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If that were remotely true, there would be far more infections reported in Africa, considering it is in four locations. There would be far more deaths as well.
To my knowledge, to date, there has been no reports of upper respiratory involvement in the affected.
To date, there have been no reports of a new strain.
Frankly speaking, the “We are all Gonna F’n Die” internet crowd is really wearing out it’s credibility fast.
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Not REALLY. She was round it and those medical people who had contact with it and persons who may not have reached the spewing vomit and diahrea. If those pictures of the disinfecting process is true of how she did it then, DUUUUUH, without a full head to toe suit, of course she could have had very up close and personal contact with the virus. Hitting it with a spray is going to send some droplets of body fluid flying and landing on her and anything else within a few feet. Any movement of the person in the suit would also send germs/virus flying and dripping along where he walked. All those pics we've seen shows the disinfecting process outside so how the heck did the person get from inside to outside, huh? He didn't wiggle his Bewitched nose and pop from the clinic to the middle of the yard.
The administration seems to want us to accept Ebola like AIDs; that is, it’s not communicable unless you *cornhole* someone suffering from Ebola or share a needle with him.
In so many words.
But I think most of us probably think Ebola to be more contagious than AIDs, and it’s certainly more lethal.
Late, but a ping.
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.”
I don’t see any merit in trying to use the Patrick Sawyer case to argue that ebola is airborne.
Have you read about his last days? He contracted the disease from his sister, for whom he was caregiver. He denied being ill, denied having any exposure when questioned by authorities, then proceeded to infect everyone he traveled with through vomit, feces, and even stripping and urinating on hospital personnel.
When he died, he left a trail of infective body fluids behind. There is simply no reason to argue “airborne” using the Sawyer case.
Can it happen? Certainly. This stuff is scary enough without spinning imaginary scenarios. There has, to date, been no verifiable case of a human infected and ill from airborne exposure. Let’s save the hyperbole until that happens.
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