Can’t get it ajrborne just by sitting next to someone. Unless they cough or sneeze on you. Didn’t you mention contaminated saliva? No thanks Herman.
I would suggest that people go back and review 1666 and London. The London crowd did not have a central hospital or pick-up point. They operated a dead body cart and totted folks off to the local cemetery. Quarantine? You were directed to stay at your house, and someone would mind the property to ensure you stayed. Local Lords would appoint the guards, and you had responsibility ensure the people got some essential food. For most part....you got the plague and died, and everyone in the family at that residence went through the same situation. These houses were for the most part, not occupied for years after the episode.
Normally I'm a huge fan of both Herman Cain and "Canada Free Press", but in this case I have to disagree.
I'm not convinced that the government or the CDC really know all the facts about Ebola, and IF they do, they're telling the truth.
After all, 0bama HAS been known to lie and Frieden is nothing more than one of his puppets.
'We think' is not a fact, it is a belief. Shall we test the theory with the author? Put them in a room with someone who has been exposed, keep them there until the infected person shows symptoms, immediately remove them, and then see if the author is infected as well?
Pretty sure no reasonable person wants to test this theory.
Sadly misinformed.
On the when:
A group of German medical doctors in a peer-reviewed medical journal article published by Oxford University Press have challenged a key assumption regarding the Ebola virus repeatedly asserted by Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
The researchers found that a patient showing no symptoms of the disease can still transmit a virus like Ebola by air if droplets containing the virus are transmitted to another person by a sneeze or cough.
On the how do you contract it:
Leaving off sneezing and coughing.
It does not require broken skin in the sense they are trying to project. Most skin meets the definition of broken.
Cain is delusional... only one of the good reasons he lost the nomination.
Some of this information is turning out to maybe not be accurate. It’s based on what has been known of Ebola, historically. Not necessarily the outbreak that is happening now.
We're talking about a communicable disease with a 70% mortality rate here. It is a very dangerous disease for that reason alone. It is not "panic" to insist that persons from infected zones be restricted from travel. It is not "panic" to note that health care professionals constitute the disease's major class of victims. It is not "panic" to note that if someone coughs, spits, or vomits on you, you are at hazard. That we are even having a conversation on these commonplace ideas is itself a little silly.
Sillier still is a policy that sends significant numbers of medically untrained individuals to work in the hot zone and then bring them back again. Silliest of all is to characterize these objections as "panic" because they may be politically inconvenient. Cain should know better than this.
Oh yeah?
Sez you.
So—I’ll bet my life on YOUR sayso???
If all the ‘fact’ of Ebola were known...
Wouldn’t we at least know where the virus hides between outbreaks, and how new outbreaks start?
We don’t even know that.
So how is everyone so sure they know everything else about Ebola with such certainty?
Until just a few weeks ago, it was universally accepted that Ebola was one of the most devastating diseases out there, and it spread fairly easily and quickly. What’s changed to alter this conventional wisdom?
Any article in a news publication that starts with “Let’s separate the facts from the fiction about . . .” is essentially some form of propaganda.
It assumes that their credibility as a company that gets to and delivers accurate news wasn’t impeached sometime back in the late 80’s.
There is VERY little scientific information available on THIS strain of Obola.
Mr. Cain was a good candidate, but not a good physician.
First, there have been too few cases to prove that Ebola
is ONLY contagious when an infected person is “showing
symptoms, such as fever, vomiting, flu-like body-aches
and diarrhea”.
Second, in fact, none of them are symptoms,
they are signs. And many over the counter drugs
mitigate them. Mr. Cain should go get some pizza.
Nobody knows anything about this virus.
They are all talking bullshit about how it is spread (clearly by aerosols, maybe airborne, you can tell this just by reading the accounts of how it has been transmitted so far).
They are also lying about how people must have fevers or other symptoms to spread it.
This is false because fevers can come and go, or be knocked down by some ibuprofen to normal.
EVERYONE knows this.
Lastly they are downplaying this as if it can not become another Black Death.
It sure as hell can.
It is highly contagious, to the extent that a good fraction of scared-to-death health care workers (nine!! MSF physicians included) have been killed by catching this virus.
Clownish suits and protocols and chlorine aside.
Face it people, they are lying about everything, so you need to noodle this thing out yourselves.
Cruz wants to emergency reconvene Congress for a travel ban, that is a start. I would hound him to carry through with that.
Yea when I need info on infectious disease, I talk to a Pizza Guy.
“So let’s review some basic facts:
When is Ebola contagious?
It’s only contagious when an infected person is showing symptoms, such as fever, vomiting, flu-like body-aches and diarrhea.”
Idiots don’t know what a “fact” is.