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It's the nurse who took care of him. What about the 10-15 cases of bubonic (black) plague in the USA each year? I don't see any crazed news covered of that.

by ck2 12y ago

RexRollman 12y ago
Even worse is all the fear mongering CNN and Fox will do in reaction to this.
Retric 12y ago
Bubonic plague is a parasite infection generally spread from mice to people. As such the risk of a patent spreading the disease is fairly low. Further mortality associated with treated cases of bubonic plague is about 1–15%. Edit: For clarity by parasite infection, I mean in infection inside a parasite generally carried by small rodents.
- hga 12y ago
  Bacteria, actually, which is important, it's easy to treat if caught early enough. It actually can transmit easily if an infection develops in the lungs, but that won't happen if caught early, and if it happens the same treatment can be used prophylacticly on contacts.
gus_massa 12y ago
It's a new illness in the USA, so it scares USA people. People are not scared of old illness, because they already know them. It's fear against the unknown, not against probabilities. I think that this will be a humanitarian catastrophe in the original zone, but the secondary outbreaks will be contained. Perhaps one health care worker or one relative death per original infected person. There are many viral hemorrhagic fevers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_hemorrhagic_fever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_hemorrhagic_fever Not all of them are directly related, but the symptoms and treatment are similar. The most direct Ebola relative is the Marburg virus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg_virus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg_virus The most similar infection in USA are from the Sin Nombre / Four Corners virus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Nombre_virus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Nombre_virus . With the current knowledge and treatment, the current mortality is reduced to ~30%. Here, in Argentina, we have the Junín virus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_hemorrhagic_fever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_hemorrhagic_fever . I know more about the press treatment of this virus. There is some cases form time to time. Sometimes it appears in the press, the mortality is high, but it's a well known illness so no one is scared outside the zones with a lot of mousses, that may transmit the illness. The good new is that in the ase of the Junín virus there is a serum and a vaccine, so the prognosis is better. The Junín virus is not related to the Ebola virus, so I suppose that the vaccine and serum against Junín will not be effective against Ebola.
DanBC 12y ago
Do those cases of bubonic plague affect highly trained people with PPE in wealthy, well equiped hospitals? Plague is also easily treatable and doesn't have a > 60% death rate.

It's the nurse who took care of him. What about the 10-15 cases of bubonic (black) plague in the USA each year? I don't see any crazed news covered of that.

by ck2 12y ago

It's the nurse who took care of him. What about the 10-15 cases of bubonic (black) plague in the USA each year? I don't see any crazed news covered of that.

RexRollman 12y ago

Even worse is all the fear mongering CNN and Fox will do in reaction to this.

Retric 12y ago

Bubonic plague is a parasite infection generally spread from mice to people. As such the risk of a patent spreading the disease is fairly low. Further mortality associated with treated cases of bubonic plague is about 1–15%. Edit: For clarity by parasite infection, I mean in infection inside a parasite generally carried by small rodents.

hga 12y ago
Bacteria, actually, which is important, it's easy to treat if caught early enough. It actually can transmit easily if an infection develops in the lungs, but that won't happen if caught early, and if it happens the same treatment can be used prophylacticly on contacts.

gus_massa 12y ago

It's a new illness in the USA, so it scares USA people. People are not scared of old illness, because they already know them. It's fear against the unknown, not against probabilities. I think that this will be a humanitarian catastrophe in the original zone, but the secondary outbreaks will be contained. Perhaps one health care worker or one relative death per original infected person. There are many viral hemorrhagic fevers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_hemorrhagic_fever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_hemorrhagic_fever Not all of them are directly related, but the symptoms and treatment are similar. The most direct Ebola relative is the Marburg virus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg_virus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg_virus The most similar infection in USA are from the Sin Nombre / Four Corners virus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Nombre_virus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Nombre_virus . With the current knowledge and treatment, the current mortality is reduced to ~30%. Here, in Argentina, we have the Junín virus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_hemorrhagic_fever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_hemorrhagic_fever . I know more about the press treatment of this virus. There is some cases form time to time. Sometimes it appears in the press, the mortality is high, but it's a well known illness so no one is scared outside the zones with a lot of mousses, that may transmit the illness. The good new is that in the ase of the Junín virus there is a serum and a vaccine, so the prognosis is better. The Junín virus is not related to the Ebola virus, so I suppose that the vaccine and serum against Junín will not be effective against Ebola.

DanBC 12y ago

Do those cases of bubonic plague affect highly trained people with PPE in wealthy, well equiped hospitals? Plague is also easily treatable and doesn't have a > 60% death rate.