What do you say to a doctor who took all the precautions and still contracted Ebola?
We are not certain about the vector. For example "bodily fluids" can be airborne as vapor.
This uncertainty is the main reason for the current concern.
It’s likely that the doctor was exposed to ebola by an assistant who was helping the medics with their protective gear. The helper turned up with the bug before the doctor.
And those doctors are working very long hours in a hot climate, a recipe for mistakes.
Sucks to be you.
(Seriously? what do you say to a fireman that died in a collapsing house despite training and safety-gear? Nothing; he's dead.)
We are not certain about the vector. For example "bodily fluids" can be airborne as vapor.
I don't think that's true; Ebola doesn't do airborne, and the vapor that wiki mentions is laboratory-generated. (It's been a while since I hung out with my army-medic friends.)
This uncertainty is the main reason for the current concern.
The uncertainty is essentially being exaggerated — I'm not saying that it doesn't exist, but that it's being pushed as it is in order to gin up hype/concern.
Vapor eh?
No.....not with the Ebola we are dealing with. It does not affect the upper respiratory system, which is what it needs to do to precipitate a sneeze, for example. But even that is not "Vapor".
However it is one of the ways common flu is spread. Comprised of small droplets, each carrying 100s of viruses, these small droplet of bodily fluid can, with the aid of a fan or wind, or the force of the sneeze, travel quite some distance before hitting the ground or floor or other solid object.
But again, the Ebola we are talking about does not do that. There was one variant known to exist in 1989 that did, but it was harmless to humans and only killed a specific monkey species. It was called the Reston Strain. BTW, it was not spread through AC ducts as the AC was broke and had been for some time. In fact, they initially thought the monkeys were dying from the poor care they were receiving. The place was a animal nightmare.
Far as I know, that was the last we ever saw of it. After killing 400 or so monkeys and decontaminating the building before demolishing it. But it did appear to attack lung tissue where the human strains do not.
To the best of my knowledge on the subject.
OK....now you can return to the "we are all gonna die" thread.