Ebola virus outbreak

The man on the Canadian flight tested negative for Ebola.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sick-man-in-saskatoon-tests-negative-for-ebola-1.2585293

snubbleste

It's spreading!
To Liberia
http://www.frontpageafricaonline.com/index.php/health-sci/1181-ebola-presence-confirmed

snubbleste

It's spreading!
To SierraLeone
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/29/us-guinea-ebola-idUSBREA2S0JA20140329

ardinn

This is the Zombie apocalypse everyone was so keen on getting involved in!

Im heading over to Zombie survival! then out for some ammo!

Riddle101

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Na, you'd be surprised how close Ireland and Sierra Leone really are.

And of course, no Irishman would be complete without his paddy cap.

snubbleste

MSF said that the Zaire strain of Ebola virus was the most aggressive and deadly, killing 90%+ of patients.
"We are facing an epidemic of a magnitude never before seen in terms of the distribution of cases in Guinea.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/03/msf-guinea-ebola-outbreak-unprecedented-2014331145751695533.html

It's been found in the built up area of the capital Conakry (population 2 million).
http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2014/03/27/les-premiers-cas-averes-de-virus-ebola-signales-a-conakry_4391163_3212.html

Was just reading on what staff have to go through..

When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release.

MadYaker

It spreads quickly because central african hospitals don't have the facilities to contain it, their hospitals have very poor hygiene controls. It isn't airborn but if patients aren't contained properly contact their with blood, saliva, vomit, sweat etc would be enough to infect and with Ebola patients theres going to be lots of vomit and blood.....

A few weeks after I came back from a holiday in Uganda a few years ago I developed flu symptoms so I went to the doctor because I wasn't taking any chances, after I told him where id been for the previous month he told me to go straight to hospital where they tested me for all kinds of thing including Ebola so doctors here are aware of it. Id say they'd have no problem containing it once they realised what they were dealing with.

FullblownRose

Why have the W.H.O not advised travel restrictions for the affected countries? That seems a bit lax...

snubbleste

Suspected cases in Mali
http://news.iafrica.com/worldnews/911493.html

Homer

It's been confirmed that Mary Harney has contracted the Ebola flesh-eating disease.

Doctors have given her 27 years to live.

snubbleste

Locals attack Ebola treatment clinic in Guinea claiming MSF introduced deadly disease to the country..

The violence took place in Macenta, where at least 14 people have died from Ebola. The mob of people who descended upon the clinic accused MSF of bringing Ebola to Guinea, where there had never previously been any cases. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-clinic-in-guinea-evacuated-after-attack-1.2599555

My name is URL

snubbleste wrote: »

Locals attack Ebola treatment clinic in Guinea claiming MSF introduced deadly disease to the country..

That's fcuked up. Just goes to show how dangerous it is for uneducated people to become scared of something!

I mean look at it from their ignorant perspective. Doctors pre-emptively arrive before the virus takes hold, set up a containment centre and then all of a sudden people start getting sick and are being carted off to this place which they never return from.

It doesn't help that they're very tribal and superstitious people either.

FullblownRose

They have the custom of washing the bodies of the dead and the aid workers have to explain that they cant do that because the bodies are still germy. I think with Marburg outbreaks they put bleach in the bucket of water they were putting their hands into to wash the people with and that got around that particular problem. I can see how easily people might become scared and superstitious in a situation like that.

up for anything

flynnlives wrote: »

were this to mutate into an airborne virus then we would be in serious ****. But i doubt it has the capabilities to mutate into such a strain.

http://www.healthline.com/health/ebola-hemorrhagic-fever

There is some evidence that the Ebola virus can be spread through the air from nonhuman primate to nonhuman primate, such as monkey-to-monkey, in research facilities. No definitive studies have proven this, however.

downonthefarm

You have to admire nature.
She has some ingenious ways of culling the population on an already burdened Continent

Schwiiing

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

LOL. I'm not entirely sure our lot could contain a severe out-break of Hiccups tbh. I'd have more faith in the whole "it's a long way off and the last outbreak didn't reach here". Or anywhere else outside a few African hot-spots.

I can imagine some tanned returned traveler rocking up to Portiuncula Hospital with their gee coming up their throat and some worn-out junior Doctor with a thermometer, two band-aids and some saline solution scratching their head and going "Well Lads, it could be really bad trots. Did you have a curry last night?"

A good dose of Ebola would do Ballinasloe the world of good. Especially up round the St Grellans Hymany Poolboy areas. And a decent outbreak around the first week in October would do wonders for some of it's more 'nomadic' visitors.

snubbleste

Death toll now exceeds 100. Outbreak expected to last months.
Current Ebola epidemic 'unprecedented', WHO warns

snubbleste

Death toll hits 220
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/10/can-anything-stop-west-africas-outbreak-of-ebola/

flynnlives

flynnlives wrote: »

Poor hygiene conditions in these hospitals are the reasons it spreads. The same cant be said for a developed country.

The bugs in Irish hospitals would have their way with the Ebola Virus and then eat it.

Bafucin

old_aussie wrote: »

This outbreak seems to be moving quickly

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-23/ebola-outbreak-in-guinea-leaves-at-least-59-people-dead/5339338

The outbreak is around the common boarders of the three countries, Guinea, Sierra leone and liberia.

Ebola, one of the world's most virulent diseases, was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1976

Hope the outbreak can be isolated asap.

It made it over from Africa to the UK in the 1800's and that was when travel was not so common.

Very dangerous.

PucaMama

Deleted User wrote: »

The bugs in Irish hospitals would have their way with the Ebola Virus and then eat it.

there is nothing in irish hospitals as dangerous as ebola.

gctest50

PucaMama wrote: »

there is nothing in irish hospitals as dangerous as ebola.

clueless overtired staff members?

PucaMama

gctest50 wrote: »

clueless overtired staff ?

even overworked staff wont kill over 90 percent of the patients.

how nice of you to call us clueless tho :rolleyes:

gctest50

PucaMama wrote: »

even overworked staff wont kill over 90 percent of the patients.

how nice of you to call us clueless tho :rolleyes:

stop being touchy about it - obviously most are excellent

PucaMama

gctest50 wrote: »

stop being touchy about it - obviously most are excellent

point still is that ebola is far more dangerous than anything we have here at the minute and we should be hoping it burns itself out before it goes any further

gctest50

Be a bit rough looking after someone with it, no vaccine for you, no cure for them

donegal__road

Bafucin wrote: »

It made it over from Africa to the UK in the 1800's and that was when travel was not so common.

Very dangerous.

All it would take is one infected person to fly to London, possibly contaminating many on the flight.

PucaMama

gctest50 wrote: »

Be a bit rough looking after someone with it, no vaccine for you, no cure for them

all you can do is use the right equipment to protect yourself, would just be cruel to leave them suffer through it alone

How Soon Is Now

I always find this kinda thing really interesting and even more so because really for something so extremely serious it doesn't get a lot of coverage that it maybe should.