On 10/1/2014 hopeQ1 said: On 10/1/2014 hopeQ1 said: Ebola is treatable in our country, please don't forget that. Actually, most people do not die from the Ebola virus, but rather from the side effects such as diarrhea,vomiting, which leads to acute dehydration and electrolyte imbalance and such.
If you can treat the accompanying symptoms, you can eradicate the disease. The problem in third world countries is that they just don't have the proper medical care or personnel to do this.
Fresh water is vital to do this as well.
We don't have much to worry about. Just be aware of the symptoms and I think anyone in America would seek medical care if they were profusely bleeding from their skin, which is a big symptom.
Banning people is ridiculous.
We aren't discussing the bubonic plague here. lol !
I can't believe most of the remarks here. We live in the safest, most advance medically, healthiest country in the world here.
I suppose most of you panicking still feel the same way about AIDS ? Should we shut down airplanes if someone with AIDS flies on them, and put the ambulances out of order as well ???
I can not believe the ignorance still in this country.
If you are afraid, or not knowledgeable, your first line of defense is to educate yourself !!There are thousands of sources and resources everywhere. Don't remain uninformed and then go around making ludicrous comments.
This disease may kill half a million in Africa by early next year, and your trite comment is that "we're not talking about bubonic plague here"? Well, we are talking about a deadly, highly contagious disease. Yes, advanced medical treatment in the U.S. should improve survival rates, but there is no guarantee, and it is a wretchedly miserable disease that will cause many deaths. And no, effectively treating the symptoms will not "eradicate the disease", although it may improve an individual patient's chances of survival. As of now, there is no cure and no vaccine to prevent the disease.
How is it transmitted? Read the CDC's own information:
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/case-definition.html
There are high risk forms of contact with people with ebola, and there are lower risk forms of contact that are less likely to spread the disease, but still make it possible in some cases. These include informal encounters like shaking hands and passing within three feet of an ill person. Public health teams in Texas are working overtime to try and track all of the people who may have had contact with the African visitor who has become ill there. They include people on his plane, airports where the plane stopped over and landed, the family and friends he was visiting with here, hospital staff who saw him when he went to the ER, and possibly others. It's a very serious challenge. If they miss one contact and that person becomes ill and spreads the virus to others, it could be catastrophic.
It is my opinion that all non-essential travel between west Africa and the United States should be terminated until this health crisis is past. It isn't about "banning people". It's about banning a disease and the deadly virus that causes it.
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