wishingstar Posted May 28, 2015 Posted May 28, 2015 http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/health/mers-suspect-case-in-south-korea-travelled-to-china-1.3091050 Anyone worried about the MERS outbreak in Korea? Think it is safe to go now for surgery?
hj88 Posted May 28, 2015 Posted May 28, 2015 Most hospitals in the world have golden staph and various infections floating around all the time. I think if you use that logic, it's not really ever safe to have surgery anywhere...
sheonlylooks25 Posted May 31, 2015 Posted May 31, 2015 Problem is this someone travelled to Seoul via Qatar. MERS is worse than SARS. There is NO known treatment. It started in the Middle East. The victim's family was quarantined but the son broke out and travelled to China!!! SO BEING CAREFUL WON'T SAVE YOU, if you happen to be sitting next to this fool on a plane. Fifteen people have been infected in Seoul since May. NO KNOWN CURE OR TREATMENT. Pity to travel all the way for your beautification program and die from this respiratory disease.
hj88 Posted May 31, 2015 Posted May 31, 2015 Yeah and at the beginning of the year it was Ebola. My point is there's always something drug and cure-resistant floating around. I don't think that should be a determining factor. But i live in Seoul so I'm stuck anyway haha
k-couture Posted May 31, 2015 Posted May 31, 2015 ive become such a germaphobe in the past few years. Everytime I'm on the plane or at the airport i'll don a face mask and whenever ppl around me are coughing or sneezing i give them the biggest evils. It aggravates me how easily I fall sick when travelling and how it ruins my trip. You guys ever heard of the USB face mask lol? Im wondering if i would look like a complete nutcase wearing one of those on the plane hahahttp://www.trendhunter.com/trends/japanes-usb-face-masks-for-serious-germ-a-phobes
jenna56 Posted May 31, 2015 Posted May 31, 2015 I wouldn't go now... You don't know if the number of people infected will explode soon, and you're more susceptible to getting it if you have a weakened immune system from recovering from surgery and open wounds so that sounds like a terrible combo. There is always a disease that is out breaking somewhere but there's not always a deadly disease breaking out where you want to go to to have surgery that doesn't have a cure or really any treatment other than "let's keep you comfortable and hydrated and hope you don't die".
wishingstar Posted May 31, 2015 Author Posted May 31, 2015 Oh man...unfortunately, I had already booked my June trip months ago, and neither my plane ticket nor airbnb reservation appear to be refundable or changeable. I need one of those masks! Yikes, I'm nervous! Hopefully face masks and lots of antibacterial hand gel will be enough...and mers patients won't be hanging out at plastic surgery clinics? Eep! :x
jenna56 Posted May 31, 2015 Posted May 31, 2015 Unfortunately, face masks don't actually protect you. They protect others around you if you are sick from the germs you may spread by coughing or sneezing. They don't work the other way around.
k-couture Posted May 31, 2015 Posted May 31, 2015 No it does protect you. The protection goes both ways but it depends on how the illness is transmitted. Airborne viruses expelled from the body in large droplets are where the mask is very useful. But those cheap masks we can buy at drug stores aren't really useful for protection against viruses which travel in small particles. I think for those kinds of viruses the n95 masks are good....but we also look kinda stupid in them lol.....there must be a way to bling them up tho
zinc Posted June 1, 2015 Posted June 1, 2015 the USB mask would probably make people shun you.. so that might earn you some personal space on the plane, which may not be a bad thing despite looking really silly I'm seriously worried after seeing this thread though, I've got my seoul trip booked for the end of this week
k-couture Posted June 2, 2015 Posted June 2, 2015 i actually enjoy being shunned on the plane. Especially by mothers with screaming babies. I don't think u should worry tho, its by no means an outbreak
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