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I'm fine just strange that the media is making a big deal about something that really only effects a 3rd world country. Like AIDs isn't ever a big deal in the states any more but in a place with poor heath care like Africa it's still big as it was in the 80s. It's like the media thinks we live at the same standard as Africa and a R0 disease will effect us like it will over there.
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While I think the nature of Ebola as a disease makes people fear it more than they should, I think there's also a danger of writing off the risks assuming that the spread will be similar to the previous outbreaks. I mean it's already killed twice as many people as all the previous outbreaks combined.
When you have a disease that has a long incubation period it might not mean as much when people are not as mobile and don't have as much contact with different people. I can't imagine the average person in central / west Africa in the 70's or 80's traveled very far from their home, so the risk of spreading the disease outside the village was low, since there is a high probability of news of the outbreak spreading faster than the disease. If this disease gets into mainstream Europe/America, it could spread very quickly as the means of it spreading is much easier than something like aids, and there's a higher possibility of highly mobile people catching it who could spread it to other large groups of people. I don't think it would be that easy to combat here in the states either. Don't most hospitals already operate at or close to full capacity? | ||
Last edited by Lojik; 10-10-2014 at 03:40 PM..
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In fact the people at the CDC and such being urged to be cautious about all this, they prob being pushed those orders whether they agree or not. Their being cautious about publicity and incidents, not about the disease btw. Also clean water. And IV fluids is win win. All of which doesn't need a hospital to administer. Laying in your own vomit and diahrea around you're family tends to help spread the disease quicker. | |||
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