Posted on 10/08/2014 4:09:57 PM PDT by tips up
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20621627
Short answer: nobody knows.
"Yet CDC Director Tom Frieden, another expert, believes that “[t]he Ebola virus becoming airborne is possible but unlikely.”
"Unlikely isn’t impossible. Given the consequences of “choosing poorly,” it would be more prudent for government agencies and virology experts to err on the side of caution in managing this outbreak. This includes not only in handling infected patients, but also in commonsense measures such as travel restrictions in and out of hot zones, securing the U.S. borders, and quarantining any suspicious immigrants or travelers. Otherwise, the “settled science” of Ebola transmission may turn out to be anything but."
Waiting for the WH to institute these measures . . counting 1, 2, 3, . . .
“No one has the faintest idea how he became infected. I’m sure that CDC flunkie will have a re-assuring answer.”
Probably went like this
Here sign these papers
Ok You have a pen?
Sure use this ( hands his pen over)
Thanks, Here’s your pen back
Thanks Your welcome. (puts pen back in pocket)
One thing that worries me is different resistance to the virus amongst populations with a different genetic background.
Most people are familiar with the story about how Europeans brought their diseases with them to the Americas. This resulted in the decimation of the native Americans from nothing more exotic than the common cold in many cases. Ebola is native to a region that is far removed from Europe and people of European ancestry. It is possible that Caucasians are as defenseless to Ebola as the native Americans were to the flu.
The survivors of the earliest epidemics passed on their superior genes making each successive epidemic less lethal. Also consider that two of the countries where Ebola is currently active were settled by former slaves. Presumably they would have a higher non African genetic component to their population. This could explain why this epidemic is more lethal than past ones.
No. That’s not how this works.
It kills about 70% of those who get. Black, white, red, yellow. It’s a virus. It doesn’t care what you look like. If you have red blood cells of the human species, it wants to live in you and kill you.
Why aren’t there protests?
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...
Three years?
Que the pic of Oebola and the fly!
I never signed a suicide pact with Obama. Can’t we organize an email and phone calling effort to coerce Obama and the CDC to suspend flights from the “hot zone” until this thing burns out? Does anyone here have an email list to get this effort started?
No more activists on FR I guess.
They use the White House petitions as toilet paper.
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