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To: Cementjungle

Just recalling from other outbreaks, ie Angola Marburg, staying away from body fluids is very difficult in African health care. This is due to farming, medical practices and burial practices. Burial practices are almost unbreakable rituals in some areas.

Both Doctors without Borders and the WHO had extreme difficulties protecting their workers, and their patients, not to mention the political situation in many areas.

Chances are we’ll see more of this, but what we hear may not be what is happening.


17 posted on 05/29/2009 2:32:18 PM PDT by Judith Anne
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To: Judith Anne
Just recalling from other outbreaks, ie Angola Marburg, staying away from body fluids is very difficult in African health care.

To add a tad, for most Americans, "bodily fluids" include mucosal secretions, semen, and blood. For the purposes of transmission of these virii, sweat, feces, dandruff, and even tears should be added.

Between the common medical practice of re-using hypodermic needles, questionable to nonexistent sanitation (open sewers), and burial rites which include physical contact with the corpse by mourners, there is tremendous difficulty and cultural inertial against keeping the outbreaks contained.

20 posted on 05/29/2009 3:07:01 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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