Ebola Thread: Ebola spreads to Mali (EBOLA TRACKER ADDED TO OP- CHECK IT OUT)

[SeventhSandwich]

Seriously though, I feel like we're in a medical era where when you're sick, you go to the doctor and they give you a pill and you're fine. However soon the virus' are going to be immune to the meds, they're already becoming less effective.

Which can naturally be avoided by just not taking any medicine and dying anyway, right? With a lack of a better alternative, there's really nothing to do but give people the medicine we have and hope that the virus doesn't develop a resistance to our modes of treatment.

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[otto-san]

shouldn't vaccines technically help humanity build immunity since it's just stimulating the immune system against a virus? that's probly super-dumb but

obv things like penicillin could be an issue tho

[KickFlow]

Which can naturally be avoided by just not taking any medicine and dying anyway, right? With a lack of a better alternative, there's really nothing to do but give people the medicine we have and hope that the virus doesn't develop a resistance to our modes of treatment.

I'm not saying not to avoid taking anything, I'm just stating my opinion that meds are going to be useless in the future because how virus' start becoming immune to them.

shouldn't vaccines technically help humanity build immunity since it's just stimulating the immune system against a virus? that's probly super-dumb but

obv things like penicillin could be an issue tho

Pretty sure it's the opposite, virus gains immunity to the medicine. Slowly, but i think ti's happening.

[Kochieboy]

shouldn't vaccines technically help humanity build immunity since it's just stimulating the immune system against a virus? that's probly super-dumb but

Sometimes viruses mutate and a new vaccine must be made for the mutated strain. That's why viruses are so hard to deal with.

[otto-san]

Sometimes viruses mutate and I new vaccine must be made for the mutated strain. That's why viruses are so hard to deal with.

ya troo

viruses are p good at doin that

those slippery wads of protein

[Kishgal]

[India]

go to north korea and convince them that the US is planning to invade

north korea locked their borders in fear of this very disease x_x

[Epicduke]

wtf, they're storing some patients in our state and im not even scared

[Kishgal]

north korea locked their borders in fear of this very disease x_x

North Korea closed their borders because they are North Korea.

[India]

North Korea closed their borders because they are North Korea.

[Kishgal]

>the news
top kek

[India]

well when you gotta stoop low you gotta stoop low y'know whaddaye mean

[SeventhSandwich]

I'm not saying not to avoid taking anything, I'm just stating my opinion that meds are going to be useless in the future because how virus' start becoming immune to them.

Well, if we can make more than one treatment for a disease, you can create roostertails of drugs that prevent the disease from becoming resistant. Since if a single bacterium or virus develops a resistance, it'll get killed off by one of the other drugs. That way there's almost no chance that a disease could become resistant to all the medications at once. This is pretty much what doctors have been doing with HIV for decades now.

shouldn't vaccines technically help humanity build immunity since it's just stimulating the immune system against a virus? that's probly super-dumb but

obv things like penicillin could be an issue tho

Yeah, vaccines don't create drug resistance in the same way that antibiotics and antivirals do.

[-Setro-]

Update: Ebola has spread to Mali
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-23/mali-becomes-sixth-african-country-to-report-ebola-case-1-.html

[Swat 3]

first, he was following the cdc protocol. he obviously knew he had the virus when no symptoms showed, but he's too evil to lock himself up.
besides, catching ebola from someone not showing symptoms is extremely hard

It is still entirely possible.