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re: The Dallas Ebola patient has died
Posted on 10/8/14 at 11:34 am to tgrbaitn08
Posted on 10/8/14 at 11:34 am to tgrbaitn08
Oh yeah. I'm pretty sure he has a direct ticket to the crematorium. Do not pass go. Do not get embalmed.
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Posted on 10/8/14 at 11:36 am to beaver
wondering what the costs are of all this treatment and precautions, brought on mby this guy's refusal to tell the truth about his exposure. $5 million? +-?
Posted on 10/8/14 at 11:37 am to BobRoss
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Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research monkeys housed in Virginia and who later led the CDC's most far-reaching study of Ebola's transmissibility in humans, said he would not rule out the possibility that it spreads through the air in tight quarters.
Well, there's a great deal of bad information out there. The virus doesn't have a method of protecting itself from exposure to air. There is a way that other viruses do protect themselves from air and it is developing a shell. Ebola can't do that. It's not likely to do that, without mutation.
It's a blood, mucus, feces, sweat disease. It travels through liquids.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 11:42 am to Sl4m
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Ebola also thrives in cold weather. Winter is about to be here. Ebola is also killing 121 people a day on average in Sierra Leone. And the people who have dealt with the burials over there are now going on strike and leaving Ebola victims in the street.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 11:45 am to Sl4m
What about humidity?
Excuse my ignorance, but I'm not a science guy at all.
Excuse my ignorance, but I'm not a science guy at all.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 11:50 am to BobRoss
I read Ebola, A Nurse's Perspective.
Wow.
Wow.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 11:53 am to dawg4lyfe
quote:Comparing those countries to the US situation is like comparing the amount of oxygen on Earth to that of the Moon.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Ebola also thrives in cold weather. Winter is about to be here. Ebola is also killing 121 people a day on average in Sierra Leone. And the people who have dealt with the burials over there are now going on strike and leaving Ebola victims in the street.
The amount of problems that are arising while trying to contain Ebola over there is insane. A large portion of the population doesn't even believe it exists. There have been riots at quarantine areas to "rescue" relatives with Ebola. They've stolen equipment and supplies that has been used on pt's with the disease.
It is much different here.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 12:02 pm to Scruffy
I agree with that. The problem is though, When Duncan got over here, and was sent to the doctor the first time, they just wrote it off as a cold and gave him antibiotics. Sent him home. Only to check back in 2-3 days later and find out he has Ebola. How many people will fly over here with just cold like symptoms and assume it is just a cold. Could easily be misdiagnosed, especially in the early stages.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 12:05 pm to dawg4lyfe
quote:Likely not nearly as many as the media wants you to believe.
How many people will fly over here with just cold like symptoms and assume it is just a cold.
It has happened once since this entire situation in Africa started.
Also, after this event, most hospitals are educating and implementing protocols for possible exposure.
If anyone makes a statement that they have any of the possible contacts or travel history, people will react appropriately.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 12:30 pm to Sl4m
The monkeys were observed to get sick from each other from across the room, in cages. So yes, with Ebola RESTON, it COULD be airborne. But, this is not Ebola Reston, it's a different kind.
It travels through fluids. And the virus is easily caught, but difficult to spread. It's difficult to spread because of the incubation period and being able to isolate people right away that have been in contact, before they have symptoms.
BUT, it is VERY easy to catch. Have you wondered why they wear full body suits with air filters? I think sometimes they are even positively pressured so nothing can get in. Patients with it are bleeding, vomiting blood, etc. One little microscopic speck that gets on your eye, or lips, or whatever can get in you and it could be game over after that. It takes a very little number of individual ebola viruses to get infected. When biosafety level for HIV is a 2 and Ebola is a 4, the highest.
If it were me, I wouldn't go in there with a single piece of skin showing, full body suit.
It travels through fluids. And the virus is easily caught, but difficult to spread. It's difficult to spread because of the incubation period and being able to isolate people right away that have been in contact, before they have symptoms.
BUT, it is VERY easy to catch. Have you wondered why they wear full body suits with air filters? I think sometimes they are even positively pressured so nothing can get in. Patients with it are bleeding, vomiting blood, etc. One little microscopic speck that gets on your eye, or lips, or whatever can get in you and it could be game over after that. It takes a very little number of individual ebola viruses to get infected. When biosafety level for HIV is a 2 and Ebola is a 4, the highest.
If it were me, I wouldn't go in there with a single piece of skin showing, full body suit.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 12:34 pm to jmarto1
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Someone will scream racism because the black patient died and the white ones lived.
Go to the Al Sharpton facebook page. Second topic is about the Ebola patients death. Pretty much everyone their is saying this.
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