Posted on 10/17/2014 2:31:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the U.S. is trying to reconsider its approach to Ebola patients after several reports suggest that the fatal virus could be airborne.
Many people in the population are extremely afraid with the fact that they can acquire the deadly disease, while more than 8,000 people have been already affected since its outbreak in Guinea in late 2013. The people are even more afraid today after the news reveal that two Dallas nurse have been infected with the virus after taking care of Thomas Duncan, the first confirmed case of the deadly infection inside the U.S. What is more alarming about the news is that the health care workers were actually wearing the protective equipment during contact with Duncan; however, they still tested positive from the virus.
Although CDC already cleared that the Ebola virus can be transmitted through direct contact with the infected person's body fluids such as sweat, blood and fecal material, there are now claims trying to say that the infection is actually airborne. The news about the infection of the Dallas nurses began to build up issues, such as the real route of transmission of the virus since the health care workers were actually wearing their protective equipment, yet they are still infected.....
(Excerpt) Read more at travelerstoday.com ...
Another enormous “phail” for Mullah Obola. At least we have a political operative running the show now......
Technically, it has ALWAYS been airborne, but the regime did not want to admit it, because it might scare us peasants, and most of all, we might demand THAT THE BORDERS BE CLOSED.
A sneeze can remain in a room as long as 24 hrs, with tiny droplets lingering in the air.
If Ebola is transmitted through body fluids, then the sneeze droplets most likely will be infected with the virus, hence if you walk into that room, you can breathe in droplets containing the virus and get them on your skin.
And there it is!
Something I’ve said,and many others on FR, for 2 weeks.
Where is the nay-saying newbie who used to comment on FR about how “it’s not airborne”. A paid hack from the DNC no doubt.
It will spread as easy as norovirus, and that is one easy to catch nasty illness. Yet it is walk in a pretty flowery park, compared to the death that O’Bola has waiting for Americans.
They’ll be here soon enough to pick it apart, I’m sure.
Linkbait title... “CDC To Modify Approach in Ebola Infection As Virus Becomes Airborne”
We don’t know if it is airborne or not, but this title suggests that it is. The author needs to go back to journo school.
The Dallas hospital was incredibly inept. The nurses were not wearing full protective gear nor were trained in how to manage Ebola. They weren’t wearing sealed bio suits. There are plenty of ways they could have gotten it besides it being airborne.
Ebola-eussical, the Musical..
You cannot catch it on a Bus.
Even if you lick infected pus.
You cannot catch it from a Hug.
Harder to get than flu, this ebola bug.
You cannot catch it from a mouse.
Or rooming in an infected house.
You cannot catch it from the air.
Even on a plane ride from Zim-zam-zaire.
You can trust the Cee Dee Cee
Obama will save us, you will See....
(cough cough, Vomit Noise)
(Into the hot zone go our boys)
“A sneeze can remain in a room as long as 24 hrs, with tiny droplets lingering in the air.”
Exactly. We have always known it is airborne in that manner. That is why these people *should not be allowed to fly*!
If it is, then all forms of commercial and public transportation must be halted.
Airborne? like, Really?...............
Agreed
I'm sure as they lay bleeding out from their liquefying carcasses in their final moments, that minor technical difference between "airborne" and "floating around on droplets" will just push them over the edge.
Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts
” A paid hack from the DNC no doubt.”
There are several dozen that pop in here now and again.
The reports from West Africa for weeks and weeks have said there are many document cases of transmission with no contact whatsoever with the patient. Airborne transmission was the only explanation, and they were recommending more stringent PPE because of it.
I disagree, we are not peasants, we are serfs, since most on this board work.
What a nonsense article.
It claims there are several ‘reports’ that suggest it could be airborne, never identifies these mysterious reports and then ends with this:
Experts also suggest that although the Ebola virus has been changing its genetic makeup, it does not have the capability to become airborne.
Worthless clickbait.
Just wait until the first gay bathhouse gets it.
From Mythbusters. 17 feet for a good sneeze! Not 5.
“Droplets from a sneeze can travel up to a distance of 30 ft (9.1 m).
BUSTED
To get a visual indication of distance, Adam mixed cherry drink powder into the snuff and sneezed over a 30-foot-long strip of white paper. When this method failed to show any marks, he and Jamie tried drinking a small amount of food coloring just before sneezing. This idea worked, giving a maximum distance of 17 ft (5.2 m) for Adam and 13 ft (4.0 m) for Jamie.
Nasal secretions from a person with a cold can spread so far and so quickly that anyone in the vicinity can become contaminated.
CONFIRMED
Adam and Jamie consulted with an otolaryngologist and learned that a person with a cold may secrete up to 60 milliliters of mucus per hour. Jamie built a rig from a syringe and tubing to match that drip rate with fluorescent dye, and Adam wore it by his nose as he did model-building work. After one hour, he and everything he had touched were stained with the dye.
They then set up a party for Adam to host, with three “germaphobe” guests (Kari, Grant, and Tory, who were briefed to try to avoid contact with Adam) and three unsuspecting ones. Thirty minutes later, Adam, the whole table, and every guest except Kari – who admitted that she actually was a germaphobe – were heavily contaminated. In a second experiment in which Adam consciously did his best to avoid physical contact, all six guests came up clean.
Adam and Jamie declared the myth confirmed at this point, commenting that a healthy person would find it very difficult to avoid being contaminated by a sick one who did not attempt to keep from spreading his/her germs.”
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