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Leaked documents: Ugandan government expects explosion in Ebola cases

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Re: Leaked documents: Ugandan government expects explosion in Ebola cases

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Post by delecti »

mschuster91 wrote: post #10
_djo_ wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was handled well by global public health authorities, with education campaigns, targeted vaccinations, early warning, treatment, and growing immunity in the most at-risk populations.

Additionally, most of the most-at-risk population has lived through the AIDS horror. A good gay friend of mine roughly summarized it as "we gays know how bad diseases can get, and fuck it my dating life even after 2 years of pandemic is not as important as is my life". Once it was clear that MSM were (once again) a high-risk group, they all went back to either reducing contacts or at least wearing condoms. In contras…

> they all went back to either reducing contacts or at least wearing condoms.

Also vaccination drives. I'm good friends with a few gay guys, and they all rushed to get vaccinated, even despite being in committed long term relationships. There was, metaphorically speaking, absolutely no fucking around with this one.

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Post by 6stringmerc »

The 60 Minutes episode that aired recently where they traveled to the hot spots in Africa is fascinating. We know about the inevitable. It is up to us humans what we do with this information. Case in point: COVID mask hostility in spite of caring for the health of fellow humans or getting it and denying it until it kills them (source: nurse friend on a cardiac ward in the Midwest). YMMV.

Re: Leaked documents: Ugandan government expects explosion in Ebola cases

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Post by _djo_ »

mschuster91 wrote: post #10
_djo_ wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was handled well by global public health authorities, with education campaigns, targeted vaccinations, early warning, treatment, and growing immunity in the most at-risk populations.

Additionally, most of the most-at-risk population has lived through the AIDS horror. A good gay friend of mine roughly summarized it as "we gays know how bad diseases can get, and fuck it my dating life even after 2 years of pandemic is not as important as is my life". Once it was clear that MSM were (once again) a high-risk group, they all went back to either reducing contacts or at least wearing condoms. In contras…

Great point, and yes that sort of behaviour change and awareness was hugely important.

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Post by VBprogrammer »

mschuster91 wrote: post #10
_djo_ wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was handled well by global public health authorities, with education campaigns, targeted vaccinations, early warning, treatment, and growing immunity in the most at-risk populations.

Additionally, most of the most-at-risk population has lived through the AIDS horror. A good gay friend of mine roughly summarized it as "we gays know how bad diseases can get, and fuck it my dating life even after 2 years of pandemic is not as important as is my life". Once it was clear that MSM were (once again) a high-risk group, they all went back to either reducing contacts or at least wearing condoms. In contras…

I started wearing a mask pretty early on. The first one was a fabric one my mother in law made as it was still at a time when PPE for healthcare workers was a bigger priority. I kept wearing a mask until the overwhelming majority of people around me had long given up. I believed it was the right thing to do regardless but I'm not sure I'm as optimistic as you regarding their effectiveness.

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Post by throwaway920102 »

exhilaration wrote: post #4

The headline is scary but #1 Ebola isn't airborne and #2 it's super deadly which means it kills before it really has a chance to spread widely.

I mean it could evolve to be airborne in the wild or in a research lab doing intentional gain of function research (a practice for which funding was temporarily halted by Obama) and hybridization much like has been done at BSL-4 facilities worldwide unchecked including by EcoHealth alliance with bat coronaviruses via US funding at the WIV prior to the Covid outbreak in Wuhan.

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-says-grantee-fai...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01209-w

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/covid-origins-gain-of-fu...

But it's probably fine and we probably shouldn't worry about the possibility of a global pandemic or of mutation of Ebola into a more transmissible form.

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Post by kramerger »

pelorat wrote: post #9
exhilaration wrote: post #4

The headline is scary but #1 Ebola isn't airborne and #2 it's super deadly which means it kills before it really has a chance to spread widely.

And the only reason it spreads is due to lack of education.

Is there a particular program or degree that makes me immune?

Because multiple members of Doctors Without Borders died in the previous outbreak.

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Post by Izkata »

VBprogrammer wrote: post #5

This title made me wonder, what ever happened to monkey pox. Turns out that it has more or less died away.

Except it didn't, it fell off the news cycle before the peak in August and people just stopped talking about it. New cases are still happening: https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/index.h...

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Post by georgeburdell »

mschuster91 wrote: post #10
_djo_ wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was handled well by global public health authorities, with education campaigns, targeted vaccinations, early warning, treatment, and growing immunity in the most at-risk populations.

Additionally, most of the most-at-risk population has lived through the AIDS horror. A good gay friend of mine roughly summarized it as "we gays know how bad diseases can get, and fuck it my dating life even after 2 years of pandemic is not as important as is my life". Once it was clear that MSM were (once again) a high-risk group, they all went back to either reducing contacts or at least wearing condoms. In contras…

I’m glad the community was able to find a solution, and luckily monkey pox was not inherently deadly, but they did not comply with some efforts to mitigate the disease, particularly contact tracing

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-all-but-give...

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Post by nonethewiser »

unixfg wrote: post #8
VBprogrammer wrote: post #5

This title made me wonder, what ever happened to monkey pox. Turns out that it has more or less died away.

The hardest hit community was downright enthusiastic about the MPV vaccine. That makes a HUGE difference.

The gay community?

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Post by VBprogrammer »

Izkata wrote: post #17
VBprogrammer wrote: post #5

This title made me wonder, what ever happened to monkey pox. Turns out that it has more or less died away.

Except it didn't, it fell off the news cycle before the peak in August and people just stopped talking about it. New cases are still happening: https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/index.h...

I didn't do exhaustive research but the first link I clicked suggested it had dropped by 85%.
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