Posted on 10/15/2014 9:56:34 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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WICHITA FALLS, Texas - This strain of Ebola virus is different, a local infectious disease doctor said Tuesday.
Dr. Bob McBroom said most Ebola outbreaks in the past have numbered 500 patients or less. This one, mostly in West Africa, has resulted in close to 10,000 cases worldwide, including the first transmission case in the United States.
“I think it may be an increase in population, or it may be a change in the virulence of the virus,” he said. “It’s hard to say. But certainly with what’s going on now in Africa is a lot different from what type of experience health care workers have experienced in the past there.”(continued)
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May be a different strain, but the results are the same.......................
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I think the main difference is this strain appears to be easier to transmit to others than past strains.
Dead is dead, no matter how you get there.
Which would explain the present situation. Unless they have been lying to us all along about it not being ‘airborne’.....................
Black Friday will have a whole new meaning from now on............................
Results are highly dependent on a guy showing up early at the hospital, getting an IV solution, some liquid foods, and fever-control. I think marginal health care in Africa relates to the 90-percent death rate and US rates would end up around 10-percent after a couple of months. Of course, those with other illness factors (over sixty, diabetes, and TB)....would be a different case).
If you like your Ebola strain, you can keep your Ebola strain.
One of the interesting (as in scary) things about this outbreak is that there are outbreaks of Zaire, and a new strain happening at the same time.
One of the things that is causing this is the encroachment of civilization into the areas that were not developed. The absolute remoteness of the areas were what kept the viruses localized. Now that you have people drilling for oil, digging minerals, and developing these areas there are more people than ever in those areas.
I am not going all, “Don’t kill the rain forest”. I think the development is good for Africa. It would be nice if they could use the monies being made from the development to better their lives, that would be great. It would be good for everyone in the world.
But, we are stumbling around in the primordial forests and kicking over trees and picking up viruses that have been there for millions of years. We haven’t been exposed enough as a species to get immunity, and it shows.
I think we should burn the rain forests down. Clearly they represent a danger to humanity :P
We need to quit calling it the Ebola epidemic or the HN whatever the hell it is killing kids all over America, and start calling with EVERY thread, political speech and news article “The Democrats Biological Warfare on America”. Please help.
Which means that its probably more contagious and just as deadly.
But hey let’s keep gambling with it and letting all those Ebola country originated flights come in here.
What could happen?
The difference is that it’s not as deadly. It’s not killing off the host as fast as it has in the past, allowing it to spread farther before the host dies off.
Bingo.
The outbreaks until now have been in villages. Ebola is deadly, too deadly for its own survival. Once it runs through the village, all its hosts are dead, and the outbreak self contains.
Not now that it’s made it to the bigger cities in the area, and onto airplanes!
There’s a saying that generals tend to fight the last war. I think the bloated government bureaucracies are fighting the old Ebola outbreaks instead of being more cautious about this one, even though it clearly is behaving differently than past ones even at a superficial viewing.
The Obama Administration has ignored how much, freedom to travel leads to dramatically faster speed of transmission of EBOLA ... and that has not been taken into account by the CDC "experts." The CDC is still functioning as a morgue reporter, observing and recommending *AFTER* the facts - which only works for a disease that will "peter out" on its own.
The matter of stopping flights, is grossly over-simplified by the CDC. There are several options better than what the Obama Administration has implemented.
1) pigeon hole the VISA's2) establish a clinic in Africa, near an airport, where all outbound - to - the - USA fliers must enter and be processed
3) establish a set route using charter flights only between Africa (that clinic -and- airport) and the USA --- ie, if you want to fly to the USA, and you are from Africa and/or your VISA and/or passport place you as "from Africa" ... you have to adhere to (1), (2), and this, (3) ... or you cannot board the flight to the USA.
And, in general, there is a gross failure to make clear, the importance of personal hygiene, and that henceforth, you must not casually touch your head, anywhere without first washing your hands.
What we need, as much as a cure, is A RELIABLE QUICK-TEST FOR EBOLA.
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What’s interesting is that some of our first exports from these same forests were the soil molds used to synthesize the first generation of modern antibiotics such as vancomycin and erythromycin.
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