re: Dallas County PD employee rushed to ER for Ebola symptoms *now with link*

droplets….let that word really sink in. The virus may not be airborne, but the droplets are. I’m going to digress for a second and get back to HIV and hepatitis, while I let droplets dwell in your mind. Everyone knows that HIV and Hepatitis are spread by blood contact, and sexual fluids, I don’t mean a drop of blood on the skin, or even a mucous membrane, it has to get INSIDE of you. This is why only gloves are required. HIV and hepatitis are not found in urine, stool (Some forms of hepatitis are, but you have to eat the stool to get infected) saliva, sweat, tears, or mucous. This is where some viruses are different.

The flu gets into your mucous and other secretions, Ebola tends to stay in the blood, but remember, every one of your bodily fluids are full of blood now. So a person with the flu sneezes, and now millions of little droplets (remember those guys?) shoot out of their nose at nearly mach 1, all across the room, same for a cough, all it takes is a little microscopic droplet to land in your eye, nose, mouth, or the unlikely scenario of an open wound, and you’ve now been infected, because you came in CONTACT with their bodily fluids. I see the word contact thrown around a lot, but most people think of mass amounts of contact with blood, but what they don’t realize is that contact also includes microscopic mucous and saliva droplets, each one chock full of Ebola.

Now to the second part of this, HIV only lives outside of the human body for a few seconds, maybe minutes if the quantity is high enough, Hepatitis a bit longer. That’s why you hear about the dirty needles at movie theaters and playgrounds, but never hear of an infection, before the perpetrator even leaves the theater, the HIV he left in that needle has already died. Ebola on the other hand survives quite well outside of the host, I can’t find my source again, but I believe its up to 4 days.

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So apparently doesn't even have the "classic" ebola symptoms....he just isn't feeling well.

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God I hate our media.

Well, I'm still inclined to believe the leading medical authorities on the subject, so I'm not panicking. I just find it odd, that's all.

And, TH03, it was great knowing you, brah.



Set up a Paypal account so I can send you money for comic books and chicken noodle soup while you're in quarantine.

Jesus, dude, learn how to type in paragraphs if you want people to read that

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Collin counties

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Lot of family in this area. Guess I'll be chilling solo for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

what if there are droplets floating around the air that I'm breathing. Can I suck one of those droplets ups my nose and take it into my bloodstream or straight to my brain? Does that work?

meh, collin county is one of the richest in the country. we ain't letting this poor person disease kill us

Yep. Ebola, A Nurse's Perspective. Very interesting read.

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Yep. Ebola, A Nurse's Perspective. Very interesting read.

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So, it was written by someone who is:

A. Not a doctor.
B. Most likely a woman.