Posted by lord greg

It is easier than you think to spread body fluids.

I'm preeeeeeetty sure CDC knows exactly how much of a chance there is for this sort of thing to spread. I dunno, maybe it's weird that I place my trust in an organization specifically made to deal with such a thing instead of making my judgements based off of what people say on forums and what newscasters think.  

We were talking about it in class today, and my professor made a good point.
Why would we trust those trying to control Ebola saying "It's not contagious" when they're trying to control it and not panic us?

It's spreading so rapidly in Africa, I'm sure it probably is very contagious and we're being told it isn't easily spreadable just to not freak us out so we don't all rampage on the topic.

Wouldn't be the first time things relatively similar was being hidden.  

its the start of the walking dead in real life. We are going to die. Hopefully we aren't alive while walking as zombies.

Posted by Cookie Xanadu

But... isn't Ebola only transmitted via bodily fluids and stuff? Only real way to transmit it is to screw someone, drink their blood/spit/urine/feces.



It's still contagious in semen for like 2-3 weeks after someone is cured of it

did he cheat on his girlfriend?  

This planet has a population problem anyways. Good.  

Posted by Fysez

It's spreading so rapidly in Africa

America is not Africa.  

Mars might be a good destination  

Posted by Dusty

America is not Africa.

She was stating it as a matter of showing how easily it can be spread, not comparing America to Africa.  

Anything can spread easier in Africa in comparison to America. To make that statement, you also imply Africa's health plan/hospitals/ technology to fight a virus is on par with Americas.

For example. People die of the common flu in Africa because they dont have up to date medical care. Whens the last time someone died in America due to the flu or cold?

Its a ridiculous statement.  

Posted by Dusty

America is not Africa.

No, But we constantly are shipping products back-and-forth from America to Africa. Vacations. Soldiers.
Ebola doesn't show any signs for up to a week, which is enough time for someone shipping goods to Africa, coming back to America, interacting with people, and then a few days later shown to have Ebola.
My point was, we don't actually ourselves know for sure it's only transmittable through bodily fluids. Whoever said that could've been trying to prevent a panic outbreak throughout the USA.
So those people who were near that person shipping goods now has Ebola and won't realize it until the week after.

Posted by kenovo

She was stating it as a matter of showing how easily it can be spread, not comparing America to Africa.

^^^  

Atleast its in Texas, they'll probably just execute Ebola like they do with all their problems.  

Posted by Jester Lapse

Anything can spread easier in Africa in comparison to America. To make that statement, you also imply Africa's health plan/hospitals/ technology to fight a virus is on par with Americas.

For example. People die of the common flu in Africa because they dont have up to date medical care. Whens the last time someone died in America due to the flu or cold?

Its a ridiculous statement.

Not necessarily. All we need to do is initiate an outbreak in America, and this case right here is the perfect trigger. Another note: Americans have different inherited immune systems than Africans. It may not be by much, but it's still noteworthy. Until we have an outbreak in America, we won't know exactly how it will spread, and how fast it will spread. All we can do is predict and estimate.  

Posted by MrSimons

Atleast its in Texas, they'll probably just execute Ebola like they do with all their problems.

News spread like wildfire here, some schools went into lockdown. At first I thought my little cousin was lying to me when he told me if I could pick him up due to ebola being in dallas.  

I think people are overreacting. Its only spreadable through bodily fluids (As in, semen, blood, spit, etc.), and they are monitoring all the people he came in contact with and no one has any sings of anything so far. The reason there was an outbreak in Africa was because uneducated people were breaking patients out of hospitals, outright not believing Ebola existed, and hiding infected people from officers. I'm pretty sure our system is far, far more advanced than theirs and we can easily keep this contained if we stay calm and level headed without going crazy with panic. Liberia stopped an outbreak and the 'patient zero' was in a far later stage than the one in Dallas. All 3 patients treated in US hospitals for Ebola up to this point are fine, cured, immune to this strain of Ebola and Ebola free.

If anything, the media hyping all this up is just doing more harm than good and making a simple situation into some horrific frenzy.  

Posted by Pimpsy G.

I think people are overreacting. Its only spreadable through bodily fluids (As in, semen, blood, spit, etc.), and they are monitoring all the people he came in contact with and no one has any sings of anything so far. The reason there was an outbreak in Africa was because uneducated people were breaking patients out of hospitals, outright not believing Ebola existed, and hiding infected people from officers. I'm pretty sure our system is far, far more advanced than theirs and we can easily keep this contained if we stay calm and level headed without going crazy with panic. Liberia stopped an outbreak and the 'patient zero' was in a far later stage than the one in Dallas. All 3 patients treated in US hospitals for Ebola up to this point are fine, cured, immune to this strain of Ebola and Ebola free.

If anything, the media hyping all this up is just doing more harm than good and making a simple situation into some horrific frenzy.

You probably won't be saying that when the virus goes airborne  

Ebola: dangerous
My care: None
Why? Because you're all too paranoid.
The Ebola virus has a very low chance of "ending" or "killing off" an entire state. It's only contagious through bodily fluids such as urine, spit, blood, feces etc. The person with ebola that arrived on U.S soil must have done something to even gain ebola in other words making love with an ebola patient. Just keep your mouth's off others till this **** is over.