Ebola has killed 14 - what defense do we have?

[old navy]

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.

Uganda darlings of Little League World Series *:*Rutland Herald Online

And hope that Uganda does not come here. As of yesterday afternoon, the Ugandan Little League team was in Williamsport playing in the LL World Series. They are terrible and lost two games right away but were still here for about a week. We are all about 12-24 hours from being affected by an outbreak 10,000 miles away.

 

[Douger]

Just start a "war' on Ebola , throw tens of billions at it, and enjoy the schweet success.

 

[freedombecki]

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.

Shock, this is the first time I have seen your thread.

Life has absolute fix-it choices. People just don't make them.

In order to get ebola out of the picture, you'd have to remove the source. That would require extinguishing the live Rhesus monkeys and people who screw around with animals, which also may be an unknown ritual of a tribe which would mean genocide and digging up and burning all remains and burning them. Errors would be made. You could also quarantine people arriving over here who have ever been on the African continent for the incubation period of the disease onset.

That would mean no reporting would be done of the problem, and it would spread like wildfire if people are uninformed.

You could also examine ancient methods of dealing with illness.

Some societies became self-contained over the years when illness showed up in their population and eliminated sex outside their groups. If they maintain this attitude, some societies will decide to kill them, because they prosper as a people anywhere they go, free of sexually transmitted diseases. After a few hundred years, the people who feel separated from them get angry, band together, and send them to reeducation camps for extinguishing.

I don't know the immediate answer to what you want to hear. This world is made up of error that goes unchecked for unrealized reasons, except in a few circles that develop an intellectual solution and go about it discreetly, the population none the wiser.

 

[Samson]

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.

I thought the plan was Hope and Change.

Of course, that doesn't seem to have worked.

 

[Pho_King]

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?

Keep Africans in Africa. That will help immensely.

 

[waltky]

Uncle Ferd says all it takes is a plane ride an' its here...

Ebola outbreak spreads in eastern Congo, kills 15
9 Sept.`12 — Local authorities in eastern Congo say that the population lack of information on Ebola and the traditional practice of washing corpses before funerals are helping the epidemic to spread.

Fifteen people have died in the current outbreak, which started in mid-August. It started in the village of Isiro and has now spread to Viadana. Medical experts say increased education is needed to encourage people to use extreme caution when washing the bodies of Ebola victims before burial. The disease is spread by contamination from body fluids, including sweat.

Although this is the ninth Ebola epidemic in Congo, it is the first one in the Haut-Uélé territory, in northeastern Congo. Ebola has no cure and is deadly in 40 percent to 90 percent of cases. The disease causes severe internal bleeding.

Source

 

[waltky]

Refugee camps breeding ground for killer diseases...

Refugee Camps Spread Life-Threatening Diseases
September 18, 2012 - Myriad diseases can quickly become deadly epidemics in crowded camps, where poor sanitary conditions are common, and food, clean drinking water are scarce

Hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing violence in the Middle East and Africa are living in sub-standard conditions. This according to United Nations relief agencies, who report that serious food and water problems are turning many of these camps into breeding grounds for a range of life-threatening diseases. Health officials say outbreaks of cholera, malaria, and acute jaundice - coupled with widespread malnutrition - are threatening the lives of many who thought they would be safe when they fled to the camps.

At a crowded camp in South Sudan, where thousands have come to escape the region's military conflict, officials report that an outbreak of Hepatitis E - a viral infection transmitted by contaminated food and water - is posing a grave challenge to camp residents. Adrian Edwards, spokesman for the United Nations' Refugee Agency [UNHCR], talks about the proliferation of various diseases. "Hepatitis E hits young people between the ages of 15 and 40 hardest. In the three camps where we see refugees with acute jaundice syndrome, more than half are between 20 and 39,” said Edwards.

Prevention is crucial

Many camps in African countries, such as South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Libya, Nigeria, and others, have reported severe cholera outbreaks. In the case of cholera or jaundice, officials say containment is very difficult. They believe the best approach to deal with these infections is to prevent them. Dr. Peter Hotez, an infectious disease expert, said cholera often threatens people living in extreme conditions - whether those conditions result from political or natural disasters.

“The vibrio cholerae bacillus produces a toxin which is unlike lot of other bacteria, and this toxin has the ability to poison cells in such a way that you can no longer absorb water from your gastrointestinal tract and so you can start secreting massive volumes of water and so you can become just a shriveled, desiccated individual in just a few hours after the infection,” he said. Hotez said cholera can be prevented with proper hygiene and sanitation. But once there is an onset of diarrheal symptoms, he said, oral rehydration is key to saving lives.

Focusing on children