Real active human ebola is present in North Americac

[cottonpicken]

Last i heard the doubling rate was 1 month,so thats good.

If it goes air borne all bets are off.

The problem i would worry about is if it did get loose you would probably see all commerce stop then the lights would go out.

[oneoff]

My guess is that diseases don't "disappear:

They spread at faster or slower or even become under control through various efforts at treatment, control vaccines etc.

But with millions and trillions of throws of the genetic dice in any new case and outbreak; one can never predict when a more virulent or mutated variant rears its new head.

And there are commonly reservoirs in fruit bats and wild animals (or pets)) that could one day mutate into new problems.

Beware those who claim there is absolutely no need for worry or concern. If this epideic isn't gotten on top of very soon we will indeed reach the point of no return for most (but certainly not all).

Many of those survivors may however wish that they had perished

[oneoff]

Incubation period is up to three weeks so doubling cases in a month maybe isn't real good .

Numbers aren't real shocking when going from deaths of 128 to 256 or even 1024 to 2048.. But now we are maybe the 4096 or 9182 "steps" of those who have contracted this disease (with past cases including survivors no doubt at least a few thousand more.) Those figures reach millions or billions when left unchecked (and in mere handfuls of itinerations).

As cotten will confirm; the one undisputable fact is that if the next doubling does occur (and it surely will and no doubt is still hidden in an incubation period that is ticking away at this very moment).........the one sure thing is that at the moment of that last doubling is completed........more people were infected in that doubling period of about one month than had been infected in all the previous time since that ebola strain was first detected and tracked.


And that needs to be scary shit; for everyone. Its the perfect example of how doubling can become a run away; and will be become a runaway if controls aren't effective.

[mustardman]

And How Stupid is this Con gov't to stop refugees from receiving Health care ??? WTF are they thinking?

[mustardman]

I'm not real concerned about it hitting us to hard...yet but i do think we could see a major tragedy,the spin off effects will be interesting,it will be horrible to watch.

[Choice2U]

Hey mussy, why don't we just pay for the whole world's health care while we are at it. I'm sure you have the money. Being selective on who gets health care ie. true refugees vs those that hopped on a boat to get here and bypassed the system or those that lied to get in the country or those that are criminals do not qualify for my money.

[mustardman]

Cheaper to keep them healthy than keep them sick and spreading disease

[riders2010]

So let's see Isis wants to kill us and will use suicidal tactics to do it. So how difficult would it be for them to get infected with all kinds of crap and spread it around here? What's this new thing with kids in Alberta?

[fjlip]

Ebola infected suicide terrorist army, novel idea riders.

[sawfly]

just thinking we talk about the bravery
of various folks.
like soldiers, police , fire fighters
etc.

those health care workers in the thick of it over there.
have to be the bravest souls on the planet.
260 some out of 320 workers that have contracted it are dead