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Ebola virus outbreak

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  • #1922
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,021 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Any individual under monitoring for ebola will no longer be allowed to travel by commercial airline. Seems pretty obvious! I guess they didn't think that anyone would do that knowing they could possibly have been exposed to ebola. Apparently the nurse visited a college campus in Ohio and some people there are now under monitoring also.

    She is also being transferred to Emory. Hopefully all new cases will be transferred to specialised facilities to prevent further infections. If that is done then it will 'stop it in it's tracks' like they said they would do.


  • #1923
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,485 ✭✭✭✭josip


    littlemac1980 wrote: »
    Cork radio - Red fm just reported someone in N. Ireland being tested for Ebola. No other source as yet.

    Edit : Radio Kerry website just now reported she tested negative.

    Cork people are fast but Kerry people are way ahead


  • #1924
    sashafierce
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  • #1925
    Peist2007
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Peist2007


    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    Sounds like it has :pac::pac::pac:

    Yep dont bother dealing with any points raised. You arent able to


  • #1926
    asteroids over berlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭asteroids over berlin


    Efforts are ramping up, it is actually difficult enough to catch it, however, the virus getting into first world countries such as the states, europe etc, could have serious implications, simply because the wealthy travel more, such as that daft girl in the usa, however the wealthy are well equipped to suppress it though but there will be a good lot of fatalities too, however unfortunately a lot of people are thick as bricks these days and only care about numero uno, so perhaps it might get out of control!!


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  • #1927
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,190 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    sashafierce wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    I don't think there is one as yet, but from that doctor's account a few pages back, plenty of rehydration and balancing of body salts is one way to counteract the disease, but I suppose it depends on what strain and how badly you are infected,

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #1928
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,021 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    The second nurse was symptomatic when she flew back to Dallas, having had a low grade fever whilst on the plane. I really hope a fever was the extent of her symptoms

    Seriously, a health care professional who recently treated an ebola patient, has a colleague who has been diagnosed with ebola and is now registering a fever should really know better than to get on a plane.


    http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/15/second-dallas-hospital-worker-diagnosed-ebola/17290677/


  • #1929
    catrat12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    How scared should we be in Ireland


  • #1930
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,623 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    catrat12 wrote: »
    How scared should we be in Ireland

    Not at all. At least not presently.

    Even if there was a small outbreak here there'd be little sense in worrying too much about it. If people in your town / village etc get it then it might be time to start worrying.


  • #1931
    Lucy and Harry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 763 ✭✭✭Lucy and Harry


    Does Ireland have anti aircraft guns?For the greater good and survival of the Irish species.

    I knew I would be alive for the end of the earth.


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  • #1932
    Andy-Pandy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭Andy-Pandy


    My cats have been bringing home phesants and rabbits recently, I was getting angry at them but now I'm thinking they will keep me fed in the up coming appocolypse.


  • #1933
    catrat12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    Im just thinking bout it all the time and have young daughter and thinking bout her, honestly I dont think were prepared here, im in college at the moment and if I walked in to the college doctor saying i just travelled from west africa and had a fever she would laugh and give me a disprin no joke.


  • #1934
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,623 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    catrat12 wrote: »
    Im just thinking bout it all the time and have young daughter and thinking bout her, honestly I dont think were prepared here, im in college at the moment and if I walked in to the college doctor saying i just travelled from west africa and had a fever she would laugh and give me a disprin no joke.

    If you had just traveled from West Africa and had a fever you shouldn't be going into college in the first place :p


  • #1935
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Lucy and Harry wrote: »
    Does Ireland have anti aircraft guns?For the greater good and survival of the Irish species.

    Yes - it has Swedish-made Bofors 40mm radar-controlled L/70s.

    I haven't a clue what that means either (it's from Wiki) but I'll definitely drop it into the conversation if I ever get an interview for a job as a nightclub doorman or PE teacher.


  • #1936
    catrat12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    well that nurse was stupid enough to get on a plane so you never know, people do not realise how serious this is.


  • #1937
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,485 ✭✭✭✭josip


    For all the panic merchants
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057262598


  • #1938
    crannglas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭crannglas


    Anybody read the poll on who is next for the Ebola virus to hit? UK is sixth on poll and France and Spain. Top three places Irish travel. Then nigeria . We have way go to much traffic. I reckon first sign of it hitting any places Irish traveling from or other nationalities. They need screening before being landed. And if gets worse close down borders with all flights travel and trucks bringing on imports. The we don't need to screen is complete negligence by Irish government
    They will wait till it gets here (when there really should be no way it could) and someone dies before they do anything.


  • #1939
    realweirdo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 974 ✭✭✭realweirdo


    Well the case of the nurse in America confirms that you can travel around and go a long way displaying little or no outward symptoms at all. I am still sceptical as to how airport screening is supposed to catch someone undergoing early stage ebola infection. Infected patients can function quite well in the early stages, perhaps up to 2 weeks, even in this case getting on a flight. The infection however proceeds rapidly in the final week, leading to death within a few days after the first serious symptoms display.

    The only way to stop the spread of ebola at this stage is to deal with it in West Africa. If it escapes there in any serious numbers, then everyone is in big trouble. As for those people who assume it won't make it to the west if it does escape west africa, god help their sense. Like I said before, ebola makes HIV look benign.


  • #1940
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    My sister is sick at the moment with a 'flu' if she's the first irish person to get ebola that'd be bad

    :(


  • #1941
    Knex*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,475 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    I'm starting to regret my decision to move to Austin three weeks ago! :pac:

    Very hard to say what way this virus will go, it really is.


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  • #1942
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    All those liberians and people from sierra leone, fleeing from the ebola virus with their direct flights to dublin and whatnot...


  • #1943
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    frozenfrozen wrote: »
    My sister is sick at the moment with a 'flu' if she's the first irish person to get ebola that'd be bad

    :(

    Unless she is just back from the Texas Presbyterian hospital after working as a nurse or from a whistlestop tour of west africa's biggest sh1tholes, I'd say she'll be fine like.


  • #1944
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,623 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    crannglas wrote: »
    Anybody read the poll on who is next for the Ebola virus to hit? UK is sixth on poll and France and Spain. Top three places Irish travel.

    Seems like an odd thing to do a poll for =/


  • #1945
    realweirdo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 974 ✭✭✭realweirdo


    I am pie wrote: »
    All those liberians and people from sierra leone, fleeing from the ebola virus with their direct flights to dublin and whatnot...

    Luckily there are no direct flights to dublin. They'd have to fly via the UK, where hopefully there is some sort of screening.


  • #1946
    ProfessorPlum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,820 ✭✭✭ProfessorPlum


    Peist2007 wrote: »
    Yep dont bother dealing with any points raised. You arent able to

    I thought it was quite funny, you must have missed the joke!


    (Plane - airborne)


  • #1947
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    realweirdo wrote: »
    Luckily there are no direct flights to dublin. They'd have to fly via the UK, where hopefully there is some sort of screening.

    Aye, that was kind of my point.

    Strangely africans living in poverty in rural sierra leone aren't likely to be spending the average annual wage on a flight into heathrow.

    I bet almost no one is stopped at the UK airport borders puking up ebola left right and centre coming in from a direct African flight. If they profile it will work against them. More likely to crop up in southern spain and the italian med, migrants crossing on boats in cramped conditions.

    Frankly, those porous borders are likely to be much more of a problem than direct flights.


  • #1948
    crannglas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭crannglas


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Seems like an odd thing to do a poll for =/
    Lol sorry its the stats on it with most likely next places to hit. UK sixth on the list. Doesn't that worry you.


  • #1949
    crannglas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭crannglas


    I am pie wrote: »
    Aye, that was kind of my point.

    Strangely africans living in poverty in rural sierra leone aren't likely to be spending the average annual wage on a flight into heathrow.

    I bet almost no one is stopped at the UK airport borders puking up ebola left right and centre coming in from a direct African flight. If they profile it will work against them. More likely to crop up in southern spain and the italian med, migrants crossing on boats in cramped conditions.

    Frankly, those porous borders are likely to be much more of a problem than direct flights.
    And come into contact with people travelling to UK or Ireland. Cross borders into France and on and on.


  • #1950
    sashafierce
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  • #1951
    crannglas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭crannglas


    realweirdo wrote: »
    Well the case of the nurse in America confirms that you can travel around and go a long way displaying little or no outward symptoms at all. I am still sceptical as to how airport screening is supposed to catch someone undergoing early stage ebola infection. Infected patients can function quite well in the early staiges, perhaps up to 2 weeks, even in this case getting on a flight. The infection however proceeds rapidly in the final week, leading to death within a few days after the first serious symptoms display.

    The only way to stop the spread of ebola at this stage is to deal with it in West Africa. If it escapes there in any serious numbers, then everyone is in big trouble. As for those people who assume it won't make it to the west if it does escape west africa, god help their sense. Like I said before, ebola makes HIV look benign.
    If that's the case anyone who is travelling from countries or have contact with people travelling should be blocked from travelling.


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