Yeah, I went from thinking the Liberia/Sierra Leone/Guinea outbreak was going to be the big one, to seeing that US case only spread to a couple nurses that cared for him, despite him being sent home after going to the hospital with symptoms and stopped being worried. The fact that no one else got exposed enough to show symptoms, including triage nurses that had no idea he had ebola, told me it wasn’t going to spread as easily in the west.
I’m wondering at this point if the outbreaks are mostly due to funeral customs that involve a lot of close contact with the body of the deceased.
Ebola is not the virus the US media loves to generate clicks on. It’s a disease of poverty, poor infrastructure and ignorance. Most of it is spread because people in this region believe witchcraft causes disease and they will go to healers and churches before real doctors and hospitals.
Yeah, I went from thinking the Liberia/Sierra Leone/Guinea outbreak was going to be the big one, to seeing that US case only spread to a couple nurses that cared for him, despite him being sent home after going to the hospital with symptoms and stopped being worried. The fact that no one else got exposed enough to show symptoms, including triage nurses that had no idea he had ebola, told me it wasn’t going to spread as easily in the west.
I’m wondering at this point if the outbreaks are mostly due to funeral customs that involve a lot of close contact with the body of the deceased.
Ebola is not the virus the US media loves to generate clicks on. It’s a disease of poverty, poor infrastructure and ignorance. Most of it is spread because people in this region believe witchcraft causes disease and they will go to healers and churches before real doctors and hospitals.