*Breaking* Ebola has reached the U.S.

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A patient being treated at a Dallas hospital is the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday.

 

The person, whose identity was not released, left Liberia on September 19 and arrived in the United States on September 20, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC.

 

At that time, the person did not have symptoms. "But four or five days later," that person began to show symptoms, Frieden said. The person was hospitalized and isolated Sunday at a hospital in Texas.

 

Frieden sought to play down the risk to public health.

 

"It's a severe disease, which has a high case fatality rate, even with the best of care, but there are core, tried and true public health interventions that stop it," he said of Ebola.

 

"The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of Ebola so that it does not spread widely in this country," Frieden said.

 

 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/30/health/ebola-us/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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unless it gets out of control in Africa...and in there it's winning :/

 

 

However, you have to consider how ill-prepared those countries were. The U.S. isn't in the same situation. I'd bet it would be quickly quarantined and treated.

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However, you have to consider how ill-prepared those countries were. The U.S. isn't in the same situation. I'd bet it would be quickly quarantined and treated.

 

yes but remember that this is a high infectious virus, with a very high mortal rate.

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yes but remember that this is a high infectious virus, with a very high mortal rate.

 

 

It really depends on where you're talking about. It has a high mortality and infectious rate in Africa for a number of reasons. Those being, they have a weaker infrastructure in many regards. Their health care systems are slower to respond and less able to handle outbreaks. The social views are skewed against the health care system as well as the view on ebola itself. Their funeral practices aren't modern and often involve touching and even kissing the dead bodies. Their eating practices and even the distances between cities, towns and small villages make it difficult to get health cares workers in to help out. Even the lack of basic communications is part of the problem.

 

In a modern countries like the US, EU, ect, we wouldn't have any where near the outbreak effects. We have mass communication to get the word out of even potential outbreaks. Our health care infrastructure is pretty well equipped to handle it. We have a far better ability to track down those in contact with potential infected. We don't eat bush meat, we have strict rules regarding the dead and infectious materials. We are socially far more educated on diseases in general. In practically every aspect we are far more advanced and better off. 

 

Even though this has been the worst outbreak of ebola, the mortality rates is still under it's normal rate of 90% all because there was a more proactive action this time around. It's still bad but could have been far worse in terms of over all rates. Basic smarts of washing your hands and staying away from other people's bodily fluid and you could sit next to a infected person and truly have very little to worry about.

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That's not really the relevant part :p

 

Well if it only spreads through body fluids, that guy was an idiot for coming into contact with body fluids of an ebola carrier and then traveling abroad having knowingly done so. He should be incinerated immediately before the virus has a chance to mutate into an airborne one.

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