Ebola Surveillance Thread

Free Republic Threads ^ | August 10, 2014 | Legion

[Smokin' Joe]

I have spent a little time compiling links to threads about the Ebola outbreak in the interest of having all the links in one thread for future reference.

Please add links to new threads and articles of interest as the situation develops.

Thank You all for you participation.

[Smokin' Joe]

DALLAS DA CONSIDERS CHARGES AGAINST FOREIGN EBOLA PATIENT

[Smokin' Joe]

Senior Administration Officials to Hold Briefing on the US Gov. Response to the Ebola Pandemic.

[exDemMom]

These low infectious dose reports suggest that if the initial viral titre is high, infectious quantities of viable virus could be recovered from samples stored at +4°C for periods of up to 46 days in liquid media, and from samples dried onto glass at both 26 and 50 days.

Please note that these studies were all of virus kept in the refrigerator. We already know that cold has preservative properties.

From the same article: "An initial recovery experiment showed that no virus could be recovered from any substrate stored at room temperature (results not shown)."

Gotta love those "results not shown." For the study of transmission of virus from fomites under non-laboratory conditions, those are the more important results. Ebola patients are found in room temperature environments, not the fridge.

As a consumer of scientific literature, I get very frustrated when I read "results not shown" or "[John Doe], personal communication." As a writer of scientific literature, I am completely guilty of using those phrases.

[GOPJ]

What is worrisome, is the low temperature sustainability of the virus. We may have been spared a disaster in Dallas with the outside vomit mess and the complete failure of our government agencies to address numerous risk factors elsewhere. I don't believe the virus stayed viable with the temperatures and UV exposure typical of Dallas in September. I am certain we will not be so lucky if this occurs in a very cold urban setting. Contact tracing would be absurd in such a case.

Thanks for the information...

[Smokin' Joe]

We already know that cold has preservative properties.

I live and work in North Dakota. Four degrees C is not an unusual ambient temp this time of year.

[Smokin' Joe]

Arizona man back from Liberia quarantines self, family over Ebola fears

[Dark Wing]

If you read closely in the study you cite, it states that the Ebola samples lost cold storage between Africa and the CDC test center in Atlanta.

That makes the results a case of damaged sample false negatives.

[Smokin' Joe]

10 people at 'higher risk' of Ebola after contact with Dallas patient

[exDemMom]

If you read closely in the study you cite, it states that the Ebola samples lost cold storage between Africa and the CDC test center in Atlanta.

That makes the results a case of damaged sample false negatives.

Which study is that? I've cited several...

[Sequoyah101]

I’d like to post a couple of contributions.

This is from a “Science” magazine. I trust it a lot more than CDC or ABC or NYT.

http://news.sciencemag.org/africa/2014/10/how-does-ebola-spread-hard-facts-key-studies

I’m not very impressed by the scientific method exhibited or the statistics implied by the number of samples... you can never extrapolate a point and one data point is not a trend or conclusive.

I’m also still wondering how so many western health care workers in Ebola areas have become infected. You know they must be taking significant precautions, aren’t they?

The curious data is from saliva.

I may feel a little better about the ability of the virus not being viable on surfaces.

This article is about one health care worker who contracted the disease. He says he has no idea how he managed to become infected.

http://news.sciencemag.org/africa/2014/10/ebola-survivor-i-senga-omeonga-every-day-i-m-still-thinking-when-was-i-contaminated

[exDemMom]

I live and work in North Dakota. Four degrees C is not an unusual ambient temp this time of year.

This is why I will never choose to live in ND. In fact, as soon as I retire, I'm moving to a place where it never snows or gets too cold.

[sleddogs]

BREAKING: Ebola Testing At Georgia Jail HALTS Operations

http://madworldnews.com/ebola-georgia-jail/

[Black Agnes]

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/03/lisa-monnig-michael-dallas-cdc-ebola-sheriff-dyer/16672385/

Someone thinks there may have been fomites in the apartment...

[Smokin' Joe]

CDC have not contacted second family in Ebola - and now they are coughing and sneezing

[Smokin' Joe]

US NURSES: We're Not Prepared To Handle Ebola Patients

[Smokin' Joe]

Ebola Zombie Strikes Again? Dead Man Wakes Up After Being Wrapped Up By Ebola Burial Team

[Smokin' Joe]

What words would you use to separate influenza spread from Ebola virus disease spread?

[Smokin' Joe]

Time to lock it down? Ebola fears spur calls for travel bans

[Smokin' Joe]

Waiting for the CDC (Politicized CDC Purposely Botching Ebola Response)

[Smokin' Joe]

Could Illegal Unaccompanied Minors Be Spreading New Mystery Virus to U.S.? in case there is some connecting factor...