Lucasbalo: Good points. The two people evacuated to Emory Hospital are doing well because the hospital is one of four in the US that is expecially built to handle contagious diseases like Ebola and their isolation units is nearly perfect with all the necessary life saving machines that monitor body organs. This machines are not in this Ebola afflicted countries. That makes a lot of difference.

MyPWisINCORRECT: No wonder this morning I take bus say make I go hustle for Allen Avenue despite my catarrh...

As I sneeve once, heeeshian! Three people hala "driver owaa oh!!"

As I sneeve again, hhheeeheeeheeehehhshian!! Other Passengers including Driver and Conductor follow disappear leave me alone for bus...

I begin wida na!!

MyPWisINCORRECT: No wonder this morning I take bus say make I go hustle for Allen Avenue despite my catarrh...

As I sneeve once, heeeshian! Three people hala "driver owaa oh!!"

As I sneeve again, hhheeeheeeheeehehhshian!! Other Passengers including Driver and Conductor follow disappear leave me alone for bus...

I begin wonda na!!

ekpesa: all we need is the grace of GOD

MRbrownJAY: Africans are infected by the thousand (and subsequently dying), they say there is no cure!!!!!
US doctor in Liberia get infected, they are given a "miracle cure and sent to the US to follow the treatment on that "miracle fukcing cure"!!!!

the medicine is called Zmapp, and they had it in Liberia but supposedly, our African brothers were not important enough to get it.
MAY THEY GET PUNISHED!!!!!!

Gidihub: ibereh

bushdoc9919:

Well....AIDS is the tail end of HIV infection....what happens when HIV has wrecked the body'simmune system completely (if the infected was not taking drugs).

As for new drug treatment....there is a experimental drug which may prevent HIV from integrating with the cell''s DNA.(Integrases).

hayorbaami:

I have read ebola can't be contracted through fluids(sweat, secretion, saliva and the rest). My question is, does that mean anyone that comes in contact with the sweat of the ebola patient automatically gets the disease irrespective of whether there's an opening on the body surface? Does the virus act without getting into the host's system or it just begins action from the surface of the skin. Or it can enter through the tiny skin pores? I would appreciate your input on this. Thank you.

bushdoc9919:

Well studies appear to show that direct contact with fluid from infected people may predispose someone to getting Ebola. It does not mean that everyone who touches the fluid of an infected person will come down with the disease...but the risks are higher.(Symptomatic ebola patients shed the virus in their secretions). However ,the actual mechanism of transmission is not fully clear....and more research needs to be done

The virus probably does not enter the skin....but if you do not wash/disinfect yourself thoroughly....you could get infected by the virus by eating food (or indeed animal reservoirs like the fruit bat)...with your poorly cleaned hand( Another good reason to wash your hands well).

Your risk of infection is low if you wear protective clothing...and thoroughly wash your hands after contact with an infected patient.

WHO'S factsheet on the virus

bushdoc9919:

You need to go home and rethink your Christian beliefs.

Because....you really are not ready to trust God....because deep down you think that God will let you down if you leave your current line of work.

You can run a website....just post edifying things....things that glorify God....and God will honor you if you make him your no 1.

There was a man that my parents knew. Was making money from abortions. Then he repented....and gave up his abortions and became a water hawker. God honored him....now he is a big business man.

Whatever you think.....dirty pics and Christ do not go together.

I leave you with this verse....

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.


Philippians 4 vs 8

tatiana009: What happened to our own governments? Why must others always take care of us? They used tax payers money to get the medicine for their citizens. Let African Presidents do the same

Alexpissu:

What about all the money he made from abortions? He threw it inside the lagoon .....Tell, me another story " water hawker" It's not laughable .

nickvanilla: it may not even be about surviving or not.for me,the fear and stigma of contracting that virus is enough hell for a victim.it's indeed a terrible situation.

White007: Ebola is a frightening, highly lethal virus — in the current outbreak in West Africa, about 60 percent of people infected with the pathogen have died. Although in the minority, some people do recover from infection.


Doctors don't know for certain who will survive Ebola, and there is no specific treatment or cure for the disease. But studies suggest there are some biological markers linked with a higher chance of surviving Ebola, experts say.

When a person becomes infected with Ebola, the virus depletes the body's immune cells, which defend against infection, said Derek Gatherer, a bioinformatics researcher at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, who studies viral genetics and evolution. In particular, the Ebola virus depletes immune cells called CD4 and CD8 T lymphocytes, which are crucial to the function of the immune system, Gatherer said. [5 Things You Should Know About Ebola]

But if a person's immune system can stand up to this initial attack — meaning their immune cells are not as depleted in the first stages of infection — then studies suggest they are more likely to survive the disease.

"The patients that survive it best are the ones who don't get such a bad [immune] deficiency," Gatherer told Live Science.

But if the body is not able to fend off this attack, then the immune system becomes less able to regulate itself, Gatherer said. This means the immune system is more likely to run out of control and release a "storm" of inflammatory molecules, which cause tiny blood vessels to burst, leading in turn to a drop in blood pressure, multi-organ failure and eventually death.

The current Ebola outbreak — which is in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia — has infected at least 1,603 people, including 887 who have died, according to the World Health Organization, making it the largest outbreak in history.

Another marker linked with people's ability to survive Ebola is a gene called human leukocyte antigen-B, which makes a protein that is important in the immune system. A 2007 study found that people with certain versions of this gene, called B*07 and B*14, were more likely to survive Ebola, while people with other versions, called B*67 and B*15, were more likely to die.

Finally, some people may be resistant to Ebola infection entirely, if they have a mutation in a gene called NPC1. Studies show that, when researchers take cells from people with the NPC1 mutation and try to infect them with Ebola in a laboratory dish, these cells are resistant to the virus.

In European populations, about 1 in 300 to 1 in 400 people have this mutation, Gatherer said. But in some populations, this mutation is more common: in Nova Scotia, between 10 and 26 percent of people have this mutation, Gatherer said. But the frequency of this mutation in African populations is not known, he said.

However, because these studies on Ebola resistance were done in a lab, it's not known for certain if carriers of the NPC1 are truly resistant to Ebola.

Gatherer said that, hopefully, samples are being collected in the current outbreak so that researchers can conduct studies to better understand the virus and how to survive it.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/people-survive-ebola-233906237.html

[quote author=whytepawn1]this whole thing sounds like a conspiracy to me. why didnt the US make know to the world the existence of a possible cure, not until their citizens became infected.

they chose to use Africa as a means to an end, spreading the disease knowing that we will run to them for the cure.

I personally believe that the Ebola virus has a very potent cure or serum. They are just waiting for the disease to spread through Africa, scare the shit out of us, and then present themselves as the saviour with the serum, Which of course won't be free of charge. God help us all.