Posted on 10/26/2014 5:07:51 PM PDT by nomad
This site claims a USAMRIID study found that Ebola can, under colder and dryer conditions, be as infectious and airborne as Infuenza Type-A. This is to any freeper Docs or labtechs, could you study the data in greater detail and post your findings?
Anyway, it`s an intriguing site with scary links, submitted for your Halloween perusal.
I bookmarked the site the other day but only now has my work schedule allowed me to read it.
0bola just flies to the US. Of course it’s airborne.
Yes. Water vapor from your breath carries thru the air. A sneeze, cough or just normal breathing spreads this water vapor. The distance varies. It only depends on how contagious whatever your breath is carrying.
The scariest ebola scenario I heard was written years ago by Tom Clancy. Muslim extremists take a contagious nurse/nun, extract the virus and weaponize it. You hear zero mention of that book in the news. Does anyone remember it? What is the name of it?
"COMMUNICABILITY: Communicable as long as blood, body fluids or organs, contain the virus. Ebolavirus has been isolated from semen 61 to 82 days after the onset of illness, and transmission through semen has occurred 7 weeks after clinical recovery"
SURVIVAL OUTSIDE HOST: Filoviruses have been reported capable to survive for weeks in blood and can also survive on contaminated surfaces, particularly at low temperatures (4°C) Footnote 52 Footnote 61. One study could not recover any Ebolavirus from experimentally contaminated surfaces (plastic, metal or glass) at room temperature Footnote 61. In another study, Ebolavirus dried onto glass, polymeric silicone rubber, or painted aluminum alloy is able to survive in the dark for several hours under ambient conditions (between 20°C and 25°C and 30–40% relative humidity) (amount of virus reduced to 37% after 15.4 hours), but is less stable than some other viral hemorrhagic fevers (Lassa) Footnote 53. When dried in tissue culture media onto glass and stored at 4 °C, Zaire ebolavirus survived for over 50 days Footnote 61. This information is based on experimental findings only and not based on observations in nature. This information is intended to be used to support local risk assessments in a laboratory setting.
I’ve been all over this for eight weeks, and, as best as I can tell from the data, the answer is “no”.
Ebola can, of course, be transmitted by respiratory droplets (coughing or sneezing), but, as you no doubt know, that’s not what “airborne” means.
any virus that makes it to the lungs will be present in water vapor when the patient exhales.
the question is... what’s the range.
the CDC had posted in august that 3 feet was the range ... as well as prolonged exposure in a small room (like an airplane)
Come let us reason together.
The virus is transmitted through bodily fluids.
The virus can live on a hard, flat surface for hours.
All fluids are capable of becoming airborne.
Ergo, the ebola virus is capable of becoming airborne.
The fact this hasn`t been observed may simply be due to the fact it`s been, so far, a tropical disease. There was even a suggestion that Ebola Reston was airborne due to the time of year it struck in Reston Virginia.
But the temps and humidity are critical factors according to USAMRIID.
Isn’t a body fluid aerosolized virus in a sneeze contact with an ebola victim’s body fluid and communicable?
Oh, hell yes! Put him on a plane and ship him anywhere but here!!
Oh, wait - I though the thread title was “President Ebola”. Nevermind...
Read the USAMRIID study, please. It says it can travel as far and last as long, in airborne form, as influenza-A at low temps and humidity levels.
Patrick Sawyer, terminally ill, flew 2h 23m in an aircraft with recirculated cabin air and of 200 passengers and crew there were zero infections.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1997182/pdf/ijexpath00004-0007.pdf
I just scanned it, but it seems to say that Ebola can be transmitted in aerosol form, but not that it similarly contagious as influenza.
There are rational discussions, and then there are discussions in which government agencies become involved.
Certainly arosol but I had not heard this.
An situation not found in equatorial Africa
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