I’m reading “The Hot Zone” now, taking a break. They talk about nine days and if Zaire Ebola, yes, very contagious.
Victims become ‘zombie-like’. Zombie apocalypse!
If it’s like flu:
“Most healthy adults may be able to infect other people beginning 1 day before symptoms develop”
The incubation period, or the time interval from infection to onset of symptoms, is from 2 to 21 days. The patients become contagious once they begin to show symptoms. They are not contagious during the incubation period.
“People are infectious as long as their blood and secretions contain the virus. Ebola virus was isolated from semen 61 days after onset of illness in a man who was infected in a laboratory.”
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/
OK... I’ve got a question; “Ebika” -is that like a “Kabuki” of some sort? :)
Is one of the symptoms a propensity to hit keys next to the ones you mean to hit on a keyboard?
Heh.
At the moment we only know that it can be transmitted through bodily fluids. We don’t believe it can be transmitted through,the air.
I’m sure the CDC has generated models of the spread. I wonder what the hypothetical spread is if one contagious person in a large city who is out in public shopping, eating, public transportation, etc, how many become infected by that single person and then exponentially spread it from there. I don’t see how it could possibly be contained. Then the next question would be would the government even alert the public or keep quiet to avoid anticipated hoarding and riots?
"With some infections, you can shed and spread the virus long before you get ill. That's not the case with Ebola. It's only after you are sick and feverish do you become contagious. However, it only takes a miniscule amount to infect and kill. A microscopic droplet of blood or saliva on your bare hand could enter through a break in your skin. And, whether you realize it or not, we all have breaks in our skin."
They are saying it’s not airborne too, but check,out this article. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20341423
Geeze. I guess the upside is great if you like being eatin...but, your parts start falling off ...not so fun anymore...
on average 8-10 days.
Ping....
If you have the virus, you can spread it. The only difference is that when you show symptoms, the vector is more pronounced because you are spewing your fluids across the room- literally. The virus is the virus. You get splattered with an infected persons blood the second after they contract it, is enough to infect you.
As the nurse said it’s 12-24 hours. The reality is that it’s whatever time it takes to enter your blood stream. It’s not like malaria. It doesn’t hatch. It is deadly no matter where it comes from, and at any point in time.
The danger is that there is no ready test for people that aren’t showing symptoms. Which means, if a asymptomatic infected boards a plane and starts coughing sneezing or has an open wound, you’re in trouble.
Once Ebola gets into the American gay population, it will be unstoppable. Not only will gays not stop their anonymous sex but they will demand they not be quarantined and will not be required to tell anyone that they suffer with the disease.
At least, that’s how they were with the AIDS virus and we all know their political power has grown exponentially since the 1980s.
Ebola is no match for 20th Century hygiene.
Don’t let them scare you.
Thanks to all posters, linkers (read them all), researchers, educators. BTTT!
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...