It doesn't matter, there's no ebola in Morroco (or in any of their nearby countries)

a reasonable approach from the moroccan officials imo. there's no reason to risk the lives of millions of people just because you're too proud to admit you're not able to secure everyone's safety.
that being said, didn't the caf threaten to ban the moroccan national team as well as their club teams if they don't host the acn or something?

idk, but sadly I wouldn't be surprised... they banned Togo for withdrawing from the ACN when their team suffered an armed attacked by a guerrilla in Angola (although the bann was lifted after international uproar)

Now that you mention it, when Morroco announced that they were withdrawing today, they said that they feel that they need to cancel the event regardless of any possible incoming sanctions from the CAF.

that IS sad and pathetic indeed. i get that they don't want to create like loopholes for the big clubs to find reasons to prevent their players from participating but this is definitely not the case here. so i hope it won't actually come to that...

Good for Morrocco acting like a big boy nation and looking out for its citizens.

Sadly idiot USA or even Germany leaders do not follow this practice and think its nbd to let whoever the fuck in from villages plagued with ebola.

False, sadly the only airport to still allow trafic to Africa is in belgium, so if it's anyones fault, it's ours.

That is seriously the dumbest thing I have read. The disease is transmitted via bodily fluids. This mass hysteria the media is causing is so ridiculous. The disease is quite treatable when caught early. Everyone is acting like It is a droplet disease that will be the next pandemic. A simple screening process in and out of the countries currently infected would prevent the spread of the disease.

This post was edited by Roped on Oct 18 2014 08:34am

I was with you up until this point. Detecting the disease early won't really increase your chances of living much. Most of the medical care given is fluids and painkillers, mainly to ease suffering.

But the bodily fluids transmission is right, the only reason it spread is because in West Africa their infrastructure and hygiene is sub par.

What...Ebola is a treatable disease. The US has had multiple cases of people from Ebola who have beaten it, and others currently that are quite stable, one man died because he was sent home thinking it was the common flu and ended up being too late. It is quite detectable early, starts with a fever 2 days after infection, the fever is noticeable as well, anything above 37.5. Treatment is just anti-pyretics, IVF, maintaining electrolytes via lab values, stabilizing BP, and keeping O2 pressures above 92%. Beating the disease is as easy as stabilizing the patient and letting the immune system do its work, which is why early detection is so prominent. Especially since the "signs" are the same as the common cold.

You are right about Liberia having a poor infrastructure, hygiene, and no healthcare or education about the disease.

Also, as soon as you have multiple people who overcome the disease, you will have antibodies in your blood that are immune to the disease up to ten years. At this point you can do blood transfusions depending on blood type to cure others. It isnt that complicated.

My hospital has been preparing for this just in case. At first I thought they would never bring Ebola patients to my hospital because it is one of the top L&D hospitals in the US and we do over 40,000 births a year, but since it isnt a droplet disease, it is fine for these patients to come here so we've been preparing for the worst.

This post was edited by Roped on Oct 18 2014 08:53am

Ok, now everybody knows you wanna be a male nurse. Point is: You can never be too careful and USA has shown that even some 1st world countries aren't capable of controlling / screening it properly.

Just because you read something in your nurse handbook about how it COULD be screened and controlled theoretically doesn't mean it works that way in the real world.
Just because you think calling it "mass hysteria" makes you look cool doesn't mean it does - it just makes you look retarded (once again). There is no hysteria, there are just reasonable people who want to take a safe approach because they don't care about looking cool on the interwebs but they care about saving lives.

Also, poor hygiene certainly helps spread it but you're stupid to think these nurses from Spain and the USA didn't know that and didn't act accordingly.
Unfortunately your posts are too long to go into my quote list just know you're better off studying the bible than how to become a male nurse.