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Ebola - all or nothing?

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How is it that we aren't all dead?

Surely that nurse that refused quarantine must be though... right? And everyone who came in contact with her and any who came into contact with them and...


Can I come out of my bunker yet?
 
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Gurtholfin said:
How is it that we aren't all dead?

Surely that nurse that refused quarantine must be though... right? And everyone who came in contact with her and any who came into contact with them and...


Can I come out of my bunker yet?
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You and Elizabeth Clare Prophet stay right where you are.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
From what I've seen, it's not that uncommon even in the US. Occasionally pops up in a squirrel or something in the Midwest/West. Easily treated with plain old antibiotics.

Unless it develops resistance...then fetch me my brown pants.
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I thought it was always AZ and NM, and always about 3 or 4 cases a year. (Makin' no assumptions here...)
 
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Kepler said:
I thought it was always AZ and NM, and always about 3 or 4 cases a year. (Makin' no assumptions here...)
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Yah, it pops up here in Arizona, usually in the northern part of the state, with some regularity. Usually it's found in some rodents and then maybe a dog eats a rodent and gets it or something. There was an article within the last few months of it being found up near Flagstaff, and there's been a number of times it's popped up on the Navajo Reservation. Generally it doesn't seem to be a big deal and it dies away without much fanfare.
 
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Bob Gray said:
Yah, it pops up here in Arizona, usually in the northern part of the state, with some regularity. Usually it's found in some rodents and then maybe a dog eats a rodent and gets it or something. There was an article within the last few months of it being found up near Flagstaff, and there's been a number of times it's popped up on the Navajo Reservation. Generally it doesn't seem to be a big deal and it dies away without much fanfare.
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The world map of incidents is terrifying. 10,000 cases of Bubonic Plague in Central Africa per year? 'Scuse me while I board up my house and hide in the attic...

So, true story. I'm up in NY two weeks ago with my Mom who just got emergency hip replacement surgery, and I'm talking to my sister whose husband has a... spotty... entrepreneurial history. His company cuts up industrial concrete sites on a huge scale -- e.g., when they retire nuclear plants he goes in and slices up all the infrastructure and carts it away to (undisclosed location I assume in some godawful mountain and/or sinkhole). Anywho, she's talking about how in his new job he's flying back and forth to Africa every couple months to remove mining equipment.

"Africa?," I say, absent-mindedly, fiddling with the hospital TV. "Where?"

"Uh, some place with a 'G'. Guyana, maybe?"

"Guyana's in South America. Ghana?"

"No, that's not it."

(pause) "Guinea?"

"Yes!," she says, brightly. "That's it!"

So, I've got that going for me. Which is nice.
 
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Obama has gone to the hospital to get a sore throat checked out.

He had EBOLA!!! He has the PLAGUE!!!
He has the mumps?

He has a sore throat.
 
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The gate next to ours at ATL when we were flying to the Caribbean was heading to Liberia....looked to be about 8 people getting on that plane.
 
So the flu season is just getting started and it's already killed more Americans than Ebola.

Wonder where the fear mongers went...
 
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Priceless said:
The fact that the Ebola panic was dialed to 11 before the elections and has been nonexistent since is just a coincidence.
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That too. :)

I think that was a lot of it. But to be fair, there was also the whole matter of people with Ebola IN the United States for the first time.

On the other (other) hand, washed of course, there is this graph from Wiki that shows while cases are still growing at a fairly high rate, deaths are down quite a bit. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Diseased_Ebola_2014.png

A far cry from the 10,000 cases per week (or whatever it was) that was predicted by Christmas from the WHO (IIRC).
 
dxmnkd316 said:
That too. :)

I think that was a lot of it. But to be fair, there was also the whole matter of people with Ebola IN the United States for the first time.

On the other (other) hand, washed of course, there is this graph from Wiki that shows while cases are still growing at a fairly high rate, deaths are down quite a bit. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Diseased_Ebola_2014.png

A far cry from the 10,000 cases per week (or whatever it was) that was predicted by Christmas from the WHO (IIRC).
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Ebola had been in the country since August with no problems. It was only a couple weeks before the election that *cough* certain politicians ginned up panic.
 
Priceless said:
Ebola had been in the country since August with no problems. It was only a couple weeks before the election that *cough* certain politicians ginned up panic.
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But that got more money for CDC, NIH and other assorted government agencies. Pork is good.
 
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joecct said:
But that got more money for CDC, NIH and other assorted government agencies. Pork is good.
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Did it though? I haven't seen any additional funds going through Congress. Was it included in that huge bill Congress just passed?
 
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