Works Cited: Ebola Monitoring Inconsistent as Virus Spread." AJC.com: Atlanta News, Sports, Atlanta Weather, Business News. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2014.
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Are We Being Too Careful With The Ebola Virus?
The healthcare workers caring for Ebola patients were supposed to take their own temperatures and report anything if they were to start feeling sick. Recently, Amber Vinson, a healthcare worker that had been caring for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, was allowed to fly on a commercial airline with a mild fever. After Vinson was allowed to fly from Ohio to Dallas, CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said that she should not have flown on a commercial flight. Before Duncan was officially diagnosed with Ebola, he had come in contact with his family. When Duncan was officially diagnosed, his family then became confined to their homes under armed guard. To me, it does not make sense that Duncan's family was confined to their homes, but the nurses that gave Duncan his shots, IV's, and handled his bodily fluids are allowed to fly commercially. The AJC says that 125 friends, family, doctors, technicians, ambulance drivers and others may have been exposed to the virus before Duncan died on October 8.
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How on earth could you be too careful with a deadly disease like this? It's called a hemorrhagic fever meaning, you bleed out of EVERTHING. You poop blood, you pee it, you throw it up, you sweat it, and it starts off in your eyes by the way.your blood starts to clot causing painful red marks everywhere on your skin, and you literally bleed to death from the inside. Now tell me if you got this disease and was in the final stages near death would you want to pass that crap on to other people? But to discourage the thought of a massive outbreak in the U.S. of murica is that you have to be in DIRECT CONTACT with the bodily fluids of a person SHOWING SYMPTOMS so unless you start making out with a guy throwing up blood you wont get it. The only time you should panic about this disease is if it becomes a waterborne or airborne disease and everyone and your grandmother starts pissing blood. Now, wht the CDC and WHO has been carefully monitoring is a strand of ebola which is extremely pathogenic and symptoms strike 10x harder. Luckily though it only thrives in monkeys that account for majority of Liberian meat intake so yeah, were not so lucky after all. Hopefully it doesn't evolve to infect humans like HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) came from SIV (Simeon Immunodeficiency Virus) .
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