Ebola virus outbreak

littlemac1980 · 09-10-2014 2:54pm

My name is URL wrote: »

My brother is working out in Ghana atm. He's due home next Saturday. What are the odds that travel restrictions will be in place by then?

I'd say highly unlikely - sure Ghana hasn't even had a reported case, and Ivory Coast is likely the highest risk Country for the next new West African Country to be affected based on proximity to Liberia.

Spring Onion · 09-10-2014 2:54pm

Sclosages wrote: »

If it gets into Lagos, we be fooked. Nigerians travel to here and the UK frequently. If it's in the UK, it will be here.

Ah yes, lots of empathy for the poor Nigerians.

Too Tough To Die · 09-10-2014 2:54pm

My name is URL wrote: »

My brother is working out in Ghana atm. He's due home next Saturday. What are the odds that travel restrictions will be in place by then?

He'll be grand.

YellowFeather · 09-10-2014 2:55pm

littlemac1980 wrote: »

Unfortunately, I'm not a pessimistic person.

dinorebel · 09-10-2014 2:56pm

My name is URL wrote: »

My brother is working out in Ghana atm. He's due home next Saturday. What are the odds that travel restrictions will be in place by then?

He's ghana make it in time:D

littlemac1980 · 09-10-2014 2:57pm

YellowFeather wrote: »

haha - that's brilliant! Can't believe I wrote that - well spotted.

My name is URL · 09-10-2014 3:02pm

Jake1 wrote: »

Some airline cleaning staff have walked off the job over Ebola concerns at La Guardia airport.

http://7online.com/travel/ebola-concerns-lead-laguardia-workers-to-strike/342991/

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/09/plane-cabin-cleaners-strike-at-laguardia-airport/

Hard to know whether they're being genuinely cautious / concerned or just using the situation as a means to an end.

The workers, who are seeking to unionize

I can't imagine that the airline wouldn't provide them with proper protective gear. Sure it'd be in their own best interests to do so.

littlemac1980 · 09-10-2014 3:07pm

My name is URL wrote: »

Hard to know whether they're being genuinely cautious / concerned or just using the situation as a means to an end.

I can't imagine that the airline wouldn't provide them with proper protective gear. Sure it'd be in their own best interests to do so.

Can't say I blame them tbh - when you're dealing with something that has the potential to kill you - then you're entitled to demand the appropriate level of protection if you are expected to do your job.

It's obvious that Airline cleaning personnel aren't kitted out to be dealing with deadly viruses, and if cases become more regular in the "West" these sort of knock on effects will have dramatic economic and social implications.

09-10-2014 3:16pm

Marburg has reared its ugly head in Uganda.

Three Ugandans are being monitored in medical isolation for possibly contracting the Ebola-like Marburg virus, health officials said Tuesday, after a hospital worker died.

http://news.yahoo.com/three-ugandans-isolation-ebola-marburg-virus-death-190526918.html

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_update_read&edis_id=BH-20141006-45530-UGA&uid=15375

Peist2007 · 09-10-2014 3:25pm

Spring Onion wrote: »

Yes of course - let's have a retrospective in 2015 and see who was over-hyping the situation. To be honest I find this thread absolutely fascinating. There is a thesis here for sure!
Some lad just suggested that the nurses and doctors will strike for more money to deal with ebola. You cant make this stuff up, well actually most of you can.

Must be great to live in a smug little bubble. The bold bit gives away that you're a student of some kind?

youtube! · 09-10-2014 3:39pm

Wars Pestilence Famine Death. I am not one bit religious but those 4 lads on the horses seem to be making good progress!

Spring Onion · 09-10-2014 3:41pm

Peist2007 wrote: »

Must be great to live in a smug little bubble. The bold bit gives away that you're a student of some kind?

Well we're all students in life aren't we? My college days are over if that's what you're asking. The username gives away that you're a worm of some kind? I am a scallion.

FullblownRose · 09-10-2014 3:42pm

And I am a Barnacle.

youtube! · 09-10-2014 3:44pm

And I am the most popular thing on the internet!

Joe Doe · 09-10-2014 3:48pm

youtube! wrote: »

Wars Pestilence Famine Death. I am not one bit religious but those 4 lads on the horses seem to be making good progress!

Don't forget to add in the recent 'blood moon' etc..

on the plus side though:

1. Naomi Campbell To Launch Benefit Fashion Shows To Fight Ebola.

2. Robots are being deployed with powerful directional UV-c burst lights to eliminate surface traces of it - this is a good idea actually...

Peist2007 · 09-10-2014 3:50pm

Spring Onion wrote: »

Well we're all students in life aren't we? My college days are over if that's what you're asking. The username gives away that you're a worm of some kind? I am a scallion.

Peist is the irish for worm, not a type of worm. Pfft :rolleyes:

You being a scallion and calling yourself a spring onion is quite indicative actually.

DipStick McSwindler · 09-10-2014 3:51pm

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ceadaoin. · 09-10-2014 3:57pm

An ebola vaccine could be ready by the end of the year. So, would you take it? Surely they can't do the amount of testing required in a matter of months.

(CNN) -- The "extraordinary" rush to develop an Ebola vaccine is moving forward apace, the lead researcher told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday, adding that the fast pace may engender ethical concerns about how it the vaccine is eventually implemented.
"This is, frankly, extraordinary," Adrian Hill of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University said. "We are trying to do in a few months something that might typically take 10 years. We've had accelerated reviews of all our applications, regulatory and ethical approvals, and so on."
"And we're now trying to proceed so quickly that if things go well, by the end of the year, this vaccine might actually be being used in the three affected countries in West Africa."
He said that the vaccine has been shown to be "really quite remarkably protective" in studies on monkeys at the National Institutes of Health in the U.S.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/07/health/ebola-vaccine-ethics/

Spring Onion · 09-10-2014 4:00pm

Peist2007 wrote: »

Peist is the irish for worm, not a type of worm. Pfft :rolleyes:

Really?

http://breis.focloir.ie/en/fgb/p%C3%A9ist

No need to apologise

Autonomous Cowherd · 09-10-2014 4:02pm

ceadaoin. wrote: »

An ebola vaccine could be ready by the end of the year. So, would you take it?

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/07/health/ebola-vaccine-ethics/

Nope.

I don't understand whatever happened to testing periods in new medical developments. There was a time when new drugs had to undergo lengthy trial periods,; now all us gob-daws are expected to line up and stretch out our arms for whatever yer having yerself, no worries about....ooooh, let's say narcolepsy after the swine flu vaccine or Guillain Barre, premature menopause et al from Gardasil.

youtube! · 09-10-2014 4:03pm

IrishFeeney92 wrote: »

No your not!

Godammit your'e right I am 3rd after Google and FB,, feck that!

FullblownRose · 09-10-2014 4:04pm

IrishFeeney92 wrote: »

No your not!

I'll be watching you tonight.

youtube! · 09-10-2014 4:05pm

FullblownRose wrote: »

I'll be watching you tonight.

;)

Peist2007 · 09-10-2014 4:09pm

Spring Onion wrote: »

Really?

http://breis.focloir.ie/en/fgb/p%C3%A9ist

No need to apologise

I think you need to actually learn how to read a dictionary :pac:

Spring Onion · 09-10-2014 4:13pm

youtube! wrote: »

Godammit your'e right I am 3rd after Google and FB,, feck that!

Do the sites that fullblownrose likes ever appear on "most popular websites in Ireland" listings? I don't see them.

ScumLord · 09-10-2014 4:32pm

Joe Doe wrote: »

2. Robots are being deployed with powerful directional UV-c burst lights to eliminate surface traces of it - this is a good idea actually...

They could have used that yolk in that TV series the strain.

ceadaoin. wrote: »

An ebola vaccine could be ready by the end of the year. So, would you take it? Surely they can't do the amount of testing required in a matter of months.

This is how the zombie apocalypse is going to start, they try to fix it but just make a new more powerful virus that turns people into zombies. I saw it all in a dream, or a movie, I'm absolutely, almost completely, 50/50, confident it's going to go down that way, probably.

Autonomous Cowherd · 09-10-2014 4:46pm

ScumLord wrote: »

They could have used that yolk in that TV series the strain.

This is how the zombie apocalypse is going to start, they try to fix it but just make a new more powerful virus that turns people into zombies. I saw it all in a dream, or a movie, I'm absolutely, almost completely, 50/50, confident it's going to go down that way, probably.

LoL..I can see you are taking this seriously.

But in all fairness, how messed up is it for the poor nurse who was only doing her job. What a horrific consequence. I hope she gets better.

FullblownRose · 09-10-2014 4:48pm

Spring Onion wrote: »

Do the sites that fullblownrose likes ever appear on "most popular websites in Ireland" listings? I don't see them.

I don't think there are any sites I like in particular. Facebook or this site, maybe

LuckyLloyd · 09-10-2014 5:00pm

snubbleste wrote: »

Spanish newspaper 'finds' her mobile number and calls her..
El Mundo - 'I don't know how I caught Ebola'

also she is deteriorating fast
http://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2014/10/08/54346601e2704e35598b4571.html

That is some gutter journalism right there.

ceadaoin. · 09-10-2014 5:07pm

ScumLord wrote: »

They could have used that yolk in that TV series the strain.

This is how the zombie apocalypse is going to start, they try to fix it but just make a new more powerful virus that turns people into zombies. I saw it all in a dream, or a movie, I'm absolutely, almost completely, 50/50, confident it's going to go down that way, probably.

I was talking to someone back in Ireland about the strain the other day and they'd never heard of it. It's not bad

Ebola virus outbreak

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