Official Ebola update thread

[Anonymous]

Out of quarantine, sorry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've lost count of the number of reports of scares that ended up with the person testing negative.

Its not news. And by now we should have learned the lesson not to get worked up until there's a positive Ebola test.

Really we should not get worked up at all.

Posting news on the dcurbanmom "Official Ebola update thread" isn't exactly getting worked up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've lost count of the number of reports of scares that ended up with the person testing negative.

Its not news. And by now we should have learned the lesson not to get worked up until there's a positive Ebola test.

Really we should not get worked up at all.

Agree. This isn't news anymore. If you want to post something, wait till it's confirmed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's news if she tests positive. I don't think a special report is needed everytime someone barfs or has a fever.


I decided to read some ebola conspiracy theories. Have the people who believe these stories ever taken a science class?

Have you ever taken a history class?

[Anonymous]

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/pentagon-dispatches-west-africa-paint-stark-portrait-ebola-epicenter-n233621

A report dated Oct. 14 said that 40 percent of all the farms in Sierra Leone have been abandoned as farmers leave affected areas. The same report quoted a U.N. agricultural official as saying unless the situation is reversed, it could lead to "a hunger crisis of epic scale in West Africa."

“If communities begin to migrate due to failing crops, the spread of (Ebola) could accelerate across Liberia and beyond."

Earlier reports noted that the movement of farmers from rural areas to the affected areas cities also could speed the spread of Ebola.

"The loss of crops due to medical fears will further exacerbate the already strained economic conditions and could lead communities to migrate to areas they believe will be able to provide food and water,” said one. “If communities begin to migrate due to failing crops, the spread of (Ebola) could accelerate across Liberia and beyond."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to know why the fiancee of the doctor in NY is already of quarantine. I don't understand the time line

She is quarantined in her apartment until 11/4.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-infected-doctors-fiancee-back-home/story?id=26450510

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's news if she tests positive. I don't think a special report is needed everytime someone barfs or has a fever.


I decided to read some ebola conspiracy theories. Have the people who believe these stories ever taken a science class?

Have you ever taken a history class?

She would not be liberal if she had

[Anonymous]

11/14. 21 days from when she was exposed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's news if she tests positive. I don't think a special report is needed everytime someone barfs or has a fever.


I decided to read some ebola conspiracy theories. Have the people who believe these stories ever taken a science class?

Have you ever taken a history class?

What type of science class, precisely? Did it include a lab or not?

[Anonymous]

I think it's interesting that Nina Pham and Amber Vinson got better so quickly without any experimental drug treatments. Makes me wonder if the side effects are serious? Or is it just that they started getting supportive care so quickly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's interesting that Nina Pham and Amber Vinson got better so quickly without any experimental drug treatments. Makes me wonder if the side effects are serious? Or is it just that they started getting supportive care so quickly?

they got serum

[Anonymous]

My understanding is that the thing that "kicks" the ebola virus, and eliminates it from your system are your antibodies, but they take a couple weeks for you body to produce, and if you don't get excellent medical care you'll probably be dead before you have enough to be helpful.

The serum from a survivor is essentially a transfusion of antibodies, so your body doesn't have to wait to make it's own. Therefore it shortens the duration of the disease.

In contrast ZMapp or other drugs work in other ways, which might be great at reducing the intensity of the symptoms. or doing other wonderful things.

Amber and Nina got serum very early, which may have made all the difference in the duration of their disease.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My understanding is that the thing that "kicks" the ebola virus, and eliminates it from your system are your antibodies, but they take a couple weeks for you body to produce, and if you don't get excellent medical care you'll probably be dead before you have enough to be helpful.

The serum from a survivor is essentially a transfusion of antibodies, so your body doesn't have to wait to make it's own. Therefore it shortens the duration of the disease.

In contrast ZMapp or other drugs work in other ways, which might be great at reducing the intensity of the symptoms. or doing other wonderful things.

Amber and Nina got serum very early, which may have made all the difference in the duration of their disease.

Do we know for sure that Amber got the blood transfusion? I know Nina did, but never saw anything reported with respect to nurse #2.

[jsteele]

Amber Vinson is being released from the hospital today. Also, Kaci Hickox was released from her quarantine in New Jersey. She tested negative for ebola.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's news if she tests positive. I don't think a special report is needed everytime someone barfs or has a fever.


I decided to read some ebola conspiracy theories. Have the people who believe these stories ever taken a science class?

Have you ever taken a history class?

She would not be liberal if she had

Studying American history turned me from center right to hard left.