Ebola in Jefferson Parish (no current threat)

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    rtr_rtr

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    I'd bet you a healthy chunk of money there are considerably more flu related deaths in any given demographic than ebola-related deaths in the us ;)
     

    WHO DAT 504

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    All I've been hearing Tom Friedman say since Duncan died is " we're monitoring the forty-something healthcare workers". If the CDC has been monitoring them, how did the lastest one get on an airplane? Someone please explain....
     

    madwabbit

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    All I've been hearing Tom Friedman say since Duncan died is " we're monitoring the forty-something healthcare workers". If the CDC has been monitoring them, how did the lastest one get on an airplane? Someone please explain....

    Monitoring = "hey if you get a fever for any reason in the next 14 days, call this 800 number. Thanks."

    People are not being shuffled into camps or biodomes or whatever the internet thinks is happening. You're more likely to catch the chicken pox and more likely to die from HIV. If everyone would just calm down, that'd be great.
     

    WHO DAT 504

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    Monitoring = "hey if you get a fever for any reason in the next 14 days, call this 800 number. Thanks."

    People are not being shuffled into camps or biodomes or whatever the internet thinks is happening. You're more likely to catch the chicken pox and more likely to die from HIV. If everyone would just calm down, that'd be great.

    I guess you didn't see his "Controlled movement" speech( which excludes ANY form of public transportation per CDC).
    Point is, he lied no matter which way you slice it.
     

    Saintsfan6

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    We should be more worried about Malaria, WNV, Dengue fever, rabies, Influenza, HIV, Rotavirus... I could go on and on. Those are all infectious disease that kill FAR MORE individuals and some of those examples are much more virulent and infectious through means other than direct bodily fluid contact (such as air borne or mosquito borne diseases). Although a disease with this mortality rate should be taken seriously, this disease is over hyped by the media and will never be more of an "epidemic" than all of the contagious diseases I just listed.
     

    Emperor

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    We should be more worried about Malaria, WNV, Dengue fever, rabies, Influenza, HIV, Rotavirus... I could go on and on. Those are all infectious disease that kill FAR MORE individuals and some of those examples are much more virulent and infectious through means other than direct bodily fluid contact (such as air borne or mosquito borne diseases). Although a disease with this mortality rate should be taken seriously, this disease is over hyped by the media and will never be more of an "epidemic" than all of the contagious diseases I just listed.

    You'd better be more worried about what might happen in Detroit on Sunday! ;)
     

    Rhandhali

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    My best guess as to how Ebola would present here would be some homeless guy who sits in a waiting room for four hours, maybe soils himself because he's drunk/high/off-meds and then promptly leaves against medical advice when someone tries to take his temperature or he realizes he's not getting his dilaudid shot.

    I can imagine a fair number of patients jetting out of the ER post haste if they overhear the words ebola, either in reference to them or to anyone else in the ER.

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    We should be more worried about Malaria, WNV, Dengue fever, rabies, Influenza, HIV, Rotavirus... I could go on and on. Those are all infectious disease that kill FAR MORE individuals and some of those examples are much more virulent and infectious through means other than direct bodily fluid contact (such as air borne or mosquito borne diseases). Although a disease with this mortality rate should be taken seriously, this disease is over hyped by the media and will never be more of an "epidemic" than all of the contagious diseases I just listed.

    I blame Dustin Hoffman.
     

    Saintsfan6

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    Seriously though, the Ebola threat is inflated by the media. Tuberculosis is estimated to have infected 8.8 million and killed 1.5 million people in 2010 alone. This is a quote from Veronique Mistiaen (a journalist that researched the impact of TB) "In the past two centuries alone, it (tuberculosis) has killed more than one billion people - more than every war, famine and other epidemic put together."

    Lets worry about something that is a true threat, like radical islam/ISIL, or the growing number of obese people in the US. ISIL has killed more than Ebola. Obesity will indirectly kill more in one year in the form of cardiovascular disease in the US alone than Ebola has in the entire world.

    Next time you see Ebola hype in the news, stop watching/listening and think about all the far more terrible things in the world that we as a community should be concerned about.
     
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