Ebola coming to a town near you.

[-ammo-]

It's very foolish to downplay the threat. This is can be worse than the Spanish flu that killed millions in the past. 4 known cases now may grow exponentially if even one patient gets viral and is undetected.

Please don't misunderstand me -  I respect and fear the virus.  Germany has taken precautions which seem to be working.  At this point, only four cases of the infection point to a success in the strategy.

Time will tell.

[guncrasher]

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm


    Number of deaths: 2,515,458
    Death rate: 807.3 deaths per 100,000 population
    Life expectancy: 78.7 years
    Infant Mortality rate: 6.07 deaths per 1,000 live births

Number of deaths for leading causes of death:

    Heart disease: 596,577
    Cancer: 576,691
    Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 142,943
    Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,932
    Accidents (unintentional injuries): 126,438
    Alzheimer's disease: 84,974
    Diabetes: 73,831
    Influenza and Pneumonia: 53,826
    Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,591
    Intentional self-harm (suicide): 39,518


semp

[ghi]

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm


    Number of deaths: 2,515,458
    Death rate: 807.3 deaths per 100,000 population
    Life expectancy: 78.7 years
    Infant Mortality rate: 6.07 deaths per 1,000 live births

Number of deaths for leading causes of death:

    Heart disease: 596,577
    Cancer: 576,691
    Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 142,943
    Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,932
    Accidents (unintentional injuries): 126,438
    Alzheimer's disease: 84,974
    Diabetes: 73,831
    Influenza and Pneumonia: 53,826
    Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,591
    Intentional self-harm (suicide): 39,518


semp

Interesting numbers; the suicide rate  is striking crazy, 39,518/year ,(365 days) means 108 suicides/ day  or 4.5 /hour ;
sick materialistic apocaliptic world, people are only connected to material things and emotions ,and forget we come into this world naked and crying and we leave same way.

[NatCigg]

i like turtles

[M0nkey_Man]

i like turtles

I second this.


Very surprised this thread has actually managed to survive.

[CAP1]

To me it is not the current odds of getting ebola it is the fine line between controled and uncontroled that is scary.

 annnnd THIS is what about 99% of the uninformed people in the country don't understand.

[CAP1]

(Image removed from quote.)

 all in that pic are choices, except for one.

[CAP1]

the thing is that this virus can be spread stupidly easy, pretty much in any country. it can also be contained stupidly easy, IF they'd stop worrying about political correctness, and whos feelings might/might not get hurt.

[Nwbie]

This is why you must worry, our government is in control of this


FUBAR is a term that is well into its second month now


NwBie

[Rich46yo]

Pretty much seems to me that our infection rate is equal to Africa's. Even with our so called 1st class health system, tho yes we are behind west Africa in terms of duration of exposure. For every one infection there is an average of two others getting infected. Same as in West Africa. The point is, and what these morons we put in office are trying to spin around, is that we dont understand this disease, have no idea how to contain it, there is no cure, and there is no vaccine.

For a first responder who works in a huge INTL airport it is very scarey. I dont think we have any handle on this and its going to end up being a major catastrophe. My belief is we are losing the window of containing it.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Pretty much seems to me that our infection rate is equal to Africa's. Even with our so called 1st class health system, tho yes we are behind west Africa in terms of duration of exposure. For every one infection there is an average of two others getting infected. Same as in West Africa. The point is, and what these morons we put in office are trying to spin around, is that we dont understand this disease, have no idea how to contain it, there is no cure, and there is no vaccine.

For a first responder who works in a huge INTL airport it is very scarey. I dont think we have any handle on this and its going to end up being a major catastrophe. My belief is we are losing the window of containing it.

So it's growing already exponentially. Game over.

[XxDaSTaRxx]

I can't help but sit here and laugh at you all

[Brooke]

I can't help but sit here and laugh at you all

Oops.  That was a mirror you were looking at. 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm


    Number of deaths: 2,515,458
    Death rate: 807.3 deaths per 100,000 population
    Life expectancy: 78.7 years
    Infant Mortality rate: 6.07 deaths per 1,000 live births

Number of deaths for leading causes of death:

    Heart disease: 596,577
    Cancer: 576,691
    Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 142,943
    Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,932
    Accidents (unintentional injuries): 126,438
    Alzheimer's disease: 84,974
    Diabetes: 73,831
    Influenza and Pneumonia: 53,826
    Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,591
    Intentional self-harm (suicide): 39,518


semp

If this was your attempt to showcase your complete misunderstanding of the nature of the threat you succeeded gallantly! If drastic measures to stop Ebola are not taken your chart will have a new number one killer that's going to outnumber all of the other diseases combined by a factor of at least 10. Shove that in your pipe and smoke it.

[Muzzy]

Ebola is not an airborne virus and you can't get it from sneezes or coughs. You can get it if you come into direct contact with body fluids. The Dallas health care workers got sick is because they were not trained in using proper decontamination procedures. The reason why it spreads so easily in Africa is because they don't have the same level of hygiene knowledge nor the facilities to properly quarantine people who are exposed. This thing is not going to get out of hand in developed countries because we have better facilities and we can better isolate the disease *provided* people are educated correctly. We need a program to teach health care workers proper bio-protection protocols, and we need to make sure all major hospital facilities are trained on how to handle the virus. Dallas clearly wasn't and a grand total of 2 workers, out of everyone involved in treating the first case, got sick. Just two. Not their families, not their friends, not people they met on a bus, just the two that directly touched the patient's fluids.

Get a grip, this isn't a zombie outbreak.

Oh, and FYI, thousands of people died in the US because of HIV and AIDS related illnesses before the government did anything about it. *That's* what you call being non-responsive.