• Ghana hosts crisis talks on Ebola virus outbreak.
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The problem with the outbreak is distrust of doctors. VICE interviewed someone from MSF that basically said "people don't want to get their relatives to the doctors, because the chance is so high that they won't get back out from there"
[QUOTE=BreenIsALie;45282707]The problem with the outbreak is distrust of doctors. VICE interviewed someone from MSF that basically said "people don't want to get their relatives to the doctors, because the chance is so high that they won't get back out from there"[/QUOTE] Distrust how? Distrust of not being able to go home or what?
[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;45282764]Distrust how? Distrust of not being able to go home or what?[/QUOTE] From their perspective: A relative gets a fever and goes to a doctor. There is a 90 % chance that the relative leaves in a bag. Some might not trust the politicians and doctors that say there is ebola (VICE had stuff on that too, people didn't belive it existed in their country), so for them it could look like the doctors are killing them Scientists have good evidence that bushmeat (basically meat from monkeys and similar) is to blame here, and there is a law against it, but it's widely sold and consumed anyway
[QUOTE=Map in a box;45275892]Everyone I tell about Ebola doesn't believe me until they read about it. It's truly terrifying and proof people need to help take care of themselves to prevent disasters like Ebola from spreading. Fortunately(or rather unfortunately) Ebola kills so fast it doesn't often get a chance to spread.. which while terrible gives us a chance. The worst bit is, if it were to somehow be used as a bioweapon as is in a first world country and spread enough, it would be unstoppable. But we're busy with petty politics and seeing which political person gets the larger paycheck and bickering to bother fund helping cure disasters like this. :saddowns:[/QUOTE] It's kinda interesting how it was used in starwars EU as well. If you've ever heard of the Krytos virus, it's pretty much a carbon copy of ebola, except that it was designed to only target non humans. The description on how quick it is, how the infection proceeds is pretty much 1 to 1 to ebola. WHen the books came out, people considered it too brutal, that nothing so brutal could actually exist. The writers then put a lampshade on it and drew the parallel to ebola. Interestingly it also technically has the same weakness as Ebola. It's too fast, too brutal and too efficient. Almost everyone that gets infected by it dies and they die pretty quickly. The virus has a habit of killing people faster than they can spread the disease. @reston - reston actually has way way lower mortality to ebola. The two are similar, but reston by itself iss generally recoverable from. It would probably not be nearly as brutal as something to an airborne ebola. The bigger issue is that the human infection with reston may have come from pigs which is the concerning bit. [QUOTE=The Aussie;45282142]Hey, i wrote this. Really sums up the virus in my opinion. [editline]4th July 2014[/editline] Reston isn't only found in labs though. Luckily it's confined to great apes.[/QUOTE] monkeys actually. And pigs.
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