Dervish said
the disease has a 90% fatality rate.

the only way to deal with an ebola outbreak is to quarantine all the victims until they die.

idlehands said
Do you really want a heads or tails shot at living?

Raxacoricofallapatorius said Basically though, you'll be fine so long as you don't swap bodily fluids with anyone.

Kaga said
I kind of think that statistic has a lot to do with what I already mentioned about Africa, though. Like, is the same going on with those isolated cases outside Africa?And... are you sure that's the way to treat it? Or is that just what they're doing in Africa because they don't have any better options? Is the rest of the world doing the same thing? Note: I'm far from an expert on the subject, so these are kind of legit questions - not me trying to debate anything.Like pretty much everything I said in that first post I remembered hearing in a Vlogbrothers video so yeah I don't know shit.

Vanq said
There's some treatments, I wouldn't go so far as to say cures, in development. Really early development, although they did give some doses to aid workers who contracted it and both were released from the hospital a few weeks back. Another guy died after (allegedly?) receiving the same drug. Part of the problem is that Ebola has always been a small scale problem, couple hundred people at a time, there's not much money to be made to recoup the cost of research and testing. There's also some belief that the blood of infected individuals who survived might act as a treatment - but that can be a whole host of other issues when people start buying and selling without proper screening. Quarantine has been the typical manner of stopping outbreaks. African nations' infrastructure sure doesn't help combatting it, but we also don't have many options for treatment. Right now its keep people hydrated long enough for their body to fight off the infection. Or at least, that's what I've gleaned from various bits of internet researching. Take it all with a grain of salt.

genghismike said
O.o haven't seen you around in a while.

Vanq said
Hi Ghengy