HEALTH Ebola reaches Kampala

[FarOut]

There was an earlier thread about a new Ebola outbreak in Uganda. This time it's reached the capital city Kampala. This version appears to have a different progression of symptoms.

"The bleeding which normally accompanies Ebola did not take place initially among these patients," he said, adding that health workers at first did not therefore realise what the problem was.

"Because of that delay the sickness spread."

See http://ca.news.yahoo.com/uganda-bans-physical-contact-ebola-reaches-capital-112905767.html for the full story.

 

[Housecarl]

"The Stand" just came to mind in reading this....

 

[summerthyme]

Oh, boy...

You know, with modern air flights, something like this COULD spread worldwide in under a week...

Summerthyme

 

[DennisRGH]

Unless this is a genetically altered version, this will not last long. My famous last words.

 

[naturallysweet]

If I were a suicide terrorist, I'd expose myself to ebola and then fly to Asia or the East Coast of the US. Then I'd spend several days doing nothing but ride the mass transit systems. Especially those that are packed in like sardines, like they do in Asia.

If it takes 3 days for symptoms to show up, tens of thousands could be exposed before the terrorist comes down with symptoms. In that time there could have been hundred of thousands of secondary infections . (Just one kid in daycare and everyo0ne's dead.)

Good thing I'm not an evil terrorist.


Hope this doesn't happen. I'd rather not die by bleeding out of all my orifices.
I'm really surprised that this hasn't been done yet.

 

[Jake Grey]

I can just hear Kevin Spacey's character in "Outbreak" saying, "Mu-ta-bay."

 

[TheDoberman]

If I remember right, from reading "The Hot Zone." By the time the disease starts replicating itself in the body you are already almost dead. Meaning there isn't a lot of potential exposing time, which is good because swine flu/bird flu have nothing on this!!!

 

[night driver]

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

more info than you wanted.

 

[undead]

Ebola is not exactly a difficult outbreak to control, relatively speaking.

 

[night driver]

CURRENTLY it requires body fluid contact...which is not hard to control if attention is taken.

 

[TerryK]

Unless this is a genetically altered version, this will not last long. My famous last words.

The Buckster is right. Ebola is difficult to spread. If it could go airborne it would be a good bio weapon

 

[nharrold]

If they bury infected persons who have died, does the virus survive burial? What is to keep it from surfacing and infecting other people? Is there a minimum effective burial depth???

 

[almost ready]

ok to merge these threads. It had reached Kampala in my article but the title doesn't show this. It's sufficiently important to spread the word. This could be very important very quickly.

I am concerned because it spread to multiple villages and the capital before it was identified, and the patients don't show the hemmoraging, thus it is being misdiagnosed.

Just your typical doom on a Tuesday.

The first thread

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?409949-Panic-in-Uganda-as-Ebola-spreads&daysprune=10

 

[night driver]

the issue with burial is that in some of the cultures, it is almost imperative that the survivors cover themselves in the deceased's blood, or have MUCH close contact with the body of the deceased.

IIRC the virus dies upon exposure for a moderate time...

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

check the link above...

 

[nharrold]

Oh, boy...

You know, with modern air flights, something like this COULD spread worldwide in under a week...

Summerthyme

How much time between exposure/infection and appearance of symptoms? How much travel could an unsuspected traveler accomplish???

 

[pauldingbabe]

How much time between exposure/infection and appearance of symptoms? How much travel could an unsuspected traveler accomplish???

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

more info than you wanted.

there ya go, in case you didn't see it above.

 

[night driver]

2-21 days, avg around 4

 

[nharrold]

there ya go, in case you didn't see it above.

Many thanks, PB.

 

[nharrold]

2-21 days, avg around 4

Thanks, ND. I was reading under stress and took this phrase ("Ebola is characterized by the sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat.") using "sudden" to mean that the incubation (is that the right word?) period was real short.

 

[summerthyme]

No, it means more that you go from "I feel fine" to "I wish I was dead" in a couple hours.

The 1918 influenza epidemic was like that, as well. People got on the street car to go to work feeling fine, staggered off a half hour later feeling unwell and were dead by sunset.

Summerthyme

 

[FarOut]

If I remember right, from reading "The Hot Zone." By the time the disease starts replicating itself in the body you are already almost dead. Meaning there isn't a lot of potential exposing time, which is good because swine flu/bird flu have nothing on this!!!

You're missing the nasty part. THIS Ebola doesn't immediately display the well-know symptom of bleeding from orifices, but the patient is still infectious. No previous Ebola reached Kampala; this one did. This can spread without warning.