Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

I've just been watching the BBC news and find it quite staggering how much this country is doing to stem the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone. Wouldn't it have been far more sensible and economical to stop people travelling from that part of the world until the virus is contained?

NO.






May have to use CTR and -

fred - ebola can only be caught from bodily fluids, which does not, i am almost certain, include sneezing and the like ..... if you want, i'll ask more of the doc who works upstairs here who comes from sierra leone and whose parents still live there

That is why I said it doesn't have a direct Vector. (There was vector from Fruit bat to human.

Also, particle size I think would play a part in Respiratory spread.

The Ebola viral size is too big for respiratory spread.

That is partially why a sudden mutation is not as frightening as with other viral infections.

But.

I was going to add something, but the consequences of it happening could be disastrous.



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However,

Ebola Outbreak Started Through Contact with Fruit Bats
October 13, 2014 by Linda Larsen Leave a Comment
The current Ebola outbreak crisis that has many people so worriers started in eastern Guinea, through a “chance contact” by a toddler with an infected fruit bat. Fruit bats are natural reservoirs for the virus, according to the World Health Organization. The bats migrate over long distances. Fruit bats are regularly eaten in rural West Africa.
EbolaDirect transmission to people is very rare. Many people in very poor countries hunt the bats for food, and also hunt bushmeat, with people eating dead infected animals. There has also been huge death rates in chimpanzee and gorillas in African countries. Those animals eat fruit dropped to the ground by infected bats. People forage in the forests where these sick and dying animals live, and come into direct contact with “blood, secretions, organs, or other bodily fluids of the infected animals.”

Edited. I missed a sentence.

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/can-coughing-and-sneezing-spread-ebola/

Ebola is NOT spread by coughing and sneezing. Otherwise there would be millions of cases throughout the world.

Why are the health peeps wearing space suits, if not for an airborne risk?

Zachary.

because by the time they get to ebola patients, they are probably bleeding or similar

Possibly.

Here's some common sense stuff about it:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/10/ebola_panic_and_overreaction_hazmat_suits_and_negative_air_pressure_are.html

MaxK - 14 Oct 2014 13:21 - 47540 of 47543

Why are the health peeps wearing space suits, if not for an airborne risk?

the fact is they do not know

more inaccurate rubbish
of course they know and no it is not airborne in the way that flu virus is .... this isn't something sudden and mysterious

They wear those suits to protect themselves from bodily discharges and to ensure that they are in as safe as possible environment. Read the below...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2786556/All-ll-need-Hazmat-suit-Halloween-Doctors-slam-surge-useless-online-Ebola-survival-kits-America-panic-buys.html

Just look at the ignorance of this post...... PATHETIC lifted from advfn

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The Ebola situation is another media hyped story and no need for the general public to start panicking. If all the media nonsense spouted about Aids had turned out to be true then we would all be dead by now!

The virus doesn’t live for long outside the body. Ultraviolet rays from sunlight destroy it, as does heat. Bleach kills it and plain soap and water can wash it away. Warm body fluids such as blood, vomit and feces carry the virus. And it has to get into the body to infect you — it doesn’t soak in through the skin, for instance. It must get in through the nose, mouth, eyes, through a cut or by a needle stick.
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What a truly selfish and materialistic post. (edit ....dont we know it PJ 1)

So ppl are dying from it and its just hyped media? Maybe our soldiers getting killed in far off lands is just hyped media? About the same numbers currently.

Aids. As far as I am aware not one person in the homosexual society of London escaped the crisis without at least knowing someone who died from it. Oh sorry, it was hyped media wasn't it?

big tetchy this morning aren't you?
too much chilli in last night's curry after the pub?

:-)

Haystack your post 47527........do you understand DEFLATION

I'm sure he does, Fishfinger, but you're a long way from deflation in the UK. Unless you're in Spain, of course.

Another nail in gf's interest rise coffin! Market expecting rise at back end of next summer

LOL

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11161187/Inflation-plunges-to-new-five-year-low-of-1.2pc-as-prices-of-fun-falls.html

Falling inflation 'nail in the coffin' for interest rate rise before Christmas

Markets expect Bank of England to lift rates "at the back end of next summer" as inflation continues to slip

inflation try telling the young people trying to buy a home that inflation is 1.2 load of bollocks

Another nail for gf! I love the end sentence of this.

http://www.whatinvestment.co.uk/financial-news/markets/2472442/hargreaves-lansdown-latest-inflation-data-means-that-bank-of-england-and39wonand39t-even-considerand39-an-interest-rate-rise.thtml

Hargreaves Lansdown: Latest inflation data means that Bank of England 'won't even consider' an interest rate rise

Ben Bretell, senior economist at Hargreaves Lansdown, believes that this morning's fall in the rate of UK inflation means that UK interest rates will not rise until well into next year.

He remarked, ‘Weak global demand is dragging down the rate of inflation. The prospect of recession in the Eurozone – our largest export market – poses a severe threat to the UK’s recovery. Exports have fallen to their lowest level in four years, providing further indication our economy is slowing. Given the weakening growth outlook and the absence of inflationary pressure, it is difficult to see why the Bank of England would even consider higher interest rates at present. I fully expect them to remain on hold until after next year’s election.'