Posted on 10/20/2014 6:53:55 AM PDT by TigerClaws
As questions of how many people the second Dallas nurse infected during her journey to and from Dallas throw scary possibilities, a WHO situation assessment report gives more cause for concern by stating that the incubation period of the virus has been seen to extend to as long as 42 days in some cases.
It says that recent studies conducted in West Africa have demonstrated that 95% of confirmed cases have an incubation period in the range of 1 to 21 days; 98% have an incubation period that falls within the 1 to 42-day interval.
For WHO to declare an Ebola outbreak over, a country must pass through 42 days, with active surveillance supported by good diagnostic capacity and no new cases detected in the period.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.co.uk ...
I'm surprised they haven't as yet said Ebola is:
Yes, it does. I’m guessing it means maximum incubation period based on their recommendation of 21 days.
Per nurses and doctors writing procedures in the Atlanta area,
They were told any staff that comes in contact with or treats and Ebola case goes into quarantine for 45 days after.
which is it? Ya don't know, do ya? Yer jus' makin' it up as you go along. Ah can respec' that, but ah gots to know. All these dizzy chickens walkin' aroun', breathin' on folks. Lissen, pay, ah said, pay attention boy .... Center for Disease Control? Center for Disease Pro-ah say, Proliferation is what is, ain't it? Yeah.
Who knows?
With 95 % certainty. Good enough for government work I guess.
Fact: Thomas Duncan’s family and friends will be released today at the 21 day point.
Prediction: In three more weeks (at the 42 day point), Dallas will be the Monrovia of the United States.
It is sexually transmitted for almost a year,
so how are they ‘cured’?
The US is still not taking this seriously.
Nigeria did:
Ebola outbreak: How Nigeria is beating the killer virus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3217102/posts
“An initial contact list of 281 people soon increased to a staggering 894 - each of them visited and checked repeatedly for signs of infection. But the sleuthing did not end there. Specialists then calculated how many people were living within a particular radius of the 894 people who were being monitored. This depended on the density of the housing in each particular area. The result was that officials and volunteers embarked on rounds of visits that would take them to an extraordinary 26,000 households. “
“Nigeria did:”
Nigeria did the same thing we did. Let a guy fly in with Ebola and then released him from the hospital whereupon he infected three others.
Good one. You do a mighty fine Foghorn Leghorn son!
Actually not.
Nigeria let the guy fly in (but shut down flights from the affected countries once his test came back and basically told WHO to shove it when they complained.). He collapsed in the airport and was transported immediately to a private hospital.
Whereupon, not expecting ebola (being hundreds if not a thousand miles away from the countries in question) and Sawyer being ‘economical with the truth’, they didn’t suit up to treat him initially.
He infected most of the first contact doctors and nurses there. Along with the janitor at the airport, the diplomatic assistant that helped him in the car and another diplomat who met him at the airport (and promptly became a runner to Port Harcourt because he suspected ebola to begin with knowing Sawyer came from Liberia).
Of the doctors and nurses and diplomats/janitors that became symptomatic for ebola, approximately half (8) of them died.
Nigeria is still not allowing flights from the affected countries.
I always thought is was 42 days. The incubation period was 21 to 42 days. Not simply 21 period.
Who ever said it was 21 days just skimmed the warning and never got past the 21 days thing.
I read the whole article. They state the incubation period is 21 days, but contradict themselves. Regardless of that, the disease is still there in vaginal and seminal fluids for months afterwards, so it could easily be spread after 42 days, which is the cutoff the WHO uses to claim a region free of Ebola.
I don’t think it’s wise because of the possibility of transmitting the disease sexually well beyond that 42 day point.
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