Ebola Outbreak

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What I hope Western, especially European, governments realize is that, if the Ebola epidemic is not effectively limited soon in Western Africa, it is almost certain to end up in other parts of the world, and Europ is closer to West Africa than North America or Asia. If it gets to a slum area of a major city, the results could be catastrophic. It will be far better to spend a few hundren million dollars now to confine and eliminate the disease than to deal with the potential results if it is not eliminated.
 
The person with ebola came from a country that is fighting ebola. Flew on a plane to visit family. I don't get this!

This person had no symptoms on the plane on the way over supposedly. So now there are people on the plane at risk, people at the hospital at risk, etc.....
Basically the potential to create an epedemic in North America.

Very irresponsible decision to allow travel from these countries at this point....IMO.
 
Just a reminder that Ebola is spread by intimate contact with body fluids. More a risk to family members, etc., upon his arrival, than plane passengers.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Just a reminder that Ebola is spread by intimate contact with body fluids. More a risk to family members, etc., upon his arrival, than plane passengers.
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So I've heard......when a disease keeps mutating and is fairly new I personally think it should be treated on an " I don't know everything" basis and pull out all the stops. Droplets from sneezing and coughs can travel far.
 
The people on the plane wouldn't be at a reasonable level of risk. The person didn't exhibit symptoms until 4 days later. Now, if someone on that plane had a good steamy makeout session or got a blood transfusion from the Ebola patient, I think testing them would be a good idea :)

Hopefully there will be no spread from this one case. The people at highest risk would be the people this patient was visiting, but from what I have been hearing it sounds like the infection was caught at quite early stages when the risk of passing it on is fairly low.
 
BetteTheRed said:
@ waterfall: So, what would you do? Ban all air travel to and from Africa?
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I would suggest a quarantine for 21 days upon return. Inconvenient yes but so is death.

And the plane? Totally disinfected, Especially the bathrooms. I wonder if that plane was instead reloaded with more people within the day, because he wasn't diagnosed yet?
 
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Mendalla said:
Ebola is not "fairly new". It's been known since the 1970s. The following article in Forbes outlines why it's unlikely to go airborne.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgottlieb/2014/09/03/can-ebola-go-airborne/
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45-50 years is a new disease to me, maybe not to others. And the ebola from the 70's...is it the same as some of today's? we still don't know much about it.

Even if it's not airborne, part of the symptoms are a cough, which makes those droplets deadly
 
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Waterfall said:
I would suggest a quarantine for 21 days upon return. Inconvenient yes but so is death.

And the plane? Totally disinfected, Especially the bathrooms. I wonder if that plane was instead reloaded with more people within the day, because he wasn't diagnosed yet?
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Ebola is not infectious until you are symptomatic. Given that he (I assume we're talking about the Liberian case in the US) didn't become symptomatic until 6 days after arrival, it wouldn't have been necessary nor would anyone have known to do so. If he had been symptomatic, then you'd likely have more cases by now. If a symptomatic Ebola carrier was on the plane, then definitely quarantining the remaining passengers and disinfecting the plane would be needed.
 
A 21-day quarantine for anyone flying out of Africa? That seems bureaucratically unachievable...
 
The man arrives in Texas, from Liberia, on September 20th. He becomes ill on the 24th and waits until the 26th to go to a health care facility, where he is sent home with a prescription for antibiotics (even though he shared that he had recently arrived from Liberia!) It was not until the 28th that he was put in isolation. The ambulance used to transport him was used for two days, before being taken out of service. A news report this morning stated that a second person in Texas is being tested for Ebola. Maybe we should put mandatory quarantines in place.
 
And who's counting the days so accurately when symptoms started? And don't put to much emphasis on "21" days...each case could be individualized.
 
BetteTheRed said:
A 21-day quarantine for anyone flying out of Africa? That seems bureaucratically unachievable...
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Yup probably best to Quarantine on departure otherwise everyone with ebola will buy a ticket to the US to get better treatment. Then of course the host country could smudge the records if you have enough money...gets complicated.
 
BetteTheRed said:
A 21-day quarantine for anyone flying out of Africa? That seems bureaucratically unachievable...
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As well as prejudiced. Doing that to an entire continent when only certain areas are affected isn't appropriate at all IMO.
 
Anywhere Ebola is out of control it wouldn't be called prejudice and no it probably shouldn't include all of Africa IMO

WHO is already admitting this is out of control and drastic actions shouldl be required.
 
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