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To: ClearCase_guy

A flea or mosquito bites an ebola patient. It then bites a previously uninfected human. Now we have a host issue.....


15 posted on 08/05/2014 6:38:00 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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I thought about the mosquito bite situation. Betsy McCaughey was on with Cavuto today and said if you are in an emergency room and someone is vomiting or has other bodily fluids touching anything, there is a great chance to infect someone. She said the hospitals are not prepared for this and the real danger is if a hospital unknowing receives a person who has Ebola.


21 posted on 08/05/2014 6:44:54 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather ("The Border Is On Fire & Washington Is Sending Us Gasoline" AZ Ranchers John Ladd & Fred Davis 7/14)
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To: blackdog
A flea or mosquito bites an ebola patient. It then bites a previously uninfected human. Now we have a host issue.....

Some virons can survive in insect hosts and others can't. I do not believe Ebola is in the "known to survive" category and this mode of transmission has not been demonstrated. Dengue and Yellow Fever, of course, use mosquitoes as a primary vector of infection.

44 posted on 08/05/2014 7:11:01 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: blackdog
A flea or mosquito bites an ebola patient. It then bites a previously uninfected human. Now we have a host issue.....

Insects and other creepy crawlies do not transmit Ebola. The virus does not survive in their bodies.

152 posted on 08/06/2014 3:12:03 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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