230 DOCTORS Have Died from Ebola - “Still Don’t Know How They Can Possibly Get It”
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Posted on 10/28/2014 6:26:38 AM PDT by Enlightened1
AKA those who showed no symptoms? Just like the doctor in New York moving around the city?
Excellent question. The vast majority were local nurses and medical technicians. Westerners are only a small fraction of those infected (they don't go home to their families in the area and catch it at home).
I would take into account that [if you look at photos of it being treated in Liberia], these people are working outdoors ... in tents. Their uniforms are haphazard. They get hosed down with an ordinary garden hose.
I know if I was an ebola doctor or nurse, I’d want to be working here in the USA rather than a shack in the bush.
Studies have now shown the Ebola virus can live on surfaces for days so it could be possible to come in contact with the infection when you are not taking the precautions. The virus could also be mutating into an airborne plague.
Yeah, a passive transfer. They were caring for a very sick family member, he hugs them, gets it off of their clothes.
Yes but that is droplet contamination not truly airborne virus. Semantics I know but it does make a difference. Virus done not float in the air on it’s own. It has to be attached to some body fluid
they are actually being bleached when they are being sprayed down. from a sprayer.
they also keep buckets of bleach at the doors workers step in before entering work spaces, etc.
That may be.
But I am still not impressed by their day to day operations. I don’t think we should be surprised at a higher mortality rate from a hospital like that.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
The military is the perfect environment for spreading the virus—close living quarters, ill-informed, moving around on different tours of duty, etc.
“I doubt it. There would have been much more news about it.”
You are being very naïve — it is NOT in the interest of our government to keep us informed, just the opposite. WHO verified that many healthcare workers indeed died of ebola.
UPDATE 2-Ebola death toll tops 4,900 as virus spreads - WHO
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/25/health-ebola-who-idUSL6N0SK06W20141025
“In all, 450 health care workers have been infected to date — including one in Spain and three in the United States — leading to the death of 244 of them, the WHO said.”
OH, no kidding. One, you have an overwhelmed system, they don’t have near the beds they need. No infrastructure. I keep asking why aren’t they moving these patients out of town? Like Firestone, set up shipping containers, line with plastic. But, mostly, move them out of the center of the population.
And you have a population that won’t come in for treatment until the end.
You have to admit that 244 health care workers does not equal 244 doctors. Still, it’s a high number.
CDC Says Ebola Droplets Can Only Travel 3 Feet … But MIT Research Shows Sneezes Can Travel Up to 20 Feet
Submitted by George Washington on 10/28/2014
230 DOCTORS Have Died from Ebola - “Still Don’t Know How They Can Possibly Get It”
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I don’t know.
But I think of an article I read about Mali [which is just now being mentioned with ebola] ...
But the article said that if a water buffalo or a horse walking down the street dies, no one carts it off. It stays there in the street and rots until it is just bones.
And that if a part of a building rots, it’s not fixed, it’s just left there.
Certainly, I would have to guess Liberia has no money to put towards fighting this disease. Hence, foreign troops going in now.
Skip to about 12 minutes in. The rest of it is pretty interesting, but 12 minutes in is very revealing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuSS0iiFyo
I was watching some other documentaries from there. In fact, I think the first one I watched was with these same people and I was shocked at the poverty and trash that they live in. no one is enterprising, they all just stand around waiting for someone to do it for them.
Dig a hole in the ground to be a toilet, seriously.
Exactly right. The nurses in Dallas were using ONE pair of gloves. They would take off one glove and then remove the other (likely contaminated) glove with a bare hand.
Thanks. I’ll have to watch at home ... sound broken on office computer :o(
OMG! Just watched with no sound.
The soil the beach!!! OMG ... with all the missionaries, no one has taught them!
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