Posted on 10/03/2014 3:01:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This chart looks calming until you are the one that has been exposed to another that was exuding blood from every orifice. Rabies is hard to get but once the disease is showing symptoms you may as well kiss it goodbye. Ironic that if a person is exposed to a rabid animal we begin prophylaxis right away.
No virus has ever been known to mutate.
No virus that has a 70% kill rate within a few weeks of infection has ever been viewed as a serious public health risk that required quarantine.
(Sarcasm tag implied for the sarcasm impaired.)
Is this the zombie apocalypse or the visit of another one of the four horsemen? Either way, this is some serious stuff.
OK I feel much better now. :-)
What is happening with the contaminated viral toilet waste of the family in Dallas that is going into their toilet to the treatment plant and right back into the municipal water supply?
This is so BS. This is just anecdotal maybe based on official counts and we all know for every person who dies in the hospital at least one is dying in the bush.
If they are looking at past outbreaks what they say might be true they were short and contained but this epidemic shows no signs of stopping because they don’t have enough medical help and they are backward people.
So...if it can be bad in the bush then it could grow exponentially in a crowded city.
Not everybody runs to a hospital or doctor at the first sign of an illness. Many will get up and go to work anyway.
Now it is easy to tell who may have it because they have all recently come from Africa but let a few cases get away and it is a crap shoot.
Frieden is an idiot. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, my question is,”WHY DID WE HAVE TO BRING EBOLA TO THE U.S. IN THE FIRST PLACE?” Ebola was doing just fine when it was ONLY in Africa. What it is the commie libs like to say? “If we can save just one child?” When adults were running this chicken coop, they would have done everything in there power to keep the crap out of here. Now we have moronic liberals saying we owe it to the Liberians to bring Ebola here because their ancestors were former slaves in the U.S. The lunatics are running the asylum.
the visit of another one of the four horsemen?
Well, the horses have green eyes, are bleeding from
the nose and keep muttering “Brains, Braaaaines!”.
I don’t know anyone who has died of measles or mumps and I grew up before the vaccinations.
Before Obama started importing it into the US, the government considered it to be the boogeymen of diseases, the “mostest-horriblest” disease on the planet. And we paid big bucks for research on it, because we were told that if just one case made it to the western hemisphere, then its game over!
Today, it’s just a bad cold. Nothing to worry about.
Were they lying then or now? Or both?
When I saw “NPR,” I knew what this jerk would say before I read it.
Well, Michaeleen, I’m glad to know that you won’t worry
when you find out you’ve been carried in an ambulance
that just carried an Ebola patient.
NPR, did you think they were going to do anything
besides soothe the proles?
Oh yeah and nowadays HIV is being controlled as is Hep C, I know several people who have been through the treatment and are doing fine.
Downplaying the ebola virus now after decades of viewing it as practically a bioweapon is not going to allay concerns, it will heighten them. Somebody needs to inform National Propaganda Radio of this.
Zaire does mutate slightly between different clusters, but the mutations, usually found through dna testing, have little or no effect on the virus strain, which is resistant to exchanging RNA with other viruses.
From what I have read, this is due largely to space requirements within the containment envelope of the virus which is a specific size and shape.
Having said that, mutation of a strain changing kind is certainly a worry and the chances are not zero..and rise with the total number of infected who pass it on.
Devil’s advocate...
If I’ve got the mumps, I’m infectious for around 25 days...and its not usually deadly, so ,ost people around me won’t be wearing moon suits.
If I’ve got Ebola, as soon as I’m diagnosed, I am quarantined and only people in protective gear will come near me. IOW, my period of being contagious has been interfered with.
So, any conclusions based on looking at this R0 are somewhat flawed. People with Ebola infect fewer people than the mumps...because people are scared to death of getting Ebola.
If NPR is trying to make you think Ebola is nothing to worry about, you know the opposite is true.
I don't trust NPR as far as I can throw Michael Moore
How serious is Ebola?
Deadly serious.
So the Ro is 2. Unless, of course, you get on 3 airplanes and infect 900 more people....
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