Ebola patient coming to Atlanta hospital

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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.

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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.

 
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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.
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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 ****

 
NUance said:
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.
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Blindly trusting the government is a dangerous game to play, kimosabe.

 
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BIGREDIOWAN said:
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 ****
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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.

 
tschu said:
BIGREDIOWAN said:
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 ****
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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.
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Until it finds a way to mutate and become airborne

 
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tschu said:
BIGREDIOWAN said:
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 ****
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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.
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Until it finds a way to mutate and become airborne
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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

 
If it does mutate....gg everyone, I'm going to go be a hermit in a cave in the mountains of Montana

 
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