ORIGINAL PDF:
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/infections-spread-by-air-or-droplets.pdf
This is the same old information, droplets versus “airborne”.
I don’t understand this, they say it has to be in droplets but then they say it isn’t spread through the air but from what I read they said it can survive up to 6 days outside the body, that it doesn’t need to be in droplets so isn’t that “airborne”? Well I guess we’ll find out after the election when the ball drops and we get the real number how many are infected, after all as we have seen with Benghazi, Democraps getting elected is more important.
This has always been the case with CDC print materials. They always define “close contact” as “within a meter”.
Publicly, they say things a little differently.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/preventings-stigma-low-literacy.pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/when-someone-dies-in-the-home.pdf
Droplets, like those aerosoled out from the flushing of a toilet.
The toilet may be the Achilles Heel to to the safety of humanity.
Tell me again how airborne spread and droplet spread are not the same thing.
What lawyer is telling us that it depends on the meaning of the word “IS”.
Lies! All lies! The real danger is in sugary soft drinks and grade school lunches.A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
They say it cannot be spread through food- well, this is nuanced, I thought the initial case came from someone getting, cooking, and eating a fruit bat? Maybe you can’t get it by eating cooked food, but you can get it by preparing contaminated food.
I don’t think they have proven whether or not you can get it by eating food or drinking water.
“Chickpox”?
They are wound up in Semantics of terms. In the first paragraph they admit YES! Ebola can be airborne. In the last paragraph they say NO, Ebola is not airborne. Common sense tells one to err on the side of caution.
I find it interesting that they think it appropriate to use ‘baby words’ for bodily functions, like Pee and Poop. Do they think no Americans know what urine is or what defecation is? Or maybe the words are too hard to pronounce?
I no longer have any respect or trust in this group.
"We are going to need a bigger boat."
I guess when you make up your own titles, it is OK to correct them.
The word is not “admit”, it is “explain”. The EXPLAIN how it is transmit, they don’t “admit” it. CDC is not spreading the disease, after all.
You might as well say your math teacher “admits” that 2+2=4.
The message is clear — avoid all fluids from people who are actively suffering from Ebola. That includes fluids that are flying through the air at you.
BTW, when I hear “airborne” used incorrectly about Ebola, I keep thinking about “Glee”, and how many of their students were impacted by “Airborne Slushies”.
"Self quarantine? Hell no!"
Air, not so likely. But contact through objects, it would be similar to how the bubonic plague and cholera spread.
Don't worry folks, we have it on GREAT authority that Ebola is gosh darned near impossible to get!
Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......
(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Droplets are the exact same way the flu and the common cold are spread.
Meanwhile our brave men & women in uniform are stationed in Liberia with four hours disease training and no protective gear.
