Human-to-human transmission occurs via direct contact with bodily fluids from an infected person.
Hmmm......I wonder which “lifestyle” community is most likely to be the vector here in the states.
Opening lines from the Hot Zone explain it has a 2-24 day incubation period and is active on surfaces for up to 10 days.
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It also lives on surfaces for several days.
Bodily fluids include semen, blood, sweat, vomit, sneezes, coughs ( they spray fluid as an aerosol), feces and it can live for 5 days at room temperature as a dried spec on a hard surface.
LGBT would be my first guess, followed by day-care workers.
“Skilled” nursing facilities will be decimated, too.
I’ve seen their protocols.
Employees and residents will pass along the virus, along with anyone dumb enough to visit.
This will be a share & share alike thing. Enough to make ObamaCare suddenly affordable, or unneccessary...
I am a germaphobe yet recently caught an airborne virus that knocked me down for 10 days. I took a friend’s husband to the doctor and came down sick 2 and a half days later and ended up in urgent care.
Be careful out there.
That would be the healthcare community and medics first and foremost. Please keep us in your prayers.