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Maybe I stumbled on to something? FRiends what say you?
Posted on 10/27/2014 9:05:45 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Droplet spread happens when germs traveling inside droplets that are coughed or sneezed from a sick person enter the eyes, nose, or mouth of another person. Droplets travel short distances, less than 3 feet (1 meter) from one person to another.
A person might also get infected by touching a surface or object that has germs on it and then touching their mouth or nose.
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Clean and disinfect commonly touched surfaces like doorknobs, faucet handles, and toys, since the Ebola virus may live on surfaces for up to several hours.
(Excerpt) Read more at cdc.gov ...
That’s airborne.
More poppycock from the father of lies.
A sneeze can travel 35 feet in no breeze. In a breeze it can go 100 yards before it is destroyed by the sun. At night....?
Clearly Obama wants to create a deadly plague and panic. “The better to eat you with,” said the wolf to Red.
They say 3ft = 1 meter, common core math.
“CDC Finally Admits that Ebola Can Float through the Air … 3 Feet”
I would assume anyone with common sense would already know this.
But 3 feet is very close. Fear mongers want to make people believe it can just float long distances through the air and infect people. That type of transmission has never been shown.
That’s 3 ft. in a no wind environment. Always stand up wind to be sure.
I’ve decided if people here want to live their lives scared to death of things that have almost no chance of happening, that is their choice. If they want to think that they are going to catch Ebola wandering through their daily lives, you aren’t going to convince them otherwise.
Meanwhile, somehow Duncan’s entire family and friends seem to have avoided getting sneezed on, with only two nurses involved in his end-care and handling of highly infected bodily fluids getting the disease.
If Ebola ever actually became Airborne, we’d know it by the hundreds of thousands of Africans who suddenly became infected. Then you’d see real panic.
What IS clear is that the CDC is completely unprepared to handle a REAL infectious disease. We need congress to completely zero out the CDC current spending budget, and impose a NEW budget that funds ONLY infectious disease prevention.
Because there ARE diseases that spread easily, and are one mutation away from being deadly or becoming resistant to our antibiotics. And THAT is the real threat, not Ebola that can’t manage to kill 10,000 people in a backwards 3rd-world country where they actually handle their dead bodies for burial without any protection.
CDC- "Safe Management of Patients with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in U.S. Hospitals"<
If a patient in a U.S. hospital is identified to have suspected or confirmed EVD, what infection control precautions should be put into place?
If a patient in a U.S. hospital is suspected or known to have Ebola virus disease, healthcare teams should follow standard, contact, and droplet precautions, including the following recommendations:
Isolate the patient: Patients should be isolated in a single patient room (containing a private bathroom) with the door closed.
Wear appropriate PPE: See Guidance on Personal Protective Equipment To Be Used by Healthcare Workers During Management of Patients with Ebola Virus Disease in U.S. Hospitals, Including Procedures for Putting On (Donning) and Removing (Doffing).
Restrict visitors: Avoid entry of visitors into the patient's room. Exceptions may be considered on a case by case basis for those who are essential for the patient's wellbeing. A logbook should be kept to document all persons entering the patient's room. See CDC's infection control guidance on procedures for monitoring, managing, and training of visitors.
Avoid aerosol-generating procedures: Avoid aerosol-generating procedures. If performing these procedures, PPE should include respiratory protection (N95 or higher filtering facepiece respirator) and the procedure should be performed in an airborne infection isolation room.
Implement environmental infection control measures: Diligent environmental cleaning and disinfection and safe handling of potentially contaminated materials is of paramount importance, as blood, sweat, vomit, feces, urine and other body secretions represent potentially infectious materials should be done following hospital protocols.
There has never been a question that a person with Ebola and showing symptoms who coughs or sneezes fluid directly into your mouth or eyes from short range could give you Ebola. That is NOT the definition of an airborne disease. Yes tiny droplets of the disease are in the air for moments, but that is not the definition any more than the definition is Duncan has the disease and flies on a plane in the air so since he is airborne ebola is airborne.
Airborne = “The discharged microbes[or virus] REMAIN SUSPENDED in the air on dust particles”
Airborne - A person with said airborne disease spends a half hour in a room coughing. You come in fifteen minutes later, and spend time in the room and you can catch the disease. If it is NOT airborne, like Ebola, in that same scenario you could NOT catch the disease.
The CDC link was meant to explain that Ebola is NOT airborne, but some people just don’t get it.
“Yes, the CDC will probably ‘come clean’ about risks involved in planes and especially plane bathrooms... soon...”
You can not sanitize, let alone sterilize an aircraft interior.
You can, however, sanitize a commercial kitchen. There are specific codes for what can and can not be in a commercial kitchen. All hard surfaces, and mostly stainless stel.
Aircraft interiors have all kinds of nooks and crannies, soft, absorbent surfaces, and catch areas that can hold spilled liquids for days. Cleaners can wipe the hard surfaces, but they do not even hit all of those.
By comparison, subway cars are more “cleanable” , but I have never seen cleaning crews doing thorough cleaning of them.
Like they didn’t know this before?
CDC "admitted" this in July, and in fact has ALWAYS (since the 1980s) recommended droplet precautions for all the hemorrhagic fever viruses.
The first time ebola hit a somewhat populated area in Africa, infections and deaths skyrocketed. Dismissing the possibility it can take off in NYNY with the most mobile population on the planet is ignorant.
http://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/air/managing-sick-travelers/ebola-guidance-airlines.html
CDC -”Interim Guidance about Ebola Infection for Airline Crews, Cleaning Personnel, and Cargo Personnel”
What is the difference the way Ebola spreads compared to the Flu or the Common Cold that infects many people every year?
Perhaps you can explain why the contact within three feet must be PROLONGED in order to get Ebola and why the droplet must contain blood as claimed by a Scientist here.
Nope.
Ears are too small.
“The CDC link was meant to explain that Ebola is NOT airborne, but some people just don’t get it.”
No it wasn’t, but you are right, some people REALLY don’t get it
This is why, whenever I hear someone cough or sneeze, I make a wide berth around the area. Their viral or bacterial “droplets” are heavily laden with moisture from breath, sputum and saliva so, after being spewed outward and reaching terminal velocity, the mess rapidly descends, contaminating surfaces on its way down. I mean, come on! Watch someone sneeze against glass. Yuck.
In a grocery store, this residue can cling all over product shelves. I’ve always found it particularly ill-advised to allow children to crawl over floors in public places. Recently, I saw a child crawling around in a public toilet in an international airport. Imagine the fecal residue that sprays out after every flush and is then tracked around, not to mention, germs incubating there from around the world.
I hear some parents say, “oh, it makes their immune systems strong.” Fine, then let’s hope they don’t get a super bug and die, while they’re developing into mighty mice.
Filthiest spot in a public restroom? I’ve read it is the tip of a soap dispenser where the soap comes out. Contaminated skin touches it, and because it is soap, workers wrongly assume it must be “self-cleaning”. Nasty! Hurray for automatics. Just wish they were more dependable.
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