Posted on 10/02/2014 8:27:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Good Night all, I have to get up in 6 hours and head out to a local Hospital.
RayChuang88, I really pray you are right.
America and Americans will rise to the occasion
Perhaps, yet- the ability for a raw form virus, to mutate in a fresh DNA memory, is absolutely unpredictable.
Now that looks like less than what I saw on the workers over seas. Hair/head is exposed, the coverall appears thinner, and I didn’t see any protective boots and no sticky tape to tape around the gloves and pants legs.
Their usual protocol is to have a medical waste receptical right outside the doorway too, and that generally is right in the hallway - a double entry would be better.
In the level 4 labs, you don’t take off the gear, until you have gone through more than one decontamination areas including UV light.
I wouldn’t step foot inside a room with an Ebola patient in the gear that is pictured there, but then I am an advocate of an abundance of caution for diseases with 50% or more mortality and no real cure or vaccine for prevention.
“We’ve been scared with bird flu word flu turd flu and MRSA, swine flu bine flu pine flu and SARS, hanta virus, banta virus, panta virus and now ebola virus. “
Bird/human and Swine/human flu hybrids do something that normal human flu does not do and that is to kill very large numbers of young adults in the prime of their lives. It uses their strong immune systems against them and they drown in their own antibodies. The 1918 flu was the last major flu of this sort to go around.
Every time an animal/human flu hybrid develops it has the potential to be as deadly as the 1918 flu and it is more important to be vaccinated against it than for a normal flu. SARS is a similar virus that has crossed from animals to humans but it is much more rare than the flu.
MRSA is a staphylococcus aureus bacteria resistant to virtually every antibiotic we have. You’re pretty much on your own if you get that one. The flesh eating bacteria that can cause the loss of every limb on your body is a form of MRSA.
Hanta virus is a hemorrhagic fever virus found in the American Southwest. You can catch it from dry mouse droppings. 20 years ago a young couple I know went camping in the California desert and a week or two after they returned the wife came down with the flu. Only it wasn’t the flu it was Hantavirus and it killed her. She was 30 yrs old and very athletic.
Efficient mass dissemination of the virus on travelers heading to the US, so that the incubation happens in the US. From there you can get very creative.
The only way to cut it off is to require a 21 day stop in another continent, and do away with all non-stops flights. But that is not going to happen……so it's coming.
Some things will come back into style.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/16/ebola-africa-new-strain_n_5162354.html
Zaire can travel dried for years....This report says its a new strain.....but definately NOT zaire....
Though it came from .....zaire.....
Miss Ellis Island now?
I’m here in Texas reasonably close to DFW. Heard on local radio tonight that the ambulance company and crew were not notified about the ebola diagnosis until they heard it on the news. That ambulance was in service hauling patients for at least two days after it carried the ebola patient with just “routine” cleaning. So far there has been no organized trace work done on those potentially exposed. It may lead to nothing -— but another unsuspecting case may be lurking out there a few days from now.
Introverts will fare better.
That is so so sad.
Everyone that gets a fever, diarrhea, or stomach flu will be convinced they have Ebola and will overwhelm the hospitals.
I have a sister that has had every disease known to mankind.
I have been having many of these same thoughts...80,000 people in a stadium for a football game, 10 Obola carriers...There could be 800 to a 1000 new cases by the end of the game...If this is not stopped soon, it will probably become illegal to congregate in any fashion...
I am heading to the decontamination showers after reading your post...
Possible. We don't know that for sure, but it is possible.
Your point is somewhat valid in that Ebola is not particularly easy to catch. It is extremely serious though, a couple of virons can ultimately kill you. My worst fear is that the terrorists khow this and turn it into a WMD. That would not be difficult at all.
In a population with stupid, superstitious people who cut the throats of the tracers. I'm not saying we are better, but we have a larger number of literate people who will behave mostly rationally.
Not from just one case. But there are 13k visas given to Ebola countries who can hop a flight anytime they want from Africa to Europe to here. Among them are terrorists who will not be infected themselves...
Not. It is not anthrax or some other spore than can be dried and then turn into bacteria. When Ebola virus is dried, it will be dead.
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