BagOfCrisps 24 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Ebola virus spreads to Uganda capital Uganda’s president today warned that an outbreak of Ebola had now reached Kampala, the country’s capital and has banned all physical contact between Ugandans in desperate bid to stop the deadly virus’s spread. Fourteen people have already died and as many as 26 more are feared to be carrying the disease, which kills nine out of ten people who become infected. Yoweri Museveni, Uganda’s President, went on national television to tell people to avoid those who appeared to have Ebola symptoms, which include fever, headaches, diarrhoea and vomiting. “I therefore appeal to you to be vigilant,” Mr Museveni said. “When you contact each other physically, then Ebola spreads. Avoid shaking of hands. We discourage the shaking of hands because that can cause a contact through sweat which can cause problems. Do not take on burying somebody who has died from symptoms which look like Ebola. “Avoid promiscuity because these sicknesses can also go through sex.” The outbreak began almost a month ago in a village in western Uganda, but medical workers initially failed to diagnose the illness because it did not present typical symptoms. Stephen Byaruhanga, health secretary of the Kibaale district, first hit by the disease, said cases of Ebola, at first concentrated in a single village, are now being reported across the region. “It’s no longer just one village. There are many villages affected,” he said. Scary stuff creeping into the news the last few days. Only a matter of time one might imagine before something like this turns into a real global nightmare. Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 One person gets on a plane in Kampala... Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 One person gets on a plane in Kampala...That really has been the only thing saving the world from a serious outbreak...not a whole heap of travel going on in the areas most effected. Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Beverly hope not too hear much about this in the coming days. Link to post Share on other sites
69 5 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Some international worker in there somehow gets infected. Goes back home. Mind boggles at how a tiny slip up or bit of very bad luck and this could......... Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Not much on it the last few, though I suppose it would be one of those things that very quickly becomes a horrible nightmare if it were ever to get that far. Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Bit worrying A US doctor working with ebola patients in Liberia has tested positive for the deadly virus. The aid organisation Samaritan's Purse issued a news release on Saturday saying Dr Kent Brantly was being treated at a hospital in Monrovia, the capital. Brantly had been serving as medical director for the aid organisation's case management centre there. Samaritan's Purse spokeswoman Melissa Strickland said Brantly's wife and children had been living with him in Africa, but were now in the US. Brantly was quoted in a posting on the organisation's website earlier this year about efforts to maintain an isolation ward for patients. "The hospital is taking great effort to be prepared," Brantly said. "In past ebola outbreaks, many of the casualties have been healthcare workers who contracted the disease through their work caring for infected individuals." The disease has already killed 672 in four West African countries since the outbreak began earlier this year. Last week a Liberian man died of ebola in Lagos, the first confirmed case in Africa's biggest city of 21 million people. Nigerian health authorities, anxious to stop the spread of the disease, are concerned that the sick man had boarded an international flight. They feared other passengers could take the disease beyond Africa due to weak inspection of passengers and the fact ebola's symptoms are similar to other diseases such as malaria and typhoid. Officials in Togo, where the sick man's flight had a stopover, also went on high alert after learning that ebola could possibly have spread to a fifth country. Link to post Share on other sites
foreversnow 5 Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Getting a little scary Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Can't say I'm scared even a little bit. Still probably about 100,000 times more likely to die in a car accident and I'm not scared of that. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Of course, Go Native is well 'ard, way beyond the 'ardness of most normal chaps and chapesses. Link to post Share on other sites
1 4 Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Next stop - Out of Africa. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 Certainly more noticeable on the mainstream news the last couple of days... Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 The first case of the deadly Ebola virus diagnosed on US soil has been confirmed in Dallas, Texas. Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital say the unidentified patient is being kept in isolation. The man is thought to have contracted the virus in Liberia before travelling to the US nearly two weeks ago. More than 3,000 people have already died of Ebola in West Africa and a small number of US aid workers have recovered after being flown to the US. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Cue some urgency! Link to post Share on other sites
Peetan 10 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 And some warning trousers! Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Still amazes me how much press this all gets. Well over half a million people die each and every year in Africa from malaria alone. Supposedly it's up around one child dying every minute from Malaria in Africa. More people die each and every single day from AIDS in Africa than the total number that have died from Ebola so far in this current outbreak. This Ebola outbreak will barely represent even a minute blip on the huge death rates that already occur on that continent. And yet the media in the West seem insanely fascinated by Ebola. Link to post Share on other sites
Big Al 16 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 The high media cover wouldn't be 'cos Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKlein, Bayer or any of the other corporate Nazi's are about to hit the markets with their new wonder "EBOVAC" vaccine now would it ?? Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 This Ebola outbreak will barely represent even a minute blip on the huge death rates that already occur on that continent. It's reasurring to know that! Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Yes, it most jolly well is. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Point is the amount of coverage of Ebola is staggering considering how very few people are killed by it compared to the other diseases running rampant throughout the African continent. I just don't get it. Link to post Share on other sites
onehunga 26 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Could it be the massive amount of coverage is because there is a chance Ebola could leave Africa in a big way. Aids/HIV is old news in the West. HIV can be kept in check, so not so many people dieing from it, and Malaria is very treatable, and easy to prevent if you take your anti malaria pills. Whereas Ebola is the boggy man of diseases, no real proven cure and big chance it could spread due to international travel. Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Over 50% mortality rate makes for sexy headlines, which sells newspapers, which is why it's in the news so much. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 It's never going to spread much in the west though as it doesn't spread easily. It only spreads in places like Africa because of the ignorance and superstitions of the people coupled with the lack of decent medical facilities. One thing for sure though is if we did start getting regular cases in the West they'd probably find a vaccine/cure pretty damned quick. Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Well its either Ebola or the iraq war. Otherwise they got nothing to report on and nothing to scare peoples hard earned into their slippery pockets. Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 According to the CBC news, there is already a vaccine and treatment course that has been developed in Canada but they can't get the Canadian government to sign off on actually sending it to Africa to try it out. Not enough money to be made off of it I guess. Link to post Share on other sites
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