Ebola has spread across the globe: ...officials try to trace 30,000 linked to death of US victim

Daily Mail UK ^ | 7/29/14 | Lizzy Parrie

[driftdiver]

Bodily fluids include semen, blood, sweat, vomit, sneezes, coughs ( they spray fluid as an aerosol), feces and it can live for 5 days at room temperature as a dried spec on a hard surface.

[Mastador1]

Ever read “The Hot Zone”? (Richard Preston). I read it back in the 90s. Scared the bejeezus out of me. I’m not looking forward to this.

Neither am I but I find a little levity, at least for me, helps dealing with situations like this. It does not mean I lack awareness of the ability of a disease to spread like wildfire across the globe with our fast mass transit abilities.

[Vince Ferrer]

Jim Iyke’s reaction to flee the area is very natural, but people fleeing the area is exactly what will spread the disease.

[Myrddin]

Handling infected persons and dead bodies gives rise to creation of infected aerosols. It takes 10 virus particles to initiate an infection. Infected persons are sneezing, coughing, vomiting, have diarrhea and are bleeding from many orifices. The "lifestyle" is living outside a Level 4 bio-hazard suit.

[Kartographer]

Did someone say aliens?

[AnAmericanAbroad]

Here’s a preview of a possible future - the fun starts at 30 seconds.

http://vimeo.com/58434926

[Jeff Chandler]

EBOLAPHOBE!

[tumblindice]

Yeah, I was thinking they might come here and claim asylum, it being so dangerous there.
Obamagumbe would promise to deport them, after settling them next door to you.

[TangledUpInBlue]

NOT correct.

Man, the ignorance out there is amazing.

[LadyBuck]

LGBT would be my first guess, followed by day-care workers.

“Skilled” nursing facilities will be decimated, too.

I’ve seen their protocols.

Employees and residents will pass along the virus, along with anyone dumb enough to visit.

This will be a share & share alike thing. Enough to make ObamaCare suddenly affordable, or unneccessary...

[driftdiver]

According to the Canadian Health Dept it can survive for days dried up on a table. Takes 5 minutes of boiling to kill it. Disinfectants do also work. A few as 1 organism can result in an infection.

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php

[miss marmelstein]

Went through all of this horror during the very beginning of the AIDs crisis in NYC when nobody knew what was going on. In retrospect, there was not much to worry about but who knew in the early 80s?

[Doomonyou]

later

[DoughtyOne]

I do think this needs to be watched, but the coverage is becoming somewhat hysterical IMO.

How many times over the last five years have we been led to believe massive portions of human populations were going to be lost due to some disease or another?

30,000 linked...

Good grief!

[lee martell]

You’ve just given me a homework assignment. Now, I’m curious as to what Weyland-Yutani means. Hmmm, says here Weyland -Yutani, a large FICTITIOUS conglomerate aka ‘The Company” is involved in Weapons Research and Development. Very interesting and quite elaborate in it’s detail.

[Kartographer]

SURVIVAL OUTSIDE HOST: The virus can survive in liquid or dried material for a number of days (23). Infectivity is found to be stable at room temperature or at 4°C for several days, and indefinitely stable at -70°C (6, 20). Infectivity can be preserved by lyophilisation.

Public Health Agency of Canada

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php

[Kartographer]

You beat me to it!

[driftdiver]

I have a project starting in a large public hospital. Very large immigrant population. This has me scared.

[DonaldC]

It was said aids was a bio warfare agent back in the day but I always thought it was too slow, but this is another thing altogether.

[PghBaldy]

There has never been a cure for a virus.