By MainePains - 10/10/2014 23:27 - United States - Portsmouth
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Hello, OP here! Apparently, the reason he has been crying is because the high school he goes to a lot of rumors are flying around- about Ebola coming to Maine. Thanks for the advice, but I have to say- a few of you are Maineiacs.
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In all seriousness if you're that scared, carry around hand sanitizer in your pocket. It's a hard disease to get, because it's not airborne. The news has taken this way too far. The reason it's so bad in Africa is because you can get from the animals over there. Until that happens in our countries I'm pretty sure ours will be isolated events.
ChristianH39
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Not to mention a lot of areas in Africa have either much higher population density, poorer sanitation, or both, which would make just about any disease easier to spread.
I wondered when ebola would show up on here.....
XBurytheCastleX
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In Africa they are convinced that the USA made Ebola as a war weapon and released it. So, the people do not want to seek American help. They would rather pass it on. Everything's fine.
As someone who lives in an African country I can confirm that that is definitely not true. There are some people who believe that but the main reason it's spread so badly in West Africa is because of a lack of infrastructure and because of traditional rituals of dealing with the dead which require the family of the deceased to clean the dead body, thereby putting themselves at risk for getting the disease. Africans are slightly distrustful of Americans but that has more to do with neocolonialism than anything else
I think ebola was created by one of the big nations in a lab in Africa for use as chemical warfare from another virus. The virus escaped the labs confines and mutated in the wild becoming worse than the man made version, but then again i read lots of evil scientist books so im probably crazy.
I'm pretty sure Ebola is one of the many diseases that originated in and is carried by bats but doesn't infect them. I'm not positive, the papers I read on bats and diseases was a long time ago, but I know Ebola was mentioned as being either originating in bats or mutating to the current form in bats. Unless I'm mixing it up with mad cow...
You're correct. Eating fruit that has been bitten by infected bats, being bitten by an infected animal (such as a bat or a monkey) or eating the meat of infected animals can also give you Ebola
And a quick google search to confirm, thanks for assuring me my memory was right. Ever since I read that paper in... 2008 I think, I can't look at pictures of bats, especially fruit bats, without getting squicked out and shuddering.
ChristianH39
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Not to mention that if anyone with half a brain was engineering a viral WMD, it would be airborne.
I work at a smaller hospital in the suburbs outside Dallas, and the hospitals are on extra high alert. The man who died only made it out of Liberia because he lied about having carried a child with Ebola to the hospital a few days before. The people he talked to at the ER when he went initially, four days before he was admitted, never informed his doctors he had possibly exposed and they sent him home. Everyone with remotely flu like symptoms is being put in contact and airborne isolation if they remotely could have had any contact with the virus. The main reason it spreads in Africa is lack of ability to clean up after the sick. Good hygiene and first world medicine will prevent it spreading any further from those already potentially exposed.
most people in Africa get it because it is tradition to touch the dead bodies at the funeral.
Ebola is in at least two u.s. States now.
No it isn't. It is only in Texas and no one else is showing symptoms so far with only a few days left in the incubation period for the people that came in contact with Thomas Duncan.
nightowl713
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I posted this on another comment, but your statement is untrue. A nurse that was treating the original patient has tested positive.
They posted their comment before that happened.
tell him to research it he'll feel better
he sounds like he has anxiety - that is not a rational thing. You see symptoms everywhere and it is one of the worst feelings. Please be patient with him and get him to see a counsellor - I went through fear of meningitis and cholera (even though cholera is so unlikely) and it is immobilising. Please support him in this - don't brush it off or anything. Take care OP. There is something called a detective thinking sheet you can google and do with him - it might help him feel a bit better.
I think the Maine problem here is all the scare stories the media is putting out.
ostfaiz
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Ask him to collect info on Ebolla, the more he knows the less fearful he l be agianst it
Who cares if ur in Maine it's in Texas right now and I don't blame him someone can have it sneeze on u and 21 days later u will be on your death bed this shet is deadly
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The Maine thing is that you explain to him he's safe.
Ebola has been blown totally out of proportion, yes, its a hazard in Africa with over three thousand deaths but it won't end up being the next zombie apocalypse as is always portrayed with movies, we have unrealistic views of the world and the news goes a long way in brainwashing us.