Person tests positive for Ebola in NYC (4th person in US)
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fukk man
It's a virus that replicates inside of blood cells. If it were to "become airborne" it would be a fundamentally different virus. Viruses are protein coated DNA or RNA that attach themselves to certain cells they were made to attach to, replicate, then burst/destroy. It isn't going to "become airborne," like the flu or something. Fundamentally different ways of existing and spreading. It's like saying HIV/AIDS is going to become airborne. The odds are more than 0, but so infinitely small that it might as well be 0. Period.
The number of people one sick person will infect is called R0, it basically means reproduction number. Ebola's is R2, meaning one person will infect on average 2 other people. That's still pretty damn scary but with the amount of protocols that we have in place t just isn't likely to be a huge issue. We have the resources (disposable equipment, cleaning supplies, incinerators, hospital isolation areas, knowledgeable staff that have been practicing universal safety precautions for years, proper hygiene practices) that many parts of West Africa doesn't. We also don't have a cultural practice of washing our dead. We also don't have to deal with random people we've never seen before showing up to poke us with needles while wearing huge yellow suits, speaking in a foreign language, and taking our family away only to report that the family they poked with a needle and took away was dead and we can't see them ever again. It's not going to spread the way it has in W Africa.
The number of people one sick person will infect is called R0, it basically means reproduction number. Ebola's is R2, meaning one person will infect on average 2 other people. That's still pretty damn scary but with the amount of protocols that we have in place t just isn't likely to be a huge issue. We have the resources (disposable equipment, cleaning supplies, incinerators, hospital isolation areas, knowledgeable staff that have been practicing universal safety precautions for years, proper hygiene practices) that many parts of West Africa doesn't. We also don't have a cultural practice of washing our dead. We also don't have to deal with random people we've never seen before showing up to poke us with needles while wearing huge yellow suits, speaking in a foreign language, and taking our family away only to report that the family they poked with a needle and took away was dead and we can't see them ever again. It's not going to spread the way it has in W Africa.
QamYasharahla
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Here we go....
Conflicting reports are coming out about CDC vans spotted on the East Coast. Some people are saying they are for forced Ebola screenings, but the CDC is saying they are for a 'door to door National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey'. I think they are one in the same. FEMA trailers are allegedly accompanying them.
Conflicting reports are coming out about CDC vans spotted on the East Coast. Some people are saying they are for forced Ebola screenings, but the CDC is saying they are for a 'door to door National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey'. I think they are one in the same. FEMA trailers are allegedly accompanying them.
yall ready? 
highly informative post and i hope you keep posting more pertinent information as this is interesting to me
what do you do and where did you acquire this knowledge?
QamYasharahla
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Richmond, VA clinic isolates patient over possible risk of ebola
RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - The Virginia Department of Health is determining whether a patient should be tested for Ebola after traveling to West Africa and appearing at a Richmond clinic Monday. That patient is now in isolation.
The patient was presenting a low grade fever and went to CrossOver Health care Ministry on 108 Cowardin Ave. That clinic is now closed.
Chris Thomas is on the scene and will have more on 12 News at 11.
http://www.nbc12.com/story/26776129/richmond-clinic-isolates-patient-over-possible-risk-of-ebola
RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - The Virginia Department of Health is determining whether a patient should be tested for Ebola after traveling to West Africa and appearing at a Richmond clinic Monday. That patient is now in isolation.
The patient was presenting a low grade fever and went to CrossOver Health care Ministry on 108 Cowardin Ave. That clinic is now closed.
Chris Thomas is on the scene and will have more on 12 News at 11.
http://www.nbc12.com/story/26776129/richmond-clinic-isolates-patient-over-possible-risk-of-ebola
AlwaysLurkin
Superstar
Staying away from vcu hospital fuk dat
Born2BKing
Veteran
If you travel to west fukking Africa, stay the fukk out the u.s. until you have been quarantined.
Yet, nikkaz wanna go to Africa and are accepting of immigrants
them militants aint about this African life.Yet, nikkaz wanna go to Africa and are accepting of immigrants
Belee dat
u better move to colin countyI live in Dallas, work less than 2 miles away from the hospital, and directly in the community where the first case was contracted.
Ya'll need to stop bytchin
they trying to kill off blacks and mexicans in Dallas county
True. They will continue to complain about America and white ppl and post shyt like "soon as i save up enough money, I will be looking to relocate to Africa"
The new patient is AsianMove to Collin County breh???
what kinda asian tho
if she aint japanese or korean
they dont care
bet she filipino
that's just a nikka with soy sauce to them
im hiding in Allen nikka----
its on the East Coast now....once it hits NYC and Calif. state it should get interesting 