Comments on: Ebola Perspective: Risks of spread to the US and elsewhere https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/02/ebola-perspective-risks-of-spread-to-the-us-and-elsewhere/ Wed, 06 Aug 2014 22:46:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Azeez https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/02/ebola-perspective-risks-of-spread-to-the-us-and-elsewhere/#comment-481263 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 22:46:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20137#comment-481263 Lagos is a densely populated city, Most Nigerian health facilities can barely cope with malaria outbreak. We urgently need specialist assistance. I hope am not an alarmist.

]]> By: Azeez https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/02/ebola-perspective-risks-of-spread-to-the-us-and-elsewhere/#comment-481262 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 22:35:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20137#comment-481262 2 death, 8 positive confirmation in Nigeria and 1 death in Saudi. Ebola is jumping the continent. How about vaccine?.

]]> By: Luke Thomas https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/02/ebola-perspective-risks-of-spread-to-the-us-and-elsewhere/#comment-481261 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 20:55:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20137#comment-481261 The leading authority of Ebola, who was a doctor, even well suited caught the disease and died. So don’t tell me you know everything about it. It’s a virus.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/02/ebola-perspective-risks-of-spread-to-the-us-and-elsewhere/#comment-481260 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 20:23:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20137#comment-481260 In reply to Kim.

That might be kind of general… but anyway, it is true that we only know about the ones we know about!

]]> By: Kim https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/02/ebola-perspective-risks-of-spread-to-the-us-and-elsewhere/#comment-481259 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 20:12:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20137#comment-481259 The truth of the situation is that it is out now. And there is no telling how many people are carriers – we only know about the ones that we know about. Chaos theory always holds true. Or is that too general?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/02/ebola-perspective-risks-of-spread-to-the-us-and-elsewhere/#comment-481258 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:05:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20137#comment-481258 At this point there have been several reports of Ebola in other countries. Two are valid, the rest have been shown to be not valid. Hong Kong, the US, somewhere in South America, and the Philippines are examples. The Philippines to give an example has a valid concern, there is a lot of back and forth between the affected areas and the Philippines (as is true with the US as well), but nothing has panned out though there has been some sensationalizing.

The only valid cases I know of are Nigeria which may or may not have a local outbreak (probably not but it is unclear) and the two patients brought to the US, who are simply not a risk at all.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/02/ebola-perspective-risks-of-spread-to-the-us-and-elsewhere/#comment-481257 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:02:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20137#comment-481257

Africa are closing borders to stop the spreading but we are shipping them here. How smart is that? …

You seem to have missed two things:
a) Only two infected people are being brought here, and
b) They are not simply wandering, in street clothes, from the point of infection to downtown Atlanta (or have you not seen or read of the protections taken during their transfer and treatment?)

Clearly though, two things are now going on.
a) Like the aptly named poster at 9, some people are, for whatever foolish reason, not thrilled with this:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/atlanta-hospital-receives-hate-mail-for-treating-aid-workers-stricken-by-ebola-9645199.html

b) The “make up any crap at all to claim that President Obama is doing his best to needlessly endanger us” right-wing is beginning to show up:
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/indiana-congressman-says-immigrant-kids-might-have-ebola/article_6cd84d69-3909-50d7-aa64-cc211b491795.html

No matter how foolish the lie there are some who will be lapping it up.

]]> By: Dumb https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/02/ebola-perspective-risks-of-spread-to-the-us-and-elsewhere/#comment-481256 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:15:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20137#comment-481256 Africa are closing boarders to stop the spreading but we are shipping them here. How smart is that? Low 100s? Try almost 1000 now. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/liberia-orders-cremation-ebola-victims-24830289

]]> By: Brainstorms https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/02/ebola-perspective-risks-of-spread-to-the-us-and-elsewhere/#comment-481255 Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:05:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20137#comment-481255 Another reason for excessive care re: the masks, suits, etc.: It’s a lot harder to touch something contaminated by someone’s bodily fluids and then wipe your nose, rub your eyes, pick at your teeth, chew a nail, etc. (things we do without consciously thinking about) when you have a mask over your face…

]]> By: JJ https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/02/ebola-perspective-risks-of-spread-to-the-us-and-elsewhere/#comment-481254 Mon, 04 Aug 2014 04:49:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20137#comment-481254 Thank you for the input!!!

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