Posted on 10/12/2014 4:26:02 PM PDT by ElenaM
True. Same with the claims of Ebola being airborne. Two months after the virus entered the West Point slum it is just as crowded as ever with people taking precautions not to touch other people (that much).
Conspiracy much?
I just had a norovirus Thursday and Friday. Thursday night was brutal; I was very sick. And I was thinking then that this was no doubt a stomach flu but man, it hurt! I couldn’t help but think how sorry it would be to get Ebola.
While I wish we could show more compassion for those who are ill, the primary focus of such a deadly disease is to prevent its spread.
This is what all the powers that be should be concentrating on. NOT politics, but limiting and then eradicating the disease.
What the Hell are they waiting for???!!!
Cruise ships have norovirus because it survives well even with cleaning.
Well, not that you mention it...
(It hearkens back to my old Cold War Bio/Chem warfare training)
The decon exercises I remember required multiple layers of steps, including an intermediate test step, with a non-lethal but pervasive gas element, to test the security of the equipment itself, after initial “showers” of the protective gear, but before removing said gear.
Seconds to suit up properly, potentially hours to properly decontaminate afterwards...
Is the CDC doing that?
Are they skipping basic, best practices when they know in fact they are in a severe BIO hazard deadly situation?
Hellbent? Heck...he's already succeeded. And, he's shipping in 150 *reinforcements*, each day. Just to be sure.
What USED TO BE on the Web page of the CDC as of 8/2/14:
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.
Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates
A study conducted in 2012 showed that Ebola was able to travel between pigs and monkeys that were in separate cages and were never placed in direct contact.
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html
Even at 0.1% we should expect see a new ebola immigrant here every week.
We got Norovirus from a waiter who had just come off a cruise ship. Everyone he waited on got sick. My husband and DIL got dog sick, he stood between them while he took the order. My son and I just got a little sick.
Well a definition of “contaminated air” would help. That source does not appear to use very exact terminology. In any case any serious airborne contamination would have killed half of the crowds in West Point a month ago.
It could be airborne in the later stages of the illness. Who knows? But we are being sold crap from on high which simply is not true......at least according to these two sources.
Yep I read that, 150 Africans every day and just think; After the midterms he’s going to go into overdrive.
Right.
Of particular concern is the frequent presence of EBOV in saliva early during the course of disease, where it could be transmitted to others through intimate contact and from sharing food, especially given the custom, in many parts of Africa, of eating with the hands from a common plate.
That's from my Oxford Journal link above. Obviously along with eating from the same plate comes sneezing and coughing. The viral load increases greatly with the illness but that means surfaces like taxis are being infected. The virus is the same throughout the illness and can really only be airborne in droplets.
For some reason, the Pubbies aren’t running on, or even talking about this.
We need to forge our own social media campaign....there’s so much to work with.
Here they are!!!
Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Hospitalized Patients with Known or Suspected Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in U.S. Hospitals
https://web.archive.org/web/20140802085653/http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/infection-prevention-and-control-recommendations.html
Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html
Isn’t norovirus what causes cruise ships to have lots of sick customers?
Funny how the CDC mandates that monkeys coming into the USA have to be quarantined but not people with deadly diseases.
The cages were 20cm apart.
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