Posted on 10/25/2014 4:48:56 PM PDT by jimbo123
New York City health officials have released Morgan Dixon, the 30-year-old fiancée of recently diagnosed Ebola patient Dr. Craig Spencer, to her West 147th Street Manhattan apartment where, as WSJ reports, she will remain under mandatory quarantine.
This 'good' news comes as New York's Department of Health issues a statement on the deteriorating condition of Dr. Spencer who "is entering the next phase of the illness, which is anticipated gastrointestinal symptoms."
This was expected apparently, as NYC's health commissioner Mary Basset noted, "we've seen with this disease that it continues to get worse before it gets better." A large CDC team is actively involved.
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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...
That's the kind of oversimplification and denial that has helped to contribute to the current epidemic in Africa.
In those African countries where Ebola is out of control people had the same mentality. Some believed it was a plot by the whites against the blacks. Others believed it didn't exist. Others simply refused to believe that it was easy to catch. And now it's still out of control and just as easy, if not easier, to catch.
The only reason, the only reason, why people aren't coming down with it right now left and right in the US is that our country is vast and the incidence of the disease is low. It's as easy to catch as any other virus. It spreads very much like the common cold and many other viruses...a contaminated person touches something and then someone else touches that object and then rubs their eye, touches their nose, mouth or face.
There's not a whole lot of surfaces or objects here in the US yet that can spread it. There's tons in the West African countries and it's spreading.
When it takes hold here it will be just as easy to catch.
And as long as it's out of control in Africa it's only a matter of time until it takes hold here. There is no cure. There is no vaccine. It has a 70% mortality rate.
What? I thought everybody went jogging for three miles and bowled when they were feeling sick!
The Ebola virus is actually pretty hard to catch. The easiest viruses to catch are the respiratory viruses—things like influenza and the cold viruses. Since Ebola is not a respiratory virus, it is not normally contained within the nasal secretions. It also is not airborne. It is a bloodborne pathogen, and as such, does not spread by casual contact.
Monrovia, in Liberia, is a city of close to a million people. It is also the center of the outbreak right now. Even there, in the heart of the outbreak, there just aren’t that many cases. If Ebola were very contagious, it would have swept across the entire continent of Africa by now, and be moving across Europe, Asia, the Americas, etc. Look how quickly the influenza virus moves—it goes around the entire world in weeks.
It is present in all body fluids, including snot, sweat and spit. When someone sneezes, coughs or breathes the virus goes out with the fluid. That's why the cdc recommends at least a three foot buffer for those without ppe.
Monrovia, in Liberia, is a city of close to a million people. It is also the center of the outbreak right now. Even there, in the heart of the outbreak, there just aren’t that many cases. If Ebola were very contagious, it would have swept across the entire continent of Africa by now, and be moving across Europe, Asia, the Americas, etc. Look how quickly the influenza virus moves—it goes around the entire world in weeks.
I think you're confusing the different strains of influenza and/or common colds. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of strains of influenza all of which are closely related. One "strain" does not circle around the world in weeks. The Spanish flu, a very virulent flu, took a year before it mutated into a milder form.
By comparison the Zaire strain of Ebola has only been in the wild since spring of this year...for what...7 or 8 months..and has already spread far beyond it's original origin. Cases are doubling every 3 or 4 weeks. One doesn't have to be a math expert to figure that within a year using a doubling every month there will be over 61,000,000 new cases with about 70% of them dying...or 43,000,000 dead. In a year.
Now yes, I'll grant it would spread faster if it were a flu, BUT only because a symptom of the flu is sneezing and cough which spreads it more. But a virus is a virus. Once it's outside of the body via sweating, coughing, sneezing, spitting, bleeding, snot whatever it's out and is just as infectious. Ebola even more so because it takes a very small viral load to infect.
If you don't think it's a big deal then you must believe it's going to be stopped somehow. What exactly is going to stop the Eboloa virus in West Africa?
Thanks for the ping!
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