Patient in NYC tests positive for Ebola

[beanz]

When I hear some random person got it who didn't go to Africa or wasn't in contact with any doctors or nurses who were, then I'll be worried. Til then, it's friday bytches

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Here's something to calm everyone down.

Don't Panic: Why Ebola Won't Become an Epidemic in New York
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/eb...y-ebola-wont-become-epidemic-new-york-n232826

New York City doctor just back from volunteering in Africa with Doctors Without Borders has tested positive for Ebola — a high price to pay for trying to help fight an epidemic that’s killed more than 4,500 people and threatens to infect tens of thousands.

The doctor, identified as Dr. Craig Spencer of Columbia University, correctly warned other experts before he was taken to Bellevue Hospital, which has been gearing up to tackle Ebola cases. New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Medical Center, where he usually worked, says he stayed away during the virus’ 21-day incubation period. “He is a committed and responsible physician who always puts his patients first. He has not been to work at our hospital and has not seen any patients at our hospital since his return from overseas,” it said in a statement Thursday night.

Ebola only spreads via bodily fluids
Think wet and warm. The virus lives in vomit, diarrhea, blood and sweat. Heat kills it, it doesn’t survive being dried out, and it doesn’t travel through the air. It also doesn’t appear to stick to surfaces much, so unless Spencer threw up in a public place, he would not have exposed the public to the virus. Even if he did, someone would have to touch it and then carry wet particles to their eyes, nose or mouth to become infected.

Ebola patients cannot infect others before they are sick themselves
No one has been documented to have spread the virus before showing symptoms such as a high fever, vomiting and diarrhea. The virus builds up in the body as patients get sicker. In fact, people in the early stages of Ebola infection often test negative for the virus, because there’s not very much in their blood. While the virus is found in sweat and that might make people wary of public transport, what's meant by that is that it’s found in the profuse sweat of very ill patients and unlikely to be in the normal perspiration of an otherwise asymptomatic person.

Ebola does not spread through casual contact
The people most at risk of Ebola are caregivers and health care workers, who are physically touching Ebola patients at their sickest. In 40 years of studying Ebola outbreaks, no one has seen a mystery case. People are infected by direct contact with others — not casual contact on buses, trains or in the street.

Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to die of Ebola in the United States, didn’t infect his girlfriend or other people who were in an apartment with him after he became ill. Close to 50 people who had some sort of contact with him all have passed the 21-day incubation period without disease. He did infect two nurseswho had been intensively caring for him when he was very ill.

Ebola has to get inside you to infect you
Unlike measles or tuberculosis, you can’t just breathe in Ebola virus and get infected. For one thing, it doesn't float in the air like those germs do. It must get into the eyes, nose or mouth, or get past the very strong barrier that is human skin, carried by a needle or perhaps through a fresh cut. Soap and water quickly removes Ebola virus and bleach or alcohol kills it quite effectively.

If a New Yorker like me is not losing sleep over this then no one else should.

 

[Rapmastermind]

So all the Papers this morning, "EBOLA IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!". SMH. The trains were light for a friday too this morning.

 

[Medio]

So all the Papers this morning, "EBOLA IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!". SMH. The trains were light for a friday too this morning.

I don't think they were light, I come in from Queens and it's usually how it always is

 

[Rapmastermind]

I don't think they were light, I come in from Queens and it's usually how it always is

I'm talking in Manhattan this morning. Normally there's no room on the train around 7-9am but it was little light. For the most part everyone went on as business as usual though.

 

[Rapmastermind]

Oh Lord, My Mom Dukes texting all worried. Talking about "Drive your car and don't ride the trains".

 

[Uptown WaYo87]

If this shyt spreads this dude is gonna go down as the most hated person in NYC history

 

[Trip]

If this shyt spreads this dude is gonna go down as the most hated person in NYC history

the guy is a douchebag...regardless if it spreads or not. Hipster moron.

 

[Rapmastermind]

If this shyt spreads this dude is gonna go down as the most hated person in NYC history

I don't want to blame the victim but why are these people who were treating Ebola going on their normal lives when they come back? Shouldn't he go to the hospital 1st and get checked out before they do anything? I'm still mad JFK/Customs didn't send him straight to hospital when he got off the plane.

 

[Trip]

I don't want to blame the victim but why are these people who were treating Ebola going on their normal lives when they come back? Shouldn't he go to the hospital 1st and get checked out before they do anything? I'm still mad JFK/Customs didn't send him straight to hospital when he got off the plane.

the guy was taking selfies in his hazmat....

 

[Malik]

 

[Medio]

If this shyt spreads this dude is gonna go down as the most hated person in NYC history

Actually, according to reports he followed all protocol, he did everything right and how was suppose to, unlike those two nurses.

 

[Rapmastermind]

the guy was taking selfies in his hazmat....

True, I saw some photos on Twitter, he was looking like a hispter lame. But he was going to Africa to help people, I can't knock that. The Hazmat selfie was wack though. This isn't something you "brag" about to your friends on facebook/instagram or twitter that you about to work on people with a deadly disease.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Again no one is most likely not getting Ebola in NYC(besides probably heath workers) unless someone physically touched the doctor when he was VERY ill or if the doctor vomited and someone physically touched it. Again he would have had to been VERY sick.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

And no you get Ebola if by any chance you touched money in which the doctor touched.