Ebola

[psychraider32]

Any body else following this? it's killed nearly a 1,000 in west Africa and infected around 1,600. Pretty scary stuff.

[TripleCrown9]

And now there's an infected American. In America.

[BurghFan]

Quote: Originally Posted by TripleCrown9

And now there's an infected American. In America.

2 actually, both in isolation at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

[SPTO]

I know they keep saying it's all safe blah blah blah, but man....if even ONE person taking care of someone with Ebola gets it, we're all screwed.

Fortunately though, it seems the highly experimental medicine that the two people were given has worked VERY well.

[TripleCrown9]

Quote: Originally Posted by BurghFan

2 actually, both in isolation at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

Oh, right. I forgot two people came back.

[aukevin]

Couldn't help thinking about this when watching the new Planet of the Apes.

[Burns11]

I feel like somebody is playing a very special version of



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That medicine they are giving them is some neat stuff, antibodies grown in genetically modified tobacco.

[The Chef]

Quote: Originally Posted by SPTO

I know they keep saying it's all safe blah blah blah, but man....if even ONE person taking care of someone with Ebola gets it, we're all screwed. Fortunately though, it seems the highly experimental medicine that the two people were given has worked VERY well.

I wouldn't say we're all screwed since it's not an air born thing and the only way to contract it is through feces or an open wound and you come into contact with it, or at least that's what I thought I heard.