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originally posted by: 12m8keall2c
do you truly think it poses a major potential health hazard, risk to the general populace of the states? I guess is my question, query, here?
originally posted by: 12m8keall2c
originally posted by: soficrow
a reply to: 12m8keall2c
I am reacting to the fear-mongering - no one has immunity to Ebola (except maybe a few Africans) - and the questions I ask lead to unthinkable Draconian conundrums. imho It's meant to be a coyote type of heads up humor. However, seems like no one is reading the questions or if they are, they're not getting it.
So - please - if my humor if so dry as to be impenetrable, please delete the thread. Also, it just might be too badly written to be what I wanted it to be. Was po'd, didn't sit on it.
no. no. no.... wasn't looking to stifle your concerns, darlin.... just that....
how much of an actual threat does this truly pose to the US [not that the US is impenetrable or any such nonsense] when it comes to things like thyis.
however... it's a fairly redily confinable/easily quarantined illness once detected/ located/IDd.
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do you truly think it poses a major potential health hazard, risk to the general populace of the states? I guess is my question, query, here?
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The distribution of cases in different areas of the West African nation, from villages in the country’s south to the coastal capital of Conakry, makes the outbreak unlike any other, according to Doctors Without Borders.
“We are facing an epidemic of a magnitude never before seen in terms of the distribution of cases,” Mariano Lugli, coordinator of the organization’s project in Conakry, said yesterday in a statement. “This geographical spread is worrisome because it will greatly complicate the tasks of the organizations working to control the epidemic.”
Rabies and viral hemorrhagic fevers
ABSTRACT Until the advent of the human immunodeficiency virus pandemic, the viral diseases with the highest case fatality rates and evoking the greatest alarm were rabies and the several agents that cause the viral hemorrhagic fevers. ...The sheer violence of rabies, Lassa fever, Ebola or Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever, and yellow fever commands unmatched respect.
Rabies is a viral disease that causes acute inflammation of the brain in humans and other warm-blooded animals.[1] The time period between contracting the disease and the start of symptoms is usually one to three months; however it can vary from less than one week to more than one year.[1] The time is dependent on the distance the virus must travel to reach the central nervous system.[2] Early symptoms may include fever and tingling at the site of exposure.[1] This is then followed by either violent movements, uncontrolled excitement, and fear of water or an inability to move parts of the body and confusion followed by loss of consciousness.[1] In both cases once symptoms appear it nearly always results in death.[1]
A fox attacked a man and a woman in the neighborhood last week before the man killed it with a rake. The fox tested positive for rabies...
More rabid fox attacks spur fears in Henry County neighborhood
Atlanta: Rabies Detected in POW Bat
originally posted by: soficrow
What say you ATS?
originally posted by: soficrow
a reply to: Ophiuchus 13
You DO know Ebola has been in the USA since 1976, right?