Has there been any news on Duncan's family? that would be pretty amazing if none of them got infected.
Nothing yet. We must be coming up on the 21 days...
If they remain uninfected, that would go a long way in easing the concerns of many. See, it isn't THAT contagious and the general population isn't really at risk. It's only those with direct contact with the virus when it's at its most contagious. (Health care workers)
dumb comment about insurance. They have not contracted it yet. Just goes to show how hard it is to catch at the early stages of the virus. so everyone on the planes will be fine.
dumb comment about insurance. They have not contracted it yet. Just goes to show how hard it is to catch at the early stages of the virus. so everyone on the planes will be fine.
Because I'm sure there's a much better (convenient) and not "dumb" explanation for why a patient from West Africa showing symptoms of Ebola was sent back home.
As an American, and as a parent, I’m not nearly as worried about Ebola as I am about the polio-reminiscent threat of Enterovirus D68.
I mean, I suppose I find it to be mildly concerning, but I am not really buying into the hysteria over this either. It appears to only kill in a small fraction of cases, for starters, and honestly if your kid is going to get sick, he/she will get sick.
I mean, God forbid, but our children could be diagnosed with leukemia, other cancers, illnesses etc etc at any given time. Take common sense precautions, but endlessly hand-wringing and fretting over every virus/disease that has even a remote chance of affecting you or your loved ones is a waste of time and energy.
You also agreed that taking your child to the zoo was a waste of time and energy. If I can't worry about my child getting sick AND take him to the zoo what the heck am I gonna do!?
Also, just because I, or someone else, is concerned about the Enterovirus or Ebola or cancer, doesn't mean that we are hand wringing or overly protecting our children. We haven't changed anything about our daily lives. He still goes to day care, we still go out to stores and restaurants, and we don't walk around with masks or respirators on. As an adult I can share my concerns over something like this without getting an ulcer. I think it's just a waste of time to write these things off as 'no big deal' and just move on.
Cancer isn't and can't (at least as far as I know) go airborne. Entero is airborne (...isn't it?) and ebola can, and probably has in the past, gone airborne. I'm not saying it's going to or that it is now but it's a possibility. Even if it does I still think, as I have said SEVERAL TIMES in this thread, that we wont see a pandemic in the US.
Columbia posted an excellent picture several pages back that I think fits nicely.
Yeah, I don't know where people are getting this notion that ebola has gone or ever been airborne. It hasn't. Where are you hearing this?
Ebola certainly CAN go airborne. They even believe that the Reston outbreak could have been airborne by how it spread in quarantine. I'm not sure how people can say that a virus can't mutate.
Yeah, I don't know where people are getting this notion that ebola has gone or ever been airborne. It hasn't. Where are you hearing this?
Ebola certainly CAN go airborne. They even believe that the Reston outbreak could have been airborne by how it spread in quarantine. I'm not sure how people can say that a virus can't mutate.
Who is saying viruses can't mutate? The argument you are making is that viruses can mutate and dramatically change their form of transmission, which has never happened in history. To add, the Reston outbreak was spread between monkeys, which is completely different from a pathogenic perspective. Also:
In fact, there’s almost no historical precedent for any virus to change its basic mode of transmission so radically. “We have so many problems with Ebola, let’s not make another one that, of course, is theoretically possible but is pretty way down on the list of likely issues," says infectious diseases expert William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University. "Everything that is happening now can easily be comprehensively explained by person-to-person spread via body contact. We don’t have to invoke anything else.”
I'm not saying it will or that it's even likely. I don't think it will and I know it isn't likely at all.
lol you keep posting articles and comments in here making it out to be this imminently life-threatening thing, and then in your next post you qualify it with "I don't think it will happen, it's not likely", etc. You seem to be awfully concerned about it for someone that isn't concerned about it.
I'm not saying it will or that it's even likely. I don't think it will and I know it isn't likely at all.
lol you keep posting articles and comments in here making it out to be this imminently life-threatening thing, and then in your next post you qualify it with "I don't think it will happen, it's not likely", etc. You seem to be awfully concerned about it for someone that isn't concerned about it.
Not sure how you get "imminently" from words like "can" and "believe to be". If I said "will" or "known to be" then I would agree.
