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Ebola Virus Is Outpacing Efforts to Control It, World Health Body Warns

In an ominous warning as fatalities mounted in West Africa from the worst known outbreak of the Ebola virus, the head of the World Health Organization said on Friday that the disease was moving faster than efforts to curb it, with potentially catastrophic consequences, including a “high risk” that it will spread.

ajax173721d ago

Pretty scary stuff. I can't imagine a worse virus you can contract.

ironfist923720d ago

Bubonic Plague...

and that was found in china last week

ajax173720d ago (Edited 3720d ago )

Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria though. I meant as far as viruses go ebola seems like it's one of the worst ones.

TechImperia3721d ago

i think government should take more serious steps to stop this menace

SilentNegotiator3720d ago

And they just had to bring that infected doctor back to the US. If the disease spreads here, we had better make heads roll for that dumb move.

Pyro2000x3720d ago

I agree they should have left those doctors over there damn it this sucks

Dasteru3720d ago

It was actually 2 doctors and both were secured in transportable bio tents the entire time. Also, Ebola only spreads through direct contact with body fluids, it is not airborne. The risk of it spreading is very very slim.

SilentNegotiator3720d ago

Not slim enough to keep TWO doctors from contracting it. No matter how sophisticated the containment equipment is, it's still a risk bringing them over; only one person has to catch it and spread it while it's in incubation for it to create another outbreak.

amiga-man3720d ago

I think the least people should offer the doctors going out there tackling the problem is the best care possible, all precautions I'm sure were taken and the risks to any other country is far far more likely to come from the average person travelling abroad.

I't is a horrible virus and needs to be taken seriously but panic and scaremongering won't help.

SilentNegotiator3720d ago

I'm just saying that transporting a person infected with a disease with an incredibly high mortality rate isn't a great idea.

Send the equipment to treat them TO THE COUNTRY THAT NEEDS IT; then they can treat the doctors and hundreds more. That makes a LOT more sense than sending someone to an uninfected country.

amiga-man3720d ago (Edited 3720d ago )

SilentNegotiater I'm not trying to start an argument, decisions have to be made and we can argue the rights and wrongs of bringing them home.

Morally in my mind we have an obligation to bring them back, we need expertise out there to solve this far more than equipment and as I have pointed out the real danger is from the average person travelling not bringing two doctors back under quarantine conditions.

On a side note you do Realise America already keeps the most deadly diseases in labs (including Ebola) to study?

Qrphe3720d ago

Just don't go make out with them since the virus is, you know, not airborne.

SilentNegotiator3720d ago

It's not like the (upwards of) 800 people now dead had an orgy. Obviously the disease doesn't have that much trouble spreading around.

TechImperia3720d ago

I think they didn't even give a thought to this

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