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Patient Zero has arrived in the US; Dallas to be exact. What are your thoughts on this epidemic that is up to 6000 cases and continues to expand?
| Ebola will be stamped out by the end of the year. | 33 | |
| This epidemic will last 2 years max. | 20 | |
| Ebola will slowly spread to all countries of the world. | 12 | |
| Ebola (the Red Death) will overwhelm the global health care system. | 13 | |
| Other | 12 |
The guy is from Monrovia, Liberia which is the epicentre of the ebola outbreak. He was allowed to board a flight to Dallas since he was asymptomatic at the time of testing for fever, and the chances of contracting ebola from an asymptomatic person are extremely low unless you happen to ingest their blood (bad luck vampires).
There is no reason to lose your minds over this. In the US, there are means to contain ebola, unlike in Africa, so things aren't going to get out of hand. Ebola is not easy to spread. The only time you need to be vigilant is around people who are showing symptoms and the steps you can take to prevent any chance of infection are fairly basic...
Wash your hands regularly.
Avoid contact with the bodily fluids of other people, especially those showing symptoms.
Do not handle items that may have come in contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person.
Do not touch bats or primates, or eat meat prepared from these animals.
Seek medical care immediately if you have a fever.
Limit the people you are in contact with if you are showing symptoms, and travel directly to a medical facility.
I don't think it will be too much longer before IS and other radical muslim groups realize that they have been handed a real gift. Quite simply, all they have to do is unstrap the bombs from the suicide bomber's chests, buy them air tickets to West Africa and have them infect themselves, by the hundreds, with Ebola. Then they could disseminate them throughout the world. Instant uncontrollable world wide catastrophe! Cheap and easy.
Even a mere 100 of these "Ebola bombers" could spread this disease far beyond any health care control, if that was their intent.
Also note that terrorist groups are trying to culture the virus "in vitro". If they are successful, global disaster will befall all of humanity.
That's exactly the point. All these fanatics think they'll end up in some fucking paradise with 70 virgins; that's why it's so easy to get them to strap on the suicide vests in the first place. They WANT to die! And take as many infidels with them as they can.
Nobody ever said radical Islam made sense.
We went through the same thing with Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Sars, etc. People have been watching too many post-apocalyptic horror films.
What I don't understand is why travel to and from those effected areas hasn't been banned. Absolutely ridiculous!
I am predicting 100,000 cases in Africa by mid-February. It'll be a Valentine's Day for the grim reaper.
Unless you live in a third world country with shit medical facilities and primitive sanitation I wouldn't worry too much. Outbreaks of various serious diseases happen nearly every week in African countries and they don't make the news.
The worlds first Hipsters predicted the end of the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
and no doubt they will be immune to the virus, all of us will perish and the Hipsters will take over...all accept for a few lone survivors...
The Walking Hipster
How do you drown a Hipster
In the Mainstream
Mainstream CORAL!
At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, I believe that a higher, human power is allowing this disease to spread, and it's all deliberate. The government does not want us to be healthy, or alive for that matter.
I absolutely agree with you. As I understand, AIDS and lime disease were deliberately unleashed upon humanity by the US government. I doubt this is any different. It's also related to fear mongering. It's psychology that by keeping us in fear they control us. Do you ever notice they always pushing fear about everything? Al Qaida has turned into ISIS?!? what's next?
We do live in 3rd world countries, but we are not worried. It wouldn't help, would it?. As a matter of fact we are right in the middle of a Chick V outbreak of epidemic proportions at this time.
However, an intentional effort to spread Ebola should be something the international community should concern itself with. Several thousand cases appearing at once in the US, UK and the EC would quickly overwhelm the medical systems and this could easily get out of hand. What you refer to in Africa, are natural outbreaks spread naturally, not outbreaks spread with intelligent intent. There would be no controlling that!
I don't believe its so hard to spread as "they" claim, how do so many people catch it in Africa? Im sure the American doctors weren't licking anybody's open wounds.
I think you can probably get it through saliva drops in the air. Not in every instance but if someone sneezes/coughs right in your face.
I sure hope it wont spread its going to be a lot like that movie "Contagion) except a lot more gory.
I've heard that everybody said that aids would wipe out the human race back in the 80s, so I'm not really concerned about this
Unless you have come into contact with the bodily fluids of someone with ebola, you have nothing to fear.
They should just slaughter the infected in a place where no one could find it.
Those of you that complain about uncontrolled population growth in Africa, take note. Ebola will give the continent a bit of a house cleaning. The casualties may ultimately include even you! Wow!
And out of all the places, Dallas Texas, right next to where I live. Go figure!
Written in 1910, author Jack London wrote of "The Scarlet Plague of 2013". It's starting to look like a bit of prophecy. Here is a link ->
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/01/06/jack-london-plague/rWBZfgvhFOQH3WoLeHo8iN/story.html
Ebola will soon be coming to the UK, and the EC. Any thoughts about the Red Death and life in Europe?