETINE SOME MORE.
There will certainly be Ebola patients from Africa who come to us in the hopes of receiving treatment. And they might even infect a few people here who may then die. But an outbreak in Europe or North America would quickly be brought under control. I am more worried about the many people from India who work in trade or industry in west Africa. It would only take one of them to become infected, travel to India to visit relatives during the virus's incubation period, and then, once he becomes sick, go to a public hospital there. Doctors and nurses in India, too, often don't wear protective gloves. They would immediately become infected and spread the virus.
BAN ALL CIVILIAN TRAVEL TO AND FROM THE HOT ZONE.
In the end, you discovered that the Belgian nuns had unwittingly spread the virus. How did that happen?And thisIn their hospital they regularly gave pregnant women vitamin injections using unsterilised needles. By doing so, they infected many young women in Yambuku with the virus. We told the nuns about the terrible mistake they had made, but looking back I would say that we were much too careful in our choice of words. Clinics that failed to observe this and other rules of hygiene functioned as catalysts in all additional Ebola outbreaks. They drastically sped up the spread of the virus or made the spread possible in the first place. Even in the current Ebola outbreak in west Africa, hospitals unfortunately played this ignominious role in the beginning.
But an outbreak in Europe or North America would quickly be brought under control.
Here I thought this would be Al Gore taking credit.