Honey Boo Boo 203 Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Inb4 the serum mutates into an airborne zombie virus and infects us all. A dolla makes me holla!đ°đľđ¸ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economy 52,861 Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Any chance of the virus mutating and becoming airborne later on? Or am I just thinking of that movie, Outbreak? different strains of Ebola have existed sinse the 70s that we know of. None of them have ever been airbourne Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economy 52,861 Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 This is what I think people don't understand. Ebola is as bad as it is out there because they don't have the ability to treat it properly.well, we dont have a cure for it. Recently they seem to have developed a syrum that helps so we will see how that goes But typically with Ebola being in the developed world or Africa wont make a huge difference because we dont know how to treat it. The only thing we can do africa cant is have things giving them oxygen, hook them up to I.V etc The difference between the developed world and Africa isnt so much on how severe it is if you get it... The main difference is that due to better hygene, in the Developed world it wouldnt spread as easily so an outbreak would be far less likely! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
 Morphine Prince 109,683 Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Apparently it wasn't only one man being tested in New York, but SIX. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
capso 0 Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Apparently it wasn't only one man being tested in New York, but SIX. Apparently they had been tested earlier, and were all fine (as in, didn't have ebola) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
 Morphine Prince 109,683 Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 (edited) Hospitals across the country are isolating and testing potential Ebola patients, erring on the side of caution as the largest Ebola outbreak to date rages in West Africa. A 46-year-old Columbus, Ohio, woman who recently traveled to one of the three countries affected by the outbreak is being held in isolation at a local hospital, the Columbus health department said today. She was hospitalized several days ago but is Ă¢ââÂŹĂ âdoing wellĂ¢ââÂŹ as she awaits Ebola test results from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which are expected today or Wednesday, the health department said. The CDC last week sent a health alert to hospitals across the country urging them to ask patients about their travel history to help identify potential Ebola cases. The CDC said has tested blood samples from six people with possible Ebola symptoms who had recently traveled to West Africa. Emergency room physicians at Johns Hopkins Medicine thought one of their patients had Ebola Friday, but it turned out to be a false alarm, according to an internal memo obtained by ABC News. The patient was ultimately diagnosed with malaria, but Dr. Trish Perl, a senior epidemiologist at the hospital in Baltimore, wrote in a memo to her staff that those involved did a "remarkable job" identifying and isolating the patient as well as making sure a minimal number of people were at risk for contracting the virus. "This is a 'wake up' call for all of us to recognize that we are vulnerable because of the patients we serve and our location," Perl wrote. Johns Hopkins Medicine said it could not provide more information because of patient confidentiality and federal privacy laws. "Our staff trains frequently to ensure that the hospital is prepared for all types of scenarios," the hospital said in a statement to ABC News. "If a patient were to have suspected Ebola virus, the patient would be placed in isolation, staff would begin taking standard precautions, and the patient would be evaluated by our infectious disease specialists." On Monday, Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City announced that it was treating a potential Ebola patient who recently traveled to West Africa and was experiencing a high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms. Ă¢ââÂŹĂ âMany things cause fever and gastrointestinal symptoms,Ă¢ââÂŹ ABC News chief health and medical editor Dr. Richard Besser said shortly after Mount SinaiĂ¢ââââ¢s announcement on Monday. Ă¢ââÂŹĂ âThe steps they are taking are wise given the travel history, but nothing about the symptoms is specific to Ebola.Ă¢ââÂŹ Doctors isolated the patient and sent blood samples to the CDC for testing, but Mount Sinai officials said at a news conference Monday night that the patient was "unlikely" to have the deadly virus. The death toll of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone climbed to 887, the World Health Organization said Monday. 1,603 people have been infected, in all. Source: https://gma.yahoo.com/ebola-false-alarm-johns-hopkins-162006713.html Edited August 6, 2014 by Morphine Prince Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
 Morphine Prince 109,683 Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Apparently they had been tested earlier, and were all fine (as in, didn't have ebola) Oh, ok, good. I haven't kept up with the Ebola news today lol. Just started checking now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan 20,827 Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Is this going to be another swine flu deal where the whole world freaks out for months and then suddenly we don't hear about it again like it never existed? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
capso 0 Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 I'm so terrified. Honestly, everyone who has been to that area needs to bring themselves to a hospital to get checked out immediately. Even if they feel fine, because it's known that symptoms don't show for a week or two. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Above You 57 Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Here we go again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
 Morphine Prince 109,683 Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Is this going to be another swine flu deal where the whole world freaks out for months and then suddenly we don't hear about it again like it never existed? Hopefully. We don't want it to actually become some widespread disease. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodo 313 Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Is this going to be another swine flu deal where the whole world freaks out for months and then suddenly we don't hear about it again like it never existed? i watched contagion btw sorta made me paranoid now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sizzily 14,571 Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 (edited) Is this going to be another swine flu deal where the whole world freaks out for months and then suddenly we don't hear about it again like it never existed? Ebola's a lot worse than swine flu. Edited August 6, 2014 by Dr McDreamy Inside my head I have the best time Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus 1,494 Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Is this going to be another swine flu deal where the whole world freaks out for months and then suddenly we don't hear about it again like it never existed? Swine flu: At least one in five people worldwide were infected with swine flu during the first year of the 2009-2010 H1N1 pandemic. Fatality rate... less than 0.02%.  Ebola: Fatality rate... 50% - 90%.  There is some cause for fear. It's better to be a little paranoid as opposed to blissfully ignorant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
capso 0 Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Oh, ok, good. I haven't kept up with the Ebola news today lol. Just started checking now. I'm terrified. Hopefully that woman in Ohio is fine, too. I'm actually becoming scared of leaving my house. Where I live, I'm sure people go on extravagant vacations to Africa, and who knows what they were exposed to I'm being overly paranoid, but this disease has haunted me for years tbh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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