Anyone following the Ebola outbreak in Africa?

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This could be pretty frightening now that there are reported cases in Guinea’s capital, a port city of 2 million with an international airport. I can only imagine the panic if cases start popping up at other transportation hubs that connect to Conakry.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26816438

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-epidemic-could-become-global-crisis-experts-warn-1.2591338

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Anyone following the Ebola outbreak in Africa?

No, been to busy stocking the bunker…

~Matt

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Anyone following the Ebola outbreak in Africa?

No, been to busy stocking the bunker…

~Matt

Fair enough. I hear one of the early symptoms is an irregular heart beat. You don’t have a fever or anything do you? =)

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That’s really interesting. You know, I always scoff whenever the new disease scare of the month hits (SARS, bird flu, H1N1 etc) as they seem to really only be a threat to a few people and I usually chalk it up to media hype. It seems like ebola has got a lot more bite then the evolving flu (no cure, very low survival rate, death within a couple days of infection). I’m not even sure how you would go about containing and outbreak like that, especially in poor African countries with little to no medical resources.

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Fair enough. I hear one of the early symptoms is an irregular heart beat. You don’t have a fever or anything do you? =)

My heads been killing me and for some reason my tears are red…you’d have thought they would have said something last night at the ER…

~Matt

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i think that when today’s toddlers grow up

So you’re assuming some of them will survive the plague?

~Matt

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Fair enough. I hear one of the early symptoms is an irregular heart beat. You don’t have a fever or anything do you? =)

My heads been killing me and for some reason my tears are red…you’d have thought they would have said something last night at the ER…

A splitting headache, red tears, but no further presentations of stigmata?

You’ll probably be fine.

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I started a thread on the case in Canada, where I paged you. I know I give you a hard time, but I figured this was your area of expertise. Now this is some scary stuff.

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I had once read this. That Ebola is such a quick killer that it doesn’t spread as far and wide. Not much has been said about the possible case in Canada, but what are the chance that once Ebola gets off the African continent, it can spread quickly and cause a pandemic?

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