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Ebola virus outbreak

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  • #2882
    ardinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,249 ✭✭✭ardinn


    I will say I was worried at the time. Did we have a great escape, did the world react properly and contain it with proper measures or did we get lucky after an incredibly slow response to the initial crisis??
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  • #2883
    Nucular Arms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭Nucular Arms


    ardinn wrote: »
    I will say I was worried at the time. Did we have a great escape, did the world react properly and contain it with proper measures or did we get lucky after an incredibly slow response to the initial crisis??

    I was in Africa at the time (albeit south africa) and I must admit I was rather concerned!


  • #2884
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,021 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    techdiver wrote: »
    So, a few months on and the "crisis" had passed. Where are all the doom mongers? I thought we all should be dead by now??

    Can some of them explain what went wrong with their predictions?? :-)

    I'm sure the same people will be eagerly waiting for the next "event", to jump upon and stir up fear....

    People changed their habits in the affected areas ie bodies were disposed of immediately rather than being washed beforehand, and traditional funerals decreased, increased awareness of the importance of hand washing and the curfews that were put in place so that bodies could be collected and new cases found. All this would have helped slow the spread of the disease and coupled with increased international aid and volunteers made a huge difference. Of course we will never know how bad it would have got without these things but all the projections were based on no interventions.


  • #2885
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭gctest50


    techdiver wrote: »
    So, a few months on and the "crisis" had passed. Where are all the doom mongers? I thought we all should be dead by now?? .......


    would a bit of H58 do for now ? mad for the bit of upskilling so it is
    Unappreciated global spread of multiple antimicrobial resistant typhoid

    H58 Typhi is often resistant to the first-line antimicrobials commonly used to treat the disease, and is continuing to evolve as it spreads to new regions and populations, acquiring novel mutations providing resistance to newer antimicrobial agents, such as ciprofloxacin and azithromycin.

    http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3281.html


  • #2886
    Fallschirmjager
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭Fallschirmjager


    techdiver wrote: »
    So, a few months on and the "crisis" had passed. Where are all the doom mongers? I thought we all should be dead by now??

    Can some of them explain what went wrong with their predictions?? :-)

    I'm sure the same people will be eagerly waiting for the next "event", to jump upon and stir up fear....

    Sorry I'm too busy to reply as I have racial tensioned Fukushima poisoned bird flu coated in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster..and just about to eat my mad cow diseased gmo egg, while on the phone getting brain cancer watching peak oil fracking programme on climate change with no ozone layer...

    Still it could be worse...


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  • #2887
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,021 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Saw today that the Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola has been readmitted to hospital. This just after the good news that the affected countries had seen no new cases for a week. Sounds like recovering from this disease can be a long term battle.
    A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone last year is in a "serious condition" after being readmitted to an isolation unit in London.
    NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde confirmed that the virus is still present in Pauline Cafferkey's body after being left over from the original infection.
    She is not thought to be contagious.
    The 39-year-old has been flown back to the isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
    Bodily tissues can harbour the Ebola infection months after the person appears to have fully recovered.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34483584


  • #2888
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    techdiver wrote: »
    So, a few months on and the "crisis" had passed. Where are all the doom mongers? I thought we all should be dead by now??

    Can some of them explain what went wrong with their predictions?? :-)

    I'm sure the same people will be eagerly waiting for the next "event", to jump upon and stir up fear....

    I was reminded of this ebola panic today. The whole world went a bit OTT. Is the ebola outbreak contained? Did it ever spread outside the 4 west African countries?


  • #2889
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Baggy Trousers wrote: »
    I was reminded of this ebola panic today. The whole world went a bit OTT. Is the ebola outbreak contained? Did it ever spread outside the 4 west African countries?

    Read the post above yours?

    Anyway, thoughts to nurse Pauline, she is now critically ill :(


  • #2890
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    Stheno wrote: »
    Read the post above yours?

    Anyway, thoughts to nurse Pauline, she is now critically ill :(

    Yes I saw that and I hope she gets better, it's an awful virus.

    However I was asking in general terms whether the ebola outbreak in west Africa was contained etc.


  • #2891
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Baggy Trousers wrote: »
    Yes I saw that and I hope she gets better, it's an awful virus.

    However I was asking in general terms whether the ebola outbreak in west Africa was contained etc.

    Yes


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  • #2892
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,625 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Saw the news earlier today. Awful to hear that her health has deteriorated to critical.

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  • #2893
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    Found a recent article here;

    http://www.vox.com/2015/10/7/9474621/ebola-epidemic-over
    But today, it seems the worst Ebola epidemic in history might be over: For the first time since the outbreak was declared last March, the World Health Organization reported no new cases of Ebola over the past week.
    According to the WHO, this is part of a trend: The number of cases has remained below 10 per week for 11 weeks in a row, mostly in western Guinea and Sierra Leone.


  • #2894
    PucaMama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭PucaMama


    Baggy Trousers wrote: »
    I was reminded of this ebola panic today. The whole world went a bit OTT. Is the ebola outbreak contained? Did it ever spread outside the 4 west African countries?

    A bit OTT? If they hadn't reacted like they did it would have killed so many more


  • #2895
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    PucaMama wrote: »
    A bit OTT? If they hadn't reacted like they did it would have killed so many more

    What I meant is that there was a lot of misinformation, paranoia and irrational fear outside of west Africa. While the action within west Africa was mayhem and underfunded at first, it quickly leapt up a few gears when an ebola case hit US shores.


  • #2896
    PucaMama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭PucaMama


    Baggy Trousers wrote: »
    What I meant is that there was a lot of misinformation, paranoia and irrational fear outside of west Africa. While the action within west Africa was mayhem and underfunded at first, it quickly leapt up a few gears when an ebola case hit US shores.

    Because it's a very dangerous disease. People got this idea into their heads that it's not very infectious. Rubbish. It's a very very dangerous infection. There's no being too careful with it.


  • #2897
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    PucaMama wrote: »
    Because it's a very dangerous disease. People got this idea into their heads that it's not very infectious. Rubbish. It's a very very dangerous infection. There's no being too careful with it.

    I stand by my point. I know exactly how dangerous it is. The outside world reaction was still OTT in my opinion.


  • #2898
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Wishing the nurse the best, though as for the panic this caused last year... it was kind of hilarious, in terms of how easy it is to whip up hysteria. It had been for a long time, but the truth is, once it because a threat to white people it was always going to be taken care of ASAP.


  • #2899
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    Billy86 wrote: »
    Wishing the nurse the best, though as for the panic this caused last year... it was kind of hilarious, in terms of how easy it is to whip up hysteria. It had been for a long time, but the truth is, once it because a threat to white people it was always going to be taken care of ASAP.

    Went back a load of pages on this thread and immediately found this:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=92580059&postcount=1431


  • #2900
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    smash wrote: »
    It would be great if it was another bird flu/swine flu panic but it's not. Lets face it, it's by far the biggest threat to humanity.

    :)


  • #2901
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    Creative Juices wrote: »
    Guys guys guys , worst hit areas???

    It's 4 countries in Africa. There are 54 countries in Africa. That's 7% of the countries.

    Nigeria and Senegal beat it quickly. Congo have it in one small area of one province and they have proven their ability to beat it several times in the past.

    By all means pump tonnes of resources into these 4 countries but closing their borders would absolutely send the wrong message and lead to cover-ups.

    w3.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=421&language_id=ENG

    PLEASE do some research before posting, we're all stocked up on crazy here! :)

    Some balance


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  • #2902
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Baggy Trousers wrote: »
    Went back a load of pages on this thread and immediately found this:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=92580059&postcount=1431
    :pac:

    Even at the time you could ask almost anyone in the medical profession and they would say it was nothing to be worried about. Yet despite many people asking their doctors and being told just that, they persisted in their worry because some people just are not satisfied with life unless there is something to fear in it. :p


  • #2903
    mjv2ydratu679c
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭mjv2ydratu679c


    Billy86 wrote: »
    :pac:

    Even at the time you could ask almost anyone in the medical profession and they would say it was nothing to be worried about. Yet despite many people asking their doctors and being told just that, they persisted in their worry because some people just are not satisfied with life unless there is something to fear in it. :p

    Ah yeah sure didn't the financial regulator say in 2008 that the banks were fine and there was nothing to worry about but you know some people just are not satisfied with life unless there is something to fear in it.


  • #2904
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Emiliano Panicky Seed wrote: »
    Ah yeah sure didn't the financial regulator say in 2008 that the banks were fine and there was nothing to worry about but you know some people just are not satisfied with life unless there is something to fear in it.

    Look out everybody, the straw men are attacking and the bankers are spreading Ebola!!


  • #2905
    mjv2ydratu679c
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭mjv2ydratu679c


    Billy86 wrote: »
    Look out everybody, the straw men are attacking and the bankers are spreading Ebola!!

    No my point is don't always take what people in authority tell you as gospel unless you are a sheep whose easily led. Not sure why I even bothered replying to someone who use caps and bold and missed the entire point of my comment.


  • #2906
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Emiliano Panicky Seed wrote: »
    No my point is don't always take what people in authority tell you as gospel unless you are a sheep whose easily led. Not sure why I even bothered replying to someone who use caps and bold and missed the entire point of my comment.
    The bold and enlarged text was because your comment was silly, and Ebola was never a threat once there was even the vaguest sniff of it near white people.


  • #2907
    mjv2ydratu679c
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭mjv2ydratu679c


    Billy86 wrote: »
    The bold and enlarged text was because your comment was silly, and Ebola was never a threat once there was even the vaguest sniff of it near white people.

    That wasn't my point but I'll leave you to it.


  • #2908
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Emiliano Panicky Seed wrote: »
    That wasn't my point but I'll leave you to it.
    Bankers lied publicly about the debt they had created = doctors are probably lying privately, telling people Ebola was not going to be a big threat (which it wasn`t). Experts opinions should not be trusted.

    Silly, like I said.


  • #2909
    mjv2ydratu679c
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭mjv2ydratu679c


    Billy86 wrote: »
    Bankers lied publicly about the debt they had created = doctors are probably lying privately, telling people Ebola was not going to be a big threat (which it wasn`t). Experts opinions should not be trusted.

    Silly, like I said.

    Grand I'm silly.


  • #2910
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Silly Billy lol


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  • #2911
    Dr Turk Turkelton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    Billy86 wrote: »
    Wishing the nurse the best, though as for the panic this caused last year... it was kind of hilarious, in terms of how easy it is to whip up hysteria. It had been for a long time, but the truth is, once it because a threat to white people it was always going to be taken care of ASAP.

    Thank fcuk, cause I'm a white person and I didn't fancy catching Ebola.


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