Really? Do we have a guarantee on that? I just don't but that all those health care workers were so careless as to allow bodily fluids of Ebola patients to come into contact with them.
The numbers will soon start to climb, in just a week or two
we will see for sure, in three weeks we will know.
Big mistake right there, especially since they are now floating around in a city of 21 million. What could go wrong?
What the left has been saying about the US inventing AIDS and giving it to the third world...may be true about zer0 and Ebola and Western Christian countries, this could be the beginning.
backstory: it was reported that Sawyer went on a bit of a rampage after given his diagnosis. A struggle to contain him in isolation could have caused breaks in the protection worn by his attending staff. So, more likely direct contamination via blood and other body fluids than airborne. I hope that those who attended Sawyer will recover.
from:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3187612/posts
post 91
“FrontPageAfrica has now learned that upon being told he had Ebola, Mr. Sawyer went into a rage, denying and objecting to the opinion of the medical experts. “He was so adamant and difficult that he took the tubes....”
The thing about ebola is that you pretty much know if someoen has it.
Black Vomit, sloughing off the lining of the intestines and blood leaking out of every body orifice are good clues.
Read the first couple of chapters in “The Hot Zone”.
Ping...
Patient, running a fever leans on counter, touches door handles, handrails, sits in chair...and contaminates all these surfaces with sweat--and a viral load.
It only takes from one to ten organisms to infect.
The next person comes along and opens the door, leans on the counter, takes a chair...and the next...and the next.
There are likely far more common contact surfaces in an urban setting than in a very rural village, and far more opportunities to spread the disease. Ebola typically burned out or was contained in rural settings once funerary practices were overcome (in which mourners made contact with the body).
I am not so certain it can be contained in urban settings because of the multitude of common contact surfaces, surfaces which people will grab, lean on, or slide their hands along with even realizing it.
In the US, think elevator buttons, handrails, shopping carts, door handles, money, ATMs...just for starters.
I pray this never gets loose on these shores.
Life/health BUMP!
“Authorities are trying to trace and quarantine others in Lagos, sub-Saharan Africa’s largest city of 21 million people.”
And they all have ID, right?
ZEBOV (Zaire Ebola virus) has taken down a rather noticeable number of doctors and other medical employees.
Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates (Airborn)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3188965/posts
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...