Posted on 08/04/2014 1:37:01 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
In October 1989 people in the community of Reston, Virginia went about their daily lives not realizing that a serious crisis was developing right in their back yards that would not be entirely resolved until March 1990. It was a serious calamity that could have wiped out the entire population. This dire emergency was described twenty years ago by Richard Preston in his non-fiction book, “The Hot Zone.” The “hot zone” refers to an “area that contains lethal, infectious organisms” also dubbed “hot agent,” an “extremely lethal virus, potentially airborne.” (Richard Preston, The Hot Zone, Random House, New York, 1994, p. 296)
The Ebola Reston virus jumped quickly from room to room... Ebola apparently drifted through the building's air-handling ducts
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
What about the bacteria that got loose from our labs? Why did they tell us practically nothing and everyone is home free??
Awfully fond of Canada Free Press, aren’t you?
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:seananthony/index?tab=articles
So ebola can be air borne. Better tell all the medical experts on TV that.
I’ve got a library reserve on the “Hot Zone” ebook.
Does that mean that one of the strains that is harmful to us could go airborne?
Most virus's mutate rather quickly.
Interesting article.
Wasn't the medical person accompanying the Ebola sick doctor into Emory wearing an oxygen tank? If Ebola is not airborne then no need for the tank.
Since it is safe to assume that the doctors and nurses in Africa are taking all precautions with ebola patients, how are the doctors and nurses getting infected? Sloppy fluids handling or something else?
Too bad the author wants hits more than to spread information.
I suppose he expects others to pay for Free Republic as an advertising tool for him.
I don’t know why they keep perpetuating the myth that it is not air borne. There should be no international air travel in or out of Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone.
Thank God somebody is. And posts threads from their articles.
I think the article is more 'valuable' than concern over 'why' a poster likes them as a news source.
The one on the left is the sick guy.
Because human ebola is not airborne. Never has been.
“Reston” only affects certain animals. It’s not what they are dealing with in Africa. It’s not a human disease.
Great book. I had to keep checking to see that it wasn’t really fictional.
My daughter read it as a preteen and it helped shape her decision to pursue a career in epidemiology.
So as long as you get sent to his blog, you're just fine with crack-smoking and kid-raping and terrorist funding.
By gum, he wrote something designed to appeal to you.
Lets all throw a few coins at him, because he sent traffic to his blog.
Yeah.
What is your problem?
Post more, complain less.
It’s the reality of it today.
Ebola “human” (4 varieties) has a built in resistance to morphing into something more dangerous as to it’s ability to spread. As long as that is the case, it’s going to have a hard time infecting a lot of people, once it’s discovered, and especially hard in the US with modern sanitary conditions and medical responses.
I suppose what concerns me, is the same concern I have regarding almost every other virus and that is the unintended consequences of trying to eradicate it with genetic engineering of vaccines against it.
But that has not yet occurred and it’s just a concern, not a fear. I watch movies too....
Like movies that evoke the horror of CRYPTOBOTANY.......lol
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