Reporting on Ebola: First rule is you don’t touch anyone

Washington Post ^ | 10-1-14 | Lenny Bernstein

[dynachrome]

You don’t touch anyone in Liberia. Not kids, not adults, not other Westerners, not the colleagues you arrived with. It is the rule of rules, because while everyone able is taking precautions, you just can’t be sure where the invisible, lethal Ebola virus might be. Once the virus is on your fingers, it would be frighteningly easy to rub an eye and infect yourself.

Our first day of reporting took us to all of Monrovia’s treatment centers. All were full, or nearly so. Outside each one were very sick people who couldn’t get in. As I interviewed them, I stood four to six feet away, as MacDougall had suggested, in case the person I was talking to sneezed, coughed, spit or — worst of all — vomited.ourself.

[dynachrome]

Be interesting to see how he acts when he comes back. Maybe he should stay there until the outbreak is over.

[Paladin2]

Does Eb0la infect dogs?

[dynachrome]

From the article:

“You wouldn’t know it from the mushrooming number of deaths and infections in West Africa, but Ebola is rather difficult to contract”

Yet, read and see all the precautions he has to take to keep from being infected.

[driftdiver]

Probably but not in the same way it infects people.

Its known to infect monkeys, pigs, birds, bats and people.

[dynachrome]

See #12 here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3210059/posts

[cripplecreek]

My dogs live in near quarantine conditions now. They never leave the yard without me and are seldom in contact with other dogs.

Nasty dog virus going around now.

[RetiredTexasVet]

He didn’t mention anything about prostitutes (male or female).

[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[null and void]

ping

[wrench]

Yes, it infects dogs. But it doesn’t make them sick, they become carriers that can infect other people

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[Smokin' Joe]

Does Eb0la infect dogs?

Yes. Up to 38% of the dogs in other outbreak areas have tested seropositive for the virus, but remained asymptomatic.

[PLMerite]

“Yes, it infects dogs. But it doesn’t make them sick, they become carriers that can infect other people”

So you mean a pit bull could chew your arm off *and* give you Ebola? Just damn.

[exDemMom]

Once the virus is on your fingers, it would be frighteningly easy to rub an eye and infect yourself.

Naw, you don't have to rub your eye; the virus can enter through a tiny cut in the skin. I don't know about you, but I have many tiny cuts, caused by my cats.

[exDemMom]

Yes, it infects dogs. But it doesn’t make them sick, they become carriers that can infect other people

I am not certain how a dog could be infectious if it doesn't have symptoms. I'll have to read the scientific literature on the subject and see if that has been addressed.

[wrench]

Yup, pretty much

[wrench]

Works with dogs same way as bats. They carry the virus and can pass it along.

BTW, it appears most mammals can get the virus

[Secret Agent Man]

dogs are carriers. they can infect people if they are carriers.

[GOPJ]

“You wouldn’t know it from the mushrooming number of deaths and infections in West Africa, but Ebola is rather difficult to contract”

LOL - truth was seeping out of that sentence...

[TheCipher]

Works with dogs same way as bats. They carry the virus and can pass it along.

Many ways people are getting infected in these countries is because they eat bats. Not to fear, since Obama said the chance of getting it is very low. So if you had an infected dog, the only way you could catch it is to eat it. So, I guess Obama is safe.... oh, wait a minute.