Kent Brockman: So, professor, would you say it’s time for everyone to panic?
Professor: Yes I would, Kent.
Posted on 10/02/2014 9:25:25 AM PDT by servo1969
Public health officials in Texas acknowledged the possibility that someone else could contract Ebola, widening their search Thursday for 100 individuals possibly exposed to the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S.
According to the Dallas County Health and Human Services, this group of 100 potential contacts were identified by the group of 12-18 people who first came into contact with the infected man, identified as Thomas Eric Duncan.
“It’s constantly evolving, people are going to get added, people are going to get dropped off,” Dallas County Health and Human Services spokeswoman Erikka Neroes told FoxNews.com. “How many people will contract Ebola, we don’t know that. [There’s a] possibility someone may. We’re out there working to make sure [it’s] under control.”
Five schools in the Dallas Independent School District sent letters home with parents informing them that a student at the individual schools may have been in contact with the Ebola patient. The five students— none of whom showed symptoms— were told to stay at home away from school. The letters noted that “there is no imminent danger to your child.”
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Kent Brockman: So, professor, would you say it’s time for everyone to panic?
Professor: Yes I would, Kent.
Here is an interesting twist:
So, we know the guy was in contact with at least 100 people.
What if not a single person outside his family contracts the disease?
What if nobody in his family contracts the disease?
What are the implications?
I’ll be honest: I still see this as a primarily 3rd world disease.
We got lucky?
Low Balled
The five children that he was directly in contact with were his girlfriend’s five children. They must have all gone to different schools. Great.
Wonder what his girlfriend thinks of him now?
Agreed. We have recent demonstrations that this is not simple to catch. The spread can be shut down.
Although the first patient, a businessman named Patrick Sawyer, was vomiting on his flight in, none of the roughly 200 others on the plane fell ill. Others did after helping him into a taxi to a hospital.
And a patient in Port Harcourt went to her church and became violently ill during a ceremony in which the congregation laid hands on her. But none became infected.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/health/ebola-outbreak-in-nigeria-appears-to-be-over.html?_r=1
While the danger in Nigeria is not over, the health minister, Dr. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said in a telephone interview that his country was now better prepared, with six laboratories able to make diagnoses and response teams and isolation wards ready in every major state.
After the first patient — a dying Liberian-American — flew into Lagos on July 20, Ebola spread to 20 other people there and in a smaller city, Port Harcourt.
They have all now died or recovered, and the cure rate — 60 percent — was unusually high for an African outbreak.
The last confirmed case was detected on Aug. 31, and virtually all contacts have passed the 21-day incubation period without falling ill.
Then make him be the guinea pig for getting antibodies from in order to fight this. It’s the least he could do after all this.
If that happened, the case for keeping the “Washington Redskins” as the footbal team name could no longer be defended.
Primary, or primary plus secondary? If it includes secondary then at least some kids at those schools would be on the list, but that's not mentioned in the article. So maybe it is primary plus close secondary.
As Ebola Grips Liberia’s Capital, a Quarantine Sows Social Chaos
Apparently many in LIBERIA were just ignoring the quarantine, like Duncan did.
Dr Brantly and Nancy Writebol were the American missionaries working in Liberia who were diagnosed over the summer with Ebola. They are Caucasian. I think if they got Ebola, potentially any American could. We just don’t know enough, and with potential mutations, we may never know enough to simply call this just a Third World disease.
There medical care facilities were overwhelmed as they were greatly lacking to begin with.
The point is not the race of those exposed, it is how the infected are treated.
This is like watching the Keystone Cops of the medical world!
Dr Brantly and Nancy Writebol were the American missionaries working in Liberia who were diagnosed over the summer with Ebola. They are Caucasian. I think if they got Ebola, potentially any American could. We just don’t know enough, and with potential mutations, we may never know enough to simply call this just a Third World disease.
And what was the fate of those two once they received “western” care?
OUR SOLDIERS ARE TRAINED TO FIGHT HUMAN ENEMIES, NO LETAL VIRUS.. By SENDING 3,000 SOLDIER TO CONFRONT CERTAIN DEATH BY LETAL VIRUS WITHOUT PROPER PROTECTION OBAMA IS ENDANGERING THE LIVES OF OUR SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILY IF THEY RETURN TO U.S. INFESTED BY THE VIRUS.
From Pigs to Monkeys, Ebola Goes Airborne
Nov 21, 2012 | Jane Huston | Research & Policy – See more at:
When news broke that the Ebola virus had resurfaced in Uganda, investigators in Canada were making headlines of their own with research indicating the deadly virus may spread between species, through the air.
Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, the University of Manitoba, and the Public Health Agency of Canada, observed transmission of Ebola from pigs to monkeys. They first inoculated a number of piglets with the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus. Ebola-Zaire is the deadliest strain, with mortality rates up to 90 percent. The piglets were then placed in a room with four cynomolgus macaques, a species of monkey commonly used in laboratories. The animals were separated by wire cages to prevent direct contact between the species. Within a few days, the inoculated piglets showed clinical signs of infection indicative of Ebola infection.
In pigs, Ebola generally causes respiratory illness and increased temperature. Nine days after infection, all piglets appeared to have recovered from the disease. Within eight days of exposure, two of the four monkeys showed signs of Ebola infection. Four days later, the remaining two monkeys were sick too. It is possible that the first two monkeys infected the other two, but transmission between non-human primates has never before been observed in a lab setting.
While the study provided evidence that transmission of Ebola between species is possible, researchers still cannot say for certain how that transmission actually occurred. There are three likely candidates for the route of transmission: airborne, droplet, or fomites.
Airborne and droplet transmission both technically travel through the air to infect others; the difference lies in the size of the infective particles. Smaller droplets persist in the air longer and are able to travel farther- these droplets are truly “airborne.” Larger droplets can neither travel as far nor persist for very long.What do these findings mean? First and foremost, Ebola is not suddenly an airborne disease.
Doctor Boards Atlanta Flight In HazMat Suit To Protest “Lying CDC”
Zero Hedge ^ | 10/2/14 | Tyler Durden
“If they’re not lying, they are grossly incompetent,” said Dr. Gil Mobley, a microbiologist and emergency trauma physician from Springfield, Mo. as he checked in and cleared Atlanta airport security wearing a mask, goggles, gloves, boots and a hooded white jumpsuit emblazoned on the back with the words, “CDC is lying!” As The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, Mobley says the CDC is “sugar-coating” the risk of the virus spreading in the United States.
Panic ? Getting close to time to line some people up against a wall. Was just in a Walmart buying a bottle of spray bleach disinfectant, a big 6 foot tall west Texas cowboy picked up about 20 behind me.
Nice to know that he adapted to the local cultural norms so quickly. Or maybe that is the norm in west africa. I wonder if the chillins all had different baby daddys
just too many what ifs.
What if the exposed persons in the house give the disease to one another after they have been quarantined? What then? Will that trigger reason to believe they could have contaminated others before the quarantine?
By my calculus they have already been exposed to a person who was already contagious when he was with them and before they went to school for the requisite 2 days or more.
NO, I’m not buying wishful thinking that this is a third world disease. Not buying it at all.
It may not be as contagious as the flu but it is more deadly and we do not have any natural antibodies for it like we do the flu.
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