He: "Another Ebola thread"
SHE: "Ping Null and Void!"
Posted on 05/05/2019 10:13:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is flaring up again, with a surge in violence that has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.
The attacks, which started on March 30 in Beni, North Kivu, have escalated in recent weeks and could get worse for people that remain trapped between the border of Uganda and an area of DRC that is terrorised by armed groups close to the Ebola outbreak that has claimed 1,000 lives, humanitarian agencies warned on Friday May 3.
Over April alone, local health authorities in these areas report that over 60,000 people were displaced, and about 7,000 of these are sheltering in a school just one kilometre from the border crossing into Uganda.
However, there are serious concerns about reports that people are being prevented from crossing the border into Uganda using at least sixteen official crossings. As a result, some displaced people are being left with little choice but to return to the villages they fled, where they are at risk of further attacks, while others are avoiding official border points and choosing to cross illegally through the forests along the border or by boat across Lake Albert.
They increase the risk of Ebola being spread, since people are not being screened as they would be at the official border crossings.
(Excerpt) Read more at monitor.co.ug ...
It’s obviously Trump’s fault.
And Jefferson.
And Andrew Jackson.
Etc.
Nothing to do, whatsoever, with a culture that has not changed in hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
This is going to get out of control, maybe already has
with thousands of refugees fleeing the country by any
means possible. It’s getting out of control and we’ll
be lucky to survive it.
My horror is to see this get wild in the first world.
The transportation that makes the first world what it is
could be the vector that decimates the world population.
I fear that you are right.
Did you know that the majority of refugees who come to the US through our Refugee resettlement program are from the Congo? True.
Sanfransicko and seattle are going third world. Look for it show up there.
tet68 :" My horror is to see this get wild in the first world.
The transportation that makes the first world what it is
could be the vector that decimates the world population."
Exactly true.
Most people forget that an airline provided transportation for an African traveler infected with Ebola,
who brought the disease into the US several years ago.
After a couple of healthcare workers contracted the disease
the CDC upgraded the healthcare workers hazmat suits and facial protection.
I recall seeing an article approximately 5 days ago that Russia closed one of its borders with China
when a Chinese national, traveling by commercial airline, was diagnosed with Ebola symptoms.
Realize that cabin air and air pressure in airlines is constantly being recirculated, thus possibley infecting the entire plane.
Other than that one article, I have seen nothing to indicate confirmation or denial regarding the medical evaluation of this incident,
nor the current situation at the Russian border with Mongolia.
Don’t you just love how they make Uganda out to be the bad guy for not letting in 10s of thousands of refugees to swarm them?
Noticed that.
Ebola is a bloodborne pathogen, not a respiratory (airborne) pathogen. No pathogen has ever been known to change its mode of transmission. Unless someone is spraying bloody bodily fluids into the plane’s air handling systems, it is highly unlikely that Ebola would spread via the cabin air.
If the Ebola passenger were symptomatic and had physical contact with the passenger next to him, then there is a possibility that the adjacent passenger could get Ebola.
I seriously wish the author of The Hot Zone would have never written that book. It is responsible for more misinformation about Ebola. There are diseases right here in the US that are just as deadly (if not more deadly) than Ebola, and at least one spreads through an aerosol route—but no one freaks out about those.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
Sneezing, coughing and vomiting could induce airborne transmission, especially in a crowded airline cabin.
The CDC upgraded from N-95 facial masks , to N-100, to improved particulate respirators, and transparent facial shields
since mucus membranes (eyes, nose, and throat) are the most susceptible receptors to the Ebola virus.
The Ebola virus, if airborne, can remain active as a contaminant for up to two hours outside the host.
Yet the CDC and WHO still refuse to categorize it at serious levels.
If the RATS were in charge, they’d be flying every last one over here.
Didn’t I read just last week or so that at two different locations along the Texas border there are twenty Congolese illegal aliens who have Ebola?
There is a significant difference between artificially aerosolized Ebola virus (as done experimentally) and the natural shedding mechanisms from infected people.
It takes contact with bloody bodily fluids to catch Ebola. Thus, only people adjacent to a symptomatic Ebola patient would be in any danger, and only if that person vomited, sneezed, or otherwise exposed the healthy passenger to contaminated bloody bodily fluids.
Another factor to consider is that the air inside airplanes is filtered and very dry. These two conditions make survival of microorganisms or viruses highly unlikely.
If you are next to someone who is visibly sick, it is probably a good idea to move, regardless of what you think the illness is. And keep your hands clean and watch what you touch.
Yes, you did, but don’t know if the virus had been officially confirmed. Also, 3 escaped.
Notice the msm isn’t reporting on it every hour on the hour like they’re doing with the Mueller report. Move along. Nothing to see.
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