OK, but haven't you heard of exponential growth? It will be a hockey stick once things get hot.
Posted on 07/30/2014 8:56:42 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Amid fears of a global Ebola epidemic, the feds are keeping a close eye on passengers arriving at JFK and other international airports in the United States to quarantine anyone showing signs of the deadly virus.
And the city’s Health Department alerted doctors and other health providers to immediately report anyone they suspect might have the disease.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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
However most of the NHS doctors were on strike last week.
Working conditions? Aversion to being quarantined?
90% death rate. If the virus were to mutate, we’d be in deep doo doo.
The really scary thing is that several thousand people travel between West Africa and Europe every day via air. Nigeria has several flights to London daily. I have no idea if it is communicable via aerosolized droplets from coughing or sneezing but if it is we could have a hell of a problem. I shudder to think of this virus being used as a biological weapon if it can be weaponized which I pray it can not.
It extreme lethality in the past before mass air transport assured it would be local. You stayed local and you died local and thus the vector died.
I have also read that the idea that more modern healthcare can handle Ebola better isn't really accurate. We MAY be able to contain it better - with more people going to the doctor and hospital (and then put in quarantine) than in some of these African nations where they don't trust the hospitals.
Of course, if you think that going to the hospital for your touch of flu might mean you go into quarantine for 23 days, or until you die, we might start distrusting our hospitals too.
The Soviets/Russians, Chinese, and Iranians have weaponised Ebola, Smallpox, Marbug, and other nasties.
But, the virus can spread during the incubation period when there are no symptoms!
“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.” http://ebola.emedtv.com/ebola/ebola-incubation-period.html
“When you sneeze aren’t those same water molecules mixed with mucus flying out of your nose and mouth the same thing as saliva?”
Same goes when you breathe. Just being near a person’s breath would be enough .
OK, but haven't you heard of exponential growth? It will be a hockey stick once things get hot.
“The Soviets/Russians, Chinese, and Iranians have weaponized Ebola”
Could this be an attack by Iran?
Don’t they chant “Death to America!” daily?
No, just a few days in dried material...not 23. More like 2 or 3 days.
Record numbers of healthcare professionals are getting sick this time around. Something is different.
“Just being near a person’s breath would be enough.”
I think I read where the actual droplets drop out after three feet or so. But it isn’t “airborne” in the sense of traveling long distances, or through ventilation systems.
” Something is different.”
In spite of extreme use of PPE and being fully aware of what the exposure risks were/are. Mildly concerning...
Since the pharma oligarchs cannot monetize a treatment for it there will be little hysteria unlike the various other flu shots they sell. And since our ruling religion is Politically Correct Globalism we had better pray that Ebola remains the fast burning out virus it has been in the past.
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