Anyone following the ebola outbreak?

[Watoshi-Dimobuto]

I hope governments take this seriously. All people coming from this infected areas shall be mandatory quarantine for 30 days. If this disease will spread to a big cities in America or Europe. This is very catastrophic given mortality rate of this disease. And this virus has a very big chance to mutate to become airborne like the bubonic plague.

[DrG]

I hope governments take this seriously. All people coming from this infected areas shall be mandatory quarantine for 30 days. If this disease will spread to a big cities in America or Europe. This is very catastrophic given mortality rate of this disease. And this virus has a very big chance to mutate to become airborne like the bubonic plague.

I see Ebola has already claimed it's first victim - your mind.

1) It does not have a very big chance to mutate.  Where are you getting this from. Do you even know what classification of pathogen it is?
2) Bubonic Plague is now spread via airborne transmission rather than rodent/tick vector?

Feel free to comment on how bad it is, but don't spout off facts that are anything but 

[Watoshi-Dimobuto]

I hope governments take this seriously. All people coming from this infected areas shall be mandatory quarantine for 30 days. If this disease will spread to a big cities in America or Europe. This is very catastrophic given mortality rate of this disease. And this virus has a very big chance to mutate to become airborne like the bubonic plague.

I see Ebola has already claimed it's first victim - your mind.

1) It does not have a very big chance to mutate.  Where are you getting this from. Do you even know what classification of pathogen it is?
2) Bubonic Plague is now spread via airborne transmission rather than rodent/tick vector?

Feel free to comment on how bad it is, but don't spout off facts that are anything but  

All lifeforms mutate. This is my source.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/29/black-death-not-spread-rat-fleas-london-plague

[Kluge]

According WHO there are 786 confirmed cases (as of 20 July 2014) which is not so much. But 442 of them have already died which is quite scary. And in addition there are 201 probable cases with even higher death rate, 174 deaths.

High lethality in something uncurable (ATM) is greatly preferable, so long as it's relatively quick. If they're dead, they probably won't be spreading it too much (unless maybe they have retarded death rituals where everyone kisses the corpse or something), and if they die quickly from the time it's contracted, all the better.

[yunkie]

Holy fuck this shit's scary. How did this even happen 

[Daniel91]

I think long time ago I was watching movie about some virus which started to spread all over the World without any control and killed most of the people on the Earth.
At that time I was thinking that such thing is possible only on the movie but now, with this recent and very scary development of Ebola, I'm not sure anymore.
I hope that our authorities will do everything to stop this great danger for all of us.
If this virus will spread from Africa to other continents I'm really afraid what can happen.

[NewLiberty]

Who are these 'authorities' you are seeking help from on this?
You are the authority on your own health and safety. 
Or have you outsourced that responsibility to someone that has more interest in it than you do, and its not yours anymore?

[countryfree]

I feel very concerned as I was planning to travel to western Africa at the end of the year. I may have to change my plans.
By the way, Europe is not safe, there are dozens of lights between West Africa and Europe daily. I hope the outbreak doesn't reach Senegal, with even more connections to Europe.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Well that's 1 of 2 people in the Hospital now hes hanging out in Atlanta

U.S. doctor with Ebola arrives in Atlanta
Dr. Kent Brantly — infected while treating Ebola patients in Liberia — to be joined at Emory University Hospital by a second American patient within a couple of days.

An American doctor infected with the Ebola virus in Africa was able to walk from an ambulance into an Atlanta hospital Saturday after he arrived in the U.S. on a specially equipped plane, officials say.

It marks the first time anyone infected with Ebola, considered one of the world’s deadliest diseases, is believed to have been brought into the U.S. for treatment.

[TECSHARE]

Well looks like some aid workers are being sent to the US in intensive quarantine because they were infected with Ebola
This would be the first case of Ebola to come to the USA in known medical history so its interesting from a medical standpoint
(As long as it doesn't break  quarantine and become a pandemic kid)
Near the CDC maybe they will take samples to study it though like Anthrax etc.

This is fucking insanity.

Yep here's the official newsfeed
http://time.com/3070012/ebola-virus-liberia-sierra-leone-guinea-africa/

Soon after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel advisory on Thursday for Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, all struggling to contain an outbreak of Ebola, it was reported that two Americans infected with the virus would be evacuated.

That’s one of the primary reasons CDC Director Tom Frieden said the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone has grown: Many health systems in these countries “are not highly functional.” In Atlanta, Emory’s hospital has an isolation unit that was set up in collaboration with the CDC to care for patients with serious infectious diseases.

Treating a patient there with highly trained experts and CDC oversight (CDC headquarters is nearby) is likely a better location for American patients who, tragically and unlike many victims in West Africa, could have a chance at better care and survival.

Yeah maybe better for them, but better for the population of North America? I think they made their choices when they went there knowing there was an outbreak.

[sickhouse]

I am about as worried as with the bird flue and swine flue. Summer scare, it comes every year

[Swordsoffreedom]

Yeah maybe better for them, but better for the population of North America? I think they made their choices when they went there knowing there was an outbreak.

True enough kind of a mocking of the Health care system in Africa though, sort of like saying well we know that their health care system is terrible so we would rather just send them back here to the USA since they can afford it and are from the first-world.

[atc1]

I still don't get why they thought bringing infected people out to other countries was a good idea instead of quarantining them at well-supplied hospitals. The last thing we need now is a pandemic and the mass scare that comes with it. I understand the patient's life is most important but in the interest in the larger society,they should have thought of this.

[Balthazar]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=723687.msg8186168#msg8186168

[beetcoin]

I am about as worried as with the bird flue and swine flue. Summer scare, it comes every year

i bet all the people who died from those scares felt the same as you do now. it's kind of like how 9/11 isn't that scary to you, until you're sitting in a building with flames/smoke fogging your vision and polluting your lungs.

[Bitsaurus]

Transporting to NIH is not a big deal in my opinion.  The problem is the laxity and poor supervision of the lab and materials 5 and 10 years from now.  Hey, let's store these smallpox colonies in these ziplock bags and not label them.

This is not some alien movie where the virus can melt through glass and rubber.  It needs to be studied.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Transporting to NIH is not a big deal in my opinion.  The problem is the laxity and poor supervision of the lab and materials 5 and 10 years from now.  Hey, let's store these smallpox colonies in these ziplock bags and not label them.

This is not some alien movie where the virus can melt through glass and rubber.  It needs to be studied.

Well the last time something like that happened was the Janet Parker case so your right that said if the vials are all hanging out in a reference laboratory or something of the sort then the procedures should be followed fairly well.

[Balthazar]

Fever can kill? Learn something new everyday.

It is a nasty virus with no cure. It causes vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function, bleeding and kills most of the patients.

There is no licensed cure. However, some experimental developments exist and proven to be effective.

In 2009, Drs. Feldmann and Geisbert were part of an international group of experts that recommended using the same post-exposure treatment strategy for the first time in a human. A researcher who accidentally was stuck with an Ebola-contaminated needle voluntarily received the experimental VSV Ebola vaccine 40 hours after the exposure. The researcher, who never showed signs of infection, survived. The scientists have not yet found a way to determine whether an Ebola infection occurred in this case, however, and whether the vaccine played a role in the outcome.

[RedDiamond]

Fever can kill? Learn something new everyday.

It is a nasty virus with no cure. It causes vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function, bleeding and kills most of the patients.

There is no licensed cure. However, some experimental developments exist and proven to be effective.

In 2009, Drs. Feldmann and Geisbert were part of an international group of experts that recommended using the same post-exposure treatment strategy for the first time in a human. A researcher who accidentally was stuck with an Ebola-contaminated needle voluntarily received the experimental VSV Ebola vaccine 40 hours after the exposure. The researcher, who never showed signs of infection, survived. The scientists have not yet found a way to determine whether an Ebola infection occurred in this case, however, and whether the vaccine played a role in the outcome.

Experimental treatments has been tested only with very small number of patients so nothing is proven yet. For example ZMapp: "The compound used to treat Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol was only formulated in January, according to Larry Zeitlin, PhD, president of Mapp Biopharmaceuticals, the California company that co-developed the drug.

It has been tested in monkeys, but had never before been given to human patients before it was rushed to Brantly and Writebol."


http://www.webmd.com/news/20140804/ebola-virus-vaccine

[elliwilli]

Yup, the disease itself is really interesting in a morbid way.
I am following this like i followed the swine flu pandemic, i just really hope that ebola does not become a pandemic itself...