Ebola outbreak Texas

I feel like this will be like the modern day "Black Plague"...things should get interesting

 

I'm just going to throw this out there. Ebola has been state side before. It was 2 people, in Washington DC. They where part of a government agency tasked to find a vaccine or cure for the virus. They were testing on chimps when on of the researchers got infected.

Scary part the chimps were not put down they were sent to a wildlife enclosure. Thankfully no one else came in direct contact with the infected chimps.


This all happened in the 70's so the press didn't cover it as much. It took a single reporter publishing a book to get the story out.

 

It's not transmitted via sweat. It's transmitted through saliva, semen, blood. I really wish we could just not let flights come in from those countries until the whole thing dies down. :/ The media plays everything like this up for ratings.

 

Like I mentioned earlier, we could block flights, but people would just fly to a transfer location first, possibly infect those places, and then come here later once they're in an even more contagious state. Really, we're better off letting them come here and get caught and patched up before they can actually infect anyone.

 

The amount of scaremongering in this thread..........
Give this a read.
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/10/this...what-you-need-to-know-about-ebola-in-the-u-s/

In particular
"the unfortunate man in Texas is not going to become a “patient zero” from whom an epidemic starts. We know how to handle sporadic diseases like Ebola, even ones that are incurable and deadly like Ebola is. The patient is in isolation, thedozen or so people he has been in close contact withsince he was symptomaticare being examined, and his fellow airplane passengers from Liberia have been cleared. Our doctors and scientists have prepared for this kind of situation, and are handling it."

 

But when he went to hospital and filled out the paperwork why wasn't he quarantined straight away instead of being sent home for 2 days then grabbed back when they realised oh shit they messed up big time. He clearly stated where he had been.

 

Cause this is UHMURRIKA!!!
IF ANYONE KNOWS HOW TO FUCK UP ROYALLY IT'S US!!
UHMURRKIA!!! FUCK YEAH!!

 

In case you didn't read the story, it was simply one nurse forgetting to hand in some paperwork. Yes, that's bad, but people making mistakes is a thing that happens. The people who discharged him had no knowledge of his being in Africa. And he wasn't "grabbed back" he returned voluntarily to the hospital.

Even if the information HAD made it to the people who make the decisions, the man would likely only be put in isolation until it was actually confirmed to be Ebola. If you quarantined everyone that came back from travel who appeared to be ill, you'd be quarantining 99% of anyone who travels, even within the US. Hospital costs would skyrocket, and would either be reflected by higher costs to patients, or closing hospitals, either of which would hurt more people than Ebola.