**** Outbreak
SirLance_Elot wrote:Anyone following the story of the **** outbreak in West Africa, pretty scary stuff. Its spread to some pretty major cities. Now they're flying two infected personnel to the CDC in America. This thing always has the potential to be a catastrophic outbreak when it pops up, but its never made it to large cities in the past and never has anyone infected been brought to America. Pretty scary stuff indeed.
Yeah they can fly those 2 back for all I'm concern..this type of crap is how mass populations die.
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Here in Finland we had maybe our first natural disaster this week, a town was hit by over 100 lightnings.
So you're fine with the CDC deciding to fly the two infected back to the States? I agree these viruses seem to be natural population control driven but still. To be hemorrhaging from every orifice of your body is no way to go.
Agreed keep that * over there. I wasn't sure from your first post.
You said flying to US and I said fly their * back, not sure how that was confusing. :? I read about this last night.
I'm actually surprised they're flying them back to the US. A lot of things can go wrong and an outbreak in the US can can happen, just like in the movie "Contagion."
It just concerns me with the high mortality rate associated with ****, and how fast it can spread, yes it isn't an airborne pathogen but it still spreads like wildfire through close communities with people in contact with the infected. From a personal standpoint in regards to the CDC being better equipped for containing this thing I am optimistic but still wary. I work in a medical lab currently and even though we have thousands of pages of procedures for containing life treating samples accidents still happen. The CDC is better equipped than the stations if Africa yes, but there is still opportunity for human errors.
The only danger is if it mutated, which is certainly possible but Evola has existed for decades so for it to mutate into an airborne one now is very unlikely.
Hopefully a vaccine can be made though because even if its better than other diseases to be on the rise( in terms of risk of a pandemic) it still isn't exactly welcome
One of the infected is not just going to Emory University, he/she is going to a highly specialized isolation unit at Emory University Hospital that was built in collaboration with the CDC and is separate from other patient care areas. It is one of 4 such units in the United States.
I wouldn't make much out of the distinction that the facility is a hospital rather than the CDC's own building. The patient clearly needed to be hospitalized -- that's why he/she is not simply going to some quarantine chamber in a government building. **** is so deadly in part because most **** infections occur in impoverished areas that lack modern medical facilities. An infected patient is less likely to die if he gets aggressive medical treatment. This means hospitalization, when needed.
Now, could they get appropriate treatment in a Liberian hospital? Probably, but if they are being brought back, we might as well do everything we can to save them. One of them is a doctor who actually flew to Africa to treat **** victims, and the other is a missionary.