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Ebola Surveillance Thread
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| August 10, 2014
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Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by 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.
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To: Smokin' Joe
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posted on
08/17/2014 11:36:24 AM PDT
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
562
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08/17/2014 11:48:02 AM PDT
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
563
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08/17/2014 2:15:30 PM PDT
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
564
posted on
08/17/2014 2:36:48 PM PDT
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Oorang
(Tyranny thrives where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
To: Smokin' Joe
Bodies are already being left on the street.
Flies will land on these bodies, pick up the virus, and then land elsewhere. Other insects, rodents, etc., have the same potential.
I have yet to see a discussion of flies as a vector for Ebola. If they can spread the virus, as seems highly likely, then controlling Ebola in these regions is impossible.
565
posted on
08/17/2014 2:58:33 PM PDT
by
EternalHope
(Something wicked this way comes. Be ready.)
To: Smokin' Joe
566
posted on
08/17/2014 2:59:57 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: EternalHope
Because most patients have some known and more direct vector, we do not know how
little it takes to get the disease. One to ten viral organisms is sufficient to cause infection, but could that be transmitted by a biting fly? a fly which had been on a corpse walking on a fresh scrape or cut?
If so, and violence ensues among the 'healthy', more cases are virtually guaranteed.
Things are not going well from what we can see.
567
posted on
08/17/2014 3:08:16 PM PDT
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
568
posted on
08/17/2014 3:15:49 PM PDT
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
569
posted on
08/17/2014 3:57:20 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
I know transmission can be through an open cut and through mucous membranes. Biting flies would qualify.
However, if transmission can be through contaminated food then flies become an even greater problem. Likewise for rodent contamination.
I suspect Ebola can survive in the stomach or vomit would not be so contagious, so I suspect it can be spread through contaminated food. However, even if spread through food is unlikely once in the stomach, Ebola certainly can spread through mucous membranes. Hence it would be capable of infection while in the mouth.
If contaminated food is a risk factor, what about contaminated water?
Contaminated food and/or water would not be common early in the outbreak. Anyone who caught it early on would most likely have had close contact of some kind, so confirmed infection through food or water would be unlikely. But once the number of victims starts to rise the risk of more generalized contamination starts to rise.
I could have missed it of course, but I have seen nothing in print that addresses this issue, including the medical literature. In past pandemics the dead bodies themselves were a source of further infection. We are not far enough in to this for that to be happening, yet, but the same thing could develop with Ebola.
570
posted on
08/17/2014 4:00:00 PM PDT
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EternalHope
(Something wicked this way comes. Be ready.)
To: Smokin' Joe
Thank you, Smokin’ Joe...
571
posted on
08/17/2014 4:13:13 PM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
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To: Smokin' Joe; Black Agnes
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08/17/2014 7:12:56 PM PDT
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PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: PA Engineer
We’d better hope that isn’t true.
Srsly.
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