West African Ebola outbreak caused by new strain of disease: study
The spread of Ebola from a remote corner of Guinea to the capital and into neighboring Liberia, the first deadly outbreak reported in West Africa, has caused panic across a region struggling with weak healthcare systems and porous borders.
Ebola is endemic to Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, South Sudan and Gabon, and scientists initially believed that Central Africa's Zaire strain of the virus was responsible for the outbreak.
Using analysis of blood samples from infected patients, however, researchers determined that while the Guinean form of the Ebola virus (EBOV) showed a 97 percent similarity to the Zaire strain, the disease was not introduced from Central Africa.
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Water, water, and more water. In that order.
first of all do NOT fall for all the panic in the media
If you do it outside, try do it where the runoff won't contaminate something else. Drain it into a pit if necessary.
You can use a kiddie pool to contain the infected stuff and then pump or drain it to a pit.
You can get decontamination showers, with platforms and collection bladders, but you're getting into high dollar range again, and probably won't be able to survive the situation at that level, anyway.
Best is to have an enclosed decontamination entry into the house,
so you are out of sight, protected, and have the drain plumbed to a safe disposal field.
You can decontaminate, strip off the suit, hang it in a cabinet ready for it, along with the gloves, and boots.
Change into your other clothes if necessary, and then move into the house without fear of contaminating it.
I'd shop around extensively. The prices for the same things at different places can be very different.
Buy at least a couple extra of the lighter coveralls so you can practice getting in and out of them,
how much they weigh, how they restrict movement, and how hot you get in them.
There are elements of this list that are just plain wrong in the case of ebola. For example, one wouldn’t need an N-95 mask and goggles as much as a chemical-grade face shield as there is no documentation that this disease spreads by aerosols but plenty by skin contamination. I’m all for the bunny suit and gloves; I bought ours yesterday.
***Ebola is found to be in the “wild”***
We already have lots of wild diseases in the USA without a panic to go with them.
Plague
Hantavirus
Tularemia
anthrax
Bloody Murain
No doubt others like Cholera, Polio and Diphtheria are waiting in the wings for their chance at a reinfection.
Now we got new mosquito borne viruses headed our way.
What the genetic analysis shows is that this particular clade of Ebola Zaire has been circulating in Guinea for a while, probably in bats (since they are thought to be the animal reservoir). This is the first time the disease has been known to infect people in the area—that doesn’t mean it has never infected someone there before, just that it has never been identified there before.
It’s really a stretch to think that this is some sort of bioweapon, especially when there are already perfectly good reasons for everything that has happened.
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Here in the DC area, we have lots of African immigrants. After reading that article last week about bush meat smuggling in London, I’m actually more than a little concerned about Ebola here in the US.
anyone believing ANYTHING that comes out of obammy’s federal gub mint is an idiot.
Liar is too kind a word for this incompetent dumbass.
A diet rich in olive oil and fish oil will help ward off the Ebola virus. Make sure it’s cold water fish like sardines and mackerel.
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