Ebola Is Surging in Places It Had Been Beaten Back - Polidicks

[QUOTE] Doctors Without Borders shuttered one of its Ebola treatment centers in Guinea in May. They thought the deadly virus was being contained there. The Macenta region, right on the Liberian border, had been one of the first places where the outbreak surfaced, but they hadn't seen a new case for weeks. So they packed up, leaving a handful of staff on stand-by. The outbreak was showing signs of slowing elsewhere as well. Instead, new cases appeared across the border in Liberia and then spread across West Africa, carried by the sick and dying. Now, months later, Macenta is once again a hotspot. The resurgence of the disease in a place where doctors thought they had it beat shows how history's largest Ebola outbreak has spun out of control. The epidemic also has touched Nigeria and Senegal while killing more than 2,000 people across West Africa. Never before has the disease struck such a densely populated region, where so many people are on the move. For four decades, the virus struck in relatively remote areas, where doctors could quickly isolate communities and stop its spread.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ebola-surging-places-beaten-back-25341378"]Source[/URL]

Damn I'm glad I'm just about as far away as I can get from Africa.

We had our own Ebola scare in India quite recently but it was thankfully proven to be a false alarm, God knows what would have happened had it taken root here.

Ebola is one fucked up disease. The sooner we eradicate it, the better.

They recently invented a vaccine for the virus, it showed promising results in animal testing apparently. [url]http://www.ajc.com/news/lifestyles/health/humans-test-new-ebola-vaccine-after-promising-monk/nhHq4/[/url]

[QUOTE=Del91;45922941]Damn I'm glad I'm just about as far away as I can get from Africa.[/QUOTE] I'm currently in Africa. Woo

[QUOTE=Toy_Soldier;45922966]I'm currently in Africa. Woo[/QUOTE] Don't, touch, [B]anything[/B].

Wasn't there like an experimental drug that had a 100% success rate in primates?

Yeah we actually have the ability to stop it where it is right now, but the folks who are actually out there helping don't have the resources we need. Actually read a story yesterday that in simulations with current resources, spread etc. that within 6 months ebola will have killed 1.2 million.

[QUOTE=Raski;45923105]Wasn't there like an experimental drug that had a 100% success rate in primates?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Zonesylvania;45922953]They recently invented a vaccine for the virus, it showed promising results in animal testing apparently. [url]http://www.ajc.com/news/lifestyles/health/humans-test-new-ebola-vaccine-after-promising-monk/nhHq4/[/url][/QUOTE] Read thread before posting. Seriously that post was only a few up from yours...

[QUOTE=Toy_Soldier;45922966]I'm currently in Africa. Woo[/QUOTE] whereabouts?

[QUOTE=TheCreeper;45923120]Read thread before posting. Seriously that post was only a few up from yours...[/QUOTE] That's a vaccine... Vaccines don't really help once you're already infected. Please use your brain before you post.

[QUOTE=Raski;45923137]That's a vaccine... Vaccines don't really help once you're already infected. Please use your brain before you post.[/QUOTE] Well actually there's the new drug ZMapp which was used to treat a couple of peeps who had it and I'm pretty sure they all recovered within like a week or some shit.

[QUOTE=bravehat;45923155]Well actually there's the new drug ZMapp which was used to treat a couple of peeps who had it and I'm pretty sure they all recovered within like a week or some shit.[/QUOTE] Yeah forgot the name, thanks.

[QUOTE=Raski;45923158]Yeah forgot the name, thanks.[/QUOTE] No worries, plus they've found in studies on chimps that the Ebola vaccine they're working on just now seems to confer a long term immunity from Ebola, so things are looking really good for human trails at this point. Although I do find it kinda sad that this sort of shit has only really taken off once a bunch of westerners started catching it, and let's be honest, that's pretty much what's happened.

The ZMapp isn't a 100% cure all though. It has to be administered shortly after symptoms start to show or it's effectiveness starts to rapidly diminish.

[QUOTE=The Aussie;45923238]The ZMapp isn't a 100% cure all though. It has to be administered shortly after symptoms start to show or it's effectiveness starts to rapidly diminish.[/QUOTE] Weren't the victims flown from overseas?

[QUOTE=Raski;45923253]Weren't the victims flown from overseas?[/QUOTE] Most of the victims were indeed flown in from overseas.

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;45923135]whereabouts?[/QUOTE] Djibouti.

[QUOTE=Toy_Soldier;45923314]Djibouti.[/QUOTE] Well on one hand you should be relieved you are located near Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, far away from the Ebola scare On the other hand you're pretty much near war torn countries and high levels of violent crime best of luck

[QUOTE=Toy_Soldier;45923314]Djibouti.[/QUOTE] That's pretty warm as to finding the Ebola. But you should be fine. (I'm not completely knowledgeable on the issue.) I was hoping you to be around South Africa where it's relatively safe, but stay safe anyway!

[QUOTE=Raski;45923137]That's a vaccine... Vaccines don't really help once you're already infected. Please use your brain before you post.[/QUOTE] There are a ton of vaccines that are (only) effective during the incubation period. (They are made from antibodies instead of disease antigens though, and to my knowledge don't provide long-term protection.) Probably the most notable one is that for rabies, which you should get as soon as there's any possibility of being infected since when the symptoms show up it's too late.