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http://monrovia.usembassy.gov/sm_ebola_040414.html

Here is most of the information at the link. I’m not sure what to believe. While their anecdotes about children living in one-room huts with sick people, but never touching the sick people and the kids don’t get it is hopeful; the part about “there is no reason at this time to restrict air travel” is obviously in error.

And I’m leery that just washing the clothes in regular soap will kill ebola. Maybe wear whites all the time and use bleach.

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From the link:

Monrovia | April 04, 2014

In order to help U.S. citizens better understand some of the key points about the Ebola virus, we have consulted with our medical specialists at the U.S. State Department and assembled this list of bullet points worded in plain language for easy comprehension. Our medical specialists remind everyone that they should be following the guidelines from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization

The suspected reservoirs for Ebola are fruit bats.

Transmission to humans is thought to originate from infected bats or primates that have become infected by bats.

Undercooked infected bat and primate (bush) meat transmits the virus to humans.

Human to human transmission is only achieved by physical contact with a person who is acutely and gravely ill from the Ebola virus or their body fluids.

Transmission among humans is almost exclusively among caregiver family members or health care workers tending to the very ill.

The virus is easily killed by contact with soap, bleach, sunlight, or drying. A washing machine will kill the virus in clothing saturated with infected body fluids.

A person can incubate the virus without symptoms for 2-21 days, the average being five to eight days before becoming ill. THEY ARE NOT CONTAGIOUS until they are acutely ill.

Only when ill, does the viral load express itself first in the blood and then in other bodily fluids (to include vomit, feces, urine, breast milk, semen and sweat).

If you are walking around you are not infectious to others.

There are documented cases from Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo of an Ebola outbreak in a village that had the custom of children never touching an ill adult. Children living for days in small one room huts with parents who died from Ebola did not become infected.

You cannot contract Ebola by handling money, buying local bread or swimming in a pool.

At this time, there is no medical reason to stop flights, close borders, restrict travel or close embassies, businesses or schools.

As always practice good hand washing techniques. You will not contract Ebola if you do not touch a dying person.

The U.S. Embassy is open for business as usual, including the consular section.

The two confirmed individuals with Ebola in Liberia have both expired at this time, one in Lofa County and the other in medical isolation at Duside Hospital.

To obtain Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) travel notices, call the CDC at 1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636) from within the United States, or 1-404-639-3534 from overseas, or visit the CDC website at http://www.cdc.gov/travel.For more information on Ebola hemorrhagic fever, please visit the CDC website at www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola.

Thanks for posting.

It only makes sense that Ebola is not nearly as contagious as some panic it is.

After all, it has taken from December of last year, more than 9 months, to reach a total of 7,000 confirmed cases in all countries. That’s in third-world crowded conditions with poor sanitary practices.

While a few individuals got it to Nigeria, similar to one person bringing it here, it has spread to only 20 people so far in that country, again despite third-world medicine.

I’m no epidemiologist, but that’s simply not the profile of spread for a highly contagious disease like the flu.

By comparison, the 1918 flu epidemic appeared in the US in March. During the single month of October, six months later, 200k Americans died from it.

I also find it truly odd that some freepers assume this was planned by Obama an an October Surprise. I simply cannot imagine any way this can help the party in power in an election.