¡EBOLA!

[PensFanInDC]

There's simply no money to be made from medication as long as only the third world is affected.

No money in a cure. It's true for all diseases.

[pittsoccer33]

Ebola isn't airborne like it was portrayed as in Outbreak, but it does spread more easily than AIDS, especially given that a symptom of the virus is bleeding and hemmoraging everywhere.

I think its the kind of thing the military would actively fund and develop antiviral drugs for.

[PensFanInDC]

Ebola isn't airborne like it was portrayed as in Outbreak, but it does spread more easily than AIDS, especially given that a symptom of the virus is bleeding and hemmoraging everywhere.

I think its the kind of thing the military would actively fund and develop antiviral drugs for.

Yeah I think that may have been why I thought it was spread easier than AIDS. AIDS patients don't, as far as I know, randomly bleed and ooze infected fluid as a symptom.

[shafnutz05]

I never seem to think of it being transmitted via other fluids.

Wha? You've never heard of it being spread by shared needles, blood transfusions, passed onto children, etc?

[newarenanow]

I think we should let ISIS take over Africa then they will all die.

[PensFanInDC]

I never seem to think of it being transmitted via other fluids.

Wha? You've never heard of it being spread by shared needles, blood transfusions, passed onto children, etc?

No no no. I just always think of it that way and the transmission via other fluids usually doesn't come to mind. Like I said, the propaganda surrounding the disease was atrocious and probably is the reason why.

[Dickie Dunn]

Second person (who had contact with the first person) being closely monitored for ¡EBOLA!

[PensFanInDC]

Contact where? On the flight?

[Dickie Dunn]

Contact where? On the flight?

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2 ... /16524303/

The article describes the patient as a "close associate", so who knows for sure.

[Grunthy]

they say right in that article close friends and family only so far, so probably a close friend.

[PensFanInDC]

He's not much of a friend if he gave him ¡EBOLA!

[blackjack68]

Didn't they say AIDS came from monkeys in the early years as well?

So maybe we should kill all the monkeys.

[newarenanow]

Didn't they say AIDS came from monkeys in the early years as well?

So maybe we should kill all the monkeys.

I thought gay people invented AIDS.

[Troy Loney]

My stomach hurts a little bit today. #Ebola

[eddysnake]

Didn't they say AIDS came from monkeys in the early years as well?

So maybe we should kill all the monkeys.

I thought gay people invented AIDS.

gay monkeys created ¡EBOLA!?

[llipgh2]

Didn't they say AIDS came from monkeys in the early years as well?

So maybe we should kill all the monkeys.

Yep. Damn monkeys.

[roland]

[Beveridge]

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[eddysnake]

what if I can answer yes to one of those?

[Beveridge]

you MIGHT have Ebola!

[eddysnake]

what if it was just feces and sweat?

[llipgh2]

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2 ... /16524303/

So he told the ER staff he was in from Liberia. A nurse asked if he was from an affected area...and then the ball gets dropped.

Just "Liberia" should have been enough to keep him in isolation at the hospital.

[dodint]

Everytime this thread pops to the top I read "iEBOLA" as eye-ebola in the tune of My Sharona.

eye-eye-eye-eeeye-Ebola!

[tifosi77]

The new iEbola, from Apple. Watch how it makes your bank account hemorrhage.

[Gaucho]

The new iEbola, from Apple. Watch how it makes your bank account hemorrhage.

"Hey, I got Ebola." - "Oh, U2?"

nyuck nyuck