It's Back update
Ebola that is.
3 have died and more are testing positive in Guinea. I was in that part of Africa in 2013 when the last out break happened. Needless to say we left a little early. I think over 11k dies of Ebola in that region.
Guinea is in West Africa next to Serria Leon, Liberia and Guinea-Bissau on the Atlantic ocean. It is a very poor country without much in the way of infrastructure like most of the country's in that region.
I hope they(WHO) can get a vaccine to the are that will limit the deaths. The problem is people who survive Ebola are sometimes considered witches or demons and are treated poorly.
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Close off the whole area and try scorched earth , only thing that works and they have been doing it for years until "civilization" got there
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Have they ever definitively figured where these outbreaks originate from Sam? I know once upon a time monkeys were the suspected source...but, even so, they’d have to develop it somehow.
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Oh goodie! Let's make sure to bring a bunch of the afflicted here to make sure they get free medical care.
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Bad news.
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Isn't that one of the countries that President Trump referred to as a "[deleted] country."
I wonder where he got that idea.
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ChrisStreett: 31515200635035/comments/31515213895579
Have they ever definitively figured where these outbreaks originate from Sam? I know once upon a time monkeys were the suspected source...but, even so, they’d have to develop it somehow.
Chris from my understanding it comes from Bats. Monkeys get bat poop on themselves or eat something with bat poop and they get it. Then humans come along and eat the monkeys and get it. Then the humans either bleed, pee, spit or have sex and pass it to one another.
Some people don't realize they have Ebola until its too late. At the onset Ebola symptoms are similar to other diseases common in Africa, like malaria and dengue fever. The person who has Ebola but doesn't realize it continues to have sex or whatever with others and passes it on.................and on and on and on.
This website has some good info on Ebola.
What is Ebola Virus Disease? | Ebola (Ebola Virus Disease) | CDC
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is a rare and deadly disease most commonly affecting people and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees). It is caused by an infection with one of five known Ebola virus species, four of which can cause disease in people.I will say I have never been scared of too many things but Ebola creeps me out. I have been in several places it has broken out and I get the heck out of Dodge.
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Not Good
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I'm sure like you Sam06, when I went through an Advanced Officers/NCO level 54 Echo School in 82' it was pointed out as being the Perfect Vector, Bio-Weapon.
Yeah, it scares me also.
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Horse Plains Drifter: 31515200635035/comments/31515200751131
Oh goodie! Let's make sure to bring a bunch of the afflicted here to make sure they get free medical care.
Would not be surprised if our CINC ordered a C-17 and it on the way.
Lets just home they dont land in NY. Cuomo would place them in nursing homes.
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Sounds like a particularly gruesome way to die.
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Africa is a land of beauty and human turmoil. The lack of value towards human life is appalling. The governments of these nations are corrupt, evil and have no concern for their people.
We are blessed to be Americans, I just wish more Americans realized that fact.
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If these societies have been on earth the longest and we're told that newer and successful societies evolved from people who migrated out of Africa thousands of years later, why are they so behind? They have climate, minerals, resources same as countries on other continents and yet there they are. Same with indigenous in other parts of the world. Even in spite of modern communication the past couple of centuries. I don't get it.
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C&P
Five people have died of Ebola in Guinea, the health agency has said, as the government and aid groups begin to roll out their response to the outbreak.
It is the first resurgence of the disease in the West African country since the world's worst outbreak between 2013 and 2016 that left more than 11,300 dead in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
According to an epidemiological report by the country's health agency dated February 15, five people have now succumbed to the virus, rising from a death toll of four reported earlier on Monday.
Well the death toll is rising and that is not good. It looks like this might not be an isolated few cases.
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