Posted on 08/15/2014 5:53:42 AM PDT by null and void
Persons with no known exposure were present in an EVD outbreak affected country* in the past 21 days with no low risk or high risk exposures.
1 Casual contact is defined as a) being within approximately 3 feet (1 meter) or within the room or care area for a prolonged period of time (e.g., healthcare personnel, household members) while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment (i.e., droplet and contact precautions–see Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations); or b) having direct brief contact (e.g., shaking hands) with an EVD case while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment (i.e., droplet and contact precautions–see Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations). At this time, brief interactions, such as walking by a person or moving through a hospital, do not constitute casual contact.
* Outbreak affected countries include Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Lagos, Nigeria, as of 4-August-2014
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...
You need to re-read what you linked to.
As you copied and pasted it, it seemed nonsensical to me.
So I followed your link to the CDC site.
The context of the pasted paragraph was the last in a descending order of contacts that would need surveiled, i.e. those with no contact would have least likelihood of developing ebola.
This is not to say that I take as truth everything on CDC site, but I think you misunderstood what they were stating there.
Mrs AV
Hmmmm. I think you are correct. Thanks.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thanks for the ping!
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