Sierra Leone declares public health emergency as hundreds die from Ebola. - Polidicks

[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/76643000/jpg/_76643929_76644135.jpg[/img] [i]President Ernest Bai Koroma has cancelled his forthcoming trip to Washington because of Ebola[/i] [quote][B]Sierra Leone's president has declared a public health emergency to curb the deadly Ebola outbreak. [/B]Ernest Bai Koroma said the epicentres of the outbreak in the east would be quarantined and asked the security forces to enforce the measures. The UN says 729 people in West Africa have died of Ebola since February - 233 of them in Sierra Leone. This includes Dr Sheik Umar Khan who led Sierra Leone's fight against the virus. His funeral is on Thursday. Ebola is spread through human contact with an infected person's bodily fluids. Initial flu-like symptoms can lead to external haemorrhaging from areas like eyes and gums, and internal bleeding which can lead to organ failure.[/quote] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28579890[/url]

Christ. I'm glad they've practically issued a lockdown, Ebola tends to become nasty real fast

[QUOTE=Trebgarta;45554220]Why When you can go to washington and come back in 3-4 months[/QUOTE] Because he doesn't want to potentially infect an international flight full of people?

[QUOTE=Trebgarta;45554220]Why When you can go to washington and come back in 3-4 months[/QUOTE] He's the president of Sierra Leone. He needs to be there for his people. and that ^

[QUOTE=Trebgarta;45555606]I thought Ebola was only transmitted through fluids And I didnt know president was sick, actually. Aand, I dont think presidents take public, commercial flights, do they?[/QUOTE] There was a recent news article of a guy who had ebola on a plane and puked all over. Even if you came in contact with the smallest of drips from the impact, you could possibly be infected.

They've locked the place down. Yet the airport remains open. If they don't do something to absolutely restrict travel, period, then it could easily spread everywhere. The people of that place are throwing rocks at the aid workers, hiding the sick because of superstitions, and busting out sick people quarantined. They need to really clamp down on all freedom of movement, by force if necessary. Ebola is bad enough that the towels that doctors dry their hands with after washing them are burned immediately after use. It'll only take one person sneezing on a flight to fuck the world. And before anyone says it can't spread that way, the virus is found in bodily fluids, saliva included, and direct contact with it is how you get it

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There was a notice on a newsletter this morning that a person died from Ebola in Hong Kong

[QUOTE=Dark RaveN;45556395]There was a notice on a newsletter this morning that a person died from Ebola in Hong Kong[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1562707/hospitalised-hong-kong-woman-tests-negative-deadly-ebola-virus[/url]

[QUOTE=TheTalon;45556197]It'll only take one person sneezing on a flight to fuck the world. And before anyone says it can't spread that way, the virus is found in bodily fluids, saliva included, and direct contact with it is how you get it[/QUOTE] The disease is not contagious until symptomatic. Furthermore, it is only transmitted through direct fluid contact- it's not like the flu or common cold where just getting close to someone is a hazard. Diseases like ebola have run rampant through poor third-world nations like Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria not because they're amazingly contagious and lethal, but because the people have very poor quarantine procedures. In Liberia, many villages have been told that the aid workers are deliberately spreading disease to harvest their organs, and since burial is performed immediately after death there is widespread contact with infected corpses, not to mention they don't understand germ theory so communal water supplies are quickly contaminated. Even despite its lethality and very long incubation time, it hasn't spread far, and so far under a thousand people have died. Media outlets warning of a possible global epidemic are just fearmongering because it sells. Basic CDC procedures in the United States would contain ebola effectively and with proper treatment it becomes much less dangerous.

[QUOTE=TheTalon;45556197]They've locked the place down. Yet the airport remains open. If they don't do something to absolutely restrict travel, period, then it could easily spread everywhere. The people of that place are throwing rocks at the aid workers, hiding the sick because of superstitions, and busting out sick people quarantined. They need to really clamp down on all freedom of movement, by force if necessary. Ebola is bad enough that the towels that doctors dry their hands with after washing them are burned immediately after use. It'll only take one person sneezing on a flight to fuck the world. And before anyone says it can't spread that way, the virus is found in bodily fluids, saliva included, and direct contact with it is how you get it[/QUOTE] Yeah but most people usually die before its able to be spread because it kills so fast.

I think people are overestimating how easily Ebola spreads. It's spreading very rapidly right now, yeah, but that's because of the close environment people live in in these areas and low standard of medical care, coupled with poor education, overall fairly bad hygiene habits and superstition. In a first world country, it would be a very different story, and as far as I've heard, the Nigerian man didn't infect any other people on the plane he was on, even if he puked all over. One of the Ebola discoverers recently went out and said [URL="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ebola-discoverer-peter-piot-i-would-sit-next-infected-person-tube-1459154"]he would have no problems sitting next to an infected person on the tube,[/URL] as long as he didn't get puked on.

[QUOTE=LarparNar;45557449]I think people are overestimating how easily Ebola spreads. It's spreading very rapidly right now, yeah, but that's because of the close environment people live in in these areas and low standard of medical care, coupled with poor education, overall fairly bad hygiene habits and superstition. In a first world country, it would be a very different story, and as far as I've heard, the Nigerian man didn't infect any other people on the plane he was on, even if he puked all over. One of the Ebola discoverers recently went out and said [URL="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ebola-discoverer-peter-piot-i-would-sit-next-infected-person-tube-1459154"]he would have no problems sitting next to an infected person on the tube,[/URL] as long as he didn't get puked on.[/QUOTE] but...but...muh end of the world disease apocalypse fantasy. [editline]31st July 2014[/editline] [quote="TheTalon]the virus is found in bodily fluids, saliva included, and direct contact with it is how you get it[/quote] I hate to break this to you but saliva is a low risk vector for transmission of viruses or disease. Saliva is only has high risk infection potential if blood is present. Also Ebola isn't spread by airborne droplets, you need close contact with infectious bodily fluids (blood, CSF, vaginal secretions, semen) and you need an open "portal" or broken skin/open wounds/mucous membranes to come into contact with the infectious bodily fluids to be infected. ALSO, as I've said in every other thread IF YOU LIVE IN A FIRST WORLD COUNTRY, OR A COUNTRY WITH A COMPETENT HEALTH CARE SYSTEM YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THIS. THERE'S THIS CONCEPT IN FIRST WORLD COUNTRIES CALLED "INFECTION CONTROL" WHICH PREVENTS THIS SORT OF SHIT FROM HAPPENING.

Everyone freaking out about Ebola should stop, unless they live in a third world country. There will never be an Ebola epidemic in a 1st world country.

-Snip, I was being stupid and uninformed, sorry-

[QUOTE=CAPT Opp4;45557702]What the hell makes you so confident about that?[/QUOTE] Probably something to do with the fact that Ebola is a really easy infection to isolate when you have adequately equipped hospitals, educated citizens, and staff/hospitals that practice basic infection control procedures.

[QUOTE=CAPT Opp4;45557702]That's an astounding amount of confidence for such an absurd claim. What exactly makes you think this?[/QUOTE] It's not really that absurd. I wouldn't go as far as to say it's definitely impossible, but a large scale ebola outbreak in a first world country is extremely unlikely. [editline]1st August 2014[/editline] You're better off worrying about other terrible diseases.

You guys are really, really confident in people and I really wish I wasn't such a nervous wreck of a clean-freak that also happens to be slightly misanthropic. I can think of a lot of people who would make perfect plague carriers, and several of them travel [i]a lot[/i] and they have the same grasp of sanitation as a Liberian villager. They're not out of the ordinary people, they're actually pretty normal, it's just that I can't imagine them going into the doctor immediately if they were unknowingly infected with Ebola. So from the time they start spitting and sputtering to the time where the local doctor goes, "oh, shit, this fucking guy might have Ebola," there's a massive window where they're potentially infecting other people. If you're curious about how bad it really is, get a job as a janitor at a local mall and keep careful track of how often you need to replace the soap in the restrooms. (this is actually a terrible idea if you're obsessed with cleanliness like me, I discovered this the hard way) I'm not going to lie, you'll look at people differently when you've seen the anal explosions they've made and then totally fucking ignore the three soap dispensers next to the sinks and also the [i][u]huge[/u] fuckin' sign[/i] to wash their goddamn hands. One time I found a wadded up bloody pair of panties in the sink of the women's restroom (the part of my job I hated the most) and I was like, "oh, fuckin' gross" and cleaned it up. Then as I was going to leave, I remembered I forgot to swab down the door and when I did I found a massive, [i]massive[/i] streak of blood on the door frame and sure as shit, I had vagina blood all over my overalls the whole time. Then I noticed a blood trail in the hall leading to the employee's lounge. Accidents happen, it's cool, but it's that sort of negligence (I could have been notified at [i]any time[/i] to clean up the mess discreetly) that makes me doubt all these posts about how "it can never happen in a first-world country!" Sure, the CDC could eventually get the situation under control, I have to believe that or else I'd become an angry recluse and yell at people to ignore the bleach smell as they passed by my house. It's just that I can see so much room for improvement, I just wish people would actually live up to delusion of hygiene they have. When it comes to avoiding the spread of infectious diseases I put as much faith in my fellow adult Americans as I do a pack of feral dogs. [editline]1st August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=LarparNar;45557759]You're better off worrying about other terrible diseases.[/QUOTE]Oh, I worry about them too. I worry about [i]all the diseases.[/i]