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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEbola fears grow with Europe and Asia on alert
http://news.yahoo.com/uk-holds-emergency-talks-growing-ebola-threat-084704564.html"This epidemic is unprecedented, absolutely out of control and the situation can only get worse, because it is still spreading, above all in Liberia and Sierra Leone, in some very important hotspots," he said.
"If the situation does not improve fairly quickly, there is a real risk of new countries being affected," he told La Libre Belgique newspaper.
In Canada, local media reported that a Canadian doctor had put himself in quarantine as a precaution after spending weeks in west Africa treating patients with the virus alongside an American doctor, who is now infected.
Iron Man
(183 posts)Pisces
(5,592 posts)people working on how to contain this virus. It is scary business.
Bragi
(7,650 posts)They're doing what they can in a foreign country that has limited resources with which to do much of anything.
Their daily briefings on the topic are informative:
See for example: http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/t0728-ebola.html
CanonRay
(14,036 posts)"This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper"
jwirr
(39,215 posts)there. They had to contact our embassy and before they got on the plane to return they had to be examined. When their plane landed in Texas they were examined again.
All countries should be more careful now and it should be assumed that this epidemic could be carried by anyone moving out of the area of the disease. We know how this moves but we cannot totally control the contact the citizens of that area have with others.
dickthegrouch
(3,151 posts)If they don't provide licensed medical practitioners who have sworn an oath of Doctor/Patient confidentiality, I guess I won't be flying any longer
jwirr
(39,215 posts)examined by the TSA. Heard too many weird things about them.
msongs
(67,193 posts)conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)No Ebola cases have been reported in the United States and the likelihood of this outbreak spreading outside of West Africa is very low," CDC spokesperson Stephan Monroe, Ph.D., the deputy director at the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, said in a teleconference. "I want to underscore that Ebola poses little risk to the U.S. general population."
While the virus has little chance of spreading to the U.S., the CDC has deployed 12 staff members to the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to help contain the outbreak that has infected 1,201 people and killed 672 people so far (making it the largest Ebola outbreak in history). These CDC members will not directly interact with any infected patients, but will manage databases and train teams to track down those who may have been exposed to symptomatic patients. The CDC expects to cycle in new staffers every 30 days until the virus is stopped. Along with this system, the CDC has issued a series of alerts to health workers and travel warnings to civilian travelers.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/28/ebola-united-states_n_5628364.html
leftstreet
(36,078 posts)conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)B2G
(9,766 posts)We've already seen one person board a plane with it.
What exactly is stopping others?
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)and when they do, their healthcare systems have resources to get pretty good infection control
Yes, I know. Parts of America are questionably representative of developed nations.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)that's not exactly comforting.
leftstreet
(36,078 posts)It's not about what the WHO or MSF have to say
It's about what countries outside the hot zone are doing to prepare should it spread
Zorra
(27,670 posts)grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)B2G
(9,766 posts)That critical piece of information seems to be lacking from his statement.
conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)I couldn't post the whole thing without violating copyright.
B2G
(9,766 posts)They seem to think they can track down and isolate anyone who was exposed. Consider this.
One person arrives from the hot zone on Day 2 after exposure. The incubation period is up to 21 days. First symptoms mimic the flu closely. How many people can be exposed in that timeframe? And then each one goes on to spread it further.
And that's just one case. They don't call it Patient Zero for nothing.
Doctors Without Borders have already stated that spread is inevitable.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)a fear of the disease spreading to Europe and Asia, there is absolutely no reason why it couldn't' spread to the US. It's only a quick plane ride away.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)and even when people survive it they are contagious for up to seven weeks - long enough to seem well, but able to infect others.