EBOLA IS IN AMERICA

[Duchess]

I'm going to have to stop listening to & reading a lot of the stuff that is being presented out there because it's beginning to mind fuck me.

[username]

If it were airborne now I think most of Africa would be dead already.

[Maggot]

Stop putting cigarette butts in my kool aid.

[Blindgreed1]

If it were airborne now I think most of Africa would be dead already.

Yes and no. The form of menegitis that is airborne is highly contagious, yet the requirements to sustain virulent are stringent, so not everybody who breathes it gets infected. There are airborne menegitis deaths every year in the US (150-300 per year) but you don't see anything about it on the news because it's been around for years. This is just the flavor of the year for the media. Remember the H1N1 scare? Yeah...

[username]

Yes. Meningitis and flu deaths are sooo not as interesting as bleeding from your eyes and other orifices.

As an aside, I wish people would get all riled up about cancer. I really hate that disease.

[Blindgreed1]

Yes. Meningitis and flu deaths are sooo not as interesting as bleeding from your eyes and other orifices.

As an aside, I wish people would get all riled up about cancer. I really hate that disease.

There's been some really cool developments for treatments lately that don't involve chemo or irradiation. I've seen very high success rates in an FDA approved tratment of prostate cancer. It's a treatment that involves extracting the patients white cells and treating them medically to turn them into super badass white cells that attack the affected cancer cells. It not only stops the spread, but during the trial 80% of end stage patients made a full recovery.

[FAHQTOO]

Yes. Meningitis and flu deaths are sooo not as interesting as bleeding from your eyes and other orifices.

As an aside, I wish people would get all riled up about cancer. I really hate that disease.

Talk to big pharma. Most money people donate goes for drugs, not research.

[ramseycat]

They keep coming to Atlanta! Emory. Where Mike had his third surgery and they fucked up. AND he got meningitis. This goes not give me a sense of comfort.

[Duchess]

Yes and no. The form of menegitis that is airborne is highly contagious, yet the requirements to sustain virulent are stringent, so not everybody who breathes it gets infected. There are airborne menegitis deaths every year in the US (150-300 per year) but you don't see anything about it on the news because it's been around for years. This is just the flavor of the year for the media. Remember the H1N1 scare? Yeah...

I'm thinking that the only people who are going to be comfortable (for lack of a better word) with Ebola in America are going to be those with a background like yours, those who have an understanding or taken the time to educate themselves. The media is scaring the crap out of Americans, not everyone of course but many and people are frightened. I'm not at that point but I can see where I could be if I continued to pay attention to everything out there.

[username]

Yes. Meningitis and flu deaths are sooo not as interesting as bleeding from your eyes and other orifices.

As an aside, I wish people would get all riled up about cancer. I really hate that disease.

There's been some really cool developments for treatments lately that don't involve chemo or irradiation. I've seen very high success rates in an FDA approved tratment of prostate cancer. It's a treatment that involves extracting the patients white cells and treating them medically to turn them into super badass white cells that attack the affected cancer cells. It not only stops the spread, but during the trial 80% of end stage patients made a full recovery.

I think I read something about that. That's cool!!! Am I thinking of something else or do they think it might be helpful for lung cancers too...?

Yeah...

IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR LUNG CANCER

Once thought of as a type of cancer that was poorly immunogenic, lung cancer has recently emerged as an exciting new target of immune-based therapies [1]. Several approaches to immunotherapy for lung cancer have shown promise in early clinical trials and have advanced to late-phase development. Although treatments for non-small cell lung cancer have advanced the farthest, a number of new immune-based treatments for small cell lung cancer, as well as for mesothelioma (another type of lung cancer), are also in clinical development. These treatments can be broken into four main categories: monoclonal antibodies, immune checkpoint inhibitors, therapeutic vaccines, and adoptive T cell transfer.

- See more at: http://www.cancerresearch.org/cancer-imm...smmpn.dpuf

[Blindgreed1]

Yes. Meningitis and flu deaths are sooo not as interesting as bleeding from your eyes and other orifices.

As an aside, I wish people would get all riled up about cancer. I really hate that disease.

There's been some really cool developments for treatments lately that don't involve chemo or irradiation. I've seen very high success rates in an FDA approved tratment of prostate cancer. It's a treatment that involves extracting the patients white cells and treating them medically to turn them into super badass white cells that attack the affected cancer cells. It not only stops the spread, but during the trial 80% of end stage patients made a full recovery.

I think I read something about that. That's cool!!! Am I thinking of something else or do they think it might be helpful for lung cancers too...?

Yeah...

IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR LUNG CANCER

Once thought of as a type of cancer that was poorly immunogenic, lung cancer has recently emerged as an exciting new target of immune-based therapies [1]. Several approaches to immunotherapy for lung cancer have shown promise in early clinical trials and have advanced to late-phase development. Although treatments for non-small cell lung cancer have advanced the farthest, a number of new immune-based treatments for small cell lung cancer, as well as for mesothelioma (another type of lung cancer), are also in clinical development. These treatments can be broken into four main categories: monoclonal antibodies, immune checkpoint inhibitors, therapeutic vaccines, and adoptive T cell transfer.

- See more at: http://www.cancerresearch.org/cancer-imm...smmpn.dpuf

You are correct. Big pharma has it's hooks deep into vaccines so I doubt you'll see much movement on that front, but there's many more really exiciting treatments in development right now. Stem cells, cell coding, etc... All great stuff.

[Carsman]

And so it continues, a news bulletin just said a person (just flew back from Liberia) was admitted to Yale New haven hospital with Ebola like symptoms.

Never minnnnnd, all clear, this patient tested "negative" for Obola!

[Duchess]

I live in a small state and last night & today it's being reported that all hospitals & emergency first responders here are on the same page. They are not following guidelines set up by the CDC, they are going by what the WHO has recommended. It's probably way easier to do here because we are so small and there are a limited number of hospitals.

[Blindgreed1]

So... 2 countries in Africa (previously considered hot spots for Ebola) were declared Ebola free today. If it were airborne, don't you think that train would be going in the opposite direction? Yeah, I guess we're all gonna be okay after all.

[Duchess]

I often think the media are terrorists in their own way. This is just one more thing they have blown out of proportion. The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

[Blindgreed1]

I often think the media are terrorists in their own way. This is just one more thing they have blown out of proportion. The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

Yep. It keeps people glued to the tv and sells articles and magazines. Doesn't mean it has to be a real threat to get the folks in the US worked up over it.

[Maggot]

I think I'm done with Ebola ever since this stupid mosquito bit me the other day, besides I have a very good gas mask in the garage that has 3 filters on it, one of the filters is charcoal and it eliminates the smell of death.

[Blindgreed1]

I think I'm done with Ebola ever since this stupid mosquito bit me the other day, besides I have a very good gas mask in the garage that has 3 filters on it, one of the filters is charcoal and it eliminates the smell of death.

Dengue and West Nile are here already. Buy plenty of toilet paper.

[Maggot]

Tin foil works fairly slick.

[Blindgreed1]

Tin foil works fairly slick.

I love Weird Al.