Ebola
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Re: Ebola
Ebola is probably my favorite name for a virus. Like if you forget about how serious it is for a second... It's kinda fun to say. Even to look at it...
ebola.
sorry
im done
No... it has to be "real" bodily fluids. Blood... Semen... internal fluids, etc... It can't be spread in pure saliva, and it has to be prolonged contact, so not just fluids that land on you. Most of the people that have caught it recently have done so from practicing health on other people with the virus. Trying to be a hero and not wearing proper protective equipment.
And then the dead body of an Ebola victim is highly contagious, but still, only through direct and prolonged contact.
Spreading through the air has not been documented in the natural environment.Human-to-human transmission can occur via direct contact with blood or bodily fluids from an infected person (including embalming of an infected dead person) or by contact with objects contaminated by the virus, particularly needles and syringes.The potential for widespread EVD infections is considered low as the disease is only spread by direct contact with the secretions from someone who is showing signs of infection.Nearly two thirds of the cases of Ebola in Guinea during the 2014 outbreak are believed to be due to burial practices.Comment
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No, that is wrong. It can be carried by sweat or vomit.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t...-touch-anyone/What are body fluids?
Ebola has been detected in blood and many body fluids. Body fluids include saliva, mucus, vomit, feces, sweat, tears, breast milk, urine, and semen.
Can Ebola spread by coughing? By sneezing?
Unlike respiratory illnesses like measles or chickenpox, which can be transmitted by virus particles that remain suspended in the air after an infected person coughs or sneezes, Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with body fluids of a person who has symptoms of Ebola disease. Although coughing and sneezing are not common symptoms of Ebola, if a symptomatic patient with Ebola coughs or sneezes on someone, and saliva or mucus come into contact with that person’s eyes, nose or mouth, these fluids may transmit the disease.
.....that's why it's so dumb for these people to be cleaning up puke without any protective clothing or anything, and that's why attempts to placate by saying "it's not airborne" are nonsense.You wouldn’t know it from the mushrooming number of deaths and infections in West Africa, but Ebola is rather difficult to contract. The virus is not airborne, like SARS. You have to come in contact with an infected person’s bodily fluids — blood, vomit, feces, urine, sweat, saliva — to get it and that has to occur when he or she is showing the symptoms of infection: high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, bright red eyes. This is why Liberians and health workers, not journalists, have been the virus’s more than 3,000 victims.Last edited by TheMatrix31; 10-03-2014, 03:33 AM.Comment
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Yeah.....the air was safe at the WTC too.
...and it's safe to drill in the Gulf.
...anyone remember those statements?
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When was that cleanup pick from? If it's from yesterday that would mean it sat in the Texas sun for 2 days. I have no facts to back this up, but I would imagine it had died by then. Was it confirmed it was even vomit? And not just a crew doing precautionary cleanup of the area?Comment
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Re: Ebola
this statement was made years ago though.
Ebola wasn't just discovered this year. It's not even the first outbreak. You're going back like 40 years for that. It's tried and true, other than extreme circumstances, it's very unlikely to catch it through the air.
I remember doing a report on ebola and marburg (an almost identical virus) in high school... I was no "A" student in HS, and I didn't even finish reading the book that the report was on... but I do remember checking a variety of academic sources and I distinctly remember reporting the lack of capabilities for air transmission.Last edited by Bobhead; 10-03-2014, 12:43 PM.Comment
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Regarding Ebola being/becoming airborne I just stumbled across this article from today's London Telegraph
The UN's chief of Ebola mission Anthony Banbury said Ebola could become airborne in a 'nightmare scenario' but leading scientists have slammed his remarks saying this has never happened and suggesting it is 'irresponsible'.
Mr Banbury was speaking exclusively to the Telegraph as predictions were made that Ebola could have infected 1.4m people by January.
He said the longer the virus is in humans the greater the chance it could mutate. He said the virus being spread through the air was a 'nightmare scenario' but that it 'could not be ruled out'.
However leading British scientists have rounded on him saying his comments are a distraction and accused him of spreading panic.
Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, said: "To suggest that Ebola could become airborne is completely irresponsible.
"The way the virus is spreading is consistent with what we've seen in all previous 25 outbreaks, only transmitting through blood and bodily secretions. There is no precedent for a virus changing its mode of transmission so drastically.
"Other viruses such as HIV – which transmit in the same way, have passed through millions of humans, and are known to mutate more than Ebola – have not become airborne. Making such claims is an unwelcome distraction from the urgent need to scale up the international response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in West Africa."
Dr Ben Neuman, Lecturer in Virology at University of Reading, said: “Ebola is found in the bloodstream, which is part of what makes it so difficult to transmit compared to other viruses. To become airborne, Ebola would need to fundamentally change the way it grows. That is very unlikely in my opinion.
“Evolution can be unpredictable, but there is no good reason to expect that Ebola will become more dangerous with time. Severe diseases like Ebola often happen when a virus clashes with a brand new host for which it is poorly adapted. Recent experience with H1N1 swine flu shows that viruses are likely to mellow as they adapt to their new hosts.
“There is no evidence that Ebola can spread via the air in the real world. Ebola can only be transmitted through the air under carefully controlled lab conditions. One clue that emphasises how different Ebola is from flu is how slow the virus is spreading. Compared to this Ebola outbreak, the H1N1 swine flu had already spread to an estimated 10,000 times as many people in its first ten months.”
Dr Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust, added that a sense of proportion should be kept when discussing Ebola.
“The chances of Ebola becoming airborne are extremely small. I am not aware of any viral infection changing its mode of transmission. It’s important we retain a sense of proportion and not exaggerate the risks for it changing and becoming airborne," he told the Telegraph. "There is already enough fear and panic surrounding this epidemic.
"Of more concern is that the virus could become endemic in Western Africa, so unlike big outbreaks like this we could have smaller numbers of cases but circulating continuously. This is where we need to focus our efforts and attention – on trying to stop this outbreak before it establishes itself in Western African countries.”
Mr Banbury, who has served in the UN since 1988, said that the epidemic was the worst disaster he had ever witnessed.
“We have never seen anything like it. In a career working in these kinds of situations, wars, natural disasters – I have never seen anything as serious or dangerous or high risk as this one. I’ve heard other people saying this as well, senior figures who are not being alarmist. Behind closed doors, they are saying they have never seen anything as bad,” he said.
He is leading a mission to Africa with the aim of getting the outbreak under control within 90 days.
He added: “There is a limited window of opportunity. We need to hit it and we need to hit it hard. We haven’t done that but we are doing it now.
"Certainly we are late but the expectation is that we are not too late. We are going to have a very big, fast effort … I have never seen the UN move at this speed or with such co-ordination. We are seeing the kind of response we need, but yes, it’s a bit late.”
The latest figures from the World Health Organisation show that as of last week there 7178 cases, with 3,338 deaths. Countries affected are Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone.Member of the Official OS Bills Backers Club
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The media is blowing this way out of proportion. The flu kills more people than this.Comment
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Too many people watched Outbreak (which had a fictional ebola-like virus that was airborne)....ebola spreads like wild fire in 3rd world countries due to the lack of medical infrastructure. In 1st world countries....it'll be stopped in its tracks (as long as hospital employees don't overlook the fact a guy who is from ground zero of the ebola outbreak is running a fever and send him home).Comment
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Have you guys heard how mishandled stuff has been with this?
Yeah, it can be stopped in its tracks. It won't be.Comment
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