Posted on 07/31/2014 11:07:53 AM PDT by Veto!
The catastrophic Ebola outbreak in West Africa may be spreading faster than health experts previously believed. Yesterday, officials in Nigeria said that they were looking for up to 59 people who may have been exposed to the lethal virus by flying on a plane with Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, who died soon after getting off a flight in Lagos.
On Wednesday, the health authorities there said that they have expanded their search from 59 people — to 30,000.
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And it can live 5 days at room temp
“This must be spreading through sexual contact, it’s moving to fast.”
Ebola spreads by “close contact” — meaning within a few feet. Generally speaking, sexual contact is a lot closer. Ergo, it could spread much, much faster than a STD.
That should be “close proximity”.
yikes
“The difference being the govt was hyping those two (SARS and SWINE Flu)...”
SARS, which had a 10% fatality rate (that’s nothing to sneeze at), was stopped by governments acting quickly to contain the outbreak and identify carriers. They were able to do that because patients showed symptoms quickly, and they were isolated before they could infect many others.
Ebola is different in that patients become infective before they show major symptoms. This deserves the same level of notice. Remember, the US doctor who is now dying of ebola was wearing protective clothing and taking serious precautions against infection but still caught it. The US aid worker who caught it was part of a decontamination team.
I would be very happy if the government hyped this.
Liberia is a country of @ 4million people. Monrovia is its major/capital city with about 1/10 of the country’s population. I don’t know that it’s ever been an international hub of travel. It has very few flights in and out to the West. And as far as I know, you can’t get a non-stop (or even one-stop) between Monrovia and New York.
Liberia was just starting to recover from its civil war. God only knows how it will overcome this Ebola situation.
Well, then that's it.
For the children of course.
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“It may swim across the Rio Grande into the country and not be detected until it’s too late.”
Exactly. A healthy percentage of those coming over the southern border are not even from this hemisphere - they come via Mexico because they know that they can get in.
Now consider this scenario: a bunch of ambitious Moslem extremists convince a few dozen of their co-religionists to commit slow suicide for Allah. They are given direct injections of blood from infected people, put on a plane not showing symptoms, and sent to Mexico to infiltrate into the U.S. Surely some will get through - and they can easily coordinate where those people go to, so as to get maximum geographical spread of the disease.
Yeah, I’m thrilled to live in San Antonio, 150 miles from the border. Time to stock up on food, water and ammo, so as to be able to survive an extended quarantine.
Quarantined? Obama has invited the leaders from the 3 countries where Ebola is spreading like wildfire to a African summit in Washington DC next week,what could go wrong,I wonder if the wife and kids will be there
So, if this outbreak is Zaire-strain-based, with only moderate genetic divergence over time, what accounts for the drop in death rates? Better supportive measures or lower mortality of the strain (could be accompanied by a greater level of infectiousness).
Potentially lower mortality.
I’m not sure how supportive measures have changed though. Maybe early testing has gotten better to start the supportive measures earlier?
This is another good article:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20341423
Ping to BBC article in 93.
Somebody thinks this thing is airborne now if they are looking for all passengers on that plane and all their contacts in the last couple of weeks.
0.002%?
Of millions is a big enough number for all sorts of shenanigans.
I’ve seen other people post that there were direct flights from Monrovia to the US. I did a search and could only find flights through Brussels. Not a major improvement.
It doesn't have to be "airborne" -- the correct term for that would be aerosolized -- if a person (passenger) coughs and another passenger inhales those complete saliva droplets including filovirus -- that is transmission even without contagion.
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