Ebola: I Guess We Are All Going To Die

[Dan]

The media profits by spreading misinformation? How unheard of!

 

[TenEightyOne]

A trial of a new anti-ebola drug on six infected monkeys has been successful. Naturally this doesn't prove any efficacy for humans but it's encouraging that the gene-blocker designed to stop the virus from breeding in the body seems to be working.

Aunty.

 

[Sanji Himura]

Doctor considered cured of Ebola still has the virus in his eyes. It temporary changed his eye color from blue to green. Details here:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...saw-something-very-strange-happen-to-his-eye/

 

[CinnamonOD]

Dismiss

 

[Dennisch]

Apparently there has been a major break through developing a vaccine against Ebola, a test held with 4000 people proved to be 100% successful.

I can't find anything about it on the WHO website though.

 

[Swagger897]

Apparently there has been a major break through developing a vaccine against Ebola, a test held with 4000 people proved to be 100% successful.

I can't find anything about it on the WHO website though.

Where did you read/see that from??

 

[Dennisch]

Where did you read/see that from??

The various Dutch news sites are reporting it.

The Guardian has an article too

 

[CodeRedR51]

http://www.discovery.com/dscovrd/te...m_medium=social&utm_campaign=DiscoveryChannel

 

[Dennisch]

I do wonder how long these scientists actually worked on a solution.

Was it for years and years or did they start when Ebola started scaring us in the West?

 

[CinnamonOD]

Maybe they were working on it for years and then the efforts were better once there was a danger of a world wide spread of the disease.

 

[Grayfox]

Another article on the ebola vaccine
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/...accine-100-percent-effective-new-study-claims

 

[Robin]

So an Ebola infected UK nurse who was declared well and disease free last year has been flown back to the UK again with Ebola.

As far as I can tell this is the first instance of someone having recurring Ebola, or rather appearing to be free of it then relapsing. If this is the case we are in serious danger of people travelling all over the place are being declared well yet still have it!

 

[Aphelion]

So an Ebola infected UK nurse who was declared well and disease free last year has been flown back to the UK again with Ebola.

As far as I can tell this is the first instance of someone having recurring Ebola, or rather appearing to be free of it then relapsing. If this is the case we are in serious danger of people travelling all over the place are being declared well yet still have it!

she had dormant ebola for a year? not likely.

 

[Robin]

she had dormant ebola for a year? not likely.

They think it was quietly replicating somewhere in her body all this time.

 

[Aphelion]

They think it was quietly replicating somewhere in her body all this time.

that's so weird if that's the case. Poor lady

 

[Touring Mars]

So an Ebola infected UK nurse who was declared well and disease free last year has been flown back to the UK again with Ebola.

Wasn't she already in the UK i.e. Glasgow? It doesn't necessarily mean that she still has the virus (although that is a possibility), but maybe she is suffering from complications arising from having had the virus before.

 

[Dennisch]

It's Lupus.

 

[Robin]

The press are making it really confusing, some are saying she still has it (BBC) and some are saying it's separate complications.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34485116

Doctors said the virus was present in her body and left over from the original infection. They described it as "an unusual late complication".

Wasn't she already in the UK i.e. Glasgow?

Yes she was, sorry.

 

[ExigeEvan]

she had dormant ebola for a year? not likely.

I've not got a medical background, but isn't this possible with a wide variety of viruses? It's not necessarily been seen in Ebola before though.

 

[Aphelion]

I've not got a medical background, but isn't this possible with a wide variety of viruses? It's not necessarily been seen in Ebola before though.

Ebola is a parasite though, isn't it? or am i completely dumb?

 

[Touring Mars]

Ebola is a parasite though, isn't it? or am i completely dumb?

It is a virus but it's a good question though, since there are images of what look like a parasite or organism associated with Ebola everywhere - but it's called a virion and it's not actually a single or multicellular organism, but a strand of RNA that's contained in a protective coat that consists of proteins, sugars and some other bits and bobs, but doesn't constitute what would be considered a 'cell' as such. Whether viruses are living things in their own right is a matter of some debate, since they certainly behave alot like parasitic organisms - and they are highly successful at reproducing (more successful than me anyway).

 

[Liquid]

It's Lupus.

 

[FoolKiller]

So an Ebola infected UK nurse who was declared well and disease free last year has been flown back to the UK again with Ebola.

As far as I can tell this is the first instance of someone having recurring Ebola, or rather appearing to be free of it then relapsing. If this is the case we are in serious danger of people travelling all over the place are being declared well yet still have it!

One case does not present a serious danger of thousands of instances.

Especially when, according to the article you linked:

As long as the virus is not getting into her blood, she is unlikely to be able to spread it - and the risks of transmission are already extremely low.
The disease only spreads between humans through direct contact with infected blood, bodily fluids or organs.

And

There are now so many survivors in West Africa - around 13,000 - that if there were a major risk, then we would know about it.

 

[GT5Power]

New occurrences of Ebola have been found in Guinea. The country was just a couple of days away from being declared Ebola-free when two people were infected.

In other news, the nurse who had been infected with Ebola is still in the hospital and in critical condition.

 

[TVR27]

Scare mongering media.

 

[Not_A_Guest]

wew lad
looks like the fun stuff will always be going around

 

[Joey D]

COVID-19 is out here looking for backup:

Second Ebola outbreak confirmed in DRC after four people die

And that subhead, oof:

The country is now battling two Ebola outbreaks, the coronavirus and the world's largest measles epidemic

 

[RACECAR]

COVID-19 is out here looking for backup:

Second Ebola outbreak confirmed in DRC after four people die

And that subhead, oof:

Feel like someone unleashed one of the worst curses upon that place.