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re: Dallas Ebola patient to be prosecuted, circle of contact increased to 100
Posted on 10/3/14 at 1:32 pm to Volvagia
Posted on 10/3/14 at 1:32 pm to Volvagia
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So where are these perceptions of highly contagious comes from?
Where the virus is born and spread no doubt contributes to this. I'm probably guilty of it, myself.
However, comparing public health policy between Liberia (for example) and the United States is like comparing the late 20th/early 21st Century with the fictional 23rd/24th Centuries of the Star Trek universe, medicine-wise.
This post was edited on 10/3/14 at 1:33 pm
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Posted on 10/3/14 at 1:46 pm to Ace Midnight
Which is part of my point.
You have 10,000 cases, almost all of them in Africa.
In a HORRIBLE public health environment. It is a literal nightmare of containment, with no resources to combat it, and the population insisting that Ebola doesn't exist and as a result they are breaking into clinics treating the patients and destroying them.
All of that....and 10,000 cases in nearly a year.
HIV, which is ONLY spread by bodily fluid to blood contact, has 5 times that in the US medical system, which is light years better.
And yet the media/people are trying to invent some bogeyman that this is more contagious than it actually is. Saying that there is no way that it can be just bodily fluid to blood contact.
You have 10,000 cases, almost all of them in Africa.
In a HORRIBLE public health environment. It is a literal nightmare of containment, with no resources to combat it, and the population insisting that Ebola doesn't exist and as a result they are breaking into clinics treating the patients and destroying them.
All of that....and 10,000 cases in nearly a year.
HIV, which is ONLY spread by bodily fluid to blood contact, has 5 times that in the US medical system, which is light years better.
And yet the media/people are trying to invent some bogeyman that this is more contagious than it actually is. Saying that there is no way that it can be just bodily fluid to blood contact.
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