Posted on 08/05/2014 6:59:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3189512/posts
“Ebola is not an easily transmissible virus. It requires direct contact with bodily fluids. It doesn’t travel on the respiratory route.”
Understood. However the “if you can smell it” the particulates are most likely suspended in the air (not aerological). With 1-10 being a viral load for this particular case - it would be interesting to know if this individual who entered the Hospital with “gastrointestinal distress” was positive and if he had shed on the way to the ER.
So - anyone have verifiable updates?
Ebola itself is still a small worry this week for any given person. What is worrying is the hubris of folks bringing it over here when they could not contain the africanized honey bee, kudzu, the japanese beetle, etc.
The problem isn't the low risk of an epidemic, the problem is that the cost of an Ebola epidemic is so huge. Risk % * cost = expected result. The expected result of an Ebola epidemic is very bad.
Read Taleb's 'The Black Swan' for a presentation on how small risks with huge costs (or sometimes huge rewards) are to be treated more seriously than we currently do.
I don’t know. I hope it hasn’t mutated.
Thank you for the info. That is disturbing.
You are right about the urban difference. I hope it dies down quickly. It is a horrific disease.
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