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So, about that Ebola outbreak....
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Eh, shit happens. It'll be over in a week.
Oh really when?
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...It's been brewing for several months already. Have been keeping a watch on it. Will post relevant links when I get home.
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You do realize this is the largest and most deadly outbreak of Ebola on record right? And that they have yet to get control over it?
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Is it? Last I heard it was just 3 people in a hospital or something and everyone was getting panicky over nothing.
Oh really when?
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Oh damn.
And the idiots are freeing the infected and attacking doctors? The hell is wrong over there?
Oh really when?
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It's bad, and it is going to get worse before it gets better in Africa, but I don't think we're going to some major world pandemic.
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@Garcon: you're probably hearing that it's 3 Americans down with Ebola. The confirmed numbers are scary enough, but they think it could really be up to 3x as high.
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Someone has started a topic here about the outbreak.
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Okay. For what it's worth: The WHO page for Ebola is located here. Updated reports are on the Outbreak bar, updated about twice a week.
As far as I can tell, the "good" news is:
- We're looking at a mortality rate that's lower than 90% (doesn't help, I know), possibly because of better supportive care (mainly hydration).
- The number of new cases from the source country, Guinea, seems to be decreasing.
- Patients are infectious only when they're symptomatic, so screening measures (if implemented properly) should help with early detection and quarantine.
The bad news is:
- Ease of travel means that there's a high risk of international spread - the first Nigerian case so far is a patient who flew in from Liberia.
- Distrust of the authorities, fallacious traditional beliefs, and poor understanding of the disease and basic hygiene / infection control precautions has led to difficulties in implementing public health protocols. (I'm not in a position to comment on the medical infrastructure in said countries, but it probably isn't that great either.)
- ...It's freaking Ebola, man.
edited 29th Jul '14 6:25:42 AM by Pyrite
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In some ways, might slowing down the speed of infection be a bad thing? Wasn't it always a "saving grace" of Ebola that it tends to kill people very quickly, thus hampering its own spread?
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Well, it certainly doesn't appear to have done so this time. Slowing down the rate of infection is good and all, but it certainly becomes difficult to do so when people start thinking that they can take better care of Ebola patients than the medical authorities after one conspiracy theory too many. I thought this lot was supposed to have learned something from the last few outbreaks?
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The speed at which Ebola kills does hamper its spread by limiting the amount of time that other people spend in close contact with the infected person (assuming death is followed by a safe disposal of the remains), but you can't "slow down" an Ebola infection in an individual (EDIT: aside from experimental treatments). What can be done to "slow down" the spread of the disease in the community is to limit the exposure of your uninfected population, hence the role of infection control, isolation and quarantine.
edited 10th Aug '14 4:53:39 AM by Pyrite
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Read a bit into why there's still no vaccine for Ebola, and the first article that popped out stated that it was cause there's no market for it.
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Question: Do sleepwalkers still get rest even if they get up and do sleepwalking shenanigans?
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Yes. But, it's not good rest. They do still tend to be in complex, semi-delta-wave sleep (stage 1/2 done... oddly: mostly theta, but dips downwards can happen), so, technically, it's "rest".
Depending on the type exhibited, ECGs will vary.
edited 30th Jul '14 7:03:04 AM by Euodiachloris
Hmm, I see, thanks.
Is that state enough to ruin a good night of sleep or it's mostly a small "dent" on the resting process?
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