Posted on 10/02/2014 5:35:28 PM PDT by servo1969
A photo posted to Twitter by New York Post web editorial assistant Connor Ryan shows an unprotected family member delivering food to the quarantined Texas family of the Liberian man hospitalized with Ebola.
Red Cross worker delivers supplies to quarantined family of Ebola victim in Dallas. http://t.co/KL8jrwAJBg pic.twitter.com/cw9frK9tJK
— Connor Ryan (@connortryan) October 2, 2014
Photo: James Breeden/Splash News
In the photo, a quarantined family member is bringing in supplies left at the apartment door by Red Cross volunteers.
More… The media also released these shocking photos today:
WFAA image of individuals pressure washing Mr. Duncan’s ebola laced vomit from the pavement/sidewalk. The men are not wearing any biohazard protective clothing or gear and there is a woman walking through the liquid in the parking lot wearing sandles. (wtd)
Here’s another photo of the unprotected worker cleaning up Ebola vomit on the sidewalk with a power washer.
A worker power washes the sidewalk in front of the apartment unit at The Ivy Apartments where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in Dallas, Texas October 2, 2014. Up to 100 people may have had direct or indirect contact with the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, and four people have been quarantined in a Dallas apartment, health officials said on Thursday. (REUTERS/Mike Stone)
This is fast getting as bad as the Secret Service letting a stranger jump the fence and run deep into the White House: a gross failure of even the most basic core tasks for which they are paid enormous sums to do with extremely high competence. Instead we get laughable ineptitude.
Like with the SS, the head of CDC should resign over how badly this case is being bungled.
They have a new model of temperature&tracking ID device in the works that can read your temp and your bar code at the same time.
The only problem, it makes people frown a lot more.
...”They’d better test whoever is driving that silver compact car, because it got showered with ebola vomit”...
Oh joy! ...He took it to the car wash.
In Bleach WE Trust
There are two bottles of something. One in front of the silver car and one in the parking lot where a red car was previous parked. Whomever drove off in the red car had to have walked through all that water. Those guys might as well have licked up the ick. They’ll hop in their vehicle with their wet clothes and probably won’t clorox the sprayer before the next person handles it. Then they’ll go home and track their wet shoes throughout the house. Then their mom/gf/wife will wash their clothes along with the rest of the family’s clothes. Then mom/gf/wife will use the vehicle to take Jr. to sports practice and Lil’ Missy to her bff’s house and set a couple bags of groceries in the front seat and floorboard where those wet shoes were. And CDC will be oh, so ever surprised when more cases pop up in a week or two.
I would think that even tiny scratches, scrapes and chapping might allow the virus to enter the body.
At one time in my life (because of an in-law) I was very well acquainted with how eager the welfare bureaucracy here was to throw tax money at anyone enterprising enough to step up to the window.
If only enough people knew what is going on.
They heard it was a power washer, it’s all good.
The extra power washes all away.
Hope and change.....whatever.
Guess you missed that the sheets and pillow Duncan slept on are still on the bed.
“Power Washer ready jobs” !
We are importing them from EVERYWHERE
Since I wouldn’t get any of it until I was 65 (I was barely 40 when I left) I just cashed-out my contributions. It was about a year’s pay and I had been there over 15 years.
I do not buy the government’s crap on this.
*If* they were to step in the vomit with bare feet, and *if* the vomit contained traces of blood, then they could get Ebola by stepping in it.
Ebola typically is spread by direct physical contact. Most people who get Ebola either were at a funeral of an Ebola victim (funerals in Africa involve physically touching the corpse) or were caretakers of someone who got sick. In past outbreaks, kids living in houses of Ebola victims, who never had physical contact with the victims, did not get Ebola. If those kids have not had physical contact with the victim, they probably won't get Ebola.
I would hope the public health officials either bleached the apartment themselves, or instructed the inhabitants on bleaching it.
I believe what the government has to say, because I know that the government officials are reading the same scientific papers that I have been reading. And those papers are written by the people who have first hand experience with Ebola, either in a research lab, or in the field during an outbreak.
PLEASE NOTE - CDC WEBSITE BELOW LISTS VOMIT AS AN EBOLA TRANSMITTING BODY FLUID!!!!!!!@!
What are body fluids?
Ebola has been detected in blood and many body fluids. Body fluids include saliva, mucus, vomit, feces, sweat, tears, breast milk, urine, and semen.
Can Ebola spread by coughing? By sneezing?
Unlike respiratory illnesses like measles or chickenpox, which can be transmitted by virus particles that remain suspended in the air after an infected person coughs or sneezes, Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with body fluids of a person who has symptoms of Ebola disease. Although coughing and sneezing are not common symptoms of Ebola, if a symptomatic patient with Ebola coughs or sneezes on someone, and saliva or mucus come into contact with that person’s eyes, nose or mouth, these fluids may transmit the disease.
What does “direct contact” mean?
Direct contact means that body fluids (blood, saliva, mucus, vomit, urine, or feces) from an infected person (alive or dead) have touched someone’s eyes, nose, or mouth or an open cut, wound, or abrasion.
How long does Ebola live outside the body?
This is from CDC website - PLEASE NOTE VOMIT IS A
Ebola is killed with hospital-grade disinfectants (such as household bleach). Ebola on dried on surfaces such as doorknobs and countertops can survive for several hours; however, virus in body fluids (such as blood) can survive up to several days at room temperature.
Are patients who recover from Ebola immune for life? Can they get it again - the same or a different strain?
Recovery from Ebola depends on good supportive clinical care and a patient’s immune response. Available evidence shows that people who recover from Ebola infection develop antibodies that last for at least 10 years, possibly longer.
We don’t know if people who recover are immune for life or if they can become infected with a different species of Ebola.
If someone survives Ebola, can he or she still spread the virus?
Once someone recovers from Ebola, they can no longer spread the virus. However, Ebola virus has been found in semen for up to 3 months. People who recover from Ebola are advised to abstain from sex or use condoms for 3 months.
Can Ebola be spread through mosquitos?
There is no evidence that mosquitos or other insects can transmit Ebola virus. Only mammals (for example, humans, bats, monkeys and apes) have shown the ability to spread and become infected with Ebola virus.
Sadly, this mess was probably left to the apartment management to clean up. Can’t expect them to know better. Can’t expect the government to be competent enough to follow through with cleaning.
That's right...authorities have to speak to them as if they were young adults, and in some cases less..... and even then there's no guarantee something gets lost in translation.....because what we see as word meaning they see it differently. There's a tactic also third world people use here in conversation....similar to when politicians don't respond to what your asking, they just get out there what they want to say,...but for these folks it's to conceal they didn't understand what you were saying so they respond with whatever. You could see this clearly with the video's of Duncan's brother speaking with pundits and interviews.
“Finally, a job Americans won’t do.”
LOL. Very clever.
The saliva has the most virus early on, bloody or not, as the virus reproduces in the salivary glands (along with other glands). The only good thing about stomach contents is that the acid may kill a lot of the virus, but that vomit certainty had some quantity of virus in it. Blood has the most virus (loaded with it) because the virus attacks the inside of the blood vessels.
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