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03-04-2019, 04:18 PM
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Re: Ebola: The Last Three Days in the Life of Mary Phinda
What's even more tragic, is not only did she suffer the pain and symptoms of the disease ravishing her, she also had to suffer the knowledge she was going to die! And die fast! Agony of the mind and spirit, can be a greater torment than any physical suffering! For example, look at what some suicides are willing to physically suffer, in order to escape the pain of the mind and heart, which they cannot bear...
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10-21-2019, 01:14 AM
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Re: Ebola: The Last Three Days in the Life of Mary Phinda
Does anyone think about the fact that they’re burying hazardous bodies? This is exactly why this keeps coming up.  |
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10-21-2019, 01:18 AM
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Re: Ebola: The Last Three Days in the Life of Mary Phinda
Of course it’s sad and horrific! But, don’t lay the body in the ground all to be dug up at some point giving the virus another opportunity to present itself!
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10-21-2019, 07:24 PM
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Re: Ebola: The Last Three Days in the Life of Mary Phinda
This is one of the most difficult diseases to manage, and may in fact never be conquered Kellyhound. One of my sisters has been headquarted in Atlanta with the CDC (Centre for Disease Control & Prevention for non-Americans in the forums) for almost 20 years, and has seen just about everything there is to see in terms of global outbreaks. She has just been seconded to assist with another fairly virulent outbreak in Democractic Republic of Congo near a gold mining town/operation. She was telling us last week that already more than 3,000 people have reported symptoms of hemorrhagic fever in the eastern provinces of Kivu and Ituri in just the past 12 months there, and almost all of those subjects have then tested positive for Ebola virus. She also said that numbers are massively under-reported, because a lot of families there do not want the shame of having lost a member to this virus - and they do not surrender the bodies for handling and processing in accordance with the WHO and CDC guidelines. An ebola victim is often most toxic in the 3 days immediately following death, when the tissue is breaking down and bodily fluids are more easily spread. Instead of, at the very least, getting the deceased in a deep hole in the ground - some families keep the bodies inside the village or shack - and the fucking thing just goes wild then. Ideally, they should burn everything associated with the deceased. I've seen a fair bit of footage of some of these poor bastards in their final hours. You would (a) not think the human body had that much blood in it and (b) that it would be impossible for that blood to exit the body is some of the places it does. They literally appear to melt, there is little to no clotting taking place and the smell is supposed to be another level of awful. |
