Ebola Patient in Atlanta Hospital

This is not good add this with all the other diseases coming across the boarder i don't think this is going to end well.Guess time will tell hold tight this ride may get bumpy...

originally posted by: BobAthome
a reply to: Wookiep
only within 10 hours,, then it dies,,,,, right?

Probably, but I dunno. It doesn't seem to me like it could live very long on a non-living host, but who knows.

How long till it spreads to your location Des? We know how good hospitals have been at keeping stuff from spreading lately. If you want an illness, just schedule a test at your hospital, they will provide you with all sorts of good antibiotic resistant types. Now they are saying all sorts of diseases can be spread through your hairdresser. I suppose that is true, just because we don't think of it doesn't mean it isn't happening.

a reply to: Snarl

Naval ships have great facilities.........transfer him to something like that, that way if stuff goes south you sink that mother..........

This is a bad idea.........not saying anything WILL happen........but come on why take the chance.......

If it was me and I was infected.......id be telling them tough luck you arent transporting me anywhere else that there is even a remote possibility this can get into a larger population........

a reply to: crazyewok

So much fear that is issued forth by news media corporations, could be combated with simple English Comprehension training. It is the basic, the most fundamental element of reading, the ability to not just parrot what is being read or heard, but the ability to comprehend its meaning.

Glad to see that you did not catch the fear bug on this one crazyewok!

originally posted by: rickymouse
How long till it spreads to your location Des? We know how good hospitals have been at keeping stuff from spreading lately. If you want an illness, just schedule a test at your hospital, they will provide you with all sorts of good antibiotic resistant types. Now they are saying all sorts of diseases can be spread through your hairdresser. I suppose that is true, just because we don't think of it doesn't mean it isn't happening.

exactly they couldnt even keep MRSA under wraps.......

I can look out my windows and see the roofs of the CDC through the Georgia pines ... (well, actually, they're Live Oaks and Hickories here but, you know ...).

The CDC has things in refrigerated vials over there, under those rooftops, that make Ebola look like Chicken Pox ... if I were worried about things like that plastered on the news, I'd be hiding in a basement somewhere.

I'd be more worried about the infected individuals we don't hear about on the news, who aren't being treated to the massive protection/containment afforded to this poor person.

That'll be where "the fun" starts.

originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: crazyewok

So much fear that is issued forth by news media corporations, could be combated with simple English Comprehension training. It is the basic, the most fundamental element of reading, the ability to not just parrot what is being read or heard, but the ability to comprehend its meaning.

Glad to see that you did not catch the fear bug on this one crazyewok!

STOP IT WERE TRYING TO FREAK OUT HERE!

a reply to: crazyewok

Said the member from ...the UK...

Des

originally posted by: Gryphon66
I can look out my windows and see the roofs of the CDC through the Georgia pines ... (well, actually, they're Live Oaks and Hickories here but, you know ...).

The CDC has things in refrigerated vials over there, under those rooftops, that make Ebola look like Chicken Pox ... if I were worried about things like that plastered on the news, I'd be hiding in a basement somewhere.

I'd be more worried about the infected individuals we don't hear about on the news, who aren't being treated to the massive protection/containment afforded to this poor person.

That'll be where "the fun" starts.

Thanks alot Gryph now youve given them the "unknown" factor to freak out about ..............LOL , part of me thinks that was intentional........

a reply to: ManBehindTheMask

originally posted by: Destinyone
a reply to: crazyewok

Said the member from ...the UK...

Des

And my country has bearing why?



I was just stating facts. Its a planned tranfer.

Dont know why being from the UK has any bareing?

a reply to: ManBehindTheMask

Well I am all for a good old fashioned freak out. My favourite kind is the Psychobilly freak out, but that is a matter of taste. All I am saying is, that there is no OUTBREAK in the States. You have one contained case, which has not seen an unregulated atmosphere since they left Africa!

Can't get a link now but, for all of you making light, etc. Not two weeks ago there was a big CDC scandal where protocols were NOT followed and extremely contagious pathogens had a breach of security and safety. If anyone finds the link, please post it...even the director of the CDC was not notified properly by his own staff about the breach.

originally posted by: crazyewok

originally posted by: Destinyone
a reply to: crazyewok

Said the member from ...the UK...

Des

And my country has bearing why?


cause of this,,

Ebola outbreak: Britain has expertise to cope, say ministers The Guardian ‎- by Mark Tran ‎- 7 hours ago Spread of virus that has killed more than 600 people since February can be contained, says Hammond after Cobra meeting.



I was just stating facts. Its a planned tranfer.

Dont know why being from the UK has any bareing?

cobra strikes,,,

seriously,, Cobra???? lol

a reply to: TrueBrit

Whats funny is in the same state they have been infecting monkeys with ebola for testing for years at the CDC

Thought id give them some more to freak out on,

Oh, for anyone seeking fear porn ...

In the wake of the anthrax mishap, federal health officials launched a probe that uncovered other incidents, including one in which CDC scientists contaminated samples of low-pathogenic bird flu viruses with a highly pathogenic strain and in March shipped them to a Department of Agriculture lab, where the viruses killed all the chickens exposed to them.

Fox News - CDC Resumes Transfers of Pathogens

a reply to: Destinyone

What... Are you trying to say we do not understand because we are British?

Give over. Proximity to an issue does not necessarily improve the quality of ones thinking about that subject, and sometimes being too close to something can make a persons reason evaporate.

Of all the nations on this planet, the USA is best equipped to deal with this, and the patient is secure, not wandering about urinating on the produce at your local grocery, so you and yours should be just fine. Chill pill... Take two, and U2U me in the morning!

originally posted by: kosmicjack
Can't get a link now but, for all of you making light, etc. Not two weeks ago there was a big CDC scandal where protocols were NOT followed and extremely contagious pathogens had a breach of security and safety. If anyone finds the link, please post it...even the director of the CDC was not notified properly by his own staff about the breach.

Yup, they just had a Congressional hearing over that CDC blunder...

More than 80 people may have been exposed to airborne anthrax bacteria in an embarrassing mishap at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and the numbers may go even higher, officials said Friday.

“Right now we have an excess of 80 individuals,” CDC deputy director Dr. Ileana Arias told NBC News. “We expect that number may even grow … because we're trying to make that available to as many people as possible in order to make sure there are no adverse consequences to health of any of our employees as a result of what happened.” www.nbcnews.com...

People who don't live in Ga don't realize, the CDC is not God. Just a bunch of overworked and mostly underpaid people.

Des

a reply to: BobAthome

So does that hospital. Its likley linked with the CDC HQ incase of lab accidents so they will be one of the most equiped places in the world to handle a patient transfer of ebola.