Posted on 08/05/2014 6:15:51 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
The empirical evidence of an airborne Ebola Strain is overwhelming
Hat Tip GWP - Patrick Sawyer was the American businessman, who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia, then collapsed after he got off a plane to Nigeria and died July 25. He was the first patient in Nigeria with the Ebola virus. The Nigerian authorities have refused to release the names of other passengers on the plane with Mr. Sawyer, or notify the media of their status.
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Infective not quite as you describe.
Can be shedding virus for a week prior to crashing.
As long as they are shedding in any manner including sex they aw WILL infect whoever contacts them unless they are in a full biohazard suit.
Virtually every person who has come in direct contact with an Ebola patient has contracted it.
It has now gone exponential in Liberia and they show ZERO sign of peaking - meaning much worse to come.
Expect it to be a mirror in the US wherever it eats in the wild.
That's just not true.
To become infected the virus has to find it's way into your blood, through a mucous membrane or cut.
That means you have to get it in places that some very minor and standard precautions would prevent.
The issue in Africa is that these minor precautions were not being taken. Initially not even by the medical people until they understood that it was Ebola.
The viral load is so high that once you get it on the surface of a gown or glove, great care has to be taken when to remove those items and with no decon room or clean facility to doff all the contaminated stuff, the risk is high that you might get a bit on a finger and later wipe your eye.
We don't have that problem in our facilities. They have protocols and decon routines.
As to our citizens, I think they have far more common sense then to kiss a corpse of a family member who has died of a disease of any kind. Much less keep the body in the house.
Just sayin...
You can take it or leave it.
BTW, anyone with the onset symptoms of Ebola and also has enough of it to shed, will not likely be having sex.
You’d think.
I remember, though, from reading Hot Zone that one of the early cases of either Marburg or Ebola loved to visit the local ladies of the night. And spread it all through a village that way.
You probably know what it's like to get hammered by the flu. One day you wake up and wish you had not, or you get slammed by it during the day....pain all over...fever..etc..
Ebola is even worse by multiples..
Ín this tread http://www.singtomeohmuse.com/viewtopic.php?t=5725&start=825
there is mainly news articles about Ebola.
I just keep thinking of the video of Patrick Sawyer in the airport.
He obviously knew something was amiss as he was consciously avoiding people. But he wasn’t incapacitated either for several more hours.
That’s a good link, thanks.
Looks like another Saudi is infected:
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20140808213981
Yeah....some interesting news collected there particularly about Nigeria.
Personally I have taken the position that the Nigerian outbreak is contained. I hope I am correct.
A great deal of denial too probably.
‘It’s just a headache’, ‘it’s just a touch of the flu’, ‘it’s just malaria’, etc.
Not true many confirmed cases in the literature of spouses transmitting it to their wives via their sperm prior to their being symptomatic.
Not true many confirmed cases in the literature of spouses transmitting it to their wives via their sperm prior to their being symptomatic.
While that could happen. it’s unlikely to be anything close to a relevant transmission factor.
In other words, it would be the least likely of many other ways.
The virus is not like aids.....period.
Why don’t you ask the wives who were infected by their asymptomatic husbands whether it was a ‘relevant transmission factor’?
Transmission is transmission and since each wife so infected can turn around and infect her children, neighbors and friends, let along medical workers.
Maybe later at postmortem you could ask them if they thought it was a ‘relevant transmission factor’ too.
With any agent as infective as Ebola, which BTW both CDC and WHO consider one of the most infective virus known, every single mode of transmission must be identified and stopped.
Your local public health officials have spent decades doing that very thing for syphilis, AID, polio, whooping cough, etc.
Difference is by the time they hear about it the entire path of transmission is either dead or dying.
You spend a lot of time in your discussions minimizing one of the single most infections agent known to man.
Why? Do you honestly think that the low information voters, welfare folks, WalMartians, drug abusers and psychopaths are going to snap out of it and do what must be done??
never gonna happen.
The Saudi articles are disturbing. There is likely a cluster developing in Saudi right now.
Frankly, I don’t think it happened. I have explained what Ebola does to a person and why they likely did not have sex to celebrate. So I’m not going to participate in this asinine shit.
But I’m not going to convince you because you believe the BS in the Hot Zone. You are nearly hysterical. You deserve to be.
Carry on......
Last I heard it was a cluster of 2...
The 40yr old, his wife and their 3 daughters.
Plus he went to work for a day or so while feeling somewhat unwell. And was in the hospital in a regular hospital room for a day or so before he was transferred to the isolation unit.
My understanding was that they were quarantined. I was not aware that they were tested and were positive.
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