"The mortality rate for the current outbreak is estimated to be 48 percent, according to the latest figures from the CDC"
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The flu doesn't have a 48% mortality rate either.
If your doctor prescribes antibiotics for flu they are a fucking retard.
There is no treatment for flu, only a vaccine.
There is no treatment for flu, only a vaccine.
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If your doctor prescribes antibiotics for flu they are a fucking retard.
There is no treatment for flu, only a vaccine.
they shouldve given you anti-viral medicine lol.
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Sums up what you know about the subject nicely...SuperJail Warden wrote:
It is treatable with antibiotics. Ebola is untreatable
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/12/health/eb … ?hpt=hp_t2The deadly Ebola virus appears to have been contracted by someone inside the United States for the first time.
A nurse who had worn protective gear during her "extensive contact" at a Dallas hospital with an Ebola patient who died has tested positive during a preliminary blood test, officials said Sunday.
The woman had on a gown, gloves, mask and a shield during her multiple visits with Thomas Eric Duncan, but there was a breach in protocol, health officials said.
The patient is a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, an official who is familiar with the case told CNN.
If this woman dies her death will be on the people who opposed a travel ban. I hope you all can have that coffin on your conscience.
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Just like the nurse in Spain. Our healthcare professionals are obviously unequipped to handle this situation. Why are we putting their lives at risk?
your lack of faith is disturbing.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Just like the nurse in Spain. Our healthcare professionals are obviously unequipped to handle this situation. Why are we putting their lives at risk?
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Have a read:SuperJail Warden wrote:
The flu doesn't have a 90% mortality rate. It is treatable with antibiotics. Ebola is untreatable
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/us … deaths.htm
Ebola is scratching on the bottom of annual influenza related deaths in the USA alone, which go from 3,000 to 49,000 in a bad year.
The avian flu and "swine" flu pandemics from a few years past were, although a bit overhyped and in the end less drastic, a much worse menace.
If any of those H1N1 related virus strains mutates and is able to easily spread from animal to human, we could face another pandemic like in 1919.
Back then, the Spanish Flu killed 50 million people.
And there are not enough stocks of antiviral medications to even remotely treat a pandemic like that.
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The Ebola nurse in Texas. She is so pretty. Too bad she might die. It is a small price to pay for people in African hell holes to travel wherever they want because liberals don't want to be called racist.
you only care coz shes asian.
what does banning or not banning travel to certain countries have to do with race? It'd be racist if there were a ban on travel to all countries with predominantly one race.
I think macbeth actually believed in what he was writing at the start. Then when people show him how stupid and reactionary he is, he just goes the troll angle.
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When SARS was breaking out in Asia, the WHO considered suggesting a travel ban. When MERS was breaking out in the middle east, a travel ban was considered.When Swine Flu was killing people in Mexico, a ban was considered. Why isn't one considered for Ebola? Why is that suddenly politically incorrect? I wonder what is different about Africa. Oh yeah Africans are a major part of the democrat base and the if Obama had a son it would look like an Liberian Ebola victim.
Ken you aren't "contributing to the forum". Do you have any response to my points or are you just going to dismiss it as trolling?
"The implicit racism in Ebola tragedy" by CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/09/opinion/w … la-racism/
You can't tell me people in the left aren't afraid to do the right thing since they consider it racism if Africans aren't bent over backwards for.
Ken you aren't "contributing to the forum". Do you have any response to my points or are you just going to dismiss it as trolling?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism … la-patientMinutes after news broke of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan, CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield suggested racism might have contributed to the Ebola patient's death.
While talking with her guest about the possibility of a wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital, Banfield said, "You cannot rule out the notion that he had no Social Security number when he went to the hospital, and had a strong, thick West African accent. And his partner even said he's from Liberia."
Banfield is referring to reports that Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital sent Duncan home on September 20 with antibiotics.
Later in the segment, Banfield said that she didn’t believe "malice" had anything to with the hospital's actions, which completely contradicted what she suggested just a few minutes earlier.
Without a hint of evidence, CNN seems to have decided that the tragic death of Mr. Duncan and this unspeakably awful West African Ebola outbreak is gist for racial-hatred mill. While Texans and Americans worry about the possibility of an outbreak on our own shores, CNN doesn't seem to think that's a sexy enough story; so let's throw some unfounded racial speculation on the fire.
"The implicit racism in Ebola tragedy" by CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/09/opinion/w … la-racism/
You can't tell me people in the left aren't afraid to do the right thing since they consider it racism if Africans aren't bent over backwards for.
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Let's have a discussion about ebola that has absolutely nothing filtered through media, be it liberal or conservative.
Let's discuss it with logic without saying, "they said, they said, they said" to every media outlet. Wanna know why? It doesn't fucking matter, it's a virus, not a political discussion.
Why no travel ban? Because it's less deadly than your average flu. If we put a travel ban on a virus LESS deadly than the flu, why not a travel ban on every country where the slightest issue breaks out?
edito: let me sum up: not everything needs to be made political because some talking head said it needed to be. but feel free to give them more ratings and views. close your jaw and wipe up the drool after the show turns off though please.
Let's discuss it with logic without saying, "they said, they said, they said" to every media outlet. Wanna know why? It doesn't fucking matter, it's a virus, not a political discussion.
Why no travel ban? Because it's less deadly than your average flu. If we put a travel ban on a virus LESS deadly than the flu, why not a travel ban on every country where the slightest issue breaks out?
edito: let me sum up: not everything needs to be made political because some talking head said it needed to be. but feel free to give them more ratings and views. close your jaw and wipe up the drool after the show turns off though please.
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"Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience." -Rufus, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.SuperJail Warden wrote:
When SARS was breaking out in Asia, the WHO considered suggesting a travel ban. When MERS was breaking out in the middle east, a travel ban was considered.When Swine Flu was killing people in Mexico, a ban was considered. Why isn't one considered for Ebola? Why is that suddenly politically incorrect? I wonder what is different about Africa. Oh yeah Africans are a major part of the democrat base and the if Obama had a son it would look like an Liberian Ebola victim.
Ken you aren't "contributing to the forum". Do you have any response to my points or are you just going to dismiss it as trolling?http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism … la-patientMinutes after news broke of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan, CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield suggested racism might have contributed to the Ebola patient's death.
While talking with her guest about the possibility of a wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital, Banfield said, "You cannot rule out the notion that he had no Social Security number when he went to the hospital, and had a strong, thick West African accent. And his partner even said he's from Liberia."
Banfield is referring to reports that Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital sent Duncan home on September 20 with antibiotics.
Later in the segment, Banfield said that she didn’t believe "malice" had anything to with the hospital's actions, which completely contradicted what she suggested just a few minutes earlier.
Without a hint of evidence, CNN seems to have decided that the tragic death of Mr. Duncan and this unspeakably awful West African Ebola outbreak is gist for racial-hatred mill. While Texans and Americans worry about the possibility of an outbreak on our own shores, CNN doesn't seem to think that's a sexy enough story; so let's throw some unfounded racial speculation on the fire.
"The implicit racism in Ebola tragedy" by CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/09/opinion/w … la-racism/
You can't tell me people in the left aren't afraid to do the right thing since they consider it racism if Africans aren't bent over backwards for.
You want meaningful dialogue when you post a picture of the nurse and say "she is too pretty to die" (paraphrase)?? Get the fuck out of here dude.
Why would this be a racism issue? It's not like people in West Africa are coming over in droves to the US. They shit and throw up where they sleep with 10 of their other family members. The people we are worried about are AID workers - nurses, missionaries and the like.
That's an OPINION piece on CNN. And it (the opinion piece) has nothing to do with the idea that enacting travel bans reek of racism. Please try harder. Bring up something worth debating and we can have a rational discussion.
Have fun preventing letting your own citizens enter your own country if they catch ebola. you can quarantine them with cdc yes but doubt you can prevent entry to them.
Ken is still wrong.
If Ebola is so difficult to pass on, and so easy to treat how is modern western hospitals don't seem able to contain it in a facility purpose designed to do so, and people are dying?
What would happen if it got into the general population in an urban area?
At this point a travel ban is an obvious early step to contain it.
If Ebola is so difficult to pass on, and so easy to treat how is modern western hospitals don't seem able to contain it in a facility purpose designed to do so, and people are dying?
What would happen if it got into the general population in an urban area?
At this point a travel ban is an obvious early step to contain it.
Fuck Israel
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/15/health/te … ?hpt=hp_t1A second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan has tested positive for Ebola, health officials said Wednesday -- casting further doubt on the hospital's ability to handle Ebola and protect employees.
The worker reported a fever Tuesday and was immediately isolated, health department spokeswoman Carrie Williams said.
The preliminary Ebola test was done late Tuesday at the state public health laboratory in Austin, and the results came back around midnight. A second test will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Our hospitals can handle this. Best healthcare system in the world
When the hell are we going to ban travel to texas? The disease is already inside the US, there's no longer any need to ban travel to west africa.
If you're in texas, don't leave until everyone is cured or everyone is dead.
If you're outside of texas, don't go there until the same.
If you're in texas, don't leave until everyone is cured or everyone is dead.
If you're outside of texas, don't go there until the same.
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Thousands of people in Texas don't have Ebola. Liberia has thousands. One man has already gotten 2 people sick.How many are going to get sick the next time someone inevitably walks off a plane from Africa with Ebola?
Once the second person comes in, the government will stop flights and I will be vindicated again. I was right before and I will be right again
Once the second person comes in, the government will stop flights and I will be vindicated again. I was right before and I will be right again
How many people is this guy going to get sick before we ban travel to/from texas? When will it be enough? WHEN? OH THE HUMANITY!
btw, just cause the goverment does it doesn't mean they or you are right. If what you've been saying all this time is that you GUESSED the government would ban travel, then yes you'd be right if they did.
Why the fuck was the nurse from Texas, travelling on flights across America when she was supposed to be under observation?