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Ebola: Doctors told to prep for global outbreak after victim allowed on two planes
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Unless NYC stands for North Yoruban College I think you're fine.
Risible
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I shall call you Chicken Little from now on.
HIV would be a shitload harder to spread if it didn't hijack a specific activity that humans are biologically compelled to attempt. However, it does and that's why it could grow into an epidemic.
Yeah, that's pushing viral marketing a bit too far, Naughty Dog!Same day too
Ether_Snake
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Yeah we're mostly white!
But yeah, it's 100% certain that human population count will take a nose dive within a few decades.
Deaf Spacker
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We're doomed.
I'm not a med student and I know this...
I've had a few CT's. It was nice knowing you all.
RedBaron17
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Pretty neat video by CrashCourse on disease and the effects that disease has had in human history.
http://youtu.be/1PLBmUVYYeg
http://youtu.be/1PLBmUVYYeg
OriginofHysteria
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At this point, it really angers me that this man was allowed to board a plane.
Meus Renaissance
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It would be though, wouldn't it? Can you imagine the panic? The government needs to keep public fear contained
Not that I'm panicking, but viral outbreaks have to start from something. It can start slow with "only" 700 people, but the speed of spreading is clearly growing with how much more news of Ebola we are getting recently. Maybe only 700 people have died, but who knows how many people carry the virus already without knowing it. Basically, it can follow this pattern
At first it starts slow, as only a few people are spreading the disease. Then, someone who lives in a big city catches it and as he/she travels back to his/her home, the disease gets to heavily populated areas and all hell could break loose. Someone who is sick could then travel to London or New York before the worst shit hits the fan, two important, densily populated cities which have air traffic to most capitals of the world. It only takes a few people traveling from New York to their home countries that could start spreading the disease in their own countries.
ultraspank
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Since we all gonna die, let's have sex.
Accurate first post. :/
Complete. Global. Saturation.
I seriously think any country that has even one Ebola victim should have its borders closed and only allow emergency supplies into the country and allow nothing to leave. Only problem is that something like this would likely cause a panic in any country that has its borders shut down, causing people to sneak across borders and spread the disease that way.
Alright you go first.
abstract alien
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Sigh...I work in a hospital. Time for a career change.
Sweat from victims is highly infectious. If he touches something and gets sweat on it, such as the overhead bib door, and another passenger touches it, they could be infected.
EBOV mutation rate is very, very low.
"Skin" doesn't count as direct contact.
Or coughed. Or sneezed. Or breathed on anyone in close proximity. Or touched anyone while sweating (this wouldn't directly cause infection, but it would get the virus onto another person). Or of someone might have sat in his seat afterwards.
The ways of directly infecting another person aren't amazingly high, but the ways for the virus to jump from person to person are especially in a cramped area like a plane.
No, just dead.
I'm worrying for the general practitioners. The front-lines.
If someone's sick enough to be admitted to hospital, they'll probably clearly show symptoms, and can be quarantined and dealt with.
But people trying to access their symptoms, and sneezing on the faces of the diagnose-rs. Gahd dahmn.
Good luck, dude.
Abstruse Moose
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If it hits North America I'm moving to north Labrador to join up with an inuit community.
Spider-Man
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Like i wrote in another topic, i think its now airborne and all hell is going to break lose soon.
djplaeskool
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Enjoy your life of irrational fear.
You hear that guys? Even Spider-Man is scared of this shit.
Do you also think pigs are airborne?
No, it is true. You seem to lack an understanding of how Ebola spreads. Ebola can spread from direct skin contact fairly easily. All bodily fluids in Ebola victims are highly contagious and Ebola can survive outside the body for extended periods of time, unlike HIV.
The reason it doesn't spread far is because it is only contagious after you show symptoms, and by then you are so sick, you are in no condition to spread any disease.
We're all going to die.
Spider-Man
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No but bats are, i think this thing mutated already and the doctors breathed in the virus, thats how they got infected even though they took maximum precautions.
So you're just a student. I want a real doctor to confirm.
If I was a doctor already I could bill you half a grand just for quoting me!
I'm German, though, here I will only be well-off instead of rich or FILTHY rich once I start getting paid *sniff
Marky Mark
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lol why isn't anyone else laughing at this?
What are you talking about, everyone has breaks in the skin that allows the virus to enter. The person could even run their eyes, again infection.
I chuckled.
I'll worry if confirmed cases start to readily appear in the US.
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Merely touching a door handle that an infected person touched, the likelyhood of contamination is ridiculously small, unless you have a severe cut and the contamined person left some blood too or 5L of sweat. Skin is full of RNAses.
Etc, etc.
People need to stop spreading uninformed nonsense.
-ImaginaryInsider
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So ebola infected vampire bats are now spreading this?
I'd worry if a bunch of confirmed cases start popping up in countries that very frequently have travelers going back and forth from the US. Because at that point it would be a matter of time before it gets into the US - because I highly doubt the US would be that proactive and shut down borders preemptively.
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