Dallas Ebola patient vomited outside apartment on way to hospital

[MyLittlePony 340]

Time to buy HAZMAT suits for the family Eboloaobama going to spread soon like fire..

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Time to buy HAZMAT suits for the family Eboloaobama going to spread soon like fire..

Yeah, go ahead and buy plenty of them. And a bunker. Don't forget to get yourself a bunker.

[MyLittlePony 340]

Yeah, go ahead and buy plenty of them. And a bunker. Don't forget to get yourself a bunker.

Why do i need a bunker?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Why do i need a bunker?

To be really safe from Eboloaobama - whatever that actually is.

Edited October 6, 2014 by Mr. Big Dog

[MyLittlePony 340]

To be really safe from Eboloaobama.

Anywho 2014 was a great year the world might not make to 2015.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Anywho 2014 was a great year the world might not make to 2015.

Yes, I noticed the sky was hanging a few inches lower today. Looks like it's finally falling. Better get ready.

[Dakine10 5,452]

During those several weeks, these patients would not be contagious, would they be?

Everything I've seen says patients are only contagious while symptomatic. Everything beyond that is theoretical - virus has been recovered up to six weeks in body fluids etc.

I know they consider a patient cured after 21 days without symptoms.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Everything I've seen says patients are only contagious while symptomatic. Everything beyond that is theoretical - virus has been recovered up to six weeks in body fluids etc.

I know they consider a patient cured after 21 days without symptoms.

That makes sense and agrees with what I've been reading about Ebola recently.

[aaydrian 479]

Where did you read that? My reading is that several people who had contracted Ebola have been treated successfully and released from the hospital Ebola-free.

Yes Ebola patients have been treated and released but articles I've read go on to say there is no cure for the disease. I've seen such information in links provided on this site as well as in BBC and CNN web articles.

There's no widespread outrage and certainly no panic over the treatment of a French citizen and the transport for treatment of a Ugandan citizen to German hospitals. Why should there be? Any rational person would not have a problem with that.

It's just funny because some people are going nuts about the outbreak. This naturally had me thinking how the citizens of a country who agreed to treat a victim would respond.

Ebola is one of the few things I worry about falling victim to considering there are people, before this Ebola outbreak occurred, that spent 10 mins in a restroom stall and left said restroom without washing their hands. THAT is what scares me.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

People are going nuts about the outbreak because the US tabloid media gets off on spreading fear. Once again a lot of people are sucked in...

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Yes Ebola patients have been treated and released but articles I've read go on to say there is no cure for the disease. I've seen such information in links provided on this site as well as in BBC and CNN web articles.

Do you have any of those links?

It's just funny because some people are going nuts about the outbreak. This naturally had me thinking how the citizens of a country who agreed to treat a victim would respond.

The sort of people that are going nuts around here are not a species you'd find in recognizable numbers in Europe. Overall, folks on the old continent appear to be better informed and more rational. Plus, they don't have to deal with a black man occupying the White House. That right there is the source of much of the panic around here. If it isn't Ebola it's some other ####### they panic about. They're scared people, they need to be scared of something. It's a tradition for the American conservative.

[aaydrian 479]

Everything I've seen says patients are only contagious while symptomatic. Everything beyond that is theoretical - virus has been recovered up to six weeks in body fluids etc.

I know they consider a patient cured after 21 days without symptoms.

Some reason I'm not getting the idea that the virus eventually exits the body and victims who have survived become virus free.

[aaydrian 479]

Do you have any of those links?

The sort of people that are going nuts around here are not a species you'd find in recognizable numbers in Europe. Overall, folks on the old continent appear to be better informed and more rational. Plus, they don't have to deal with a black man occupying the White House. That right there is the source of much of the panic around here. If it isn't Ebola it's some other ####### they panic about. They're scared people, they need to be scared of something. It's a tradition for the American conservative.

http://m.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29493759

Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage

Spread by body fluids, such as blood and saliva

Fatality rate can reach 90% - but current outbreak has mortality rate of about 70%

Incubation period is two to 21 days

There is no proven vaccine or cure

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

http://m.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29493759

You take the "no proven cure" to mean that one will have the Ebola virus eternally once one has contracted it? That's not what it means. What it means is that there is no medication or therapy yet available to effectively treat Ebola patients. There's hope that the experimental drug that was used successfully on the first Ebola patients in Atlanta will provide a cure but it will take time for that to materialize. I fail to see where in this link there is any mention of a person that contracted Ebola never freeing the body of the virus.

[MyLittlePony 340]

I am scared to death.