So this isn't entirely true if you believe what the CDC is saying, that the patient is only infectious once showing symptoms. Which would mean that it's more like 4 days.
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So this isn't entirely true if you believe what the CDC is saying, that the patient is only infectious once showing symptoms. Which would mean that it's more like 4 days.
What I don't like is how the media downplays this by saying it's not an airborne virus, which is actually false.
It's stated that Ebola can only be spread via exchange of bodily fluids, which isn't necessarily true. Research has shown that it can survive in air for a limited amount of time. So someone with Ebola sneezes, the virus will survive in the air for a limited amount of time. I'm not going to go hunting for the article again, but feel free if wanted. Canadian researchers IIRC, had a bunch of monkeys in cages, no contact with each other whatsoever, a couple had ebola and the rest didn't. However, several of the healthy monkeys ended up contracting ebola, and the only explanation the researchers had was it was via airborne transmission.
It's stated that Ebola can only be spread via exchange of bodily fluids, which isn't necessarily true. Research has shown that it can survive in air for a limited amount of time. So someone with Ebola sneezes, the virus will survive in the air for a limited amount of time. I'm not going to go hunting for the article again, but feel free if wanted. Canadian researchers IIRC, had a bunch of monkeys in cages, no contact with each other whatsoever, a couple had ebola and the rest didn't. However, several of the healthy monkeys ended up contracting ebola, and the only explanation the researchers had was it was via airborne transmission.
Yeah, I've been thinking the same thing. What happens if someone sneezes near you? It would make sense that if you got sneezed on or walked through a cloud of sneeze mist that you could get it that way. IMO, that's an exchange of bodily fluids that's also airborne.
The airborne strain was only infectious to pigs and monkeys.
This recent outbreak has undergone a larger-than-expected amount of genetic drift. It's still not airborne.
There's an enormous difference between droplet spread (aka ebola sneezes) and being an airborne, infectious disease. They're both discrete and well-defined and are not the same thing, or even close.
This recent outbreak has undergone a larger-than-expected amount of genetic drift. It's still not airborne.
There's an enormous difference between droplet spread (aka ebola sneezes) and being an airborne, infectious disease. They're both discrete and well-defined and are not the same thing, or even close.
your talking about a different virus similar to Ebola and it was in a DC facility
Reston virus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yeah, it was a mistake, sorry about that. I was trying to quote myself and fucked it up somehow :crap:
BTW... another question is, WTF? Anyone remember the swine flu? You couldn't walk through an airport in the world without having to walk past an infrared sensor that detected whether or not you had a fever. If you did, you were pulled aside for further examination and possible quarantine. This wasn't one or two countries, but near all of them, IIRC.
Don't see any of those sort of measures here yet, but ebola is what? Probably 10,000 times more deadly? What's up?
Don't see any of those sort of measures here yet, but ebola is what? Probably 10,000 times more deadly? What's up?
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Are you really under the impression that there has been some type of US conservative movement to ban air travel to and from Africa?
Ted Nugent goes hunting there, Christian missionary and charity work is huge in Africa, businessmen view it as the next great frontier, etc.
Lifelong Republican and GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt "said that Africa offers the company its greatest potential, having earned $5.2 billion there in 2013. Meantime, it has won $8.3 billion in orders across the continent in the last year."
Is Africa The Next Frontier For Global Capitalism - Forbes.com
US ghettos are in US cities, which are also home to some of the world's best health care facilities, transportation and equipment.
The population of Africa is over a billion and growing. Less than 5,000 Africans have died from ebola since the 1970s.
In all likelihood, many more Africans have died by being struck by lightning, as those kill 25,000 people worldwide each year according to some estimates.
The US are safe, nothing will happen, it's all conatained...
It's just a conspiracy theory when people say the US wouldn't be safe. Ah yea, just one question: Why did the State Department order 160,000 hazmat suits ?
Press Release of the manufacturer:
Lakeland Industries Announces Global Availability of Hazmat Suits for Ebola -- RONKONKOMA, N.Y., Sept. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
It's just a conspiracy theory when people say the US wouldn't be safe. Ah yea, just one question: Why did the State Department order 160,000 hazmat suits ?
Press Release of the manufacturer:
Lakeland Industries Announces Global Availability of Hazmat Suits for Ebola -- RONKONKOMA, N.Y., Sept. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
The minute this started, they should have imposed an international quarantine on any country with infected individuals by implementing a flight blackout to and from those countries.
There are many people who agree with this, including high-ranking members of the medical community. In fact, it's kind of mind-numbingly obvious.
The reason this didn't happen? I'll leave that up to you to guess.
There are many people who agree with this, including high-ranking members of the medical community. In fact, it's kind of mind-numbingly obvious.
The reason this didn't happen? I'll leave that up to you to guess.
Because we live in a free world and people should be allowed to do whatever the fuck they wanna do.
anarchy yeah!