CDC: Ebola could infect 1.4 million in Liberia and Sierra Leone by end of January
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[quote]The Ebola epidemic in West Africa, already ghastly, could get worse by orders of magnitude, killing hundreds of thousands of people and embedding itself in the human population for years to come, according to two worst-case scenarios from scientists studying the historic outbreak.
The virus could potentially infect 1.4 million people in Liberia and Sierra Leone by the end of January, according to a statistical forecast by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published Tuesday. That number came just hours after a report in the New England Journal of Medicine warned that the epidemic might never be fully controlled and that the virus could become endemic, crippling civic life in the affected countries and presenting an ongoing threat of spreading elsewhere.
These dire scenarios from highly respected medical sources were framed, however, by optimism from U.S. officials that an accelerated response can and will contain the outbreak in the weeks and months ahead.[/quote]
[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-ebola-could-infect-14-million-in-west-africa-by-end-of-january-if-trends-continue/2014/09/23/fc260920-4317-11e4-9a15-137aa0153527_story.html?tid=sm_fb[/url]
i was not going to panic but 1.4 million
[video=youtube;eDd-GXkMrJs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDd-GXkMrJs[/video]
Who wants to share a bunker with me?
[QUOTE=Bradyns;46063531]Who wants to share a bunker with me?[/QUOTE]
ill take the next plane to australia
[QUOTE=Bradyns;46063531]Who wants to share a bunker with me?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=SexualShark;46063537]ill take the next plane to australia[/QUOTE]
Got room for 3?
They are generally making it worse for themselves by literally bringing the virus directly to themselves by raiding hospitals and shit. I understand the panic, but fuck man, what are we suppose to do in a situation where the people believe it's all black magic and hookispokus.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;46063541]black magic and hookispokus.[/QUOTE]
I'd blame that on lack of good education.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;46063541]They are generally making it worse for themselves by literally bringing the virus directly to themselves by raiding hospitals and shit. I understand the panic, but fuck man, what are we suppose to do in a situation where the people believe it's all black magic and hookispokus.[/QUOTE]
It sucks, but I can hardly blame them for being scared and reluctant to trust a bunch of strangers who come in white protective suits, speak a different language and take their family members away for them to never see again.
Seeing how easy conspiracy theories crop up in a society like the west where the majority has at least a basic level of education, I can completely understand why a lot of people are scared have trouble trusting people, even the people who are just trying to help them.
[QUOTE=Aide;46063540]Got room for 3?[/QUOTE]
only if you have a bleach thrower and a bag of funions
[QUOTE=SexualShark;46063575]only if you have a bleach thrower and a bag of funions[/QUOTE]
...and ovum.
Bring plenty of ovum.
Is this the one virus that will kill us all?
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;46063591]Is this the one virus that will kill us all?[/QUOTE]
No. I'd say it's spreading more because of the panic and craze, if the virus spreads to America or Europe, the only thing that will kill us is panic and lack of information. Remember that one person who got ebola? He was quarantined and treated, and he's still alive because of it.
[QUOTE=SexualShark;46063537]ill take the next plane to australia[/QUOTE]
i too prefer death by drop bear
we have the means to contain it, just not the will
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[QUOTE=SexualShark;46063537]ill take the next plane to australia[/QUOTE]
Australia? Everybody knows in case of mass infection Madagascar is the place to be.
Ebola-chan strikes again.
I have to say, how [I]fucking retarded[/I] do you need to be to pretend that this isn't happening?
I mean how fucking dumb would you have to be, to be able to look around you at all of this shit and be like "not real lol". God help these dumbasses [sp]protip: he wont hes not real[/sp]
that's it, rate me dumb fools. Those Africans aren't going to give you politically correct points for their own stupidity!
My old roommate's parents moved back to Liberia this summer with the intent to help rebuild the country. They managed to escape to the US right before shit got out of control with Samuel Doe and had been planning this for years. I sure as hell wouldn't choose to stay as they have.
I'm too cynic to be reading these ebola news.
[QUOTE=En-Guage;46063654]I have to say, how [I]fucking retarded[/I] do you need to be to pretend that this isn't happening?
I mean how fucking dumb would you have to be, to be able to look around you at all of this shit and be like "not real lol". God help these dumbasses [sp]protip: he wont hes not real[/sp][/QUOTE]
What an incredibly narrow-minded view of the situation. Try not seeing everything exclusively from your own perspective once in a while.
[QUOTE=En-Guage;46063654]that's it, rate me dumb fools. Those Africans aren't going to give you politically correct points for their own stupidity![/QUOTE]
I think you're misunderstanding, people aren't rating you dumb to be politically correct or to get Internet points, they're rating you dumb because you're being dumb.
Madagascar has closed its borders.
That Ebola vaccine really can't be ready soon enough.
What? They are refusing to acknowledge something which has been scientifically proved and empyrically supported by everything that is going on around them. So instead of acknowledging the problem and cooperating with aid organisations and the UN they are just hoping the whole situation will blow over instead of taking the proper precuations to ensure more people do not contract the disease and spread it amongst their fellows.
How is that not stupid? Maybe I could understand a medieval society acting in that way, not in 2014. Why defend them? The whole country is going to fall apart and tehir neightbors are now doomed as a result of them being stupid
[QUOTE=En-Guage;46064007]What? They are refusing to acknowledge something which has been scientifically proved and empyrically supported by everything that is going on around them. So instead of acknowledging the problem and cooperating with aid organisations and the UN they are just hoping the whole situation will blow over instead of taking the proper precuations to ensure more people do not contract the disease and spread it amongst their fellows.
How is that not stupid? Maybe I could understand a medieval society acting in that way, not in 2014. Why defend them? The whole country is going to fall apart and tehir neightbors are now doomed as a result of them being stupid[/QUOTE]Because if we don't at least ATTEMPT to help them, it validates all of their suspicions. Plus, it allows Ebola to spread unchecked and NONE of us want that. I guess its really hard to seem empathetic from behind a full body contact suit.
I'm not saying stop trying to help them, I just think it's laughable how afraid some people are in calling out these nations for their behaviour, like they're afraid of being politcally incorrect on an internet forum. They massacred an internation Ebola team whom were just trying to help for christ sake, and the entire way they're going about this just makes me wonder what the average IQ is
[QUOTE=nutcake;46063923]Madagascar has closed its borders.[/QUOTE]
That's weeks ago, they've already shut down schools, enforced martial law, and burnt all rodents at this point.
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