EBOLAWATCH: 5000 false claims last week. 0 new cases.
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We could all just wait for Spammy to post tomorrow morning's weird and wonderful news. Gotta love Spammy.
Always new and interesting stuff and the man can really clear the live forum feed sometimes too.
Always new and interesting stuff and the man can really clear the live forum feed sometimes too.
"Jenkins urged people to accept those released from quarantine and compared peoples' fears of Ebola to a horse's fear of a snake. He said, however, sometimes a horse can be spooked by a shiny beer can."
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Elementary School Throws Ebola Tantrum over Two Kids from Rwanda | Mediaite
Two elementary school children are being kept from attending Howard Yocum Elementary School in New Jersey because they recently moved to the U.S. from Rwanda, prompting Ebola fears from other parents — even though Rwanda is 2,600 miles from the west African region afflicted by the Ebola outbreak.
The school informed teachers of the two children who were set to start school today, but word got out and parents objected. The family has “elected” to keep their children home for the twenty-one day potential incubation period.
The school informed teachers of the two children who were set to start school today, but word got out and parents objected. The family has “elected” to keep their children home for the twenty-one day potential incubation period.
Ridiculous.
Nigerian footballer Dele Adebola has made the bizarre decision to tweet that he doesn't have the killer Ebola virus - after becoming besieged by messages asking if he had it because of his surname.
Rushall Olympic striker Adebola, who has also played for Crewe Alexandra, Coventry City and Birmingham City, had to respond after fans noticed the exact spelling of his surname..and began aiming tweets in his direction.
The 39-year-old took the tweets in good humour and had to reply on Twitter via his page @Dele_Adebola:
Former Birmingham striker Dele Adebola reassures Twitter fans: I don't have Ebola - Mirror Online
Rushall Olympic striker Adebola, who has also played for Crewe Alexandra, Coventry City and Birmingham City, had to respond after fans noticed the exact spelling of his surname..and began aiming tweets in his direction.
The 39-year-old took the tweets in good humour and had to reply on Twitter via his page @Dele_Adebola:
Former Birmingham striker Dele Adebola reassures Twitter fans: I don't have Ebola - Mirror Online
And then there were four.
Pham has gone home now. Vinsons's Doctors report she is making good progress, and that they can't isolate the virus in her blood anymore.
And then there was one!
Still no reason to panic over Ebola
With a spate of Ebola cases popping up in North America, including recently in New York, where a doctor rode the subway and went bowling before being diagnosed, there’s nagging public concern about the risk posed by the deadly virus.
People are right to pay attention. A case of Ebola might — and probably will — appear in Canada within the next few months. It’s a horrific disease, killing about half of those infected, and it’s out of control in parts of West Africa.
But the general public in North America has no reason for fear. Indeed, there’s probably more reason to worry about drug-resistant tuberculosis in the wake of a troubling World Health Organization report last week.
The evidence so far available about Ebola shows that risk in the United States and Canada is confined mainly to health care professionals. That’s understandable. The Ebola virus isn’t especially easy to contract. It requires direct contact with contaminated vomit, diarrhea, blood or other body fluid. Brave doctors, nurses, paramedics and other health care providers are far more likely to encounter such material than a person on the street. They care for the sick, bearing the burden of risk so that others stay safe.
Initial slip-ups in Dallas, which had the first case of Ebola diagnosed in North America, resulted in two nurses being infected. Both were involved in treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who arrived from Liberia without showing Ebola symptoms but who quickly fell sick and eventually died. Somehow, nurses Nina Pham and Amber Vinson were exposed to infected fluid.
Lessons were learned and procedures aimed at defending health care workers were tightened up, with special attention to safely removing protective gear. But these incidents have fanned fear in the United States.
Over-reaction south of the border has included a needless shunning of individuals who have visited Africa, or even Texas; pointless school closings; and a distressing spate of fraudulent Ebola cures being marketed online.
There’s absolutely no reason for panic. It’s telling that none of the family members who Duncan was visiting in Texas caught Ebola, even though they cared for him at the start of his illness. And Pham was declared cured on Friday and cleared to return to Dallas.
It’s a different story in West Africa, where 10,000 cases of Ebola have so far been diagnosed and about 5,000 people have died.
And that tragic toll is dwarfed by an even bigger long-term problem. The World Health Organization reported that drug-resistant tuberculosis is at crisis levels, especially in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where “the treatment success rate is alarmingly low.”
Various forms of tuberculosis killed about 1.5 million people last year and difficult-to-cure, multi-drug resistant stains of this bacteria resulted in about 480,000 new cases of infection. This will very likely pose a far greater threat, over the long run, than Ebola does today.
http://m.thestar.com/#/article/opin..._no_reason_to_panic_over_ebola_editorial.html
With a spate of Ebola cases popping up in North America, including recently in New York, where a doctor rode the subway and went bowling before being diagnosed, there’s nagging public concern about the risk posed by the deadly virus.
People are right to pay attention. A case of Ebola might — and probably will — appear in Canada within the next few months. It’s a horrific disease, killing about half of those infected, and it’s out of control in parts of West Africa.
But the general public in North America has no reason for fear. Indeed, there’s probably more reason to worry about drug-resistant tuberculosis in the wake of a troubling World Health Organization report last week.
The evidence so far available about Ebola shows that risk in the United States and Canada is confined mainly to health care professionals. That’s understandable. The Ebola virus isn’t especially easy to contract. It requires direct contact with contaminated vomit, diarrhea, blood or other body fluid. Brave doctors, nurses, paramedics and other health care providers are far more likely to encounter such material than a person on the street. They care for the sick, bearing the burden of risk so that others stay safe.
Initial slip-ups in Dallas, which had the first case of Ebola diagnosed in North America, resulted in two nurses being infected. Both were involved in treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who arrived from Liberia without showing Ebola symptoms but who quickly fell sick and eventually died. Somehow, nurses Nina Pham and Amber Vinson were exposed to infected fluid.
Lessons were learned and procedures aimed at defending health care workers were tightened up, with special attention to safely removing protective gear. But these incidents have fanned fear in the United States.
Over-reaction south of the border has included a needless shunning of individuals who have visited Africa, or even Texas; pointless school closings; and a distressing spate of fraudulent Ebola cures being marketed online.
There’s absolutely no reason for panic. It’s telling that none of the family members who Duncan was visiting in Texas caught Ebola, even though they cared for him at the start of his illness. And Pham was declared cured on Friday and cleared to return to Dallas.
It’s a different story in West Africa, where 10,000 cases of Ebola have so far been diagnosed and about 5,000 people have died.
And that tragic toll is dwarfed by an even bigger long-term problem. The World Health Organization reported that drug-resistant tuberculosis is at crisis levels, especially in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where “the treatment success rate is alarmingly low.”
Various forms of tuberculosis killed about 1.5 million people last year and difficult-to-cure, multi-drug resistant stains of this bacteria resulted in about 480,000 new cases of infection. This will very likely pose a far greater threat, over the long run, than Ebola does today.
http://m.thestar.com/#/article/opin..._no_reason_to_panic_over_ebola_editorial.html
Dr. Craig Spencer has been upgraded to stable as well. So, of the 4 cases in the US thus far, two have recovered completely, a third looks to be passing the critical phase towards recovery, and one died. 25% mortality rate thus far. Again we see what a first world healthcare system can do compared to those in Africa. Not only are we better at quarantine, treatment outcomes are better.
Now let's hope that the medical professionals around the world continue to volunteer their expertise and time to squelch this disease.
Now let's hope that the medical professionals around the world continue to volunteer their expertise and time to squelch this disease.