Posted on 10/01/2014 9:59:34 PM PDT by Kartographer
My question also.
Funny and not funny all at the same time. Clever though.
Zinc too.
Gallows humor.
Gotta keep laughing or you might start screaming.
Throw in some Turmeric and Selenium, too.
[have you been snooping in my cupboards?]
So I'll make a deal with you. Go to someone's house who gets Ebola and has a dog. Get there within 3 days of diagnosis. Let the dog lick your face several times. Get three "doggie kisses." Record it.
I'll give you $1,000 if you don't die from Ebola within 3 months. Heck, even if you get Ebola and survive, I'll pay up as a bonus for being that tough.
If my positing this as a possible vector is so ridiculous, your only problem for cashing in a quick grand is finding someone who has Ebola and a dog. Bet that won't be too hard in about 6 months. Free money!
I am half tempted to make this a real binding offer, but since you taking this bet and dying would weigh on my soul, I just can't. So yup, you're right, dogs as a vector is a stupid idea and I'm an idiot. OK?
But that is exactly correct and what we are told in training in the field - droplet precautions are 3 feet. I wouldn't even say long term proximity. I would say just exposure.
It stops someone who is symptomatic and contagious from boarding a flight. Of course, the disease can manifest at any time in a person who is incubating the disease.
Once symptoms appear, the person grows progressively more contagious.
Given that the CDC is pushing recommendations to every health facility in the country to watch out for travelers from West Africa, I'm betting staff at that hospital is undergoing a lot of remedial training about paying attention to travel histories. And admissions protocols are being reviewed right now. The patient should have been admitted the first time he showed up.
Everyone move out, building demolished and area completely clean with whatever kills that virus.
Yes he knew. Posted he should be indicted, tried quickly and left to die (or executed) for infecting others. We'll see who gets hit next.
lol
Thanks for the info.
Yep - and I've had cases where I felt fine when I woke up to end up feeling ill and having a fever before lunch...false sense of security with the temp checks.
To some small extent. The virus first enters some local area and attacks those local immune cells. Then the body's immune system recognizes the attack and kicks into fever with expanded blood supply that picks up the infection. At that point it spreads through the body attacking the inside of the blood vessels.
The early replication has to be in the localized area so shedding viruses from other parts of the body is unlikely at that point. Once the virus spreads in the blood stream the virus is shed from all over the body.
+1
I read an article last night about dogs in a previous break out in Gabon. The dogs that were tested were without symptoms, but has the antibodies for the virus. Their infection rate was, roughly, the same as the surrounding humans.
There was no definitive proof that the virus was spread from dogs. However, there was ample evidence that the dogs were infected, and dogs might be able to pass it through licking, grooming, or biting.
He knew he had exposure to the virus, but was in denial about the contagiousness and progression of the disease. Obviously he never mentioned ebola in the first visit to the hospital. Probably figured he would fight it off himself or didn’t really accept that he had it.
He simply could not have made the decision to come to the US after being probably exposed.
The ticket was purchased two weeks before he traveled and therefore long before exposure. The process for getting a visa probably started at least two or three months before that.
So when he got on the plane he was simply implementing longstanding plans.
Though arguably he should have made the decision not to travel for fear of contaminating unaffected people. Although it's unclear why we should expect individual foreigners to impose travel restrictions on themselves the US government isn't bothering to impose.
Maybe nobody cleaned it up? Supposedly it can’t live long outside a body an sunlight will kill the virus.
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