Ebola outbreak

• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2014-07-31 17:08
  [video=youtube;JnQVUf775VE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnQVUf775VE[/video]
• Drizzit wrote on 2014-08-01 03:31
  Pandemic2 IRL
  But seriously, be scared. I am.
• Kaeporo wrote on 2014-08-01 09:19
  We're still waiting for the results of our blood tests to see what sort of crazy shit we might have contracted overseas. First MERS, now ebola.
  
  God damn.
• Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2014-08-04 07:58
  Found this.
  

  [Image: http://gaspull.geeksaresexytech.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ebola.jpg]
• Rukuna wrote on 2014-08-04 09:30
  It's ok, we can just move to madagascar
• Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2014-08-04 10:45

  Quote from Space Pirate Nithiel;1237195:

  Found this.
  

  [Image: http://gaspull.geeksaresexytech.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ebola.jpg]

  
  
  Luckily some people do the "worry about things before it's too late" work for us...
• Code2008 wrote on 2014-08-04 16:47
  Meh, I'll worry about it when it actually becomes a problem. Then again, Plague, Inc. anyone?
• Irise wrote on 2014-08-04 19:04
  My friend told me about the outbreak, the way she said it was like this.
  "OMG! Did you hear about the outbreak? It was like a Zombie Apocalypse! It was scary, girl. You have to watch the news."
  I was like errrr did you just say [UB]Zombie Apocalypse[/UB]?
  
  ([S]this is not how the convo started, just an excerpt[/S])
• Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2014-08-04 19:46

  Quote from Campylobacter jejuni;1237217:

  Luckily some people do the "worry about things before it's too late" work for us...

  
  
  Yes, because it's their job to worry about things so that we don't have to.
• Yoorah wrote on 2014-08-04 22:26
  I wouldn't freak out over it, but it's good to know what's going on in the world. I wouldn't encourage ignorance.
  
  Ebola might be airborne to a limited extent in a lab setting, but even if this is true, it's not how Ebola has been infecting people based on historical data.
  

  Author Dr. Gary Kobinger suspects that the virus is transmitted through droplets, not fomites, because evidence of infection in the lungs of the monkeys indicated that the virus was inhaled.
  
  What do these findings mean? First and foremost, Ebola is not suddenly an airborne disease. As expert commentators at ProMED stated, the experiments “demonstrate the susceptibility of pigs to Zaire Ebolavirus and that the virus from infected pigs can be transmitted to macaques under experimental conditions… they fall short of establishing that this is a normal route of transmission in the natural environment.” Furthermore, because human Ebola outbreaks have historically been locally contained, it is unlikely that Ebola can spread between humans via airborne transmission.
  
  - See more at: http://healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/pigs-monkeys-ebola-goes-airborne-112112#sthash.riegt1CL.dpuf

  
  
  Do check out HealtMap, though. It's pretty cool: http://healthmap.org/en/
• Hanna wrote on 2014-08-04 23:33
  I fucking hate that youtuber, he's nothing but a fear mongering moron.
• ranie wrote on 2014-08-04 23:34
  We're all gonna die rip
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2014-08-05 00:36

  Quote from Yoorah;1237298:

  
  Do check out HealtMap, though. It's pretty cool: http://healthmap.org/en/

  
  
  Goodie...I have to worry about Chikungunya virus! Glad I stay inside. If I see a mosquito, it's dead.
  
  Apparently Chikungunya in New York State has been on the rise this year and just recently came up. Yep, definitely a more immediate threat >.>
• Osayidan wrote on 2014-08-05 15:52
  The health map thing is pretty cool. There's nothing around me though. Dunno if that's a good thing or a lack of data.
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2014-08-05 17:55

  Quote from Osayidan;1237472:

  The health map thing is pretty cool. There's nothing around me though. Dunno if that's a good thing or a lack of data.

  
  
  Pretty sure it's not lack of data, we have pretty good health system, even if we can't prevent diseases efficiently at least we will have records.