I have recently discovered that the Ebola virus may have come to the UK.
A man in Cardiff (where I live) may have been exposed to the BL4 disease in West Africa.
He is now being tested and results will come soon.
Please discuss for it is very shockng for me and most possibly others in my area.
Re: The Ebola Outbreak
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 8:29 am
by aero
Another man was shipped into Atlanta with the virus, may God have mercy on all of our souls. Kind of irritating the first patient was only in level 2 quarentine instead of level 4 which Ebola requires, and that more doctors have been sent to West Africa to fight the disease at its source.
Seriously though, that mashable article isn't really anything new since its mostly comprised of quotes from the CDC and WHO themselves. It's doubtful that anything big will happen with Ebola in first world countries because of the whole hygiene thing, but this virus still needs to be properly contained in a sealed vault located somewhere deeper than hell.
Re: The Ebola Outbreak
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:45 pm
by Warlock
So the virus has come to the USA.
WE'RE DOOOOOMED
Re: The Ebola Outbreak
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2014 10:38 pm
by TheTurnipLord
Valtries the Fox wrote:So the virus has come to the USA.
Well, this can't be good. Just hope it doesn't come all the way to Richmond.
Re: The Ebola Outbreak
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2014 11:23 pm
by Navi
I think it came in Asia.
Re: The Ebola Outbreak
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 9:04 am
by Warlock
The World Health Organisation has called it an International Health Emergency.
With less than 1,000 people dead. Although people believe that the virus won't come here.
Re: The Ebola Outbreak
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 12:56 pm
by aero
Just gonna leave this here.
Re: The Ebola Outbreak
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 1:04 pm
by Warlock
Ebola IS Airborne? Oh god, we're gonna die...
Re: The Ebola Outbreak
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 1:18 pm
by Axiom
so i didn't have a reason to go outside before and i still don't
that's pretty much the jist of this
Re: The Ebola Outbreak
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 2:59 pm
by MistakesWereMade
GhostHawk wrote:
Just gonna leave this here.
Someone on the comments wrote:First of all, your definition of airborne is completely wrong. Secondly, the study couldn't actually prove that the virus was in fact airborne. "Airborne" means that the virus can travel on its own with the air currents without dying of exposure. This was of course not the case in this study. Since the virus was contained in water droplets it exists in fluid just like it would in blood and saliva. What the study showed was that Ebola can be transferred through water, which is something we already knew, and the study also proved that you can get infected with Ebola if you spend enough time in close proximity to an infected host while not wearing a breathing mask. You could still potentially be safe a few hundred feet away from an infected host depending on the environmental conditions such as airflow and air filtration, assuming it's inside for example a hospital.
Your argument here proved absolutely nothing. If anything you've just proven yourself wrong because your entire argument is based around your own ignorance surrounding the definition of the word "airborne" and is further fueled by your own paranoia. The media hasn't lied. They've said exactly the same thing as you did in this video; the virus travels through fluids, not air. Fluids in the air that contains a virus does not make said virus airborne. It makes the fluid itself airborne. Claiming that it does would be like claiming that cows can fly because you strapped one to a hot air balloon.
Re: The Ebola Outbreak
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 9:01 am
by BMatSantos
Geez, an european already died due to the ebola.
SnifitGuy wrote:I know this might sound racist (it's intention is not), but how do people live in West Africa if the disease's source is their?
Africans don't have conditions to go to another continent.
Some of foreigns are done with the inequality in Africa and are trying to change this situation.
Others are doctors hired to take care of Africans' diseases, including ebola.
Re: The Ebola Outbreak
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:39 am
by BMatSantos
SnifitGuy wrote:
Maybe not another continent, but maybe in eastern africa, maybe?
As far as I've seen in his photos, They don't even have a decent house.
Re: The Ebola Outbreak
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 4:47 am
by Navi
Valtries the Fox wrote:Ebola IS Airborne? Oh god, we're gonna die...
No. It's only in direct contact as I have heard in the news.
Re: The Ebola Outbreak
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 9:51 am
by Bomber57
Alex48 wrote:
Valtries the Fox wrote:Ebola IS Airborne? Oh god, we're gonna die...
No. It's only in direct contact as I have heard in the news.
Direct contact as well as fluid (so infected mucus, saliva, etc.)
Re: The Ebola Outbreak
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 10:43 pm
by Bomber57
SnifitGuy wrote:
So they shouldn't let diseased people drink water from the streams?
If someone has Ebola they would be in quarantine. The only thing they would drink is water if they could force it down, perhaps an IV Drip.
Re: The Ebola Outbreak
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 9:08 pm
by aero
Bumpity bumpity bump. Add Germany to the list of countries with infected people. Good work on WHO's part amirite?