Ebola coverage is such a joke and just so much ginning up for the sole purpose of Neilson ratings.
Ebola transmits much the same way as AIDS and MRSA.
Not very well.
The transmit requires specific circumstances and is nothing, in terms of infection like influenza, as far as propagation.
Is it terrible? Sure but, if you are identified at the proper time of its arc, before its apogee and can receive hydration as well remedies for lung infection, it can be beat.
AIDS and MRSA have no cure, like Ebola but, we have the ability to help the body fight back, extend life and possibly reduce detectable levels to zero or a manageable level, improving quality of life and extending it.
Do you believe if Duncan had helped carry his dying pregnant neighbor who had AIDS he would have gotten AIDS? There is some similarity in the Ebola and HIV viruses, both enveloped RNA. But AIDS patients don't turn into virus factories where every blood vessel in the body and several major organs like the liver are doing nothing but produce new copies of the virus. Second, like HIV, Ebola attacks immune cells but also uses the immune response to gain entry to the blood stream. A strong immune system doesn't help, and can make the spread of the disease more rapid in the victim with a very small window for the treatments you described.
Because of those factors, Ebola is much more dangerous than HIV.
Well, not to worry, they’ve quit ginning it up for now.
If someone gave me a choice between getting the flu and Ebola, I’d pick the flu. YMMV
Wow. You are just a mess of misinformation. MRSA can and is cured by antibiotics, and there are several of them that work. An individual can remain colonized, but many of us are also colonized with it, and if really needed the colonization can also be eradicated with medicated showers and nasal ointment.
There is no particular treatment for “lung infection” with ebola, what ends up killing you is multi organ failure (with kidney and liver leading the way) due to clotting and bleeding in the major organs. The lungs get in on the fun too, but there is no treatment other than supportive. Hydration has nothing to do with preventing death other than supporting the patient generally to see if the body can survive the infection.
It is much easier to contract than HIV. I and all the health care workers I know have treated hundreds of patients with HIV without contracting the disease, with fairly minimal precautions. Ebola has already infected at least 2 health care workers taking elaborate precautions (far greater than we ever did with HIV).
Other than that you are right on.