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Merged So Ebola's back......

Well, there are now troops on their way to build 17 new hospitals. We'll see if that helps.
 
Travis said:
Well, there are now troops on their way to build 17 new hospitals. We'll see if that helps.
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... but they gave no time frame on how soon the new treatment facilities will open.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is spreading faster than efforts to control it, World Health Organization (WHO) head Margaret Chan has said.

I thought this was interesting:
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I didn't realize the other outbreaks, which were all controlled eventually, were in different African countries.
 
Confirmed death toll is now 2,622.

There has been an incident in Guinea; an Ebola education team appears to have been attacked and eight people (including three journalists) are dead.
 
I saw a disturbingly large number of commenters on some articles who don't understand why the USA is sending in the military. They seem to think this is all a ruse to secure a base for stealing conflict diamonds or something.
 
catsmate1 said:
Confirmed death toll is now 2,622.

There has been an incident in Guinea; an Ebola education team appears to have been attacked and eight people (including three journalists) are dead.
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Eight dead in attack on Ebola team in Guinea. ‘Killed in cold blood.’
The bodies of eight people, including several health workers and three journalists, have been found days after they were attacked while distributing information about Ebola in a Guinean village near the city of Nzerekore, according to Reuters....

When the delegation arrived on Tuesday to do disinfection work and educate people about preventing Ebola, angry and fearful residents began throwing rocks and beating people in the group with clubs according to the Los Angeles Times, which cited Guinean radio reports. The delegation, which included one local politician, fled into the bush to escape the attackers.

One journalist who managed to escape told reporters that she could hear the people looking for her while she hid, according to the BBC.
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That's so sad.
 
Travis said:
I saw a disturbingly large number of commenters on some articles who don't understand why the USA is sending in the military. They seem to think this is all a ruse to secure a base for stealing conflict diamonds or something.
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Most complaints I've read seem unaware that "American military" does not consist exclusively of infantry troops kicking in doors.

Has any real data flowed out who they're sending in? I'd expect Seabees with Marines for security on a mission like this.
 
The motive for the killings has not been confirmed, but the BBC's Makeme Bamba in Guinea's capital, Conakry, says many villagers accuse the health workers of spreading the disease.

Others still do not believe that the disease exists.
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www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29256443

Machetes and clubs, they were killed with.
Who's going to be a health care volunteer under these conditions?
 
The only reasons to not nuke the site from orbit are irrational human concern for fellow humans. I can respect those who serve their God by serving Man. The death of caring volunteers, especially the medical professionals, is a force multiplier in the hands of the enemy. The people who committed this atrocity are traitors to the human race in this battle of the War Against Viruses.
 
You don't need to nuke anything, just wall the place off and make food drops while waiting the epidemic to burn itself out. Well people can leave as long as they agree to a specific length of quarantine.

I suggest it's a lower cost, more logical plan than the more PC actions the world will undertake.
 
Did anyone watch the Discovery Channel special on this last night? The sight of sections of Monrovia locked up with barbed wire to keep suspected infected peoples under supervision was......well it just isn't the kind of thing you'd expect to see in the modern world.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
You don't need to nuke anything, just wall the place off and make food drops while waiting the epidemic to burn itself out. Well people can leave as long as they agree to a specific length of quarantine.

I suggest it's a lower cost, more logical plan than the more PC actions the world will undertake.
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That's my suggestion for ISIS, too.
 
Number of cases are seriously undercounted and cases are doubling every three weeks.

Some ignorant people will surely blame the vaccine for deaths if one is developed and used. People in the incubation period might get the vaccine and soon after die from the disease.


The implications are staggering.
 
ApolloGnomon said:
That's my suggestion for ISIS, too.
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I am glad you see the parallels; a lot of people don't. I think we're in better shape to neutralize pathogens if we treat religious memes (or Communist, etc.) about the same way that we do germs: No-nonsense, efficient eradication, without a lot of emotionalism entering the picture.
 
Minoosh said:
I am glad you see the parallels; a lot of people don't. I think we're in better shape to neutralize pathogens if we treat religious memes (or Communist, etc.) about the same way that we do germs: No-nonsense, efficient eradication, without a lot of emotionalism entering the picture.
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I am not a communist, but if you think the answer to communism is destruction of those who advocate it, then I would think there are many, and I would be tempted by them, that would be equally in favour of the eradication of those who hold that opinion.

Similarly, mutatis mutandis, for religion.

If you did not mean that to apply to those who hold an opinion, but literally the idea itself, then neither nukes nor physical quarantine work very well with ideas.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Christians.

Much as a lot of bad goes with the little good, this is one mind bogglingly good thing Evangelicals are doing.
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And somewhat ironic, since those same Evangelicals are at least partially responsible for the anti-science/medicine memes that have contributed heavily to the spread of so many otherwise controllable diseases in Africa.
 
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