Ebola

Second Texas health worker tests positive for Ebola.

Yes, it's only taken 3-4 months, but there seems to be a bit more general interest now.

The Texan Medical System's safety precautions seem to be a bit lax, to say the least.

Anyone watching the new series The Strain? It's very depressing and about an epidemic in New York based on a blood-borne parasitic worm. It's a vampire show but it has eerily similar storyline to the current Ebola crisis. The disease gets into the US via lax/corrupt border control, and spreads when no-one believes the senior CDC officer who's become aware of the disease and how it's transmitted.

Keep anyone who comes into contact with an ebola patient in quarantine for a week. No exceptions. Boring and tedious for the potentially infected people, but why not take all precautions if it means stopping the spread of a killer virus?

Henry wrote:Keep anyone who comes into contact with an ebola patient in quarantine for a three weeks. No exceptions. Boring and tedious for the potentially infected people, but why not take all precautions if it means stopping the spread of a killer virus?

Fixed.

Band-aids. Better off stopping it at it's source. How many flights had she been on? The minor epidemic in the mid-nineties saw a see-sawing between farcical overkill and lax procedures.

quarantine is called quarantine for a reason

the median incubation period of Ebola seems to be around 35 days

quarantine = 40 days, or weeks

How unbelievably irresponsible of the aid workers who have taken the disease back to Spain and the US. Why didn't they follow the protocols in place??? Not to mention the amateur hour performance in Dallas.

lardbucket wrote:quarantine is called quarantine for a reason

the median incubation period of Ebola seems to be around 35 days

quarantine = 40 days, or weeks

What happened to my '6' in '6 weeks'? Weird.

The Forum is infected by Ebola??!!

Have none of these people ever played Pandemic 2? Once the borders are shut down you can't win the game.

skully wrote:The Forum is infected by Ebola??!!

That would explain it's snail pace all week. Half an hour to make this post.

agree it is slow

Cairns docs who pointed out the uncomfortable truth to their bureaucratic masters still on enforced leave. Everything is in perfect readiness in Queensland, mustn't scare the horses.

Dello wrote:Have none of these people ever played Pandemic 2? Once the borders are shut down you can't win the game.

Flee to Madagascar now!

lardbucket wrote:Cairns docs who pointed out the uncomfortable truth to their bureaucratic masters still on enforced leave. Everything is in perfect readiness in Queensland, mustn't scare the horses.

There is nothing more strange than QHealth and its Banjo govt masters...

for much of the time I worked there it was led by a mad command and control doc who did not know up from down...the most extreme example I have seen of why doctors should not run health systems...docs shd do their diagnosis, cut and pasting, nurses shd nurse, cleaners clean etc.

the banjos are still running a 50s model of health management

tricycle wrote:

Dello wrote:Have none of these people ever played Pandemic 2? Once the borders are shut down you can't win the game.

Flee to Madagascar now!

Actually there's a peacable little country just off the coast of West Africa that hopefully closed it's border's months ago. Too far away by boat, well canoe anyway, and so small fleers would probably miss it.

Agree West Africa needs to be quarantined properly right now.

I guess the smaller ones could go to Sao Tome.

My post was just an inane reference to the game.

Now in New York.

This again seems a case of massive apathy by the Yanks. The doctor treated Ebola victims in West Africa - why was he not in quarantine - at least a self imposed one? After his return via Brussels, he mixed with loved ones, went to a bowling alley and went jogging.

FFS, wake up, people.

Now a death in Mali. Sixth African country involved.

A bit of a scare in Brisbane, a bit closer to the QLD Health bureaucratic top dog.

Hopefully none of the medicos there will be foolish enough to agree with the experts at WHO, as they have called the West 'unready' for Ebola, with 'chaotic' responses.

Australian response 'a shambles'.

World response a shambles.