02-08-2014 6:45 PM
The Ebola virus was probably spread by illegal bush meat - and there's plenty being smuggled into UK.
It may also be spread by our government not taking immediate action it seems. And how deadly is it not to do so?
Warning, it's best not tot look at my attachment if you are squeamish? That's why I have not put up the picture directly. But I think it may be important for at least some to see.
03-08-2014 9:45 PM
03-08-2014 11:28 PM
The quickest way to catch Ebola is to have direct contact with a sick person who has Ebola or the body of a person who has died of Ebola.
From what I understand, one of the reasons it's spreading so fast over there is because it's common practice for family members and loved ones to prepare the deceased for burial. So they're coming in direct contact with the disease and are catching it themselves. I'm sure that wouldn't be the case in your Country or mine, however it's still a pretty disconcerting situation and really kind of frightening. In the U.S., they just allowed two missionaries who were helping over there and contacted the virus back in to the Sates for treatment. The first cases of Ebola ever in the U.S. Should we have allowed them back in? I'm torn on that.
04-08-2014 12:09 AM
It wouldn't have to be every flight only those that were coming from the areas where the bush meat comes from.
04-08-2014 12:30 AM
@pollysd wrote:The quickest way to catch Ebola is to have direct contact with a sick person who has Ebola or the body of a person who has died of Ebola.
From what I understand, one of the reasons it's spreading so fast over there is because it's common practice for family members and loved ones to prepare the deceased for burial. So they're coming in direct contact with the disease and are catching it themselves. I'm sure that wouldn't be the case in your Country or mine, however it's still a pretty disconcerting situation and really kind of frightening. In the U.S., they just allowed two missionaries who were helping over there and contacted the virus back in to the Sates for treatment. The first cases of Ebola ever in the U.S. Should we have allowed them back in? I'm torn on that.
I think so. They know they have the disease, they have been brought in separately (I think the woman has not yet arrived in the States?) under intense containment and will be in isolation in hospital. More worrying perhaps will be the casual traveller who may have caught it and will arrive home feeling OK at first. I gather that the symptoms when it becomes contagious may take 3 weeks to develop.
04-08-2014 3:46 AM
More worrying perhaps will be the casual traveller who may have caught it and will arrive home feeling OK at first.
Yes, I think you're probably right. The CDC, center for disease control, says we have nothing to worry about here. That if somehow we had an outbreak they have the resources to contain it by tracking down all the people the infected person had come in contact with and making sure it doesn't spread. I don't know how much faith I have in that.....I'm just hoping it's a statement they'll never have to back up.
04-08-2014 12:26 PM
@suzieseaside wrote:
@rose2008-2008 wrote:Yes and then they say airport security has been tightened ,tell you what you can have in your hand luggage and what can and cant go in the hold????. AND THEN??. Another bomb explodes!!. talk about put your safety in peoples hands.
And all thes E.Bola doctors,nurses and helpers from our country,their obviously coming back here,,, what with. E.BOLA THATS WHAT POSSIBLY!!
Another bomb explodes? How many passenger planes have exploded due to bombs, since Lockerbie?
Not many. There have been more plots that failed (e.g. the shoe bomber) than those that succeeded. Who knows how many more there might have been from liquid explosives if people were allowed to carry liquids in hand luggage.
P.S. it's the Ebola virus, not E.Bola
Does it really matter?????. E.BOLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. THEIR NOT STRINGENT ENOUGH AT AIRPORTS WHEN THINGS CONCERN OUR SAFETY!!.
04-08-2014 1:42 PM
You don't have to shout.
If you want to call it by the wrong name, R.Ose, it's up to you.
Just pointing it out. Some people might think you mean E.coli - that'll make you poorly at both ends, but fortuntely not usually deadly.
04-08-2014 2:12 PM
04-08-2014 7:20 PM
With Ebola Viruses,, E. Coli things all these names they give them,, the point is i suppose one day there is going to be one of them in our midst and it will be too late. Too much speculating and not enough doing when its first starting to spread. It would be a terrible thing. i for one would not want to get anything like that,,it would be pretty hopeless then!.
12-08-2014 6:44 PM
@suzieseaside wrote:You don't have to shout.
If you want to call it by the wrong name, R.Ose, it's up to you.
Just pointing it out. Some people might think you mean E.coli - that'll make you poorly at both ends, but fortuntely not usually deadly.
Forgive me but I just spotted this...heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh... absolutely priceless. We wouldn't want Rose poorly at both ends.
And 'You don't have to shout Rose' she said .... heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh........heh.
I would have got my tea and biscuits had I spotted it at the time. But alas I would have been disappointed It was dealt with so sweetly .....damn it.
Still thank you girls that's the best laugh I have had for sometime.
16-08-2014 12:00 AM
16-08-2014 10:07 AM
Yes, they say the truth would frighten us. And they dare block it.
It might have frightened us at the time of the mad cow disease had we known they were feeding cows with cow BRAINS.
Who was looking and thinking then? It certainly frightens us when criminal gangs from parts of Eastern Europe come here to sheep rustling...which has surged in recent times. I wonder why? (not). Can you imagine the brutality of those rustlers? And how they might just slaughter them in some old shed...or at the spot where they nicked them...imagine how savage that must be? They cleared a whole field of sheep from one farm. And they quite like our swans...in a POT. Been hearing about it a lot.
Yes, and the dirty poultry story. The horse meat story. The foot and mouth disease story. Suggests someone wasn't looking hard enough. (as ever after the horse has bolted). And after the cost of billions of pounds...and dreadful suffering to so many animals and humans.
The truth is you can only really trust your self by slaughtering the animal your self. We wont be doing that because we are vegetarian's...and refuse to eat anything that once had a face on it.
Isn't it food genetic engineering that may be the answer to so much animal abuse?
16-08-2014 3:20 PM - edited 16-08-2014 3:21 PM
@merehazle wrote:
@suzieseaside wrote:You don't have to shout.
If you want to call it by the wrong name, R.Ose, it's up to you.
Just pointing it out. Some people might think you mean E.coli - that'll make you poorly at both ends, but fortuntely not usually deadly.
Forgive me but I just spotted this...heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh... absolutely priceless. We wouldn't want Rose poorly at both ends.
And 'You don't have to shout Rose' she said .... heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh........heh.
I would have got my tea and biscuits had I spotted it at the time. But alas I would have been disappointed It was dealt with so sweetly .....damn it.
Still thank you girls that's the best laugh I have had for sometime.
Some people only have time to sit down all day with Tea and Biscuits?,,,tut tut tut,, nothing better to do. Proves a point really.
16-08-2014 3:26 PM
Ebola is caused by a virus that is passed from animals to man - not a disease that has been caused by man's actions.
HIV was originally a chimpanzee hosted virus.
Action is not needed in this country to halt Ebola in its tracks but in those countries where the major hosts live. If in 1959 the initial HIV outbreaks in the Belgian Congo had been recognised and international action been taken locally to prevent its spread then it is likely any epidemic would have been nipped in the bud.
In order to stop the spread of diseases such as Ebola, then early detection is vital which means there has to be local clinics available to the at-risk population where outbreaks can be recognised early. This requires money that those countries often don't have to spend on public health and until they do international aid is vital to help in this. Calls for such aid to be stopped can be very short-sighted and costly in the long run.
16-08-2014 3:35 PM
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16-08-2014 3:43 PM
Thank You Moderator,,,very much obliged for your help.
26-08-2014 1:38 PM
UN envoy is claiming that airline boycotts of countries where there have been Ebola breakouts are making fighting the disease, "a whole lot harder".
In the meantime there are some incredibly brave medics treating those infected, both local and international volunteers - 240 of those medics have already contracted the disease and 120 have died.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0825/639165-japan-ready-to-offer-trial-ebola-drug/