Posted on 08/05/2014 7:44:30 PM PDT by xuberalles
No actually I am well educated and well paid in healthcare and what I do for a living is handle/analyze body fluids. You?
OSHA is always my go to source for medical information
WRONG. This is the kind of nonsense that was spread about AIDS . This is NOT an airborne disease ....whether it can mutate and become one....not yet and most likely never. You claim to be in health care....what do you do? You have no understanding of disease transmission and epidemiology
Oh you mean you are the lab tech that runs the machines?
That's why it doesn't matter what you call it. At three feet with a mask I am safe from TB. Whatever.
Just educate yourself. It is out there. My employer sent our notices to all of us about it, from the CDC.
......”whether it can mutate and become one....not yet and most likely never”.......
Would it not make common sense then to treat it like it was air-born and be on the safe side rather than risk “whether it can or not” after the fact?..and this regardless of what the medical or scientific community may or not say regarding the level of risk.
HIV is passed through the blood and sexual contact...the risk IS there yet people ignore the risks and engage in sexual activity anyway.
And your last statement proves the point. This is NOT airborne has never been. It is passed through blood, sexual contact. The hygiene in these countries is atrocious. Even IF hand washing were common the water supply is not all that clean to begin with. These third world countries are living in squalor even in the ‘modern’ cities and it is worse in the country.
It is ridiculous to treat something that is NOT an airborne pathogen as if it is. The scare tactics and fear mongering going on over this is beyond silly
So you don’t even want to admit that you are a mere lab technician? That’s okay it became utterly clear with your commentary. This is NOT an airborne vector disease. Educate yourself as to what that means... your snot and spit reference is meaningless. And you selectively post pics that the UNICEF provided news outlets to show protective gear used in a major city (not cited as to which one) they have quite a bit of range....including the chemical gloves that are washed and reused.
There are also pictures of the squalor that these nations live in even in the ‘modern’ cities.
You think you know what you are talking about but you do not. You still have not told me what study you were busy citing about pigs and monkeys
“The World Health Organization, in partnership with the Ministries of Health in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria announced a cumulative total of 1603 suspect and confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) and 887 deaths, as of August 1, 2014. Of the 1603 clinical cases, 1009 cases have been laboratory confirmed for Ebola virus infection.”
You bet an airborne disease that has only cause 1000 confirmed cases (with another 600 plus suspected) in five countries......get real
Well, short of strictly controlled samples (for which there are plenty of horror stories), there was none until they brought infected people here. Now it’s here in a host that has legal rights to liberty and freedom, and not kept in a hermetically sealed box with plan for incineration.
Uhm . . . yes. As a matter of fact, he was taken to "Emory University Hospital" to be exact.
Here's a picture of the very high tech, super duper, special isolation unit that he was taken to. I especially like the wood furniture. Now, would you care to retract you claim that he was taken to America's top Ebola treatment center? 
As Jayne said “I might live”.
I give you EBOLA RESTON; yes, the monkeys had a 100% death rate.
Four of the handlers tested positive for antibodies to the virus; fortunately, with massive medical treatment, they lived.
The Reston strain was AIRBORN.
The facility was chemically nuked and closed for research forever.
Look it up.
Please site the journals, periodicals, CDC reports and Epidemiology Monthly Reports you are basing your statements on.
You are very rude. Marmema has been polite and answered your questions. You, on the other hand, have resorted to calling her/him stupid.
Your post sounds desperate and panicky, it seems that there was plenty Ebola in the U.S. and Canada for researchers, and now we have an Ebola clinic director doctor to treat, as our first Ebola patient in our top Ebola treatment center.
That sounds much better than the first patient being foreigner picked up off the street and taken to a Phoenix hospital.
Actually it is our top Ebola treatment center, and he wasn’t merely taken to a hospital, he was taken to our top Ebola treatment unit built to treat infected CDC employees, inside of that hospital.
It is one of 4 such special units in America.
“Atlanta Hospital Deemed 1 of Safest for Ebola Care”
“”Emory’s infectious diseases’ unit was created 12 years ago to handle doctors who get sick at the CDC. It is one of about four in the country equipped with everything necessary to test, treat and contain people exposed to very dangerous viruses.
In 2005, it handled patients with SARS, which unlike Ebola can spread when an infected person coughs or sneezes.””
“”Inside the unit, patients are sealed off from anyone who doesn’t wear protective gear.
“Negative air pressure” means air flows in, but can’t escape until filters scrub any germs from patients. All laboratory testing is conducted within the unit, and workers are highly trained in infection control. Glass walls enable staff outside to safely observe patients, and there’s a vestibule where workers suit up before entering. Any gear is safely disposed of or decontaminated.
Family members will be kept at a distance for now, the doctors said. The unit “has a plate glass window and communication system, so they’ll be as close as 1-2 inches from each other,” Ribner said.””
I was unaware humans became ill from the Reston strain.
“A 43 year old Congolese patient, center, who has been confirmed to have Ebola hemorrhagic fever, following laboratory tests, is comforted by Medecins Sans Frontieres.”
“Well, maybe. Remember, there are 5 different strains of the ebola virus. One of the strains, known as Ebola Reston, got its name because it was detected in a lab in Reston, Virginia, in 1989. A shipment of imported monkeys to the lab had been infected with the disease, but humans were spared.
Unlike the other strains, which are deadly to humans, Ebola Reston “can’t cause disease in humans and doesn’t behave the same in humans as it does in primates,” said Adalja.”
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