Ebola outbreak continues

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It's been going on for a while and they just haven't been able to get a handle on it. Over 400 dead so far and no sign that it's being contained. Poverty and broken social systems aren't helping - but that's to be expected in places where colonial wars continue to be fought for control of minerals.
I imagine that the conditions for transmission are quite good now in several war torn regions. Let's hope no-one takes it on an aeroplane and goes somewhere else.
 
Ebola outbreak continues and carers are contracting the disease from victims and dying. How long until these countries run out of those people who aee willing to risk their lives to stop this disease? Will it eventually fizzle out or is it heading for a major breakout - Africa is full of poverty and roving governmental and nongovernmental armies and itinerant and transient populations.
It seems to me if there was ever a wirghy threat to declare war on, ebola is a good candidate. A billion dollars (about a month of afghan war) would go a long way.

http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/#!/content/1.2719438/
 
Is this the breakout moment? Has it already happened. Is it now beyond control? I don't know how they come up with the 30,000 people they want to follow up with, that seems a little high to me. The man was symptomatic on two aircraft so we could put 400 to 600 exposed there, perhaps we might consider live virus could have hung on for a few more flights so triple that and we have about a thousand people. He travelled through at least 3 airports so there could be a couple of thousand in traffic passing by infectious material but after that - well, people who were newly exposed at that time would not have become infectious right away. Still, if two or three people got sick on the plane and wandering around in some new unsuspecting cities things could get ... uncomfortable.
 
cecilia said:
it always amazes me that people like her can be so giving,
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It always amazes me that we ship people back into population centers after they've been working with ebola.
I know that people have issues with the word "quarantine" but 21 days in a private room with tropical beach access seems humane to me and it needn't be expensive.
 
that would be fine. I think the problem is that it appears as if No ONE is prepared to comfortably quarantine anyone and that means it ends up being some sort of camping out/prison horror situation.

make humane, decent preparations and I'm in
 
Just as an aside, the London case *is* the Glasgow case; she was flown down there for more intensive care.
 
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