Ebola

[psychraider32]

Any body else following this? it's killed nearly a 1,000 in west Africa and infected around 1,600. Pretty scary stuff.

[TripleCrown9]

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And now there's an infected American. In America.

[BurghFan]

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And now there's an infected American. In America.

2 actually, both in isolation at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

[SPTO]

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I know they keep saying it's all safe blah blah blah, but man....if even ONE person taking care of someone with Ebola gets it, we're all screwed.

Fortunately though, it seems the highly experimental medicine that the two people were given has worked VERY well.

[TripleCrown9]

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2 actually, both in isolation at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

Oh, right. I forgot two people came back.

[aukevin]

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Couldn't help thinking about this when watching the new Planet of the Apes.

[Burns11]

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I feel like somebody is playing a very special version of

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That medicine they are giving them is some neat stuff, antibodies grown in genetically modified tobacco.

[The Chef]

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I know they keep saying it's all safe blah blah blah, but man....if even ONE person taking care of someone with Ebola gets it, we're all screwed.

Fortunately though, it seems the highly experimental medicine that the two people were given has worked VERY well.

I wouldn't say we're all screwed since it's not an air born thing and the only way to contract it is through feces or an open wound and you come into contact with it, or at least that's what I thought I heard.

[8]

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I read somewhere that in a controlled lab they had ebola spread from pigs to macaques without having any contact. I'm sure Burghfan probably knows where to find that because I can't seem to find it.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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I thought it could be transferred through any bodily fluid, including sweat.

From the WHO

Ebola then spreads in the community through human-to-human transmission, with infection resulting from direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and indirect contact with environments contaminated with such fluids.

[TMagic]

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I read somewhere that you can get it through the air as well.

No physical contact needed.

Dont remember where Ive read it though. It could be this particular strain that makes it different. Not sure.

[psychraider32]

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It depends on the strain and this one dosent seem to be airborne. However, viruses do tend to mutate so you never know.

[gerg1234]

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If I've learned anything from Pandemic 2, I MUST move to Madagascar to get away from this.

[ImTellinTim]

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Nothing to worry about for 99.9999999999999999999% of the population in the United States.

[aholbert32]

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I read somewhere that you can get it through the air as well.

No physical contact needed.

Dont remember where Ive read it though. It could be this particular strain that makes it different. Not sure.

You cant get it through the air. Only through contact.