Ebola has killed 14 - what defense do we have?

[whitehall]

What defense do we have? Maybe we could prevent Ugandans from entering the US. You can count on the liberal media to create a fake crisis close to the election and offer the opinion that only big government intervention can solve it.

 

[Samson]

What defense do we have? Maybe we could prevent Ugandans from entering the US. You can count on the liberal media to create a fake crisis close to the election and offer the opinion that only big government intervention can solve it.

I doubt anyone will mistake an Ebola Pandemic with a "Fake Crisis."

 

[PredFan]

The defense we have is that we can identify cases quickly and isolate the area. Catching it after 14 cases in a country as remote and poor as Uganda is pretty damn good.

Ebola Out Breaks are easy to Contain, because it has a Short Incubation Period, and Very Quickly Incapacitates, then usually kills the Victim. Add to that the Fact that it can only Survive for a very Short time out side a host Body, and only in extremely Tropical Conditions, Can't tolerate Sun light, Etc and the Bug basically Contains it self.

And there's that too.

 

[hjmick]

For a very good read about the origins and incidents involving viral hemorrhagic fevers, particularly ebola viruses and marburg viruses, may I recommend The Hot Zone by Richard Preston? It'll scare the shit out of you...

 

[Samson]

The defense we have is that we can identify cases quickly and isolate the area. Catching it after 14 cases in a country as remote and poor as Uganda is pretty damn good.

Ebola Out Breaks are easy to Contain, because it has a Short Incubation Period, and Very Quickly Incapacitates, then usually kills the Victim. Add to that the Fact that it can only Survive for a very Short time out side a host Body, and only in extremely Tropical Conditions, Can't tolerate Sun light, Etc and the Bug basically Contains it self.

...until it mutates......

 

[Borillar]

ObamaCare will fix it! You'll see!

Yes, well since there is no known cure, the "let him die" crowd would likely get their wish. Oh well, at least in America you can go and get an AR15 and a 100 round drum magazine to fend off the infected hordes. Of course you'll have to watch out for the blood spatter as Ebola is a blood borne pathogen.

 

[tjvh]

There is only one solution. Take off and nuke Africa from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Worked well enough on the Aliens... The illegal ones, with acid for blood.

 

[ski8799]

CDC has several contingency plans of varying levels should any strain arrive in N. America. We are actually better prepared than most other nations.

 

[waltky]

Granny says its one o' dem endtime plagues inna Bible inna Revelation - we all gonna die...

Anti-Ebola measures take toll on everyday life in Uganda
Thu Aug 2, 2012 - Residents in western Uganda said on Thursday they were too scared to go shopping in local markets, visit churches or mosques or travel freely for fear of catching the Ebola virus which has already killed 16 people.

Thirty people are in an isolation ward at a hospital in Kibaale district, where the outbreak started, after 12 new cases were admitted. A total of 232 people suspected to have had contact with Ebola victims were also being monitored. Health officials are hopeful there will be no repeat of the severity of the Ebola outbreak in Uganda in 2000, when 425 people were infected by the virus, more than half of whom died. There was no new deaths on Thursday, health workers said, but residents were finding it hard to cope with the preventive measures.

President Yoweri Museveni has advised people to avoid shaking hands, casual sex and do-it-yourself burials to reduce the chance of contracting the deadly haemorrhagic fever. There is no treatment for Ebola, which is transmitted by close contact and body fluids such as saliva, vomit, faeces, sweat, semen and blood. However, doctors can treat opportunistic diseases and symptoms affecting patients including diarrhoea, vomiting and malaria, and some patients can survive. "Fears of catching Ebola have twisted people's lives," Tumusiime Jamilo, a reporter at a local radio station told Reuters. "They can't go to the markets to buy things, (others can't) sell their products and that's hitting their pockets." Tumusiime said people couldn't also freely travel wherever they wanted or go to churches and mosques because of worries they might be infected.

Ugandan authorities said last week they had confirmed the outbreak of Ebola in Kibaale, 170 km (100 miles) west of the capital Kampala, and near the Democratic Republic of Congo where the virus first emerged in 1976, taking its name from the Ebola River. But they have not yet identified the source of the outbreak, although Kibaale Forest has a high concentration of monkeys and birds, which act as transmitters of the virus. Stephen Mfashingabo, a health official in Kibaale, told Reuters the local Ebola taskforce had been struggling to cope with insufficient facilities since the disease struck, although funds and medicines had been delivered on Thursday. "There was no money from the Health Ministry to fund activities since this outbreak was confirmed and there was also no food," he said.

In neighbouring Kenya, a second suspected case of Ebola was reported in Eldoret, a large town in the Rift Valley, where a man has been placed in isolation. Public Health and Sanitation Minister, Beth Mugo, however told parliament that tests carried out on the first suspected Ebola case have not been completed, though she said the victim reported bleeding from gums, urine and stool after eating meat from a goat that had been rescued from a python. She said Kenya has never had a confirmed case of Ebola.

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Ebola outbreak suspected among Uganda prisoners
August 2, 2012 -- The hospital at the center of the outbreak now has 30 suspected cases, a doctor says; Concerns over infection ripple across Uganda; "We do expect the number of suspected cases to increase," the doctor says

The hospital at the center of an Ebola outbreak in Uganda is now dealing with 30 suspected cases, including five from Kibaale prison, Dr. Dan Kyamanywa said Thursday. Three patients at Kagadi hospital have been confirmed as having the virus, said Kyamanywa, a district health officer. Doctors are now testing the suspected cases urgently so they can separate confirmed cases from those who do not have the disease, Doctors Without Borders said. Suspected cases are still trickling into the hospital, Kyamanywa said. At least 16 people have died in the current outbreak.

The five prisoners have been showing Ebola-like symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea and fever, the doctor said. "We do expect the number of suspected cases to increase," he said. "It's important to break transmission and reduce the number of contacts that suspected cases have." There is a fear that the outbreak will spread to the capital, but it is unlikely, he said. Many patients fled Kagadi hospital when Ebola was confirmed, he said, and the hospital is struggling to respond to all the call-outs to suspected cases. "Right now there is no treatment for Ebola, so the most effective measure we can take is to contain the spread of the disease," said Olimpia de la Rosa, the Doctors Without Borders emergency coordinator for Uganda Ebola intervention. "That is why we need to start working immediately. Other cases need to be rapidly identified because containment is what can stop it," said the expert from the aid group, which is also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres.

The Ugandan government has asked people in western Uganda to travel by public transport only if it is necessary. The outbreak began in the Kibaale district in western Uganda. The deaths have stoked heightened fear about the spread of the virus, a highly infectious, often fatal agent spread through direct contact with bodily fluids. Symptoms can include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, headache, a measles-like rash, red eyes and, at times, bleeding from body openings. Market day was canceled Wednesday after Uganda's president warned people not to gather in large groups. Health officials urged the public to report any suspected cases, to avoid contact with anyone infected and to wear gloves and masks while disinfecting bedding and clothing of infected people. Officials also advised avoiding public gatherings in the affected district.

Teams in Uganda are taking an aggressive approach, including trying to track down anyone who came into contact with patients infected with the virus and health workers have been gearing up for better protection of health workers and an influx of cases. The workers include people from Uganda's ministry of health, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization.

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[Colin]

EBOLA HAS KILLED 14 - WHAT DEFENSE DO WE HAVE?

Stick to the Clean Zone. You'll get nothing nasty in there.

 

[old navy]

For a very good read about the origins and incidents involving viral hemorrhagic fevers, particularly ebola viruses and marburg viruses, may I recommend The Hot Zone by Richard Preston? It'll scare the shit out of you...

I read it while deployed to Africa in 1996. Now I read parts of it to my students when we are studying infection control. Good stuff.

 

[old navy]

ObamaCare will fix it! You'll see!

Yes, well since there is no known cure, the "let him die" crowd would likely get their wish. Oh well, at least in America you can go and get an AR15 and a 100 round drum magazine to fend off the infected hordes. Of course you'll have to watch out for the blood spatter as Ebola is a blood borne pathogen.

I recommend skipping the drum magazine that the dumb ass Holmes used and jammed. A better strategy is several loaded high quality 30 round mags accompanied by practice.

 

[editec]

Well, one thing for sure.

If a tragic worldwide pandemic happens, the price of labor will rise.

The Black Plague's fatality rate of between 25-50% is credited with destroying Europe's economy thus making the way for capitalism.

Maybe we'll get lucky, again.

 

[Douger]

In 2011, fewest lightning deaths than any year on record

 

[52ndStreet]

There is no cure for Ebola. There is nothing we can do but enact government quarantine methods.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

EBOLA HAS KILLED 14 - WHAT DEFENSE DO WE HAVE?
Deadly Ebola virus kills 14 in Uganda - CNN.com

By David Ariosto , CNN
July 28, 2012

"(CNN) -- The lethal Ebola virus has left at least 14 people dead in western Uganda this month, according to Health Ministry officials, after local reports of a "strange disease" swept through the region.

A total of 20 cases of the virus have been recorded, officials said Saturday.


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If Ebola should strike here,
what plan do we have to stop its spread?

Obamacare.

 

[Borillar]

EBOLA HAS KILLED 14 - WHAT DEFENSE DO WE HAVE?
Deadly Ebola virus kills 14 in Uganda - CNN.com

By David Ariosto , CNN
July 28, 2012

"(CNN) -- The lethal Ebola virus has left at least 14 people dead in western Uganda this month, according to Health Ministry officials, after local reports of a "strange disease" swept through the region.

A total of 20 cases of the virus have been recorded, officials said Saturday.


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If Ebola should strike here,
what plan do we have to stop its spread?

Obamacare.

No, the GOP approved plan is "Don't get sick. But if you do, die quickly."

 

[Papageorgio]

Fifty five people have viewed the above post
but no one has as much as suggested
the US has a viable plan
to counter Ebola,
should it strike here.

We are a ship without a rudder,
clappers without bells,
and men without balls.

What is your plan?

 

[waltky]

Ebola spreads to Congo...

Ebola outbreak kills one, infects three in DR Congo
Fri Aug 17, 2012 - An outbreak of Ebola has killed one person and is believed to have infected three others over the last week in northeastern Congo, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday.

The outbreak is in Isiro, a busy town in Democratic Republic of Congo's Oriental province, which shares a border with Uganda, but the strain of the deadly disease is different to the one that killed 16 there last month, MSF said. Ebola is transmitted to humans from monkeys and birds and causes massive bleeding in victims, with mortality rates as high as 90 percent.

Anja de Weggheleire, the medical coordinator for MSF in the area, said blood samples from one victim had confirmed Ebola in Isiro and there were at least three other suspected cases being treated in an MSF-supported local hospital. "We cannot speak of a direct link between the two epidemics, I think unfortunately it's just pure coincidence," de Weggheleire told Reuters.

MSF was helping track and isolate people who may have come in contact with the disease, she added. Authorities in Uganda said this week that the outbreak there was under control after they imposed strict measures to prevent Ebola from spreading in the west of the country.

However, Congo's health system is permanently stretched and MSF warned that preventing the spread of the disease from the town, a provincial transit point, could be a challenge. "(The situation) is quite serious already ... Isiro is quite a busy place, quite well connected, that could make it quite complex to contain (the fever)," de Weggheleire added.

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[HUGGY]

EBOLA HAS KILLED 14 - WHAT DEFENSE DO WE HAVE?
Deadly Ebola virus kills 14 in Uganda - CNN.com

By David Ariosto , CNN
July 28, 2012

"(CNN) -- The lethal Ebola virus has left at least 14 people dead in western Uganda this month, according to Health Ministry officials, after local reports of a "strange disease" swept through the region.

A total of 20 cases of the virus have been recorded, officials said Saturday.


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If Ebola should strike here,
what plan do we have to stop its spread?

Ebola has killed 14 - what defense do we have?

Stay out of Uganda? We don't get a lot of Ebola up here on North Aurora. Lead poisoning is going around though.