Meanwhile in Africa...

[Coligny]

On one side, an untested Mapp drug, on the other, an anti flue drug that somehow works against ebola...

CONGRATS GUYS, you just covered a huge chunk of the starting scenarios for zombie apocalypse... You are just missing Russian bio weapon and we'd be irremediably fucked...

[Russell]

But isn't it amazing, human ingenuity?

All those cures suddenly emerging within a few days of the first white people contracting the disease?

[matsuki]

But isn't it amazing, human ingenuity?

All those cures suddenly emerging within a few days of the first white relatively wealthy people contracting the disease?

FTFY...or one could say all these drugs currently undergoing human trials are simply being put on the fast track as the disease has become more threatening.

Seems there is more than a bit of concern among the medical elite about using experimental drugs as anything other than a hail mary...whereas people are demanding the experimental drugs be put into immediate use, without any idea what other affects the drugs may have on those who take them.

[Coligny]

So today in the news, it seems that the current strain spreading is the Ebola Zaire 80-90% mortality rate one, not the fluffy bunny 50-60%

Current score is 1323 infected for 729 dead. 55% dead and counting. Final tally can't be made until the infection is stopped and the last one has bled out from the anus.

[Russell]

In the Japanese press I read there is a Japanese medicine ready for human trials.

In the Dutch press I read there is a Dutch medicine ready for human trials.

In the U.S. press I read there is a U.S. medicine ready for human trials.

In the North-Korean press I read there are humans ready for medicine trials...

[Russell]

Meanwhile in Africa, it's getting worse...

Ebola Experts Warn of an African 'Apocalypse'

[...]

In a six-hour meeting with the president of Liberia last week, Ken Isaacs, the Vice President of Program and Government Relations for Samaritan’s Purse (SIM), said SIM workers watched as the “somber” officials explained the gravity of the situation in their countries, where hundreds lie dead in the streets. “It has an atmosphere of apocalypse,” Isaacs said of the Liberia Ministry of Health’s status updates. “Bodies lying in the street … gangs threatening to burn down hospitals. I believe this disease has the potential to be a national security risk for many nations. Our response has been a failure.” Isaacs says that the epidemic is inciting panic worldwide that, in his opinion, may soon be warranted. “We have to fight it now here or we’re going to have to fight it somewhere else.”

[...]

Isaacs, head of the humanitarian agency for which Writebol and Brantly [the two American volunteers who got infected] worked, vehemently condemned the international community for a response that he considers both delayed and insufficient. “The disease is uncontained and out of control, the international response has been a failure,” he said. With three of the poorest nations in the world currently affected, West Africa is extremely ill-prepared for the disaster—a fact, which Isaacs argued, necessitates more response. “The ministries of health in these countries do not have the capacity to handle this. If a mechanism is not found the world will be effectively relegating the containment of this disease to three of the poorest nations in the world,” he said, adding later: “Is the world willing to let the public health of the world be in their hands?”

[...]

Dr. Frank Glover, a missionary with SIM [...], expressed frustration with the lack of personal protective gear (PPG), which he says is increasing the spread of infections significantly. Glover says the doctors and nurses in these areas, particularly Liberia, are “terrified” to enter the hospitals because of lack of proper gloves, goggles, and gowns that are needed to protect them. “The number one cause of infections in Liberia is lack of protective gear. It’s unconscionable that we’re asking them to take care of people without gloves. If we’re putting people on the line, we owe it to them to give them a fighting chance.”

[...]

Isaacs, whose urgings to Congress about the urgency for a better response prompted Thursday’s meeting, is gravely concerned about the future. After first observing the outbreak in April, he’s watched the disease spread furiously across West Africa with little to no effective international support. “I think we are going to see death tolls in numbers that we can’t imagine,” said Isaacs. “If we do not fight and contain this disease, we will be fighting this and containing this in multiple countries across the world. The cat is, most likely, already out of the bag.”

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Really fucked situation over there...

[Takechanpoo]

time to hold an emergency conference of principal countries and decide whether nuke them to a total destruction or not.
its very unfortunate though

[Coligny]

time to hold an emergency conference of principal countries and decide whether nuke them to a total destruction or not.
its very unfortunate though

Yup, the conference would be only for the big boys with nukes and Japan would again have to sit at the kid table while making a tantrum because they don't understand why nobody take them seriously...

Have the money ready and STFU bitches...

[Russell]

Hmm, funny.

When News-Googling for "Ebola" I get no results.

Does that mean that it is resolved now?
(or maybe Google's database got fucked up?)

[dimwit]

Hmm, funny.

When News-Googling for "Ebola" I get no results.

Does that mean that it is resolved now?
(or maybe Google's database got fucked up?)

I would assume you either mistyped Ebola or your porn browser doesn't have any Ebola Videos.

[Coligny]

Hmm, funny.

When News-Googling for "Ebola" I get no results.

Does that mean that it is resolved now?
(or maybe Google's database got fucked up?)

Can picture this from here:

Russell's Megazomb Top bit 78X :\>
Porngle.com query ebola


Porngle.com's reply:

No result

Did you mean: granny bleeding from the anus vids ?

Search for: granny bleeding from the anus vids[

98789 brazillion results

[matsuki]

Meanwhile in Africa, it's getting worse...

Ebola Experts Warn of an African 'Apocalypse'

I believe this disease has the potential to be a national security risk for many nations. Our response has been a failure.”

That Vice video put it into prospective...politicians simply made a law against eating "bushmeat" and didn't/couldn't enforce it. I don't know if it would be any better if they had endeavored to teach the population to fully cook the meat before consuming or to specifically avoid monkeys...and then you have to deal with much of the populace that thought Ebola was a myth. The only thing the really could have done is hire people to trap/test animals for Ebola and try to eliminate it within the animal population before it spread to too many people.

[Coligny]

That Vice video put it into prospective...politicians simply made a law against eating "bushmeat" and didn't/couldn't enforce it. I don't know if it would be any better if they had endeavored to teach the population to fully cook the meat before consuming or to specifically avoid monkeys...and then you have to deal with much of the populace that thought Ebola was a myth. The only thing the really could have done is hire people to trap/test animals for Ebola and try to eliminate it within the animal population before it spread to too many people.

In the jungle, with an unknown number of animals... Good luck...
Plus seems that even simple things like "don't eat an animal found already dead" went over their heads...

[matsuki]

I thought it was mostly monkeys that were the source but yeah, not saying the solution is perfect.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I thought it was mostly monkeys that were the source but yeah, not saying the solution is perfect.

Apparently it's fruit bats. Basically, they say you should avoid all bush meat which is unfortunate because I was planning a trip to Africa to gorge myself on the stuff for my next holiday. Dang. I guess I'l have to settle for Vietnamese pussy and bahn mi sandwiches again.

[matsuki]

Those things are too cute to eat dammit!

[yanpa]

Hmm, funny.

When News-Googling for "Ebola" I get no results.

Does that mean that it is resolved now?
(or maybe Google's database got fucked up?)

For me it's returning links to cat videos, patriotic songs and soothing New Wave meditative music.

[Coligny]

I thought it was mostly monkeys that were the source but yeah, not saying the solution is perfect.

Transmission to human is done mostly through dem' monkeys (fruit bats being the healthy carrier of this stuff, shitting on monkey food giving them the ebola... they are carrier for so much things that them seems impervious to virus... should try to make a bat-human hybrid to produce vaccine)

But even controlling/checking just the monkey population in an uncontrolled environment while they are constantly exposed to new potential contamination is a game lost in advance... You can check a monkey, who might just be still incubating, or release a clean one who will be exposed in the next day...

[matsuki]

I thought it was mostly monkeys that were the source but yeah, not saying the solution is perfect.

Transmission to human is done mostly through dem' monkeys (fruit bats being the healthy carrier of this stuff, shitting on monkey food giving them the ebola... they are carrier for so much things that them seems impervious to virus... should try to make a bat-human hybrid to produce vaccine)

But even controlling/checking just the monkey population in an uncontrolled environment while they are constantly exposed to new potential contamination is a game lost in advance... You can check a monkey, who might just be still incubating, or release a clean one who will be exposed in the next day...

So in other words they're fucked? Not seeing monkey meat going off their menu anytime soon

[TennoChinko]

Either eating monkey meat or fucking chimpanzees...

[Russell]

U.S. Evacuating Diplomats' Families From Sierra Leone Due to Ebola

The U.S. began evacuating families of embassy personnel in Sierra Leone on Thursday, citing concerns that local medical facilities have become overwhelmed by the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.

"There is a lack of options for routine health care services at major medical facilities due to the Ebola outbreak," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said in a written statement.

The State Department took similar steps last week in Liberia. While the agency said the moves represent "an abundance of caution," they also underscore an escalating public health crisis in West Africa.

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O fuck...

[matsuki]

One of my lemurs sent me a link to some sort of "Galschat" where they're kowai'in up like mad and predicting it hits Japan with the next two months and then the world is over as they know it. 世界終わりだ～～～～！I know I shouldn't laugh but when I got to posts where they were talking about wearing masks in public, like it was some sort of magic ebola shield, I lost it.

[Russell]

For sure you don't want to ride the Chuo-sen during rush hour with an Ebola patient in your neck.

[matsuki]

For sure you don't want to ride the Chuo-sen during rush hour with an Ebola patient in your neck.

Fuck that, if Ebola hits Tokyo, I won't be in Tokyo.

[yanpa]

One of my lemurs sent me a link to some sort of "Galschat" where they're kowai'in up like mad and predicting it hits Japan with the next two months and then the world is over as they know it. 世界終わりだ～～～～！I know I shouldn't laugh but when I got to posts where they were talking about wearing masks in public, like it was some sort of magic ebola shield, I lost it.

You lost your mask?! Dude, you will die of ebolo, swine flu, radiation and AIDS within minutes.

[Russell]

For sure you don't want to ride the Chuo-sen during rush hour with an Ebola patient in your neck.

Fuck that, if Ebola hits Tokyo, I won't be in Tokyo.

Ah, a flyjin?

But yeah, with the safety record of Fukushima, the authorities for sure do not inspire much confidence.

[matsuki]

Flyjin to Echigo...with any luck, I'll have a mountain hideaway with enough supplies to rival Coligny by then.

[yanpa]

Flyjin to Echigo...with any luck, I'll have a mountain hideaway with enough supplies to rival Coligny by then.

Aha, so you intend to while away the apocalypse by building plastic models from kits?

[matsuki]

Flyjin to Echigo...with any luck, I'll have a mountain hideaway with enough supplies to rival Coligny by then.

Aha, so you intend to while away the apocalypse by building plastic models from kits?

Probably won't have enough room but my porn collection might keep me busy for the next decade or so

[Coligny]

Flyjin to Echigo...with any luck, I'll have a mountain hideaway with enough supplies to rival Coligny by then.

Aha, so you intend to while away the apocalypse by building plastic models from kits?

How do you know I (really) have a stash of those ? I never publicly acknowledged its existence before ...

Or maybe...

Shit... Dems brains getting old...