Posted on 10/01/2014 5:00:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What do you know about Ebola? You probably are aware that it's a nasty, often fatal form of a viral hemorrhagic fever.
You may also know that the current outbreak occured last December in Guinea, and that it has spread to Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leona and Nigeria.
And unless you have lived under a rock for the past 24 hours, you also know that it has spread to the United States--Texas, to be specific.
But here's a list of what you may not know, including how the Ebola virus impacts economies and supply chains, issurance issues including evacuation, exposures and policy exclusions, and what you and your companies can do to prevent and control Ebola risk.
First: The Nitty Gritty
1. First discovered in 1976, there are five strains of the Ebola virus, all named after the region where they were detected: Bundibugyo, Tai Forest (previously known as Ivory Coast), Sudan, Zaire and Reston. Yup, the fifth strain was discovered in Virginia, but it only causes asymptomatic infections in humans, being that people can become infected but do not get sick.
2. The current outbreak is caused by the Zaire strain, which has a death rate as high as 90%. It is the most severe of all types of Ebola.
3. As of Sept. 23, the Zaire outbreak has a 47% fatality rate. The World Health Organization reports 6,574 cases, which have resulted in 3,091 reported deaths. Early supportive care is the reason for the reduced deaths.
4. In the United States, there is a single imported case from Liberia that occurred last month. A traveler arrived in Texas. on Sept. 20, developed Ebola symptoms on Sept. 24, first sought care on Sept. 26 and was admitted to a Dallas hospital on Sept. 28. Ebola was confirmed on Sept. 30....
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In other words: yesterday.
Yesterday = last month?
Importaint:
7. Ebola on dried surfaces, such as doorknobs and countertops, can survive for several hours. Ebola is killed with hospital-grade disinfectants (including bleach).
Eric vomits outside. Dog licks vomit. Dog gets virus.
Dog licks owners face. Dog pees in child’s sandbox. Owner cleans up poop. Dog bites someone. Lots of ways something bad could happen.
How many Freepers have gotten sick from eating at a restaurant, perhaps from mishandled food or simply because the employee failed to adequately wash their hands after elimination?
I would suspect this may be a vast and deadly way that it could get passed.
This one concerns me:
The virus spreads from person to person, or from mammals to people. Fruit bats are believed to be the natural hosts of the Ebola virus.
Once it gets into other mammals here we will always have outbreaks.
For Obola-the-undocumented Indonesian pRes_ _ent,
that truly would be ‘mission accomplished’.
And there is not a WORD from the EXEMPT, yet.
Interesting focus in the 30. Thanks for posting. Be prepared. Health/life BUMP!
Regardless of what the “CDC experts”, MSM rent-a-doc, or other government sources say, the virus has mutated into several different strains and one of those is airborne.
The reason I suggest this is that they have a proven track record of lying at every opportunity to cover up their total incompetence.
Also, it was rumored that WH Science Adviser John Holdren, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel and Bill Ayers all wet themselves in excitement of the news that Ebola had arrived. And in conjunction with the Entero virus (which had its first fatality in addition to numerous cases of paralysis), presented the distinct possibility of mass casualties in the US for their much desired “reduction of millions of excess population”.
Their medicine was primitive at that time but probably just as good as the CDC’s guesswork so it might be possible.
For all we know, an Ebola cousin is endemic in our wildlife right now, and we have never discovered it because we do not eat bats and usually do not go near their caves.
A few years ago, a filovirus related to Ebola was found in bats in Spain. Ebola Reston has been found in the Phillipines (although the monkeys may have gotten sick from bats).
Wasn’t Bubonic/Pneumonic Plague bacterial?
Ebola is a filovirus.
You know that the CDC experts work closely with the scientists who do the Ebola research, the scientists who discovered everything we know about it, don't you?
Virus mutation happens all the time and really does not mean much. The five strains of Ebola have existed for a long time. No strain of Ebola is airborne, and none of them are ever likely to become airborne.
Mutation involves shift, drift, and weaponization.
Many wars are lost on such certainty as yours.
Another fact: The total number of probable, confirmed and suspected cases (see Annex 1) in the current outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa reported up to 28 September 2014 is 7178.
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/135600/1/roadmapsitrep_1Oct2014_eng.pdf?ua=1
You emphatically stated as fact “the virus has mutated into several different strains and one of those is airborne.”
Then you infer “you suggest”.
No where with substance have I heard any strain is mutated into airborne. Could you do us all a huge favor and substantiate your airborne statement with authoritative references? Otherwise please retract.
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