This virus, while deadly, can be controlled easily, just like any other when outside the human or animal host so there is no reason to fear from the decontamination procedures they are employing, just because it is ebola.
In Africa, it spreads largely because of African or tribal social customs. Time and time again, unexplained deaths are misdiagnosed as flu or old age, or something else. Their burial customs require a lot of direct contact with the body and this results in a spread of the disease to others locations.
That’s not going to happen here.
While dangerous, it’s no more dangerous in terms of spreading than any other virus that is spread by contact and some hospitals are ideally suited for treatment of these kinds of bugs.
Frankly, I don’t see a reason to react as some have.
It does not seem to be behaving as it normally does. I say that because many medical professionals and other staff trained to deal with Ebola such as nurses, cleaning people have indeed become sick with Ebola. Several trained people working with full protective gear have become infected so yes I am concerned.
Ebola is not necessarily so easy to deal with when it is not inside a host, since it can live on hard surfaces dry for 20 something days. It would seem that many could be exposed to the many surfaces that a person sick with Ebola could have left Ebola on through their fluid.
Oh, ok. I guess this doctor and 110 other health care workers wearing PL3 protection became infected because they were also practicing African tribal social customs. It all makes sense now.
Three points:
1. A lot of Africans have immigrated to the US in the past few years.
2. Not all of the hordes from Central America are up to the cleanliness and hygiene standards that have kept these diseases from spreading in the US.
3. That's what we were originally told about AIDS, before it was spread through blood transfusions and heterosexual sex.
“This virus, while deadly, can be controlled easily, just like any other when outside the human or animal host so there is no reason to fear from the decontamination procedures they are employing, just because it is ebola.”
Not hardly. Medical personnel working with known Ebola cases are close to 1 in 10 of the outbreak cases. Over 100 health care workers infected in an outbreak that “only” has killed less than 800 total.
That screams that introducing active cases into an area with no Ebola runs a good chance (far from zero) of escaping the medical facility. It is a sure bet they will not be quarantining the medical staff, ambulance staff, and air ambulance staff for 30 days.
This is a combination Emory self promotion combined with a political op run by the State Department to try to find something to prop up 0bama.