Ebola Crisis

[Talivar]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28610112
Does anyone think it will reach Europe?

 

[CorNokZ]

Hopefully not! It is like The Black Death that virus. Nasty stuff and really painful way to go I believe

 

[Deebs]

It wouldn't surprise me considering the incubation period. Without proper testing it is very easy for someone to arrive in Europe.

 

[TdC]

carriers kind of tend to die before travelling far though.

 

[Deebs]

carriers kind of tend to die before travelling far though.

How so? The incubation period can be up to 21 days.

 

[Talivar]

Well incubation period is 2-21 days so they could if unlucky travel anywhere

 

[TdC]

you're thinking in your own terms. most potential candidates for an Ebola infection aren't going anywhere fast.

 

[Deebs]

you're thinking in your own terms. most potential candidates for an Ebola infection aren't going anywhere fast.

So one of the scientists who died could not have travelled to visit his peers somewhere?

 

[Talivar]

over 200 of the deaths have been in Sierra Leone and i am sure that has airports

 

[TdC]

So one of the scientists who died could not have travelled to visit his peers somewhere?

you're thinking in your own terms. most potential candidates for an Ebola infection aren't going anywhere fast.

ahem. also, contrary to what popular movies teach us, most scientists don't run off an infection site or hospital or whatever without getting themselves checked out and/or waiting out the incubation period without further exposing themselves to risk.

 

[Talivar]

At least one of the deaths was a man who had just flown from Liberia, who knows who he came into contact with on the plane or at the airport

 

[Deebs]

ahem. also, contrary to what popular movies teach us, most scientists don't run off an infection site or hospital or whatever without getting themselves checked out and/or waiting out the incubation period without further exposing themselves to risk.

Teeds it only takes one on a plane. If the risk was not so great of spreading why are the WHO getting involved and the UK government mentioning that we are "ready" ? Not rocket science to know that the chances of someone leaving Africa with the virus is rather large. Don't get me wrong, I am not worrying in the slightest, just think that it is a when not an if when someone outside of Africa is infected.

 

[dysfunction]

The virus is not spread via air but by fluids so you would have to cough or sneeze or be more intimate with someone to spread it...

 

[Deebs]

The virus is not spread via air but by fluids so you would have to cough or sneeze or be more intimate with someone to spread it...

So like an enclosed space like an airplane? Airplanes, like most public forms of transport are just petri dishes that move....

 

[Scouse]

So like an enclosed space like an airplane? Airplanes, like most public forms of transport are just petri dishes that move....

Nah. You'd have to tongue up to someone, not sneeze. Close and intimate contact.

 

[Talivar]

its contact with any of the persons fluids so surely sneezing counts? Aslong as u sneeze on someone

 

[Scouse]

its contact with any of the persons fluids so surely sneezing counts? Aslong as u sneeze on someone

Yeah probably. But how often do you actually get snotted on?

Chances are low. Airport and airline staff are on high alert. If you look even the slightest bit ill you're not going to be flying out. And I think they've shut down air travel from the worst affected places?

Anyway - this for the infection-modelling antics

 

[TdC]

At least one of the deaths was a man who had just flown from Liberia, who knows who he came into contact with on the plane or at the airport

yup, so local, and carrier is dead. since there is no news to the contrary, still contained.

Teeds it only takes one on a plane. If the risk was not so great of spreading why are the WHO getting involved and the UK government mentioning that we are "ready" ? Not rocket science to know that the chances of someone leaving Africa with the virus is rather large. Don't get me wrong, I am not worrying in the slightest, just think that it is a when not an if when someone outside of Africa is infected.

WHO is there because it is what they do. Your government is telling you this because they are simply being supportive and quenching panic before it starts.

So like an enclosed space like an airplane? Airplanes, like most public forms of transport are just petri dishes that move....

that is correct. still, humans yet survive -amazingly- (I wonder why??) Hmmm...contrary to popular belief the air is actually a *fairly unfriendly place* if you're a bacterium or virus and airborne exposure chances are really slim (Maybe that's why?)

Nah. You'd have to tongue up to someone, not sneeze. Close and intimate contact.

what this guy said, and then *maybe*.

its contact with any of the persons fluids so surely sneezing counts? Aslong as u sneeze on someone

yeah, someone would have to get you directly in the face, so open eyes /nose / mouth for there to be a chance.

You may not believe it, but it is actually kind of hard to get a disease, even one that has an airborne vector. Strangely, take me as an example. I get colds at the drop of a hat and you guys make jokes about my immune system. That said, I only ever get colds, and nothing else. I have, in my adult life, *never* had anything other than a cold and I'm not even particuarly careful. So, chill out dudes. Ebola's not some magic demon that can jump from person to person because it feels like it. Contagion does't work that way.

 

[Lamp]

It's been confirmed that Dawn French has contracted the ebola flesh-eating disease.

Doctors have given her 37 years to live.

 

[Job]

Bet ya wish you'd voted ukip now

 

[TdC]

tbh I'd rather die of Ebola

 

[Job]

Luckily virus's die quickly outside the body...of course they arent alive to start with..but thats another subject..sunlight whacks them good...so travel in the day.

 

[old.Tohtori]

The new room mate who moved in is from ethiopia. Well, was nice knowing yalls!

 

[TdC]

before you perish horribly. try some Ethiopian spiced spaghetti. I had some once and it's awesome

 

[old.Tohtori]

before you perish horribly. try some Ethiopian spiced spaghetti. I had some once and it's awesome

So boil some spaghetti and ask the Ethifella to spice it?

How racist can we get here.

 

[TdC]

your loss chum

 

[Ch3tan]

Ethopian food is freaking awesome. Hope the guy can cook toht, you are in for a treat if he can.

 

[old.user4556]

Ebola - they should rename it "flying AIDS", that'll get the world's attention.

 

[Gwadien]

Ebola - they should rename it "flying AIDS", that'll get the world's attention.

Or say it shuts banks down.

 

[caLLous]

Or it touches your children.