Ebola warning: CDC tells airlines to 'treat all body fluids as infectious'

The Washington Examiner ^ | September 21, 2014 | Paul Bedard

[jonrick46]

Don’t use the airplane toilet.

[exDemMom]

Treat all body fluids as though they are infectious.

I would hope that is standard procedure on airlines all the time. You don't need an outbreak of Ebola to have infectious bodily fluids; if someone is vomiting and having diarrhea, I'll assume infectivity unless proven otherwise. Although allergies and food poisoning can cause those symptoms without being infectious, why take any chances?

[NonValueAdded]

So General Ripper was right???

[Old Yeller]

I have allegories and when they are bad, I cough and sneeze a lot. Flying with this mob in power would be an ordeal.

That could be symbolic of a more worse condition.

[daniel1212]

If they treated HIV, and thus those who are responsible for 79% of new HIV infections, more like Ebola then we would not have over half a million Americans and 25+ mil worldwide dead due to it.

[roadcat]

Exactly what type of cleaner do they use on the cloth seats?

I don't know. I saw a report on the news last week mentioning differences between airlines, in how fastidious they are in cleaning planes between flights. United is sloppy. I'll have to ask someone I know working at United and see what they say. Funny thing is that people wipe down shopping carts at the supermarket with anti-bacterial wipes, but give no thought to just plunking themselves down in an airline seat a stranger recently vacated - and touch everything that stranger had touched. I mean, do you know if that stranger washed their hands after hitting the toilet? Or whether that stranger had the sniffles?

[VerySadAmerican]

Speaking of grocery carts. I always pay special close attention to the place where the toddler’s legs sit. I get sick thinking about the diapers that were in my cart a little while ago.