Posted on 10/06/2014 12:41:41 AM PDT by GeneralSmedleyButler
“Ebola virus is detected in blood only after the onset of symptoms, usually fever. It may take up to 3 days after symptoms appear for the virus to reach detectable levels. Virus is generally detectable by real-time RT-PCR from 3-10 days after symptoms appear.”
“Specimens ideally should be taken when a symptomatic patient reports to a healthcare facility and is suspected of having an Ebola exposure. However, if the onset of symptoms is (less than) 3 days, a later specimen may be needed to completely rule-out Ebola virus, if the first specimen tests negative.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cdc.gov ...
So let me get this straight. Assuming this is good info...
You get symptoms of a bad cold or flu. You know, fever, nausea etc...
It’s going to be 3 days before tests will tell you if it’s Ebola or not...
So in the middle of flu season, during an Ebola outbreak, how do you determine which people need immediate hydration therapy, isolation and maximum care for Ebola and which ones need two aspirin and 48 hours of bed rest?
Essentially, by the time the tests show you have it, it’s already passing the best window for you to get the care you need to survive it.
Catch 22. You lose every time.
He had an ‘easily treatable’ illness and was sent home to ‘self-monitor’.
On the plane he nudged his aislemate and said his eyes were floating and in fiery pain, then threw up after/while they were moving him to the back of the craft.
Mrs. Onona was eight aisles up from him, Thank God.
Ebola testing is known for its “false negatives.”
The permutations of the mutations of the mutant Marxists could kill lots of individuals. The Center for Disease Relocation is on top of it though. Obolacare costs will necessarily skyrocket. Pay up peons.
/sarc
Interesting info posted on this thread.
The airliner’s crew were telling the passengers ‘these directions are coming from the WH.’
Apparently, if you pass the fever test by taking Ibuprofen, and the 1-hour ebola test, you have to be released.
If this guy comes up positive, likely his daughter will, too, maybe even his seatmate, remember that guy who infected a number of his staff (forgot his name).
When they said,
“It may take up to 3 days after symptoms appear for the virus to reach detectable levels. Virus is generally detectable by real-time RT-PCR from 3-10 days after symptoms appear.”
You know the “3 day period” is actually the “natural” version of the life course of Ebola, as we always understood it, in the past.
However, THIS VERSION of Ebola can be undetectable for up to 21 days.... Moreover, THIS VERSION, which the world has ever seen before popped up in 3 different cities in Western Africa AT THE SAME TIME................... THAT has NEVER happened before in the past. Thus, why some say this is a “weapons grade/manufactured in a lab” version.
Finally, I find it odd and interesting how the CDC clearly... is projecting a false confidence to the public that everything is normal and okay when it's not.
WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD THEY BE SO HELL BENT TO MAKE SURE THIS PANDEMIC HAS PLENTY OF TIME TO INFECT OUR CITIZENS? HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO DIE BEFORE THEY STOP THE FLIGHTS AND SECURE THE BORDER???
The kill ratio on it is higher too. I have read the number is anywhere between 70% to 85% of the public. Can you imagine %70 to 85% of the population of the U.S. gone??? That would be what I would expect in a nuclear attack.
Finally, the survivors will not be able to avoid the massive economic impact this would have on the not only the U.S. but the world.
We still have time to stop this, but we have to push, push, push over the next 30 days before this thing spirals out of control.
Indeed! I’m interested.
Ping. I didn’t see your name in the posts, and thought you might be interested.
Ping…
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
By contrast, the Spanish Flu (1918) had a mortality rate of 2.5%
How comforting to know...(sarcasm off)
We are in big trouble if we do not nip this in the bud soon.
Well not everytime. I mean ebola only kills 50 to 90%.
Yes, we are. Maybe we should bombard the do-nothings in Congress and get them to push it. If they can’t get things squared away and there is a disaster, at the very least they will be able to say they tried.
Unusual candor from the propaganda brigade, do I sense a crack in the Obama wall?
Even if you "just" have the flu, you may need the same high level of care that an Ebola patient would need. Influenza kills around 16,000 Americans every year--it is *not* a trivial disease. If you get a lethal infection with influenza, it actually kills faster than Ebola.
“Can you imagine %70 to 85% of the population of the U.S. gone???”
I’m not defending the US government (please folks, let’s start calling these schmucks and demanding they stop flights from the affected African countries - Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea) but that number is just way off.
You’re assuming that the ENTIRE US population would get ebola. That hasn’t even happened in Liberia.
You’re assuming that the ENTIRE US population would get ebola. That hasn’t even happened in Liberia....I doubt Liberians have the mobility we do. I doubt Liberians have HVAC like we do. I doubt Liberians have food processing plants the size of ours.
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