CDC confirms first Ebola case diagnosed in the United States
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exactly why I hate the term "African American"
so when you see a black person you're like "wow look at that african american dude!!!"
EXCEPT:
1. Not all black people are Americans
2. Not all black people are from Africa
I don't know either, but I think they're just not telling us shit, so as to not cause a panic. Here's some photos of medical personnel in Dallas. Maybe I'm wrong, but to me it appears the CDC believes this thing could be airborne as well:
I don't know either, but I think they're just not telling us shit, so as to not cause a panic. Here's some photos of medical personnel in Dallas. Maybe I'm wrong, but to me it appears the CDC believes this thing could be airborne as well:
Or it's just not airborne.
Maybe they're wearing the suits because having as close as possible to no chance of contraction is the only way you are going to get any sane person living in the West to come within one hundred yards of a highly fatal pathogen? Or it's just par-for-course standard when dealing with any highly fatal pathogen?
There have been ~7,400 reported cases with around ~3,200 deaths reported by the WHO. Just stop reading here if you think the WHO, an NGO without a history of deceitful behavior, has some twisted motivation to lie about these figures.
There have been outbreaks in Monrovia (Capitol of Liberia - Population 970,000+), Freetown (Capitol of Sierra Leone - Population 1,200,000+) and Conakry (Capitol of Guinea - Population 1,660,000-2,000,000+).
Just speaking in terms of the capitol cities and completely ignoring the outlying population centers of these nations you have an infection rate of .00192%.
Now, let's put the conditions under which these folks are living under into perspective with a picture of Freetown, Sierra Leone:
Here's Monrovia:
and Conarky:
We are talking about infectious events occurring in areas with population densities of 2,668/sq mi (Monrovia), 8,695/sq mi (Freetown) and 9,600/sq mi (Conakry).
This puts Freetown and Conakry in the same ballpark for population density as an average medium-to-large US City (NYC being an obvious exception).
To reiterate, this current outbreak has an infection rate of around .00192% in regards to the general population - that's with me being very generous with the population figures and only counting the major population centers of each nation.
These are folks living in fairly densely populated areas, and generally in relative squalor. When was the last time you shit through a hole in your floor, and then ate off of that same floor the next day?
The Spanish Flu of 1918 (an airborne pathogen) infected nearly 4% of the WORLD population in under 2 years. This was in a time before air travel and with far, far less movement across state borders than we see today - even considering the war.
It did not have any problem infecting large swaths of developed European and North American cities. It even touched remote islands in the South Pacific without issue.
Obviously this outbreak hasn't been raging for two years. But in today's world with the amount of border-crossing and relatively higher populations across the board in almost all regions of the world, you would have expect to see far, far more carnage by this point if the infection was truly airborne. There are also a litany of other reasons why Ebola is a poor candidate for an epidemic (world militaries focused on weaponizing things like Smallpox for a reason).
I also don't believe the figures from the WHO are wholly accurate, but that's a result of these outbreaks occurring where they are - not a conspiracy. If it was an airborne infection there would literally be blood flowing in the streets of Western Africa (at least, significantly more than usual).
There's a long, long list of reasons that refute the idea this outbreak is airborne and almost none that would support it.
I don't think the point I'm about to address was part of your post but I may as well address it while I'm writing this bit.
To all of you who think that somehow the fact that 'Western' doctors (as if being from the West somehow infers some magical ebola-repellant shield upon your being) becoming infected while caring for patients in Western Africa is a sign that this is airborne...have you ever bothered reading into the kind of conditions and facilities these folks deal with while they are there?
Scroll up to those pictures again if you need some perspective.
Just because they are from the West, educated and working for a health organization doesn't mean they have the supplies, support or fucking anything else they would need to guarantee they could avoid infection while dealing with dozens or more patients each day.
Dealing with patients who don't even (and sometimes actively reject) basic hygienic and scientific principles such as germ theory. Patients whose family may rush the clinic and stab you to death for giving their relative ebola, in their eyes.
The doctors and caretakers who were infected and passed while working in Western Africa were not victims of some airborne pathogen that the CDC (and every other government agency who is working in Western Africa right now - from a variety of nations, as well as multiple NGOs) are keeping under wraps. They are martyrs who died trying to preserve the humanity of people that plenty on here wouldn't even consider human to begin with. They're braver than me, braver than you - and they died fighting for the life of someone else.
I mentioned this earlier in the thread but there's also a very large difference between droplet spray and airborne infection: FAQ: Methods of Disease Transmission
Latest News:
Obola is sending 1000 troops more to Africa.
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http://www.infowars.com/cdc-hazmat-...ne-in-newark-airport-for-ebola-like-symptoms/
Obola is sending 1000 troops more to Africa.
Ebola Suspected as Kansas City Apartment Building Sealed Off
Former U.S. Ebola patient back in hospital; Dallas patient critical
CDC Hazmat crew removes passenger from plane in Newark airport for Ebola-like symptoms
http://www.infowars.com/cdc-hazmat-...ne-in-newark-airport-for-ebola-like-symptoms/
People getting sick?
EBOLA - FOR SURE
Passenger Whose Symptoms Triggered Ebola Fear Does Not Have Disease | 6abc.com
Stop fear-mongering.
EBOLA - FOR SURE
Passenger Whose Symptoms Triggered Ebola Fear Does Not Have Disease | 6abc.com
Stop fear-mongering.
Get prepared and stop getting scared.I don't know either, but I think they're just not telling us shit, so as to not cause a panic. Here's some photos of medical personnel in Dallas. Maybe I'm wrong, but to me it appears the CDC believes this thing could be airborne as well:
There's a version of the pox, which is airborne. Kids get it once and then are immune. If one child brings this to school, two hours later his entire class got it. That's airbirne. If you introduce an airborne virus into a non immunized urban area, you'd have tens of thousands of infections by noon.
ebola is certainly not airborne. If it was, Africa would look like a successful run of that pandemic game.
Do mosquito's make it airborne?
Talking to my uncle in Costa Rica he mentioned outbreaks of dangue fever last year, but this year some new and worse shit from africa: African chicungunya, is spread by mosquitos.
Talking to my uncle in Costa Rica he mentioned outbreaks of dangue fever last year, but this year some new and worse shit from africa: African chicungunya, is spread by mosquitos.
No, they can't. So far Ebola has only ever been transmitted mammal-to-mammal. A flying animal being a vector of infection doesn't make a disease airborne anyway.
Dengue isn't part of the Filoviridae family (Marburg/Ebola).
But you can get Ebola from semen, so this board is pretty much fucked.
"Spain has outbreak's 1st known case of contracting Ebola outside of Africa."
1st case of contracting Ebola outside of Africa - CNN.com
Zoinks!
1st case of contracting Ebola outside of Africa - CNN.com
Zoinks!
Don't bother.
Liberals are so mentally ill that they'd rather let thousands die, than admit they were wrong. Liberals seriously are evil people.
And god damn negroes need to god damn stay in Africa.
The nurse was a Spanish citizen.
Thousands of people have not died anywhere outside of Africa, nor will they.
This was due to a breakdown in procedure by the Spanish Health Ministry/her hospital - procedural incompetence by the Spanish government/bureaucratic system isn't exactly something new. She should have been under 21-day isolation as opposed to being let go on fucking vacation the day after the patient she was treating for Ebola had passed.
Most Spanish hospitals aren't even prepared to handle C. Diff - which means they are not prepared for Ebola. Their government has been raping and pillaging their healthcare system for a hot minute or two.
But yeah, fucking liberals - right?
Lol, when faced with stats, science, reason, and evidence, Rusvik continues his paranoid, xenophobic rants.
/thread. You can't reason someone out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled broadcast of WF irrationality.
/thread. You can't reason someone out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled broadcast of WF irrationality.
Yes exactly.
Why are Spanish missionaires allowed to travel there and why in the world are they brought back, when spanish healthcare associations warned they didn't have the equipment?
Because of liberals and their 'we musnt offend anyone'.
West Africa needs to be fully quarantined. If you go there as a do gooder, then you can stay there until this blows over.
Enough with the madness, when is self preservation going to set in?
Spain's Senate breakdown. Light blue = "conservative" People's Party
Their Prime Minister is from the same party. Here is a video of him arriving in Africa a few months ago :
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgLSH7AUAHc"]El presidente del Gobierno participa en la Cumbre de la Unión Africana - YouTube[/ame]