I do wonder though if Ebola does hit US hard, I mean isn't like 15 percent of population without the insurance and is basically a pool of possible infection carriers?

Not to mention the immigrants who probably are over looked by the relevant authorities.

We live in a strange world.
70 years after second world war, the german army stand on the river dnjeper.

"DEUTSCHE FALLSCHIRMJÄGER BEREITEN SICH EINEM BERICHT ZUFOLGE AUF EINEN EINSATZ IN DEM KRISENGEBIET ..."
04.10.14 | 09:58 Uhr Bundeswehr-Soldaten vor Einsatz in der Ostukraine

Deutsche Fallschirmjäger bereiten sich einem Bericht zufolge auf einen Einsatz in dem Krisengebiet vor. Sie sollen die Überwachung des Waffenstillstands unterstützen.

Why America isn't ready for a Ebola outbreak:

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defau...3_safety_0.jpg

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defau...3_panic1_0.jpg

It's hard to say really...although my faith in the US's ability to cope with a major disaster scenario such as an Ebola outbreak has been shaken a bit with the recent revelations. Ebola isn't the easiest thing to transmit, and things like hot water and disinfectant will kill it...but it's how many people have access to that kind of thing who are in the country illegally. If it's anything like the UK then that might be a difficult proposition since you get the organised crime groups who have houses which have six immigrants to a room. The conditions are not exactly good... :hmmm:
If an outbreak is going to happen anywhere, it'll happen where the conditions are worse, and that's usually amongst the lower strata of society, the poor, the illegals, the working class and so on. It would certainly increase xenophobia and widen the gap between rich/well off and the poor in whatever country it spreads.
Honestly though...I really don't know, I don't think that it'll spread much beyond the current situation in Texas...the difference between the US and Western Africa is extreme after all...but the US does certainly need to up its game...this is a warning siren after all, the next outbreak might not be so favourable for western nations.

Sometimes timing is everything:


http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfa...llas_cover.php


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The fella pictured above washing Ebola waste into a public drainage system proves there is even a more insidious disease plaguing mankind.

STUPIDITY!

It can spread like wildfire. You don't have to come into contact with people, their clothing or things they have touched to catch it. People intentionally infect their children with it, sometimes in an attempt to immunize them, sometimes to cause the disease. One stupid person can infect millions via radio, television, books, rumor or print media. There is no cure. The disease does not respond to any kind of medicine, logic, facts, or treatment. It barely responds to mockery. You can not innoculate your children. They may be born stupid or acquire stupidity by casual contact with stupid people or their ideas.

It is a dreadful and a most often fatal disease.

Duncan was down-graded to critical condition yesterday. If he dies, I suppose his will be the first death from Ebola in the US.

I think there were two deaths from Ebola in Russia already... Both were researchers working in the relevant institutions.

Seems as I'm seeing all the same things We were told about AIDS when it first hit the U.S.
Safe Sex and you won't get AIDS.
That turned out well didn't it?
:nope:

So I'm supposed to 'believe' that Ebola can't go rampant in the U.S. of A.? :hmmm:

Actually practicing safe sex and not sharing hypodermic needles works pretty darn well to prevent getting AIDS.

Looks like we got our first case of Ebola in Europe.

A Spanish nurse seems to have been infected with Ebola, when she nursed a Spanish Priest.

The first test was positiv, now they await the second test.

Markus

Yeah, it'll be two tests before they're completely sure. Still, unfortunately the averages were against her, a lot of the westerners that have been infected with Ebola whilst in West Africa have been health-care professionals. In something like this they are the frontline infantry.
Hopefully they can get her treated since they've caught it early and she can make a full recovery.

Wasn't there a case of an infection in the UK in 1976? Plus there was a death of a lab assistant in 1996 (European Russia) from Ebola.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbrea...hronology.html

Oh, there's been the odd outbreak here and there. There's some good (and quite frightening apparently) case studies in 'The Hot Zone' by Richard Preston.
This outbreak though is the worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history, in fact this one outbreak has killed more people than all of the other outbreaks put together. It is, numerically speaking, only a matter of time before it arrives in the UK, most scientists are predicting that the UK or France will have its first case before October 24th, I guess we'll see how accurate they are.

"...the working class" :huh:

Paul Offit, the chief of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, made a powerful point yesterday:

"I bet that if we put out an Ebola virus vaccine tomorrow, half of this country would take it, even though it hasn't killed anyone who hasn't traveled" to the affected countries. "Yet you can't get parents to give their children an HPV vaccine to prevent a virus that kills 4,000 U.S. citizens a year."

The same goes for all kinds of things that are likelier to kill you than Ebola. More than ten thousand people died in drunk driving crashes in 2012. But plenty of people still get behind the wheel drunk. Measles are nine times as contagious as Ebola, but we've seen sizable outbreaks of late because people refuse, or are too inconvenienced to get vaccinated.

It does make me wonder how many drama queens and kings will be reporting to their doctors this winter with the flu, but convinced they have Ebola. :shifty:

In a Danish newspaper a Chief Physician and professor of microbiological diagnostics at State Serum Institute say that

Since both a Norwegian and a Spaniard have been infected with Ebola, bring a Danish Chief Physician questioned whether the disease is transmitted easier than first thought

The Spanish Nurse had double protection and still she got infected.

Markus

Guess I should read up on Ebola eh?
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...8&postcount=96

:haha:

We can all be wrong, every one the doctors a.s.o have so far said you will not get infected if you not touch a person with Ebola.

Markus