Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
I have spent a little time compiling links to threads about the Ebola outbreak in the interest of having all the links in one thread for future reference.
Please add links to new threads and articles of interest as the situation develops.
Thank You all for you participation.
There’s been a spate of ‘little girl’ suicide bombers lately.
Speculation some of them are the kidnapped girls.
http://www.businessinsider.com/surreal-photos-ebola-isolation-ward-2014-8
Doesn’t every community hospital have these facilities?
No?
No worries then!
Let’s just hope this isn’t distributed via the footbaths at the Hajj this year.
http://www.cnbcafrica.com/news/east-africa/2014/08/14/kenya-airways-defiant-fly/
Going by social media, Kenyans are an unhappy bunch right now.
Looks like a hotel in Caracas is under quarantine due to a Nigerian diplomat with symptoms?
(My spanish sux, anyone that’s better please elaborate if I’ve gotten it wrong)
We’ll all pray that they do just that.
If someone sweats on a surface and then you later touch that surface and then your face, you’re probably a goner.
We know so little about the virus, especially its survival outside of the body. I wonder if good old Lysol would kill the virus, since it is sold as a general disinfectant. Bleach kills it; as long as surfaces are disinfected frequently with bleach, there won't be any virus to be exposed to.
This is such a terrible virus. It is hard to even study it, since it requires such strict precautions.
The reason HIV doesn't transmit well in fomites is because the viral burden in the body is so low. It transmits in a similar manner as Ebola, but its infectivity is so much lower that fomite transmission just doesn't seem to happen.
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php
"Ebola virus is susceptible to sodium hypochlorite, lipid solvents, phenolic disinfectants, peracetic acid, methyl alcohol, ether, sodium deoxycholate, 2% glutaraldehyde, 0.25% Triton X-100, β-propiolactone, 3% acetic acid (pH 2.5), formaldehyde and paraformaldehyde, and detergents such as SDS"
So yes, lysol would do the trick. The question is how concentrated would it need to be?
The problem becomes the handrails in public transportation, the ATM machines, grocery store buggy handles, and the apple fondled by someone in the store 5m before you. How many times could you reasonably disinfect these between users during rush hour?
Electronics would be trickier to disinfect probably.
And I wonder if it's susceptible to iodine since it's susceptible to chlorine. If regular old povidone did the trick that would be something found in hospitals for use on humans already.
They’re getting the meme in place...scared of ebola? It’s just because you’re a rotten xenophobe.
Recent reports indicate that efforts to limit movement from heavily impacted rural regions in Liberia have not prevented flow of cases into Monrovia. Moreover, recent reports have cited bodies in the streets of two of Monrovia’s slums, West Point and Clara Town, which may represent a fraction of infected and/or fatal cases in these densely populated regions.
WHO has noted barriers to control, which included infections and deaths of a large number of health care workers and closing of hospitals, resulting in bed shortages and treatment limitations.
These recent developments raise concerns of a literal “death spiral”.
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/08151401/Ebola_Liberia_Death_Spiral.html
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