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ALERT: Delivered By Airplane: Ebola Now Threatens 21 Million People In Major Metro Area
SHTF Plan ^ | 7/27/14 | Mac Slavo

Posted on 07/27/2014 2:57:41 PM PDT by Kartographer

Nigerian health authorities raced to stop the spread of Ebola on Saturday after a man sick with one of the world’s deadliest diseases brought it by plane to Lagos, Africa’s largest city with 21 million people.

The fact that the traveler from Liberia could board an international flight also raised new fears that other passengers could take the disease beyond Africa due to weak inspection of passengers and the fact Ebola’s symptoms are similar to other diseases.

Officials in the country of Togo, where the sick man’s flight had a stopover, also went on high alert after learning that Ebola could possibly have spread to a fifth country.

Screening people as they enter the country may help slow the spread of the disease, but it is no guarantee Ebola won’t travel by airplane, according to Dr. Lance Plyler, who heads Ebola medical efforts in Liberia for aid organization Samaritan’s Purse.

“Unfortunately the initial signs of Ebola imitate other diseases, like malaria or typhoid,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: disease; ebola; nigeria
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To: driftdiver
Not good. Bleach works apparently. So sad, because all it takes is one small paper cut on a finger and touching a counter top at the hospital.

Then there is pathogenicity to consider, in which I think Ebola rates very high.

So this is a very very bad bug.

Last night at work a stool exploded under the hood but went out and everywhere. Just one example of how easily body fluids can become killers.

101 posted on 07/27/2014 7:59:21 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: MarMema

Not good at all.

Stool exploding not good, either :-/


102 posted on 07/27/2014 8:04:37 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Islander7
The potential for the spread of Ebola is terrifying.

From what I've read, Ebola is similar to AIDS in that it's transmitted via bodily fluids (and by fruit bats, which are carriers). Since the infected people die quite quickly, they don't have much opportunity to have sex and spread it too much. Medical personal are at risk, even those dealing with the corpse as the virus is still active after death.

103 posted on 07/27/2014 8:06:37 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle
The virus can live, they say, for several days in dried material on a surface. Like a doorknob. Or the top of your shoe.

Hospitals in this country don't have the capability to deal with even moderate numbers of people infected with that kind of virus.

Let us hope it does not make it out of Africa.

104 posted on 07/27/2014 8:13:45 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: Jane Long
Well Hep B is able to live for weeks on a surface but HIV dies rapidly under florescent light. Hep C was always the one that worried me as a healthcare professional who handles body fluids for a living.

My coworker had left a lid on the stool and it has been warmer than usual here. It was actually kinda funny.

Anyway it is time for a vaccine for Ebola.

105 posted on 07/27/2014 8:16:02 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: Jane Long
I am one of those people who has worried more about the handle on the grocery cart than stuff in the lab, actually.

In the hospital we have doors you can open with your elbows for a reason.

106 posted on 07/27/2014 8:18:02 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: MarMema

You know, I am usually the germaphobe (using towel to open ladies room door, elbow to open door, etc.), but for some reason haven’t given much thought to the grocery cart handle....until NOW!

You can bet I’ll be wiping that - and EVERYTHING ELSE - down, starting now.


107 posted on 07/27/2014 8:21:51 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jane Long

Welcome to my nightmare, ha ha.


108 posted on 07/27/2014 8:23:33 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: MarMema
Let us hope it does not make it out of Africa.

I'm hoping it doesn't make it to Zambia, since that's where I'm going in a few days.

109 posted on 07/27/2014 8:29:20 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

So you need to take some stuff with you just to be safe. A mask would be a good start. You don’t need one for particle protection, any mask would do. Gloves too.
And find a good hand decontaminator especially..


110 posted on 07/27/2014 8:47:42 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: Cementjungle

Droplet precautions are three feet, btw. I have to train on this stuff nonstop.


111 posted on 07/27/2014 8:49:00 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: Cementjungle
Cover your cuts with bandaids. I do even under my gloves.

You may not know it has reached Zambia until you have been exposed so be very careful.

112 posted on 07/27/2014 8:51:14 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: MarMema
I'll definately be careful.

Got all my other shots though, and my Malaria pills ready. I just have to make sure I don't get eaten by a lion or something :-)

113 posted on 07/27/2014 8:56:33 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

How long are you staying?


114 posted on 07/27/2014 9:10:15 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: MarMema

3 weeks


115 posted on 07/27/2014 9:15:58 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

let us know when you have returned home!


116 posted on 07/27/2014 9:27:10 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: MarMema

It’s a photo safari... hope to get some good pic to share!


117 posted on 07/27/2014 9:28:17 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: MHGinTN

Ebay, $12.99 shipped. Half of Amazon.


118 posted on 07/27/2014 10:17:17 PM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (It's only a matter of time now before SHTF.....)
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To: Cementjungle

I am looking forward to seeing them!


119 posted on 07/27/2014 11:59:03 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: Jane Long
Check this out

And Dr Brantley was already here in the US a few days before his likely exposure. Sounds like a closer call than I feel good about....

120 posted on 07/28/2014 12:04:12 AM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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