Ebola can spread like 'forest fire,' US warns

Yahoo News ^ | July 29, 2014 | By Kerry Sheridan

[garjog]

""The likelihood of this outbreak spreading beyond West Africa is very low," admitted Stephan Monroe, deputy director of the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases."

[metmom]

Could Ebola hit SA?

http://www.health24.com/Medical/infectious-diseases/Ebola/Why-is-Ebola-so-contagious-20140728

How is Ebola transmitted?

Ebola is spread by coming into contact with the bodily fluids of infected animals or individuals, or people who died from the disease. This includes sweat, blood and saliva.

The infectious potential of the disease is such that coming into contact with a single drop of sweat or spit from an infected person - and then transmitting the virus to your nose or mouth when you touch these organs - could cause a completely healthy to become infected.

It is also often transmitted to medical personnel via hypodermic needles used in treating patients with Ebola fever, and to lab personnel who handle samples.

There are several strains of Ebola. Genome sampling of infected patients has suggested that the current outbreak is due to the Zaire strain, which is the deadliest strain known to man.

The disease can also be caught from infected animals. According to the WHO, animals that may carry the illness include Gorillas, monkeys, fruit bats and porcupines. Infected fruit bats in particular have been known to travel as far as New Zealand and do not show any symptoms of the disease.

Ebola Incubation Period
http://ebola.emedtv.com/ebola/ebola-incubation-period.html

The Ebola incubation period is the period of time between infection with the Ebola virus and the appearance of symptoms associated with the disease. The Ebola incubation period can be as short as 2 days or as long as 21 days.

Ebola Incubation Period: An Overview

When a person becomes infected with the Ebola virus, the virus enters the body and begins to multiply. The virus can travel in the blood to almost any part of the body, including the:

Liver
Spleen
Pancreas
Thyroid gland
Lungs
Kidneys
Skin
Brain

After four to six days on average, symptoms of Ebola can begin. The period between the transmission of the virus and the start of Ebola symptoms is called the Ebola incubation period. The Ebola incubation period can be as short as 2 days or as long as 21 days.

Is a Person Contagious During the Ebola Incubation Period?

Even if a person exhibits no signs or symptoms of Ebola, he or she can still spread the virus during the Ebola incubation period. Once Ebola virus symptoms begin, the person can remain contagious for about three more weeks.

[PA Engineer]

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[PA Engineer]

Looks like a good time to begin some really serious medical prepping and getting ready to hunker down and avoid as much contact with others as possible until this thing shows signs of burning out.

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[Smokin' Joe]

Recall the Georgia Guidestones.

Someone went to great trouble and expense to erect them, someone is working toward that end.

100 million is a scant start...

[Smokin' Joe]

This is the worst outbreak, all because it has spread from more remote regions to large cities.

IIRC, this outbreak was first recognized in large cities--exactly the opposite from typical Ebola outbreaks, which start in the countryside.

[EBH]

The question is ...would 0bama let that happen? Would the Democrats let that happen?

Millions left to starve in a quarantined city, county etc.

I think not. There won’t be necessarily a Mad Maxx scene unless the uneducated masses panic. No, there will be a quarantine and martial law, controlled food distribution etc. and death wagon to dispose of the bodies.

[fatima]

Thanks for all the pings.

[redgolum]

That is actually something discussed and talked about in certain circles.

Megadeath being good for global warming. Of course, they refuse to look at the times which mass pandemics have happened.

[roadcat]

There won’t be necessarily a Mad Maxx scene unless the uneducated masses panic.

Education has nothing to do with it. An educated mother will kill to feed and protect her children. If it's just one city, then soldiers can probably maintain control. If it's dozens of cities, all bets are off. I remember the race riots in the mid-1960s when the National Guard was trying to quell violence in SF. My home in the Mission on a hillside had a view towards downtown at the NE across to the Fillmore ghetto to the NW. Fire and smoke rising from the ghetto, and sporadic gunfire from Guardsmen weaponry. Scary, and that was just one small neighborhood. Hard to see how they would maintain control citywide when food and supplies are constrained, while disease is rampant.

[EBH]

I was saying just last week that the kids crossing the border were being purposely infected...and then distributed to all 50 states.

We could be in a rough ride this fall...

[EBH]

Boston Marathon, that’s how.

People will be too scared to be out in the street rioting IMHO.

[EternalVigilance]

What a prescient man he was.

[roadcat]

People will be too scared to be out in the street rioting IMHO.

Perhaps so, maybe you're right. But we haven't faced an epidemic in cities in almost a hundred years, and that was simply the Spanish flu which killed more in a year than the Black Death in a century. Hard to say what will happen.

Boston was an anomaly, people really didn't have much to fear in the long term, so they could hunker down inside their homes. I've done ride-alongs with cops to the SWAT facilities in SF, path through a ghetto. They told me to slither down a bit, because sometimes a pot-shot is taken at them from the hills. In a SHTF scenario, even the cops will be scared to be out on the streets. They have impressive SWAT equipment, but not for a citywide scenario. It will take a heavy military presence to keep order and that will take time to deploy.

[EBH]

I think have been deployed just about everywhere these days....

[roadcat]

Salinas? WTH? To handle kids with BB guns? In the old days the military was nearby with equipment like that. My dad was a sergeant major in the National Guard and would take me to the armory in downtown SF back in the 1950s. Lots of eye candy in a facility covering an entire block. Not to mention the Presidio, Treasure Island and Alameda Island where we would often go. He often parked a jeep in front of our house in the Mission district and I was envied by my friends. Military facilities have all been chased out of town since then. Now cops have the goodies.

[garjog]

” probably wipe out 90% of the population, mostly urban, mostly stupid. “

Silver lining: it would give the Red States an electoral advantage.

[garjog]

“the kids crossing the border were being purposely infected...and then distributed to all 50 states.”

A massive pandemic would be justification for suspension of all election and the necessity for keeping Obama in office until the emergency over.