Posted on 10/13/2014 1:06:03 PM PDT by Rusty0604
Rush even quotes from Zerohedge sometimes; it’s posted here on FR quite often too. Anyway most of the article is from a link to CIDRAP website.
LOL
Look at the terror that can be caused if someone just vomits on a plane. All the expense too.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Why aren't UV-C lights being deployed at least in all suspected Ebola patients' rooms and more preferably all over the place?!
I agree completely and it makes more sense that if she used a plain face mask or even a N-95 face mask, it didn't provide protection for fine aerosol particles. So, she could have followed all CDC protocols and still got infected. The CDC needs to recognize the danger from not using proper respirators when working closely with these patients. Of course, stating that method of transmission (airborne in aerosols) would cause panic by those who see everyone with a cough as an Ebola victim. Therefore CDC and the other doctors on the networks (including Fox) have to continue with the non-airborne meme in spite of increasing evidence to the contrary.
(BTW, I used an air-purifying respirator last year in clearing out Hanta-virus carrying deer mice from my garage. That virus is about 50-70% fatal to those contracting it.)
Waiting for the chorus of “it’s not airborne” Freepers to chime in 3-2-1... aerosolized droplets can remain suspended for long periods, scary stuff but logically correct.
You are right about Zero Hedge. It is hit or miss.
Purdue professor says Ebola ‘primed’ to go airborne
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3214435/posts
It appears that living in a desert is beneficial from the pov of arosol transmission.
Good precaution. However, it isn't the mice that are the problem, it is their dried feces - which, like asbestos - deliver particles through the air once disturbed. Of course, I'd suspect that dried mouse bodies would do the same.
True the mice were dead or gone, but their urine and feces were all over including into boxes of my college books and papers and other assorted boxed material. Like dogs, there were certain areas along the floor and baseboards that had high concentrations of waste. Before disturbing them, I sprayed with a 10% concentration of bleach. The use of an APR required fit-testing following medical clearance to wear one, which is standard procedure for use in a hazardous location.
While uv light in a patient room may help kill the virus on surfaces, it cannot get inside the patient and kill the virus.
Good on you. Hantavirus is a horrid disease to get, not unlike Marburg and Obola.
Agreed. But it might cut down on infecting other people...
This article reads like an ad for PAPRs. It says things about Ebola that simply are not accurate, and deliberately fuzzes definitions.
Ebola is not transmitted through aerosols, and there are a number of reasons it doesn’t and is unlikely to. It is transmitted directly, which means through touching an infected patient, or having contaminated fluids splash up onto bare patches of skin. Although these droplets are launched into the air by various means, they are not airborne, but are a subset of direct contact.
In actual use, a PAPR would replace the face shields/head coverings/surgical masks usually worn; it would probably be about as effective.
Great article. Should be in Breaking, where everyone can see it.
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