If One Of Our 3000 Soldiers Contracts Ebola, And He Dies, Or If As A Result......

[TheOldSchool]

It's impressive how some posters can type so well from the fetal position

 

[bodecea]

It's impressive how some posters can type so well from the fetal position

Or from under their beds.

 

[hoosier88]

The question is why do we permit people from these countries to enter the United States?
Seems the saying "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" So let's start with that ounce of Prevention, and close our borders to
Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.

Much too late. Ebola has been in the US since @ least 1989. Read In the Hot Zone. USARMIID & CDC have samples & cultures in hand, working on vaccines & cures. & as we've seen, there are several experimental vaccines in trial, in varying stages of development, in the US & in Canada, that we know of. Human trials are underway, & are working on ramping up production of the experimental drugs, just in case they are effective against Ebola.

CDC & USARMIDD
Very big difference when the virus is in the controlled environment of the CDC & USARMIDD as opposed to 200,000 visa holders and possible carriers roaming free in our country.

(My bold)

Read In the Hot Zone - the Ebola variant was loose in a chimp holding warehouse, within 15 miles of WADC. The variant killed all chimps, & antibodies were detected in the human staff. USARMIID invented - on the spot - the methodology still in use - isolation suits, breathers, filters, double-gloving, lots of bleach, zones of containment - they went into the site, took tissue samples & secured them for transport, killed all the surviving animals, secured them for transport, took the samples in for analysis. They cleared the building, secured all the biohazards, & effectively scrubbed/killed all the bioagents in the building - no mean feat in itself.

If African nations - Congo, Kenya, Sudan, etc. - have been able to contain Ebola before, then the Western countries & the US should be able to do the same - likely with better efficiencies. The current difficulties in West Africa are because those countries hadn't had any experience with Ebola before, & they were all struggling with poor public health agencies, supply problems, poor doctor/population ratios - nearly everything that could go wrong, has gone wrong there. Plus after civil wars, general unrest, corruption, etc. - it's mostly NGOs that have been fighting off Ebola, not the local health agencies.

 

[Silhouette]

The 90% fatality rate is much too high. The figure I've seen here & there is 40% - @ 90%, given the speed of progression of the disease, we'd never have heard of the disease.

Yah, the animal reservoir of Ebola may be monkeys, possibly birds or bats. We need to pin that down, but we need to stop the current outbreak first. There's a lot to study, unfortunately, & we haven't put all our (the West nor the US) resources into the arena because Ebola seemed to be limited to Africa, & some of the most isolated parts of Africa @ that. Now that the disease seems to be breaking out of isolation, we're seeing more & more attention - medical, health, governmental - as well as the health/medical NGOs that have been in the front lines fighting the disease all this time - being paid to it.

We can hope that the focusing of resources will generate a better understanding & vaccines or cures for the disease. We'll just have to wait & see.

Antelope in Africa have come down with it too. It seems to be a very zoonotic disease. And if bats are carriers through their feces [as they suspect is that vector], rats are closely related to bats. We have "an acceptable FDA level of rat feces" in our food supply at any given time.

This could get ugly folks.