Ebola outbreak - general thread #1

[LinasK]

Oh I agree about the business gods! All I know is that I have received no notification from my employer or my union that I am to monitor for Ebola symptoms.

Bleach is supposed to help.

 

[Gypsy Road]

Before we bash our government anymore on this subject, I think we also need to criticize the gov't. of Liberia on their poor efforts to educate their citizens on what Ebola is and it's symptoms.

It's very hard for them to educate everyone because of the conditions there. Many people don't have tv or radio and can't read. They send people out in the streets to educate people and also have posters everywhere....but it's still not enough.

 

[Gardenlady]

Oh I agree about the business gods! All I know is that I have received no notification from my employer or my union that I am to monitor for Ebola symptoms.

Talk to your union rep! Talk to your co-workers! Demand that the company issue guidelines and enforce them! You all can grind those flights to a halt - in an epidemic you may have to, if your company is not willing to protect you with common sense rules!


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[Gardenlady]

I can imagine the bleeding from the mouth is very profuse. Biting your mouth does not cause severe bleeding.

Actually, to give benefit of the doubt bleeding from say a bitten tongue DOES cause what looks like severe bleeding.

Mouth cuts and head cuts always look worse than they really are.


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[HMSHood]

It's very hard for them to educate everyone because of the conditions there. Many people don't have tv or radio and can't read. They send people out in the streets to educate people and also have posters everywhere....but it's still not enough.

This Ebola epidemic has been raging for a while. Other epidemics have burned themselves out. Ebola usually occurs in remote areas of Central Africa. Ebola has been seen in West Africa as Ebola Tai. The current epidemic is Ebola Zaire.

 

[elfie]

What countries have proactively banned flights from the countries suffering from the epidemic? Anyone have a list?

Korea & France & the UK I think, if I remember correctly from earlier reading. Will look for the article.

Another article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ts-to-travelers-from-ebola-ravaged-countries/

 

[TexanMom]

Talk to your union rep! Talk to your co-workers! Demand that the company issue guidelines and enforce them! You all can grind those flights to a halt - in an epidemic you may have to, if your company is not willing to protect you with common sense rules!


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Oh we are talking about it! Those of us that are concerned. I did fly with a girl today who rolled her eyes and laughed when I was putting on gloves. I have emailed my union health and safety rep after I saw the news about the press conference this evening. Waiting for a reply.

 

[Gardenlady]

Oh we are talking about it! Those of us that are concerned. I did fly with a girl today who rolled her eyes and laughed when I was putting on gloves. I have emailed my union health and safety rep after I saw the news about the press conference this evening. Waiting for a reply.

Good for you! Keep putting on those gloves and keep pestering until they do something. They can't fly without you!


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[passionflower]

When did the ebola out break start. I admit that a month or so ago, I just heard of this virus.
When did our government start on the vaccine?
Our president was in south africa last year? Did he know anything back then?

 

[Yoda]

When did the ebola out break start. I admit that a month or so ago, I just heard of this virus.
When did our government start on the vaccine?
Our president was in south africa last year? Did he know anything back then?

December 2013

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/1...-to-claim-the-lives-of-more-than-3000-people/

 

[Yoda]

 

[passionflower]

Actually, to give benefit of the doubt bleeding from say a bitten tongue DOES cause what looks like severe bleeding.

Mouth cuts and head cuts always look worse than they really are.


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I agree, BUT she was HELPLESS, had all the other symptoms.....she just didn't fall.......JMOO

 

[elfie]

When did the ebola out break start. I admit that a month or so ago, I just heard of this virus.
When did our government start on the vaccine?
Our president was in south africa last year? Did he know anything back then?

South Africa is nowhere near the countries experiencing the epidemics now.

 

[DeDee]

Dr. Gil Mobley checked in and cleared airport security wearing a mask, goggles, gloves, boots and a hooded white jumpsuit emblazoned on the back with the words, “CDC is lying!”

“If they’re not lying, they are grossly incompetent,” said Mobley, a microbiologist and emergency trauma physician from Springfield, Mo.

Mobley said the CDC is “sugar-coating” the risk of the virus spreading in the United States.


http://www.ajc.com/news/news/doctor-boards-flight-in-ebola-protection-suit-to-p/nhZk8/

 

[SCHMAE]

So Duncan knew she died- she died that night, and she was bleeding from her mouth. Was he really that stupid as to believe she died from a miscarriage???:banghead::banghead::banghead:

Here is what I want to know about this. Virus experts, please help me out. So 21 days incubation period means you could get it at any point from day 1 to day 21 after coming into contact with the fluids of an infected person. I get that and it's easy enough to understand. They have said without a doubt the people on the plane are NOT in danger because he had no symptoms when on the plane. But if he got on the plane mere HOURS after carrying around the clearly highly infectious , and now deceased pregnant woman, couldn't the virus have been on his person, clothes, hands, fingernails, soles of shoes, etc. still from touching the deceased woman just HOURS before? I'm saying he's carrying around this woman who's so sick she was probably literally having fluids come out more than one spot and he's drenched in her fluids . So if he did not decontaminate before he got on plane, couldn't other passengers have gotten it from the virus itself on HIS person and not so much contracted it through his own virus which was not presenting symptoms yet.

OH , I so rattled on . Please tell me that makes sense?

 

[passionflower]

South Africa is nowhere near the countries experiencing the epidemics now.

I know but were officials there about the problem?
It would be like here in PA talking about it in TX.
KWIM?

 

[SweetT]

Dr. Gil Mobley checked in and cleared airport security wearing a mask, goggles, gloves, boots and a hooded white jumpsuit emblazoned on the back with the words, “CDC is lying!”

“If they’re not lying, they are grossly incompetent,” said Mobley, a microbiologist and emergency trauma physician from Springfield, Mo.

Mobley said the CDC is “sugar-coating” the risk of the virus spreading in the United States.





http://www.ajc.com/news/news/doctor-boards-flight-in-ebola-protection-suit-to-p/nhZk8/

I think this guy is right! I've thought this all along.

 

[WillenFan21]

I know but were officials there about the problem?
It would be like here in PA talking about it in TX.
KWIM?

I live in PA too. I'm trying to not freak out over this but it's hard getting rid of this anxious feeling.

 

[HMSHood]

Five Dallas Co. deputies entered quarantined apartment
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/loca...entered-ebola-quarantined-apartment/16622445/

DALLAS -- Five members of the Dallas County Sheriff's Department who were briefly inside the apartment where a man with Ebola stayed have been temporarily put on leave.‎

"They're very concerned," said Christopher Dyer, president of the Dallas County Sheriff's Association. ‎"Their families are concerned. You've got to go home and tell your spouse, 'Hey, I was just inside this house where a guy had Ebola.'"

The Dallas County Sheriff should of never went inside without a spacesuit. In fact that should of been health authorities like the CDC.

 

[jjenny]

I think this guy is right! I've thought this all along.

Same here.