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ROME:
Rome -- A suspected case of Ebola was discovered and isolated in Italy's central region of Marche on Tuesday, authorities said.
According to regional Health councillor Almerino Mezzolani, an unidentified 40-year-old woman was hospitalized and isolated at the infectious diseases' department of the main regional hospital in Ancona and was being treated, after showing suspected symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus.
The woman, a foreign regular migrant long living in the town of Civitanova Marche, had recently travelled to Nigeria, where she might have been infected with the virus, the councillor added.
Regional health authorities were gathering all information available on Tuesday, and have meanwhile implemented the emergency procedures necessary to the case.
originally posted by: Neopan100
I don't know if this has been asked before..but WHY are people still able to travel to areas known for large outbreaks? Why don't they restrict air travel? No one in, No one out. Seems really simple..
originally posted by: Firefly_
a reply to: Neopan100
Yeah but that doesn't do well for the profits of the various corporations that would undoubtedly lose out if such measures were enforced.
originally posted by: Neopan100
I don't know if this has been asked before..but WHY are people still able to travel to areas known for large outbreaks? Why don't they restrict air travel? No one in, No one out. Seems really simple..
originally posted by: TruthxIsxInxThexMist
a reply to: grandmakdw
Being VERY ignorant about this Virus, that's all I know.
Even if they are in their underground bunkers already, the Virus will still be alive when they eventually venture outside.
But seriously, ALL Travel to West Africa should be halted at this time. Especially to those Country's affected.
I just hope this case turns out to be a false alarm because 'Rome' is a big City with many Tourists and even one person contracting it could have already bought here to the UK.
originally posted by: Neopan100
I don't know if this has been asked before..but WHY are people still able to travel to areas known for large outbreaks? Why don't they restrict air travel? No one in, No one out. Seems really simple..
originally posted by: joho99
a reply to: grandmakdw
They would need to control the ones that remained since with our acquired knowledge it would take us a lot less time to repopulate the planet.
originally posted by: grandmakdw
originally posted by: joho99
a reply to: grandmakdw
They would need to control the ones that remained since with our acquired knowledge it would take us a lot less time to repopulate the planet.
Since people would be spread across the globe, the survivors, with no means of transportation, no means of communication. Acquired knowledge will be basically useless for hundreds if not thousands of years, and would be rebuilt nearly from scratch as it becomes part of folklore and oral tradition.
Yes, we would repopulate, but we would start at the level of just out of the caves and have to rebuild from there. Books will disintegrate, there would be no way to get to information stored on "hard drives" without electricity, and eventually people would not even remember what computers were for or even if information was there or how to retrieve it. Life will be quite harsh and back to super low tech agricultural for at least a thousand years.
That would be the ultimate legacy of Ebola left unchecked
at its current rate
and with the current policies in effect
that refuse to "profile" even for disease carriers.