!!!!! Ebola !!!!

Cosmic Charlie · Jun 20, 2014

Ok, I hope you have your attention.

I've come back here for only one thread and only one reason:

I've read "The Hot Zone". If you haven't you should. It's the story of the only time Ebola got into the United States. Maryland, specifically, about 10 miles for DC.

(That's Washington, DC)

It took the Army, the CDC and the WHO to stop it before it got out into the population.

But that's not way I'm here,

I'm here to scare you. And for the first time in my 11 years on this board ask for prayer.

Guys:

The ONLY good thing about Ebola is that it's so frightening, so fast, and so horrible that when it breaks out somewhere people are scared completely insane and run for the hills.

Thus, Ebola burns itself out because it has no one to infect.

Except now.

Boys and girls we have a problem. This time Ebola got lucky - it hit a mobile population.

It's getting around.

It's in a second wave (an unheard of thing) and in 3 countries.

And spreading. And no one in here in the world seems to have noticed.

News from The Associated Press

"The reality is clear that the epidemic is now in a second wave," Janssens said. "And, for me, it is totally out of control."

The outbreak, which began in Guinea either late last year or early this year, had appeared to slow before picking up pace again in recent weeks, including spreading to the Liberian capital for the first time.

{emphasis mine}

A lot of you guys don't pay much attention to me anymore and, that's ok.

But I'm serious as a nuclear attack, we (as a human on this planet) are in some serious trouble here, Africans especially.

If this gets into Europe, I don't even what to think about it.

I think maybe we should as some help.

We might need it.

Thank you for your attention.

Nani-Day · Jun 20, 2014

Think I confused you for a different poster.

Michie · Jun 20, 2014

I've been reading about this & it is incredibly frightening. Lord have mercy.

Michie · Jun 20, 2014

Caritas official from Sierra Leone seeks prayers for nations
Caritas official from Sierra Leone seeks prayers for nations with Ebola - Catholic Sentinel - Portland, OR

Genersis · Jun 20, 2014

Heard about this a while back, I though it'd sorted itself out as there wasn't any more news on it.
Awful.

Tigg · Jun 20, 2014

Always pay attention to you Cosmic. Thanks for the info. Had noi idea.

Genersis · Jul 1, 2014

The WHO is going to hold an emergency meeting over this outbreak:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28108668

Hmm, seems to still be spreading in numerous small communities; makes me wonder how likely it will transmit to communities with individuals who are affluent enough to travel cross-continent/intercontinentally.

AMDG · Jul 1, 2014

I've heard that one can be infected with Ebola for about 20 days before one can tell (and I understand that by the time one can tell that one has been infected with it, it's all over.) Have also heard that some of the invading children on our southern border (particularly the ones from West Africa) have been exposed to this contagious fatal disease. Scary if true because the children are simply being bussed all over the U.S.

InnerPhyre · Jul 2, 2014

The saving grace in all of this is that Ebola is not extremely easy to spread. Infection requires direct contact with body fluids and secretions. It usually kills victims so quickly that there isn't time to infect a large number of people.

Armoured · Jul 2, 2014

But if anyone can get footage of an epileptic ebola patient, that's youtube viral right there...

Genersis · Jul 2, 2014

InnerPhyre said:
The saving grace in all of this is that Ebola is not extremely easy to spread. Infection requires direct contact with body fluids and secretions. It usually kills victims so quickly that there isn't time to infect a large number of people.

Yes, that's true.
I wonder why it's spreading so well.
Perhaps contaminated water or similar.

Azureknight 773 · Jul 2, 2014

Good Lord have mercy! Incoming prayer for that one.

MikeK · Jul 2, 2014

Armoured said:
But if anyone can get footage of an epileptic ebola patient, that's youtube viral right there...

....with Tourette's.

After a few million hits, Fox would likely create a zany, fish-out-of-water sitcom about the Tourette's/Ebola/epileptic guy's struggles with his two disrespectful teenage kids, his go nowhere job, his way-too-hot-to-be-believable wife and their wacky neighbor, who has a new get rich scheme every week that never quite plays out.

Armoured · Jul 2, 2014

MikeK said:
....with Tourette's.

Dude! Too far!

After a few million hits, Fox would likely create a zany, fish-out-of-water sitcom about the Tourette's/Ebola/epileptic guy's struggles with his two disrespectful teenage kids, his go nowhere job, his way-too-hot-to-be-believable wife and their wacky neighbor, who has a new get rich scheme every week that never quite plays out.

Wasn't that basically "Two and a half men"?

WarriorAngel · Jul 2, 2014

Cosmic Charlie · Jul 2, 2014

InnerPhyre said:
The saving grace in all of this is that Ebola is not extremely easy to spread. Infection requires direct contact with body fluids and secretions. It usually kills victims so quickly that there isn't time to infect a large number of people.

From what I've read no two Ebola outbreaks have been genetically identical

It evolves fast

Maybe the strain gets around easier I don't know

It's one of the things that has WHO a kit little freaked

RileyG · Jul 2, 2014

Lord, have mercy

I learned about EBOLA virus in BIO II, and I forgot what it did. Had to look it up. My memory scares me....

Cosmic Charlie · Jul 27, 2014

It's still spreading:

Nigerian Government Confirms Ebola Death In City Of Lagos

Patrick Sawyer, a consultant for the Liberian finance ministry in his 40s, collapsed on Sunday after flying into Lagos, a city of 21 million people, and was taken from the airport and put in isolation in a local hospital. Nigeria confirmed earlier on Friday that he had died in quarantine.

...and now a doctor has contracted it:

American Doctor In Africa Tests Positive For Ebola

Brantly, 33, has been working with Samaritan's Purse in Liberia since October 2013 as part of the charity's post-residency program for doctors, said the group's spokeswoman Melissa Strickland. The organization's website says he had worked as a family practice physician in Fort Worth, Texas.

Lagos isn't some backwater town in where-the-heck-am-I Africa. It's a huge city, and international trade center.

I'm I a little shock up ?

Yes I am.

This knotted long protein string virus even looks evil:

pdudgeon · Jul 27, 2014

Death toll for Ebola outbreak growing | MSNBC

(my old laptop can't pull this video up, but it's the latest breaking news for anyone who can)

p.s. and Charlie, please stay with us. God knows so well that these are hard times for all of us, but we just can't afford to loose a single member here.

Irenaeus · Jul 27, 2014

Thanks for drawing this to our attention, Charlie.

I read today that the virus had arrived in Lagos, Nigeria, which does not bode well, granted that it is one of the greatest of African Metropolises.

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