Ebola on US shores

[Baron Von Crowder]

What's the mortality rate of the flu?

vs the number of people that get it?

I understand your point - but it's more about percentages.

According to this...

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/flu.htm

.5% of the people who get it die....

If Ebola spreads (and I realize it's still an "if") - a lot of people will die. I think the point being made, is do what it takes to make sure it does not spread. Right now it's very few people who have it. Better safe than sorry.

Lets not play loose and fast with the stats now.

Per your site, for 2013 only:

Number of deaths: 1,532
Deaths per 100,000 population: 0.5

The US has a population of a tad over 316 million (documented)

So, sounds like more people have died of the flu in the last 5 years that people have died of ebola ever. Sure, the motality rate of ebola is much higher, but you have a LOT better chance of getting the flu.

Also:

The table below is a list of motor vehicle deaths in the United States by year. On average in 2012, 92 people were killed on the roadways of the U.S. each day in 30,800 fatal crashes.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...n_U.S._by_year

So in two months (in the US) more people died from car crashes than ebola has killed, ever.



While everyone is stocking up on .22's and MRE's, consider that none of the 8 people that were in the same apartment with patient zero have come down with it. Maybe one will, but it's getting to be pretty late for that. They were living with that guy without PPE or really any precautions at all.

[bcoop]

vs the number of people that get it?

Lets not play loose and fast with the stats now.

Per your site, for 2013 only:


The US has a population of a tad over 316 million (documented)

So, sounds like more people have died of the flu in the last 5 years that people have died of ebola ever. Sure, the motality rate of ebola is much higher, but you have a LOT better chance of getting the flu.

Also:


So in two months (in the US) more people died from car crashes than ebola has killed, ever.



While everyone is stocking up on .22's and MRE's, consider that none of the 8 people that were in the same apartment with patient zero have come down with it. Maybe one will, but it's getting to be pretty late for that. They were living with that guy without PPE or really any precautions at all.

Get out of here with your numbers and logic. It's time for mass hysteria! It's time for all these fucking nut job preppers to attempt to justify their insanity! The sky is falling! The fucking sky is falling and we're all gonna die of teh Ebola! How dare you not be hysterical?!?!?

[Nash B.]

I'm not worried that it's going to kill me. I'm worried that it hasn't been contained and could spread, and then I'll have to start worrying it's going to kill me.

[KBScobravert]

My Halloween decorations this year are going to be centering around Ebola quarantine. I figure that is like killing two birds with one stone. My house decorated for Halloween. And I'm prepared Ebola outbreak. I mean let's face it , it is not like I don't already have all the supplies anyways.

[46Tbird]

I'm not worried that it's going to kill me. I'm worried that it hasn't been contained and could spread, and then I'll have to start worrying it's going to kill me.

Precisely.

Get out of here with your numbers and logic. It's time for mass hysteria! It's time for all these fucking nut job preppers to attempt to justify their insanity! The sky is falling! The fucking sky is falling and we're all gonna die of teh Ebola! How dare you not be hysterical?!?!?

I'm perfectly calm, Dude. Calmer than you are.

[71chevellejohn]

This is just a plan to prove how well obamacare works.

[bcoop]

I'm perfectly calm, Dude. Calmer than you are.

Pacifism is not something to hide behind.

[03mustangdude]

26 yr old nurse

DALLAS — A Dallas nurse diagnosed with the Ebola virus over the weekend is a former Texas Christian University student identified by a family member as 26-year-old Nina Pham.

The family reached out to WFAA Monday morning and shared an image of the nurse who grew up in Fort Worth.

A health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Pham became infected while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who died from the virus days before the nurse's diagnosis.

Pham graduated from TCU's nursing program in 2010 and is the first person to contract the disease while in the Unites States.

One person was identified to have been around Pham while she was potentially infectious. That person is under daily monitoring by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has showed no symptoms of the virus.

"The existence of the first case of Ebola spread in the U.S. changes some things and it doesn't change other things," said Tom Frieden, director of the CDC, during a news conference Monday. "It doesn't change the fact that we know how Ebola spreads. It doesn't change the fact that it's possible to take care of Ebola safely. But it does change substantially how we approach it."

Frieden said change is necessary because "even a single infection is unacceptable."

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The CDC continues to monitor 48 other people, 10 of which were confirmed to have contact with Duncan, who was diagnosed with Ebola after traveling from Liberia to Dallas. Frieden says each of those under monitoring haven't exhibited a fever or any other symptoms.

"This is consistent with what we know about Ebola — that people aren't sick when they don't have symptoms and the sicker they get the more infectious they may become because the amount of virus in their body increases," Frieden said.

Frieden says the CDC is also monitoring other health care workers who treated Duncan while at Texas Health Presbyterian. The director of CDC says the process of identifying all those who may have had contact with Duncan during his treatment is still underway.

"The team worked hard through the day yesterday into the night yesterday and are still actively working today to interview each one of the large number of health care workers who might potentially had contact with [Duncan] while he was hospitalized," he said.

Frieden says this is important as they haven't identified how Pham contracted the disease.

"So, we consider them to potentially be at risk and we're doing an in depth review and investigation," he said.

The director of the CDC says they're also investigating the process in which Duncan was isolated and treated to probe potentially how Pham became infected. One focus of the investigation is how to handle equipment and protective gear used during and after the treatment of an infected patient.

"Because if it's contaminated, there's the possibility the worker will contaminate themselves," he said.

Meanwhile, Spain's Ebola patient remains in serious but stable condition Monday, with doctors cautiously hopeful she can recover.

Teresa Romero, 44, is also a nurse who contracted the virus while treating a Spanish missionary.

[46Tbird]

DALLAS — A Dallas nurse diagnosed with the Ebola virus over the weekend is a former Texas Christian University student identified by a family member as 26-year-old Nina Pham.

!= white

[ceyko]

So, sounds like more people have died of the flu in the last 5 years that people have died of ebola ever. Sure, the motality rate of ebola is much higher, but you have a LOT better chance of getting the flu.

Personally, I'm not arguing the point you're trying to make or that you think I'm not getting.

I'm simply saying we don't want ebola to become an issue and to be diligent on preventing it from spreading.

[lowthreeohz]

She's as white as zimmerman was.

[71chevellejohn]

She's as white as zimmerman was.

Zimmerman is still that white isn't he?

[LANTIRN]

She's as white as zimmerman was.

So you are saying we are still safe?

[BP]

Hey my wife went to school with a Nina Pham. She was an art major though, pretty sure it's not the same girl.

[BoostedD1]

She cute.