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CDC admits droplets from a sneeze could spread Ebola
NY Post ^ | 29OCt2014 | Bob Fredericks

Posted on 11/02/2014 9:48:32 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine

Ebola is a lot easier to catch than health officials have admitted — and can be contracted by contact with a doorknob contaminated by a sneeze from an infected person an hour or more before, experts told The Post Tuesday.

“If you are sniffling and sneezing, you produce microorganisms that can get on stuff in a room. If people touch them, they could be” infected, said Dr. Meryl Nass, of the Institute for Public Accuracy in Washington, DC.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cdc; ebola; ebolatransmission; sneeze; spread
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1 posted on 11/02/2014 9:48:32 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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To: Jack Hydrazine

New CDC confusion over Ebola as it deletes warning that virus can spread through coughs and sneezes from its website
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2815903/New-CDC-confusion-Ebola-deletes-warning-virus-spread-coughs-sneezes-website.html

WHO urges sneeze protection while CDC retreats
http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/who-urges-sneeze-protection-while-cdc-retreats/

PENTAGON FUNDS VACCINE TO COUNTER AIRBORNE EXPOSURE TO EBOLA
http://www.infowars.com/pentagon-funds-vaccine-to-counter-airborne-exposure-to-ebola/

Scientists predict up to 130 Ebola cases in USA by end of year...
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_EBOLA_HOW_BAD_CAN_IT_GET?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-11-01-10-25-24

and the kicker...

Judge rejects Ebola quarantine for nurse
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20141031/us—ebola-nurse_quarantined-maine-6f5110d256.html


2 posted on 11/02/2014 9:52:01 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Why would they have to admit it? Everyone knows a sneeze transfers body fluid.

This is the same as when they issued statements that HIV could not be spread by kissing. They later changed their statement that you could only get HIV from kissing if saliva is exchanged.

Anyone know how you can kiss someone and not exchange saliva?


3 posted on 11/02/2014 9:54:08 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Back to reality!


4 posted on 11/02/2014 10:09:16 AM PST by Bogie
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I guess the “judge” believes the nurse’s CONSTITUTIONAL rights to ride her bike whereever take precedence of anyone else’s CONSTITUTIONAL right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
We are dealing with a nation of people BLESSED by their total ignorance of the realities of the spreading of a fatal infectious disease.
How many Americans are fully aware that the expression, “GOD BLESS YOU” when someone sneezes did in reality come as a result of history’s worst plagues that was readily and quickly spread by people who “merely” sneezed.
It is said that “Ignorance is Bliss”. Too many of us lead “blissful” lives.


5 posted on 11/02/2014 10:09:55 AM PST by CaptainAmiigaf (N.Y. TIMES: "We print the news as it fits our views.")
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To: Jack Hydrazine

bttt


6 posted on 11/02/2014 10:14:28 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: Jack Hydrazine; Whenifhow

Jack,

Here’s a related story about the military funding of a vaccine:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/profectus-biosciences-receives-95-million-department-of-defense-funding-to-manufacture-trivalent-vesiculovax-vectored-vaccine-to-protect-against-all-ebola-and-marburg-viruses-281051392.html

from this link: (many thanks, whenifhow)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3191066/posts?page=4669#4669

To: Smokin’ Joe
Profectus BioSciences Receives $9.5 Million Department of Defense Funding to Manufacture Trivalent VesiculoVax™-Vectored Vaccine to Protect Against all Ebola and Marburg Viruses

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/profectus-biosciences-receives-95-million-department-of-defense-funding-to-manufacture-trivalent-vesiculovax-vectored-vaccine-to-protect-against-all-ebola-and-marburg-viruses-281051392.html

BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Profectus BioSciences, Inc., a clinical-stage vaccine company developing novel vaccines for the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases, announced today that the Department of Defense (DoD) through the Medical Countermeasure Systems-Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (MCS-JVAP), a subordinate command of the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense, Edgewood, MD, has contracted the manufacture and IND-enabling preclinical testing of the Profectus trivalent Ebola/Marburg vaccine.

In addition, the USACC has contracted for clinical evaluation of the VesiculoVax™ Zaire-Ebola virus vaccine to meet the current outbreak in West Africa.

......snip....

In July 2014, Profectus BioSciences and the GNL were awarded a 3 year $8.5M grant from the DOD/JVAP to support development of a lyophilized trivalent VesiculoVax™-vectored vaccine to protect against all major strains of Ebola and Marburg viruses delivered as aerosols.

The lyophilized trivalent vaccine is being tested in both pre-exposure and post-exposure studies to confirm protection of non-human primates from aerosol exposure to Ebola and Marburg viruses.

4,669 posted on Saturday, November 01, 2014 12:36:54 PM by Whenifhow
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7 posted on 11/02/2014 10:29:50 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2001)
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To: CaptainAmiigaf
Despite the "You're free" headlines, she IS under quarantine. She's not allowed near people, can't work, can't go to the store and I'm sure has to do some temp testing and submit to blood tests....probably directly via CDC personnel.

So when will Obama ask for funds to pay for her future.

She's just another Fluke.

And why didn't CDC protest any form of quarantine when they quarantined Duncan.....and later...his relatives.

8 posted on 11/02/2014 10:30:53 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Really on the ball, aren't they? Sheesh.
I tend to avoid people, but last year I somehow got a nasty strep infection (103 fever) and the doc said it only takes a molecule or so to catch one.
9 posted on 11/02/2014 10:33:08 AM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: dainbramaged

Funny you should mention Dr. Meryl Nass....


10 posted on 11/02/2014 10:39:01 AM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: dainbramaged

Oops, my no. 10 wasn’t meant for you. Sorry


11 posted on 11/02/2014 10:47:02 AM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: gunsequalfreedom
Anyone know how you can kiss someone and not exchange saliva?

These are deep, dark trade secrets best left to the realm of 40YO liberal virgins living in their mother's basement...

12 posted on 11/02/2014 11:01:56 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: dainbramaged

Majority of Americans believe Ebola spreads through air: poll
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216597/posts

CDC To Modify Approach in Ebola Infection As Virus Becomes Airborne [VIDEO+REPORT]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216564/posts

U.S. Army warns of potential ‘airborne’ Ebola
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3216253/posts

Airborne Ebola outbreak in monkeys raises possibility virus could mutate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216172/posts

Infectious Disease Experts... Suggest Ebola Transmission by Air Can’t be Ruled Out
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3216054/posts

(If it wasn’t airborne per the CDC when this headline came out then why were these airline travelers being questioned?)
Airline notifying 800 people in Ebola scare: Amber Vinson’s symptoms may have come earlier
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216275/posts

The Strange Logic of Dr. Thomas Frieden: You Can Give Ebola on a Bus, But You Can’t Get It on a Bus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216050/posts

Obama: We’ll Keep Ebola Out by Letting West Africans In
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216404/posts

DHS Started Expediting Visa Extensions From Ebola Countries in August (Free Republic linked)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3216361/posts

Obama Plans to Let Ebola-infected Foreigners Into U.S. for Treatment
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216618/posts

Why a travel ban wouldn’t work
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216225/posts

Rep: CDC Worried Travel Ban Over Ebola Would Hurt African Economies
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216061/posts

Why travel bans will only make the Ebola epidemic worse
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216031/posts

Countries issue travel bans on Ebola-stricken nations (Common sense from other nations)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216148/posts

Ebola Travel Bans Enacted by Nearly 30 Countries, but Not US
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216024/posts

WHO now recommends 42 day quarantine
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216181/posts

Ebola outbreak ‘running much faster’ than response
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216178/posts

Obama Administration Found Nearly 25 Percent Chance of Ebola Spread to USA… BEFORE Obama Said
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216030/posts


13 posted on 11/02/2014 11:24:46 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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14 posted on 11/02/2014 11:30:02 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

CDC: 150 People Enter U.S. Per Day from Ebola-Stricken Countries—or 4,500 Per Month
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3214055/posts

Is Ebola airborne? Virus could evolve to become transmitted through air...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3214307/posts

CIDRAP: “We Believe There Is Scientific Evidence Ebola Has The Potential To Be Airborne”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3214667/posts

Purdue professor says Ebola ‘primed’ to go airborne
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3214435/posts


15 posted on 11/02/2014 11:50:24 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: CaptainAmiigaf

I have mixed feelings on this. I think quarantines are generally a good idea with diseases like this. But we should trust knowledgeable people with a basis in science instead of hysteria spread by the mainstream media. Also, just because 1 dumb@ass does something stupid is not a reason to act against everyone.

I gotta side with the nurse on this. The tests came back negative and she showed no signs. She didn’t fit the CDC criteria. She knew the precautions she took and was knowledgeable about the disease. The checker at the airport didn’t have a clue when they gave the initial test. It was proved to be a false test. That nurse really doesn’t wanna die either. And there was no law in place that allowed her detainment. That is my biggest sticking point. Just because Chris Christie says detain her in a tent in a Jersey parking lot isn’t good enough reason for me. It has no basis in law. And blindly surrendering rights to an authority with no legal basis is a really bad idea.

If Jersey wants to do that, let them pass a well defined quarantine law. Not just snatch people on Chris Christie’s say so.


16 posted on 11/02/2014 11:50:57 AM PST by FreeInWV (Have you had enough change yet?)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
The CDC may get it right eventually.  Pretty sad when common sense proves more reliable.


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17 posted on 11/02/2014 11:53:44 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Dunam, Duncan, man what infections these folks brought over.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine; trebb

so lets let people ride their bikes around town!

FOR LIBERTY!
FOR PEACE!
FOR POT!
FOR POISONING OUR POPULATION TO PRESERVE LIBERTY!
FOR RON PAUL!


18 posted on 11/02/2014 11:56:41 AM PST by RaceBannon (EIEObama (Ebola, ISIL, Open Borders, Enterovirus))
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To: FreeInWV

“If Jersey wants to do that, let them pass a well defined quarantine law. Not just snatch people on Chris Christie’s say so.”

N.J. Stat. § 26:4-2 Updated in 2005

Authority. In order to prevent the spread of disease, the state department of health, and the local boards of health within their respective jurisdictions and subject to the state sanitary code, shall have power to maintain and enforce proper and sufficient quarantine, wherever deemed necessary.

Sounds clear cut to me. They already have the power to do what they DEEM necessary.


19 posted on 11/02/2014 12:05:02 PM PST by wrench (While not "airborne" , Ebola is a Spit-Borne virus. Good thing no one sneezes in public)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html

Ebola viruses (EBOV) cause often fatal hemorrhagic fever in several species of simian primates including human. While fruit bats are considered natural reservoir, involvement of other species in EBOV transmission is unclear. In 2009, Reston-EBOV was the first EBOV detected in swine with indicated transmission to humans. In-contact transmission of Zaire-EBOV (ZEBOV) between pigs was demonstrated experimentally. Here we show ZEBOV transmission from pigs to cynomolgus macaques

without direct contact.

Interestingly, transmission between macaques in similar housing conditions was never observed. Piglets inoculated oro-nasally with ZEBOV were transferred to the room housing macaques in an open inaccessible cage system. All macaques became infected. Infectious virus was detected in oro-nasal swabs of piglets, and in blood, swabs, and tissues of macaques. This is the first report of experimental interspecies virus transmission, with the macaques also used as a human surrogate. Our finding may influence prevention and control measures during EBOV outbreaks.


Here’s proof that the CDC knows that Ebola is contagious via the air.

What USED TO BE on the Web page of the CDC as of 8/2/14:

“Though these recommendations focus on the hospital setting, the recommendations for personal protective equipment (PPE) and environmental infection control measures are applicable to any healthcare setting. In this guidance healthcare personnel (HCP) refers all persons, paid and unpaid, working in healthcare settings who have the potential for exposure to patients and/or to infectious materials, including body substances, contaminated medical supplies and equipment, contaminated environmental surfaces, or CONTAMINATED AIR.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20140802085653/http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/infection-prevention-and-control-recommendations.html


20 posted on 11/02/2014 12:05:42 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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