Posted on 07/31/2014 11:19:44 PM PDT by No One Special
There's about a 21 day period between contracting ebola and the appearance of symptoms. Can the disease be passed to another before the symptoms appear?
Lol. ..Rumbled!
Morning Nully. :)
How then did the doctors who they are bringing to Emory university for treatment get it?
They were wearing all the protective gear,had all the decontamination procedures,they were the ones in charge
If it exists, there is a Red Dwarf of it...
LISTER The red, green, and blue alert signs are all flashing! What the smeg is happening?
KRYTEN Well, either we’re under attack, sir, or we’re having a disco.
[— 16 - Int. Starbug corridor —]
[KRYTEN, in ‘maximum jog’ mode, darts through a hatchway at the far end of the corridor and waddles speedily towards camera, heading toward the cockpit]
[— 17 - Model shot —]
[Starbug caught in the midst of a rippling disturbance. The craft is being buffeted violently]
[— 18 - Int. Starbug cockpit —]
[CAT, RIMMER present. Both are attempting to coax some reaction from the many consoles and panels ranged before them while avoiding showers of sparks thrown out by the sensitive equipment. Sirens and alerts continue to throw the scene into wild illumination, and RIMMER is spraying a hand-held fire extinguisher liberally around the cockpit]
CAT I’m locked out! Everything’s dead! Steering’s down, thrusters are down and we’re heading straight for that ion storm in sector 12!
[Enter LISTER, KRYTEN, assuming stations]
RIMMER Morning!
The CDC seemed to have lost a few vials of stuff lately...
ever wonder if the one lost last year was Ebola-reston? Which in the Hot Zone theme was thought to be airborne.
Deadly Virus Vial Gone Missing From Galveston National Laboratory
http://dailypostal.com/2013/03/25/deadly-virus-vial-gone-missing-from-galveston-national-laboratory/
So where is the deadly virus vial right now? A vial containing a potentially harmful virus has gone missing from a laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston Chronicle reported.
The missing vial that contains less than a quarter of a teaspoon an infectious disease had been stored in a locked freezer, designed to handle biological material safely, within the Galveston National Laboratory on UTMB’s campus, officials said. During a routine internal inspection last week, UTMB officials realized one vial of a virus called Guanarito was not accounted for at the facility.
Galveston National Laboratory....
http://www.utmb.edu/gnl/
As a terror weapon this is what frightens me far worse than any dirty bomb could.
You just know some Jihadist would LOVE to get a vial of spit from some poor shmuck dieing from it and FEDEX it around a while. Eventually ending up in his cousins hands who spends two weeks spreading it around population centers until he suicides while his house burns masking his involvement.
Make 9/11 look like walk in the park for the cost of a few plane tickets and a few suicide seekers.
Vial Of Deadly Virus Missing From Texas Biolab
http://www.kake.com/news/national/headlines/Vial-Of-Deadly-Virus-Missing-From-Texas-biolab-199959361.html
Monday, March 25, 2013
The Galveston National Laboratory lost one of five vials containing a deadly Venezuelan virus, according to the University of Texas Medical Branch, which owns the $174 million facility designed with the strictest security measures to hold the deadliest viruses in the country.
Like Ebola, the missing Guanarito virus causes hemorrhagic fever, an illness named for “bleeding under the skin, in internal organs or from body orifices like the mouth, eyes, or ears,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“I suspect that they may not ever be able to account for it if it was that kind of human error,” Schaffner said.
Whoa there Nelly....they lost Ebola and Guanarito about the same time frame last year...and...and...
There are refugees and inhuman living conditions in Syrian refugee camps, Gaza, Libya and countless other places. It's hard to imagine what will stop some pandemic disease from starting in those areas and spreading.
Would they alert the public? Don't wait for them. Gruesome, but start reading obits for spikes in deaths of vulnerable-to-disease populations.
You can’t refuse quarantine.
Liberals are good for making everyone else bleed.
More on Sawyer!
This is the reaction of a Former Finance Minister Consultant. Denial is not a river.
Appears “Indiscipline” is the new politicaly correct term for Bat Sh!t Crazy.
Remember, onset of symptoms are indistinguishable from the flu. Nobody takes serious precautions with the flu until they’re ill enough to not go to work; unless they KNOW they’ve been exposed, nobody thinks “Ebola! Better quarantine myself!” when getting a case of the sniffles.
I service equipment in Hospitals daily. Next time you are visiting a Hospital, look at the floor. Fluids leak from patients cathers, etc. All those drops of dark fluids are not just spilled coffee. You step in one and then get in your car or then in your house.
One of the things the virus does is cause brain damage.
My question on Ebola is this. If there is a widespread breakout of this, and lets say it mutates and goes airborne.
In the course of the breakout does Ebola continue to mutate until it becomes a less dangerous virus?
A short side bar.
If you want a reasonably accurate fictional portrayal of what we might be looking at when it comes to the Ebola virus get and read Tom Clancy’s Executive Orders, published in 1996.
It will take some selective reading to avoid getting entangled it the various sub-plots, but the late Tom Clancy did and excellent job describing how such a biological problem could spread from a hospital in Zaire to the US. Granted, in the fictional story Ebola has help from a hostile government, but ...
All in all not too bad a job for a story written a decade ago and first copyrighted in 1996.
From article about Sawyer:
“Looking to get to the bottom of Sawyer’s strange ailment on the Asky Airline flight, which Sawyer transferred on in Togo, hospital officials say, he was tested for both malaria and HIV AIDS. However, when both tests came back negative, he was then asked whether he had made contact with any person with the Ebola Virus, to which Sawyer denied. Sawyer’s sister, Princess had died of the deadly virus on Monday, July 7, 2014 at the Catholic Hospital in Monrovia. On Friday, July 25, 2014, 18 days later, Sawyer died in Lagos.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that the average incubation period for suspected cases or someone who has made contact with an Ebola patient is eight to ten days from exposure to onset of symptoms. The range is from two to 21 days. “That’s why we recommend that contacts of an infected person go on a fever watch for 21 days,” says Stephan Monroe, deputy director of CDC’s National Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases, at a briefing Monday. “
He was on the plane on the 20th. If others on the plane got it, they should be showing up by this weekend through next week.
Yes, bodily fluids are the worst. They are responsible for most of the cases by far.
In quarantine, with proper hydration and symptomatic treatment, survival might be a whole lot better than 10% - or it might be close to zero if our dear leaders are saving those medical dollars for politically important conditions like HIV treatment and gender "reassignment". Hiding out infected, afraid of FedGov and those who might report to CDC, the outcomes could be almost universally grim. Hiding out before exposure in isolation as an individual, a family, or a community with a year's supplies, the risk of Ebola would be close to zero, but there is no guarantee the disease wouldn't find a host animal to hide out and flare up again once those supplies ran out. The keys will be how early cases are reported to be treated and whether the media have any credibility when the first hemorrhagic fever hits our country.
The very young (under age 2) and very old (over 65) are at much greater risk if it's spreading through random exposure. Druggies and gay men are at far greater risk than those who make healthier choices. The urban poor and city people in general are at far greater risk than those of us in flyover country.
Thank you!! You were very clear and unambiguous in your post. Hope they listen
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