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Should countries with advanced medical care impose travel bans from countries with active Ebola outbreaks for persons who are not citizens of the destination country?

Yes
26 (68.4%)
No
9 (23.7%)
Snuffy [has Ebola and therefore can't come in... meaning also yes]
3 (7.9%)

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Offline Mars

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Re: Ebola and its containment
Reply #20 on: October 14, 2014, 12:43:24 am
What's the lifespan of the virus, outside of a host?
 

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Re: Ebola and its containment
Reply #21 on: October 14, 2014, 02:25:11 am
Quote from: Phantom Hoover on October 13, 2014, 10:23:36 am
MP-Ryan gave a decent account of that.

Those are all only experimental drugs, their efficacy (and side effects) being still in question.
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Re: Ebola and its containment
Reply #22 on: October 14, 2014, 02:29:40 am
Quote from: Mars on October 14, 2014, 12:43:24 am
What's the lifespan of the virus, outside of a host?

For most practical purposes, it doesn't have one. Which is why even simple measures suffice to ward against droplet infection; in the open air and under sunlight, ebola degrades too fast to figure out exactly how fast it degrades.
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Re: Ebola and its containment
Reply #23 on: October 14, 2014, 06:34:43 am
Quote from: The E on October 14, 2014, 02:29:40 am
Quote from: Mars on October 14, 2014, 12:43:24 am
What's the lifespan of the virus, outside of a host?

For most practical purposes, it doesn't have one. Which is why even simple measures suffice to ward against droplet infection; in the open air and under sunlight, ebola degrades too fast to figure out exactly how fast it degrades.

If I recall, common household cleaning chemicals like bleach and alcohol can remove the virus from surfaces and skin.
 

Offline Bobboau

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Re: Ebola and its containment
Reply #24 on: October 14, 2014, 11:34:58 pm
So this has been spreading at what seems a fairly unrestrained exponential rate so far. By the time America is eating Thanksgiving there will be 20,000 people infected, by Northern spring there could be 100,000, if it keeps going this time next year there could easily be a million, two years from now Africa is devoid of human life. So how bad does everyone think it will get?
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Re: Ebola and its containment
Reply #25 on: October 14, 2014, 11:59:12 pm
Well, supposedly this outbreak didn't come in from the jungle and infect a tribal village like normal, instead it started in 3 cities.

Dunno if that's true or not.
 

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Re: Ebola and its containment
Reply #26 on: October 15, 2014, 12:55:01 am
are you theorizing some conspiratorial actions have taken place?
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Re: Ebola and its containment
Reply #27 on: October 15, 2014, 01:16:22 am
Quote from: Bobboau on October 14, 2014, 11:34:58 pm
So this has been spreading at what seems a fairly unrestrained exponential rate so far. By the time America is eating Thanksgiving there will be 20,000 people infected, by Northern spring there could be 100,000, if it keeps going this time next year there could easily be a million, two years from now Africa is devoid of human life. So how bad does everyone think it will get?

My god! At that rate, in... four years, worldwide fatalities could top 12 billion!
 

Offline Phantom Hoover

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Re: Ebola and its containment
Reply #28 on: October 15, 2014, 02:22:11 am
Quote from: jr2 on October 14, 2014, 11:59:12 pm
Well, supposedly this outbreak didn't come in from the jungle and infect a tribal village like normal, instead it started in 3 cities.

Dunno if that's true or not.

Protip: it's not.
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Re: Ebola and its containment
Reply #29 on: October 15, 2014, 10:30:12 am
Quote from: Scourge of Ages on October 15, 2014, 01:16:22 am

My god! At that rate, in... four years, worldwide fatalities could top 12 billion!

yeah, obviously at some point that growth is not going to be exponential anymore, my question was when did you think that was going to happen.
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Re: Ebola and its containment
Reply #30 on: October 15, 2014, 10:48:28 am
Pretty soon I suspect, given the disease hasn't even spread effectively within Africa.
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Re: Ebola and its containment
Reply #31 on: October 15, 2014, 10:52:15 am
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.
 

Offline Mr. Vega

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Re: Ebola and its containment
Reply #32 on: October 16, 2014, 12:02:19 am
Quote from: Phantom Hoover on October 15, 2014, 10:48:28 am
Pretty soon I suspect, given the disease hasn't even spread effectively within Africa.
It's been contained within Nigeria and Senegal, to the point that the two countries are about to be declared Ebola free again. I think we'll be fine if Nigeria can get it under control.
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Re: Ebola and its containment
Reply #33 on: October 18, 2014, 06:33:10 am
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.
 

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Re: Ebola and its containment
Reply #34 on: October 21, 2014, 10:08:55 am
Nigeria now declared Ebola-free: http://time.com/3522984/ebola-nigeria-who/
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