Posted on 07/30/2014 8:11:38 PM PDT by pops88
A top official at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos, has said that one of the people who helped the 40-year-old Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, on the Monrovia-Lome and Lome-Lagos flight may have been infected with the virus.
The reliable source, who is also on the team of experts monitoring the testing and surveillance of persons who have had contact with the late Liberian victim in Lagos, told our correspondent on Wednesday, that although they had yet to confirm, the person was showing feverish symptoms similar to that of Ebola virus.
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I think people would actually cooperate more than most think. I don’t think Americans are the wimps so many say they are.
Yes, but really, it simply isn’t right that our doctors are treated like this.
There are a lot of things that were done for thousands of years, but ended in the 20th century. Anti-Semitism used to be fashionable and attacking Jews was considered a past time, but now it’s considered racist and wrong.
At some point, you drop customs that don’t work because they are indeed backward and their eating bush-meat is what jump started yet another outbreak, which is spreading into a full blown pandemic spreading around the world. At what point are they going to learn?
Everyone is paying the price for their deliberate ignorance.
Thanks, caww. The more facts we have the less hype, and that means we can more properly assess any risk, personal or otherwise, in view of developments.
500 years. It takes about that long for a tribal culture to begin to stop being tribal. In some cases, that isn’t long enough.
From the view of the people, the doctors are spreading the disease. Someone goes to them, and is totally destroyed.
Ebola is just one international flight away from the United States. Just one flight away!
Think about that.
“It’s not spread thru the air...it’s touching body fluids...which includes sweat.”
Then why are health care workers wearing face masks?
How is it that even with face masks, gloves, boots and full body cover over 50 health care workers have died?
Psst.... mucous is a body fluid and is aerosolized by sneezing. It only takes 2 - 6 virus organisms to infect a person. The virus can live outside a host for 60 hrs.
This strain has repeatedly jumped containment and will continue to do so because the vectors are not yet fully known or understood.
Brace for impact!
Sometimes you just can’t fight stupid. I feel sorry for the people there who do have some brains and are trying to fight this ignorance.
Back in the 1970s, I knew someone who joined the Peace Corps because he wanted to help in an African country. He had some medical knowledge, so he was sent to work at a hospital in Zimbabwe.
He came home early because he could not take dealing with the backwardness in the hospital. One example that I can easily recall is that the workers in the hospital — no matter how many times they were instructed otherwise — would take disposable syringes out of their sterile packaging and wash them in water.
All flights in and out of countries with Ebola need to be stopped.
Interesting. Are you talking about the entire tribe? I was thinking of a single person from a tribal culture.
Give or take a generation for prenatal influences to change, I think a couple of generations should do it. IE: If we adopted an infant at birth from an Amazon tribe, that kid would have some tribal inclinations, but after being raised in Western culture from the get-go, married to a Westerner, their child would probably have a thoroughly Western mindset. Pure speculation on my part--I don't know a whole lot about genetic influences.
And not counting the social conditioning heaped on: "Your tribal roots are who you are." That conditioning is holding a lot of people back-- American Indians among others. Islamists too.
I will not take credit for the theory, I picked up from either Tonyabee or Will Durant's books, but it is a general guide.
Cultures change very slowly. Even among immigrant populations. One of the reasons I have the life outlook I do is that my people came from Saxony and York. Something I would have never noticed till I had people from those regions comment on it.
Now, I am also very much an American, but the shift is very slow. Genetics has some part to it, but not totally.
Interesting that EBOLA now becomes the “hot button” at the same time that Michele Obama is drumming out the “FOCUS IS ON AFRICA”.
Now this isn't to say Ebola isn't a nasty issue......but any thing that is a ‘crisis’ moment or is made into one....should always be looked at in how it's being used politically before..during.. and after....because the name of the game is .....”Redistribution of Wealth” Nationally and most importantly Internationally...and that by any means available or devised.
It's worse than this....they re-use them on patients. Which of course spreads disease.
There's such a scarcity of medically trained staff, (and supplies), that locals are brought in to assist, who bring with them their beliefs and superstitions. So even the training that is given doesn't address these superstitions which will always trump medicine.
I read a very detailed description where the writer used lay-mans terms throughout. Explained the breakdown of the body ‘internally’....from tissue to cells and blood. It's far too graphic in description to bring here I think....but Ebola moves rapidly and hits pretty much ‘everything’...rather like a 'Purana' multiplying and working it's way thru the body.
While this administration has manufactured many crises to utilize for cover or an excuse for looting, it surely would take advantage of any naturally occurring one.
Absolutely Joe...I see you’re up to par! There’s going to be “lots of hands” in this pot brewing on the front burner now.
I’m sorry to hear about your dear friend’s frustration. He did the right thing in giving up and he was smart to give up on them. The Liberians are in fact the reason this happened and I thank God (as far as I know) that bush-meat isn’t widely consumed, but it’s only a matter of time until someone comes over here and ends up selling it, or brings it for their own consumption. Then a lovely outbreak of Ebola erupts in this country.
Their stupidity with AIDS as well, still raping infants and young girls because they cling to superstitious myths.
It is suspected that Reston went airborne since other monkeys in other rooms at the facility where Reston was first identified also got sick and died. However, there are other ways they could have been exposed—for instance, caretakers could have carried virus on their clothing.
I do not think that it has been definitively established that Reston was airborne.
Ebola is not spread through the air the way that influenza spreads. However, bodily fluids can become aerosolized through handling—for instance, pulling bloody sheets off a bed can cause tiny infected droplets to spread through the air. The force of vomit hitting a surface can cause tiny droplets to form.
They wear the protective gear to protect against transmission through droplets and direct contact.
The health care workers who became ill may not have been wearing proper PPE. Not all of them do, judging by the pictures.
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