Posted on 10/12/2014 11:07:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The first case of Ebola transmitted between patients in America has experts across the country reviewing safety protocols.
At Purdue University, Dr. David Sanders has been studying the virus since 2003 specifically how this particular Zaire strain of Ebola enters human cells.
While the virus has thus far only been shown to be transferred via bodily fluids, Sanders argues that it could become airborne.
"It can enter the lung from the airway side," Sanders said. "So this argues that Ebola is primed to have respiratory transmission.
"We need to be taking this into consideration," he continued. "What if? This is not a crazy, 'What if?' This is not a wild, 'What if?'"(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at theindychannel.com ...
Hospital air condition vents?
The ebola virus is a master of mutation. If it hooks up with something from a flu virus and they exchange phone numbers, it could actually change the way it is transmitted.
How many people would have to get Ebola to crash the medical system? How many Ebola patients to make a hospital or clinic unusable by other patients?
My gut tells me that if 100,000 people get Ebola, tens of millions would suddenly be without medical care, and many more than 100,000 would die fairly soon.
All according to the plans of Saudi agent Valerie Jarrett, of course.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/outbreaks/qaEbolaRestonPhilippines.htm
CDC would probably consider this source reputable (it is from the CDC itself).
“Evidence from prior outbreaks indicates that Ebola-Reston . . . During the outbreaks in U.S. monkey quarantine facilities in 1989 and 1990, there was transmission to animals in separate rooms that may have been due to small-particle aerosols; however, this mode of transmission has not been proven, and other possible explanations for these infections exist.”
It is at least possible that strains of Ebola are transmissible or can mutate to become transmissible at a long distance through the air. In any case, we know that Ebola can be transmitted between rooms in a lab where workers believe they are following protocols to prevent long-distance transmission.
Obola goes airborne. Females, minorities and LGBT hardest hit.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
We can ride a bus or a train, sure. The liberals in this town drive Mercedes SUV’s. The down-market liberals drive Subaru’s. Two years ago the liberals who mostly live to the north of the city in the tony neighborhoods, attempted to close the two main East/West roads “to force people to use the bus.”
In the liberal world, it’s only the great unwashed masses who ride buses. There are darned few places outside New York and its environs where you can even take a train someplace. Yep, they’re connected to us fly-over people.
He has two items on his resume that gives him credibility.
First, experience in studying how viruses enter cells where they will reproduce. Apparently, ebola is very proficient in getting thru the cell wall. Z Mapp was developed as a result of another researcher's work in which he was using the ebola virus to inject genetic material into cells because ebola is very proficient at that. For more info on that, see the Nova broadcast last week entitled "Surviving Ebola".
Second, Sanders worked for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and to understand the significance of that you have to go back to last month and read the Business Week article, "How the US Screwed Up the Fight Against Ebola".
More like 100 people with Ebola in winter. That's because the isolation wards will be filled with flu cases waiting for the Ebola test results (1-2 days). Those would be 99.9% flu.
People seem to be skipping over that part of the article. If (big if) Ebola goes airborne, it will be in the big petri dish in West Africa. Even if 1 in 1 billion mutations would make it airborne but still lethal (very generous assumption) it would take a million people getting infected to get a 1/1000 chance of that mutation.
Likewise it is basically impossible for that mutation to happen here with just a handful of infections. If it goes airborne (and still lethal) in Africa we will have plenty of warning because instead of their small increase (100 a day) in cases we would see thousands of new cases a day in the affected city over there quickly spreading from there. If Obama were to still be in power at that point, it would come over here in a planeload of infected passengers.
There's a big difference in droplets and aerosols (flosting viruses or viruses on dust or floating particles). Ebola only survives in droplets. That's why 46 passengers on the plane into Nigeria did not get infected but one woman died (sitting next to Sawyer) and the flight attendants who cleaned up his bloody vomit died.
If that were the case, wouldn't the first step be to confine their movement? Teach them to care for their own, and supply the knowledge, medications, food, supplies etc so they can help each other in that zone. It cannot be stopped if it isn't contained.
Allowing people who seem to be healthy to leave that area and using our soldiers to do the care makes no sense. How is it going to be easier to fight a global disease than a disease that's mostly still confined to western Africa?
I wonder what will happen if a person who has Ebola gets the flu. Will it worsen the symptoms, thus leading to more spread of infection?
Good question. The sneeze will spread saliva with Ebola virus in it. Sneezing is not normally typical in Ebola cases.
From Yesterday:
radu to BCW
From your link....
Someone pointed out that in medical terms, if the virus is transferred through tiny droplets in the air this would technically not be called an “airborne virus”. Airborne, in medical terms would mean that the virus has the ability to stay alive without a liquid carrier. On one hand this is a question of semantics, and the point is well taken, but keep in mind that the study did not officially determine how the virus traveled through the air, it merely established that it does travel through the air.
As far as I’m concerned, that’s airborne enough to do the job. To heck with their “technicalities”. This stuff is spreading far too fast to think otherwise, imho. ]
There seems this variety can survive in airborne particles.
The nurse in Spain and others early on where taking precautions - but no one was using a SCBA...seems this virus can survive and transmit from infected host to others nearby by hitching a ride on minute particles (coughing, sneezing, etc)
http://scgnews.com/ebola-what-youre-not-being-told
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/10/03/sneaky-cdc-changes-ebola-transmission-page-need-know/
Treatment/ Prevention:
http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/179/Supplement_1/S18.long
She was treated with oral rehydration solution, vitamin C, intravenous calcium, and papaverine
http://www.naturalhealth365.com/natural_cures/ebola-virus-thomas-levy-1095.html
I would also throw in there as a prevention - probiotics - for a healthy gut! Im not saying you cant get any viruses - but way make it easy for it to take hold. A strong immune system will help one recover than one that is compromised.
It is “airborne” - but not in the “medical” definition sense.....
Health is good, but Ebola attacks the immune system. Healthy gut bacteria will mostly help against bad bacteria. To fight ebola you will need antivirals in your blood. Zinc is a good start.
See this post from yesterday...
WE are in the way
See this post from yesterday... Post #35
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