Posted on 09/22/2014 7:50:36 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, increasing their warnings on Ebola, is advising airlines and jet staff to treat all body fluids as infectious, even on domestic flights.
Treat all body fluids as though they are infectious, said the latest CDC update to airlines. The update notes that if Ebola is suspected, aircraft can be cleaned mid-flight. The update is apparently meant to stress the rights airlines have to block anyone who appears "ill" from boarding.
The agency this week suggested that the Ebola crisis could strike 500,000 by the end of January. Others note that some 200,000 Africans from nations hit by the deadly virus have visas to travel to the United States.
The CDC is getting out in front of what could be a problem in the United States if somebody with the virus slips through security checkpoints overseas and arrives in America. In addition to the new precautions to airlines, the CDC has also provided hospitals and health centers with special protocols on handling people suspected of having Ebola.
Below is the updated CDC airline advisory:
Interim Guidance about Ebola Infection for Airline Crews, Cleaning Personnel, and Cargo Personnel
Updated September 19, 2014
Purpose: To give information to airlines on stopping ill travelers from boarding, managing and reporting onboard sick travelers, protecting crew and passengers from infection, and cleaning the plane and disinfecting contaminated areas.
Key Points:
-- A U.S. Department of Transportation rule permits airlines to deny boarding to air travelers with serious contagious diseases that could spread during flight, including travelers with possible Ebola symptoms. This rule applies to all flights of U.S. airlines, and to direct flights (no change of planes) to or from the United States by foreign airlines.
-- Cabin crew should follow routine infection control precautions for onboard sick travelers. If in-flight cleaning is needed, cabin crew should follow routine airline procedures using personal protective equipment available in the Universal Precautions Kit. If a traveler is confirmed to have had infectious Ebola on a flight, CDC will conduct an investigation to assess risk and inform passengers and crew of possible exposure.
-- Hand hygiene and other routine infection control measures should be followed.
-- Treat all body fluids as though they are infectious.
Yes, unless they were to use sodium hypochlorite, or very high proof alcohol or a few other agents, little point to the cleaning if Ebola virus is dispersed except for the cosmetic value.
I have allegories and when they are bad, I cough and sneeze a lot. Flying with this mob in power would be an ordeal.
A foreign substance is injected into the precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual.
Thanks for the ping!
Hey CDC. There are no security checkpoints on 90% of our Southern border and we border some of the poorest and worst cases of medical care on the planet. Not too hard for ISIS to book an infected person into Mexico City, get on a bus to Nuevo Laredo, walk five miles outside the city and cross directly over the border unseen and unstopped. Two days and a bus ride later he is coughing up a storm in the faces of millions of New York City commuters.
Yes. I’d say about 20 feet. Any virus ejected from say a sneeze could travel at least 10 feet and then float in the air for another ten feet before coming to rest, where it could ‘survive’ for probably four hours.
Exactly what type of cleaner do they use on the cloth seats?
They would probably have to steam clean the cloth seats. Most airplanes are lucky if the seats get cleaned once a month. I think the passengers are the ones who should be wearing the haz-mat suits. Airplanes are basically huge petri dishes.
My allergies have just kicked in this season. Does this mean that mere nasal drip is enough to be kicked off a flight now?
I’d better get an Islamist robe so that I am exempt from such protocol.
Why are we permitting travel visas for people from Eboland?
We?
“Do they still have airliners that dump out their toilet waste inflight?”
Not if the Ramp Rat closed the Lav Dump properly....
“Considering that the human can eject bodily fluids almost 20 feet (sneezing, coughing), how does one keep that far away from the infected, sealed inside a metal tube ?”
Yet we let people with AIDS walk amoung us...
Treat all body fluids as though they are infectious,
There’s a Jack T. Ripper joke in there somewhere, but I’m too skeeved out to think of one at the moment.
“Your Ebola virus has no regard for human life.”
Gen. Jack D. RIPPER
...or, on the end of a 10-foot pole...
Wait, you have allegories? How does that work exactly? ;-)
But there’s nothing to worry about. Just keep importing millions of illegal third world invaders because it’s good for the economy. Obama has it all under control.
I have a friend who broke her metaphor.
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