Posted on 07/31/2014 11:19:44 PM PDT by No One Special
There's about a 21 day period between contracting ebola and the appearance of symptoms. Can the disease be passed to another before the symptoms appear?
I’m reading “The Hot Zone” now, taking a break. They talk about nine days and if Zaire Ebola, yes, very contagious.
Victims become ‘zombie-like’. Zombie apocalypse!
If it’s like flu:
“Most healthy adults may be able to infect other people beginning 1 day before symptoms develop”
“Victims become ‘zombie-like’.”
But you’ll know they’re just normal liberals if they’re *not* bleeding.
The incubation period, or the time interval from infection to onset of symptoms, is from 2 to 21 days. The patients become contagious once they begin to show symptoms. They are not contagious during the incubation period.
Not good.
“People are infectious as long as their blood and secretions contain the virus. Ebola virus was isolated from semen 61 days after onset of illness in a man who was infected in a laboratory.”
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/
OK... I’ve got a question; “Ebika” -is that like a “Kabuki” of some sort? :)
*snicker* Quite good. *grin*
Though I might have gone with "they' snot breathing"... :)
I don’t believe that for a second. In my many years of nursing, the standard was that with a virus, one starts becoming infectious within the 24 hours prior to onset of symptoms. I don’t think they want that info spread because it would make people panic.
Is one of the symptoms a propensity to hit keys next to the ones you mean to hit on a keyboard?
Heh.
Nope.
Not a bit.
;D
Careless typing :-(
No worries. I was just having a bit of fun with that one now. *grin*
That’s better than being infectious immediately. Quickly scanning wikipedia, I couldn’t find that information and is why I posted the question.
So true. :-)
At the moment we only know that it can be transmitted through bodily fluids. We don’t believe it can be transmitted through,the air.
I’m sure the CDC has generated models of the spread. I wonder what the hypothetical spread is if one contagious person in a large city who is out in public shopping, eating, public transportation, etc, how many become infected by that single person and then exponentially spread it from there. I don’t see how it could possibly be contained. Then the next question would be would the government even alert the public or keep quiet to avoid anticipated hoarding and riots?
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