Ebola in West Africa: International community stops flights not the virus

[uppityperson]

http://www.thedailyvox.co.za/ebola-in-west-africa-international-community-stops-flights-not-the-virus/

August 21, 2014
This week Brice de la Vigne, the operations director of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), described the response of the international community to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as “almost zero” and said leaders in the west are more concerned with ensuring their own safety than preventing the spread of the virus. More than 2,000 people have been infected with Ebola so far and over a thousand people have already died.

[JimDandy]

1. And now there are 3,500+ known Ebola deaths

and almost 8,000 reported case of it. It's doing the exponential thing...

[MohRokTah]

6. 3439 deaths. 7492 reported cases, as of October 3

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/index.html

[WinkyDink]

2. But---it's not airborne! The flu is more dangerous! Stop the fear-mongering! Et cetera, et cetera,

et cetera.

[MohRokTah]

4. It's not airborne, nor will it likely ever be airborne.

The structure of the virus precludes nearly any possibility of it becoming airborne.

If there is to be some horrible mutation that aids in the spread of the disease will be a mutated form that sheds from infected victims who are still asymptomatic.

[WinkyDink]

5. Not my point.

[MohRokTah]

7. It's nothing to get worked up about in the US

It has been a major issue for months in Africa.

[uppityperson]

9. You totally missed the point. Up until now, much of the world has been content to let MSF

handle it, with help from WHO but not enough. Not enough people, money, equipment. Now though, hopefully more will be sent there to help.

[MohRokTah]

3. This story is from August.

This have changed dramatically. The only nations that sealed off borders were other African nations in the region.

The reaction has not been big enough yet, but the world is coming to grips with the fact that the only way to keep it from spreading to the rest of the world is to step in and stop it where it is now.

[uppityperson]

8. I agree, my point was while not ignored, now that a case has come home, it is now taken more

seriously. But still too many say seal them off there.