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| 30 Jul 2014 10:48 PM |
It's just being overhyped by the media.
"The scientist who helped discover the Ebola virus said the outbreak in west Africa was unlikely to trigger a major epidemic outside the region, adding he would happily sit next to an infected person on a train.
"I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact."
Piot helped identify Ebola when the laboratory where he was working in Antwerp was sent a blood sample from a Catholic nun who had died in what was then Zaire and is now DR Congo. From the blood, they isolated a new virus which was later confirmed to be Ebola. |
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| 30 Jul 2014 10:57 PM |
| It is a very deadly virus, we shouldn't feel safe about it too. |
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| 30 Jul 2014 11:01 PM |
Unless you are being vomited on, bled on or sneezed on by someone with Ebola, you'll be fine.
It's not airborne so I'd reccomend you just staying in your house until there's a quarantine.
Also, it probably won't even hit europe, our healthcare, quarantines and such are better. |
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| 30 Jul 2014 11:03 PM |
| Not to mention our culture is different. We don't bury our relatives with our bare hands, nor do we eat Fruit bats. |
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| 30 Jul 2014 11:59 PM |
| The thing is many people in Africa thinks the doctors are the ones who spread ebola, they often don't report cases and hide the dead. Btw the tiny cracks in your skin can easily pick up the virus and if you touch your nose or eyes you get the infection. |
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| 31 Jul 2014 12:05 AM |
| "he would happily sit next to an infected person on a train" What? Have you seen the equipment the medical personnel wears? Gloves, goggles, full body medical suits, and airtight mask. They have to be sprayed with a type of industrial bleach each after contract with the infected. |
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| 31 Jul 2014 12:05 AM |
"Not to mention our culture is different. We don't bury our relatives with our bare hands, nor do we eat Fruit bats."
Neither do Africans |
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| 31 Jul 2014 12:06 AM |
| Good luck sitting beside an infected person on the train. |
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| 31 Jul 2014 12:08 AM |
| The person who said those things was the Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
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| 31 Jul 2014 06:04 AM |
Ebola is pretty dangerous, though. Around 672 are dead in Africa and that includes doctors. What if one of these doctors originally lived in the UK or the US and did have the ability to return? Just passing through the airport could spread this deadly virus/disease. And seeing it's at an airport it could also be sent to holiday destinations seeing it's the summer.
You never know :3 |
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| 31 Jul 2014 06:42 AM |
"The person who said those things was the Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine"
Who's probably never seen an Ebola patient or been to an infected region. |
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| 31 Jul 2014 10:08 AM |
"Ebola is pretty dangerous, though. Around 672 are dead in Africa and that includes doctors. What if one of these doctors originally lived in the UK or the US "
no. they're all african doctors |
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| 31 Jul 2014 10:10 AM |
| I said what if, therefore it isn't a statement.. |
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| 31 Jul 2014 10:39 AM |
ebola has been around for a long time
ebola disappeared, came back, disappeared, came back, the same will happen |
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| 31 Jul 2014 05:02 PM |
| It isnt a huge problem here at the moment. Although the people who watch NBC Nightly News may think so, as they blow everything up to unrealistic porportions. |
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cupola
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| 31 Jul 2014 07:10 PM |
| Um Ebola is a huge problem, one of the most dangerous virus in the world with no treatment and no vaccines. 700 deaths, that is a huge amount compared to previous outbreaks. |
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| 31 Jul 2014 07:38 PM |
People worry too much, I dont worry and I rarely get sick, have health issues, etc. Seriously guys, Super countries have some of the most advanced medicine there is nothing to worry about.
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| 31 Jul 2014 07:59 PM |
"ebola is actually a tool being used by the illuminati"
Conspiratard alert. |
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| 31 Jul 2014 10:27 PM |
| @dashcon Very true, but It isn't safe though, it has been around for VERY VERY VERY long. |
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| 31 Jul 2014 10:38 PM |
| Ebola is too scared to even come near me |
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