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?
"With some infections, you can shed and spread the virus long before you get ill. That's not the case with Ebola. It's only after you are sick and feverish do you become contagious. However, it only takes a miniscule amount to infect and kill. A microscopic droplet of blood or saliva on your bare hand could enter through a break in your skin. And, whether you realize it or not, we all have breaks in our skin."
Interesting.
Good questions. We can only guess.
I think it contains itself only by its mortality rate. Everyone dies and the virus is stopped that way.
Thank you. Exactly what I was looking for and the source looks reputable.
They are saying it’s not airborne too, but check,out this article. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20341423
Yep. I was reading on Canada’s Public Health website about Ebola, and according to them, there is a possibility of infecting someone before showing symptoms, which is what one would expect with any other virus, so why would this be different?
Geeze. I guess the upside is great if you like being eatin...but, your parts start falling off ...not so fun anymore...
to give you an idea of models, from one symptomatic man on an airplane the CDC is now looking for 30,000 potential contacts.
“Initially health officials wanted to trace only a few hundred passengers on two planes which had carried victim Patrick Sawyer, 40.
But – as Cabinet ministers held an emergency Cobra meeting in London – the search was widened to find up to 30,000 people who could be hosting the organism which kills 90% of sufferers.
The list includes anyone at one of four airports visited by American dad-of-three Sawyer, and those in contact with him in Nigeria’s capital Lagos, home to 17 million, where he died five days ago.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ebola-spiders-web-infection-growing-3939374#ixzz397jvhEbT
on average 8-10 days.
COMMUNICABILITY: Communicable as long as blood, secretions, organs, or semen contain the virus. Ebola virus has been isolated from semen 61 days after the onset of illness, and transmission through semen has occurred 7 weeks after clinical recovery.
Yikes.
“I’m sure the CDC has generated models of the spread.”
In truth, we (humans) have never dealt with a pandemic of this virus before and can’t really make an accurate model. A key variable would be its ability to mutate . It could go airborne, it could become infectious more quickly. On top of all that, I don’t trust the CDC to give us the straight information if they are told not to.
***SNIP*** As you may have also heard, two American healthcare workers at a hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, have been infected with Ebola virus. One of the healthcare workers, a physician who worked with Ebola patients in the hospital, is symptomatic and in isolation. The other health care worker developed fever but no other signs of illness. The physician’s family had been living with him in Liberia. Thankfully, the family members had returned to the United States before the doctor got sick and therefore are not at risk for contracting Ebola or spreading it to anyone here. Out of an abundance of caution, the family is currently on a 21 day fever watch. I want to emphasize that Ebola isn't contagious until symptoms appear. I want to underscore that Ebola poses little risk to the U.S. general population. Transmission is through direct contact of bodily fluids of an infected person or exposure objects like needles that have been contaminated with infected secretions. Individuals who are not symptomatic are not contagious. The mortality rate in some outbreaks can be as high as 90 percent, but in this outbreak, it is currently around 60 percent, indicating that some of our early treatment efforts may be having an impact.
There is a lot of paranoia when it comes to ebola. Horrible as the disease is, there is some good news for us here in the West: Ebola is not easily transmissible, as long as you don't come in direct contact with people who are showing symptoms, or with any of their bodily tissues, bodily fluids, or personal effects that they touched recently after becoming symptomatic (clothing, bedding, cell phones, etc.)(the scary news is that that may also include money). Also, and I believe it (though obviously some don't), victims are not contagious during incubation.
Still, if there is a breakout here, perhaps the best and most prudent policy is to steer clear of sick people, anyone they may have made contact with (yes, even those who may only be incubating), and anything they touched. And given that money may be a vector, the government has absolutely no business bringing ebola victims here!
Ping....
I read one reason may be that Ebola is not an airborne virus, unlike the common cold, say. In other words, what they seemed to be saying was that airborne viruses tend to be transmissible during incubation, while non-airborne viruses generally aren't. Now, why that should be the case, at the microbiological level, I have no idea... I'm not an expert. It's just something I read.
If you have the virus, you can spread it. The only difference is that when you show symptoms, the vector is more pronounced because you are spewing your fluids across the room- literally. The virus is the virus. You get splattered with an infected persons blood the second after they contract it, is enough to infect you.
As the nurse said it’s 12-24 hours. The reality is that it’s whatever time it takes to enter your blood stream. It’s not like malaria. It doesn’t hatch. It is deadly no matter where it comes from, and at any point in time.
The danger is that there is no ready test for people that aren’t showing symptoms. Which means, if a asymptomatic infected boards a plane and starts coughing sneezing or has an open wound, you’re in trouble.
The cure for that is the combination of keys you accidentally hit that show you a feature on your computer you did not know about.
Thanks for that. I really don’t know what to say. They have to check 30,000 people?
Once Ebola gets into the American gay population, it will be unstoppable. Not only will gays not stop their anonymous sex but they will demand they not be quarantined and will not be required to tell anyone that they suffer with the disease.
At least, that’s how they were with the AIDS virus and we all know their political power has grown exponentially since the 1980s.
Here we show ZEBOV [Zaire-EBOV] transmission from pigs to cynomolgus macaques without direct contact...Piglets inoculated oro-nasally with ZEBOV were transferred to the room housing macaques in an open inaccessible cage system. All macaques became infected...While primates develop systemic infection associated with immune dysregulation resulting in severe hemorrhagic fever, the EBOV [Ebola virus] infection in swine affects mainly respiratory tract, implicating a potential for airborne transmission of ZEBOV2, 6. Contact exposure is considered to be the most important route of infection with EBOV in primates7, although there are reports suggesting or suspecting aerosol transmission of EBOV from NHP to NHP8, 9, 10, or in humans based on epidemiological observations
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