NUance Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Atlanta hospital to receive Ebola patient Michael King, WXIA-TV, Atlanta 8:22 a.m. EDT August 1, 2014 ATLANTA – Emory University Hospital has been informed of plans to transfer a patient with the Ebola virus to its special facility containment unit within the next several days. It is not known when the patient will arrive. In a release, the Atlanta hospital said they have a specially built isolation unit set up in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to treat patients who are exposed to certain serious infectious diseases. The facility, they said, is physically separate from other patient areas of the hospital and is equipped to provide an extremely high level of clinical isolation. LINK Ebola is some freaky sh#t. The book "The Hot Zone" LINK claimed that every outbreak of Ebola up to that date could be traced to a person who entered Kitum Cave in Kenya, IIRC. The disease itself is like something straight out of science fiction. Ebola victims go into a comatose, zombie-like state, their guts turn to mush, and they bleed out of every orifice--eyes, nose, ears, butt, etc. The 10% or so who survive are pretty f'd up. Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted August 1, 2014 Author Share Posted August 1, 2014 Also, the reporter in the video accompanying the article in the OP mentions that Ebola is only transmitted through exchange of bodily fluids--implying that it's not easily transmitted. I should point out that a strain of Reston virus (basically monkey Ebola) as rumored to be transmitted via airborne means, like the common cold virus. It's difficult to get to the truth of this. The story of the Reston outbreak seems to have been revised a couple times. So, airborne or not, who really knows? The significance of this is that if Ebola mutates to a virus characterized by airborne transmission (like the Reston strain was rumored to have been), it could wipe out a large percentage of the world population in just a few months. My advice: Work on your golf game instead of worrying about it. And leave all this shiite to the gov't eggheads who study this stuff. Quote Link to comment
Scratchtown Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 First time the virus has ever been on US soil, or so I heard last night on the news. Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted August 1, 2014 Author Share Posted August 1, 2014 First time the virus has ever been on US soil, or so I heard last night on the news. In humans, yeah. The Reston strain was monkey Ebola which was not transmittable to humans (I believe). That's Reston, Virginia. Just outside D.C. Quote Link to comment
ZRod Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 well great. Better use protection Landlord. 3 Quote Link to comment
Count 'Bility Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Just another step in the population reduction conspiracy. Quote Link to comment
C N Red Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Get ready biatches!! Zombie Apocalypse coming to a town near you!! Quote Link to comment
carlfense Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 The State Dept. was at UNMC today examining the 10 bed bio-containment unit. Quote Link to comment
BIGREDIOWAN Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Anyone else think this is a terrible idea? It makes no sense to bring those people back to the US for "treatment" of an illness that has no cure! Look, I get those folks are US citizens and what has happened to them is terrible, but putting millions of other US citizens at risk with this disease because 2 people are US citizens makes no sense. I've seen this movie before, "No problem, we have a containment system set in place to deal with this situation." 3 months later.............. "BRAINS!!!!" This is some scary **** Quote Link to comment
ShawnWatson Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 My advice: Work on your golf game instead of worrying about it. And leave all this shiite to the gov't eggheads who study this stuff. Blindly trusting the government is a dangerous game to play, kimosabe. Quote Link to comment
tschu Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Anyone else think this is a terrible idea? It makes no sense to bring those people back to the US for "treatment" of an illness that has no cure! Look, I get those folks are US citizens and what has happened to them is terrible, but putting millions of other US citizens at risk with this disease because 2 people are US citizens makes no sense. I've seen this movie before, "No problem, we have a containment system set in place to deal with this situation." 3 months later.............. "BRAINS!!!!" This is some scary **** It's only spread through bodily fluids. There essentially can't be an outbreak in the US because our public health is so good. They'll be quarantined very heavily in a hospital. It'll be just fine. Quote Link to comment
BIGREDIOWAN Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Anyone else think this is a terrible idea? It makes no sense to bring those people back to the US for "treatment" of an illness that has no cure! Look, I get those folks are US citizens and what has happened to them is terrible, but putting millions of other US citizens at risk with this disease because 2 people are US citizens makes no sense. I've seen this movie before, "No problem, we have a containment system set in place to deal with this situation." 3 months later.............. "BRAINS!!!!" This is some scary **** It's only spread through bodily fluids. There essentially can't be an outbreak in the US because our public health is so good. They'll be quarantined very heavily in a hospital. It'll be just fine. Until it finds a way to mutate and become airborne Quote Link to comment
tschu Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Anyone else think this is a terrible idea? It makes no sense to bring those people back to the US for "treatment" of an illness that has no cure! Look, I get those folks are US citizens and what has happened to them is terrible, but putting millions of other US citizens at risk with this disease because 2 people are US citizens makes no sense. I've seen this movie before, "No problem, we have a containment system set in place to deal with this situation." 3 months later.............. "BRAINS!!!!" This is some scary **** It's only spread through bodily fluids. There essentially can't be an outbreak in the US because our public health is so good. They'll be quarantined very heavily in a hospital. It'll be just fine. Until it finds a way to mutate and become airborne The chances of that mutation finally happening after 40 years in those two specific patients is...very low to say the least. And in fact it would be better for such a mutation to occur in the US where it could be properly contained, rather than Africa where there's zero chance of containment and it could eventually spread over continents 1 Quote Link to comment
tschu Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 If it does mutate....gg everyone, I'm going to go be a hermit in a cave in the mountains of Montana Quote Link to comment
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