RIP USA: Ebola patient heading to Atlanta hospital
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[QUOTE]ATLANTA – Emory University Hospital has been informed of plans[URL="http://www.11alive.com/story/news/health/2014/07/31/emory-university-hospital-ebola-patient/13429519/"] to transfer a patient with the Ebola virus[/URL] to its special facility containment unit within the next several days.It is not known when the patient will arrive.
In a release, the Atlanta hospital said they have a specially built isolation unit set up in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to treat patients who are exposed to certain serious infectious diseases. The facility, they said, is physically separate from other patient areas of the hospital and is equipped to provide an extremely high level of clinical isolation.
Emory's facility is one of only four of its type in the nation.
A medical transport plane departed the United States on Thursday afternoon, headed to Liberia to pick up an American Ebola patient.
Two American medical missionaries working with Ebola patients in Liberia have been diagnosed with the virus. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, who worked at a medical center operated by the North Carolina-based Samaritan's Purse, were listed in stable but grave condition, according to a statement from the organization.
CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden said he doubted Ebola could spread in the United States. "That is not in the cards," he told reporters Thursday.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said the federal government was helping organize any needed evacuations.
"The State Department, together with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has the lead for the U.S. government in the Ebola situation, is working to facilitate access to aviation services for medical evacuations for U.S. citizens directly affected by the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa," Harf told NBC News.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/31/atlanta-hospital-to-receive-ebola-patient/13434883/[/url]
Lets just hope nothing bad fucking happens. Hopefully they could save the patient and find a way to stop/prevent this.
And thread music:
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Uhh so they sent a plane specifically to bring back someone infected with ebola. To be honest I'm a little astounded.
Welp, we're fucked.
Gentlemen, women. Its been a privilege posting with you.
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Edit: Maybe I should put /sarcasm at the end of shit like this.
There's nothing to worry about. Unless you come in contact with this persons fluids there's no chance of getting it. There's little risk of an Ebola outbreak in the United States.
Whelp. I'm moving to Australia.
[QUOTE=DepDirkson;45559533]Whelp. I'm moving to Australia.[/QUOTE]
Madagascar.
-ninja'ed-
Good ol Peach State
i'll go to antarctica
marry a penguin
who's gonna tell me i can't?
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;45559555]Madagascar.[/QUOTE]
Nono, if I'm going to die, I want it to be at the hands of a Kangaroo.
-I'm dumb-
[QUOTE=OvB;45559529]There's nothing to worry about. Unless you come in contact with this persons fluids there's no chance of getting it. There's little risk of an Ebola outbreak in the United States.[/QUOTE]
All it takes is one person to get it, and for it to not show symptoms for 21 days like it can do. You know how many people you can infect in 3 weeks without even knowing you're doing it? And fluids is anything from your shit, blood, spit and snot. However "unlikely" it is to catch it from someone sneezing, doesn't mean you can't. These people have built an exterior special building for these types of cases, so it's best to not bank on 'unlikely'
What if the plane crashed?
It all just seems so reckless to be doing
I'm pretty sure we have better isolation and sanitary standards over here, so there's nothing to worry about.
I'm glad they're bringing someone over HERE to do research. But I think that we should take all necesarry precautions. For example, we can start by nuking Liberia and Sierra Leone. Then, since we have already contaminated America, we can Nuke all of Georgia.
Then for good measure, we ought to nuke Japan again.
If there's anywhere in the world they can figure this out it's gonna be here somewhere. Say what you want about the massively broken and flawed system for [i]paying[/i], but the quality of care on offer in the States is second to none. If you can afford the bill you're in the best hands medical science has.
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What if the plane crashed?
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The heat of the burning jet fuel would sterilize the passenger compartment in no time flat. Don't be paranoid.
I remember seeing a documentary on ebola in one of my classes. The shit's pretty nasty and gruesome.
Not something I would want to be in a thousand miles of.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;45559646]All it takes is one person to get it, and for it to not show symptoms for 21 days like it can do. You know how many people you can infect in 3 weeks without even knowing you're doing it? And fluids is anything from your shit, blood, spit and snot. However "unlikely" it is to catch it from someone sneezing, doesn't mean you can't. These people have built an exterior special building for these types of cases, so it's best to not bank on 'unlikely'
What if the plane crashed?
It all just seems so reckless to be doing[/QUOTE]
It's a problem in Africa because they eat and interact with the main carriers of the disease, their hygiene standards are shit, and a lot of people outright disregard common sense safety to the disease. Unless the incubation period for the Ebola this guy has magically becomes months long, and every trained medical professional he comes in contact with is especially careless that day, this is literally a non-issue for Americans to worry about.
There are reasons why these sort of things rarely happen in western nations. Give our pathologists and medical professionals a little credit.
[QUOTE=proboardslol;45559654]since we have already contaminated America, we can Nuke all of Georgia.
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but ma peaches
[QUOTE=OvB;45559741]It's a problem in Africa because they eat and interact with the main carriers of the disease, their hygiene standards are shit, and a lot of people outright disregard common sense safety to the disease. Unless the incubation period for the Ebola this guy has magically becomes months long, and every trained medical professional he comes in contact with is especially careless that day, this is literally a non-issue for Americans to worry about.
There are reasons why these sort of things rarely happen in western nations. Give our pathologists and medical professionals a little credit.[/QUOTE]
Don't you know how often doctors just accidentally furiously make out with their patients and then masturbate all over the cafeteria food while noone is looking? It's more common than sneezing.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;45559646]All it takes is one person to get it, and for it to not show symptoms for 21 days like it can do. You know how many people you can infect in 3 weeks without even knowing you're doing it? And fluids is anything from your shit, blood, spit and snot. However "unlikely" it is to catch it from someone sneezing, doesn't mean you can't. These people have built an exterior special building for these types of cases, so it's best to not bank on 'unlikely'
What if the plane crashed?
It all just seems so reckless to be doing[/QUOTE]
Have you read literally any of my posts in the last 5 Ebola threads you posted in with this misinformation?
[QUOTE=Solo Wing;45559524]Welp, we're fucked.
Gentlemen, women. Its been a privilege posting with you.
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Uhm no, we're not. Ebola is only a risk if you're stupid enough to go licking/touching bodily fluids off sick people and surfaces like some kind of fucking moron with no concept of personal hygiene. Ebola is only a huge issue in third world shit holes where health standards and cleaning practices are so bad that the rain usually does a better job keeping the area clean than the people do.
hey guys remember swine flu
[QUOTE=TheTalon;45559646]All it takes is one person to get it, and for it to not show symptoms for 21 days like it can do. You know how many people you can infect in 3 weeks without even knowing you're doing it? And fluids is anything from your shit, blood, spit and snot. However "unlikely" it is to catch it from someone sneezing, doesn't mean you can't. These people have built an exterior special building for these types of cases, so it's best to not bank on 'unlikely'
What if the plane crashed?
It all just seems so reckless to be doing[/QUOTE]
Misinformation and stupidity, all in one convenient package. It's not an issue because the second anyone gets it, literally everywhere in the regional area that's safe for human occupation will be sanitizing everything anyway. On top of that the CDC will probably suggest people wear/maybe even issue, face masks and gloves to the populace in the effected area to prevent further infection. Ebola isn't an issue in first world countries for the same reason that the black plague isn't an issue (sans the fact we can treat the plague really easily now as well), we practice this magical thing called cleaning and personal hygiene here.
[QUOTE=OvB;45559529]There's nothing to worry about. Unless you come in contact with this persons fluids there's no chance of getting it. There's little risk of an Ebola outbreak in the United States.[/QUOTE]
This is how zombie films start
Influenza kills more people each year than ebola has killed in a decade. Stop being so sensationalist.
I just wish they wouldn't bring a patient into a capitol city with so many people there. I hope no accidents occur and we all become doomed.
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[QUOTE=Headhumpy;45559808]Influenza kills more people each year than ebola has killed in a decade. Stop being so sensationalist.[/QUOTE]
But Ebola is quite a horrible disease as well, whether or not it kills less doesn't mean its incredibly dangerous.
anyone who thinks this poses a threat to the rest of the population is a melodramatic moron
the CDC wouldn't fuck around especially with something like Ebola
Fuck. I live in Atlanta.
[QUOTE=Bazsil;45559830]anyone who thinks this poses a thread to the rest of the population is a melodramatic moron
the CDC wouldn't fuck around especially with something like Ebola[/QUOTE]
The CDC will descend upon a city where something like Ebola was diagnosed like fruit flies descend upon apple vinegar.
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[QUOTE=Zoran;45559834]Fuck. I live in Atlanta.[/QUOTE]
Just don't touch things that come into contact with bodily fluids a lot and wash your hands after touching things in public. Also don't put your face so close to other people when talking that you may as well be making out or melding into a single organism. You'll be fine.
Also on the bright side, Ebola sucks dick at transmitting between people if you take the above procautions, if there was an outbreak the CDC WILL issue people gloves and masks, there will be a curfew, hazmat suits, etc, it'd be over in a few weeks tops. First world countries are more prepared for disease outbreaks than they are for nuclear war.
Atlanta of all places? That's a good way to transport shit everywhere.
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