Posted on 08/04/2014 7:05:37 AM PDT by maggief
contact with infected animals (pigs, bats, monkeys)
contact with "droppings" of infected animals
eating any part of an infected animal
touching anything excreted (blood, sweat, urine, fetal matter) by an infected person.
any part of your skin touches any part of an infected persons skin
inhaling the droplets an infected person exhales via sneeze cough.
touching any item an infected person has recently touched.
touching a hard surface that has recently been in contact with anything wore, excreted or touched by an infected person who is dead or nearly dead from Ebola.
I am sure there are other means of Ebola spreading. It appears to me that Ebola is very contagious and could easily spread in a high density US city. I also think things are much worse then we are being told. Only 1500 infected? Only 800+ dead in West Africa? Really? I think way more.
If it is a surface water supply, it might be able to enter, depending upon the filtration system.
Nearly all secondary wastewater treatment systems, even tertiary sewer wastewater treatment systems, do not kill or isolate virus from the wastewater treatments.
If the public ignores AIDS infected patients swimming in large public pools, they likely will ignore ebola tainted wastewater in sewer systems. I suspect the sewers will be the most difficult to disinfect. Both water and wastewater treatment plants are probably the easiest locations to systemically treat potentially infected water, but they would require additional treatment systems than already installed.
Let’s see. The guy I share my office with is from Guinea. He is out sick today. Hmmmm.....
20-Jul Patrick Sawyer, US citizen and unknowingly infected with ebola, lands in Lagos on a flight from Lome, Togo. He had flown from Monrovia, Liberia to Lome.
20-Jul Sawyer collapses at the airport in Lagos and is hospitalized. Nigerian authorities attempt to contact and test passengers and crew from the Monrovia flight.
25-Jul Sawyer dies from ebola.
Jul 21-Aug 4 Nigerian authorities change their story about whether or not they have contacted and tested all the passengers on the suspect flight.
4-Aug At least 8 patients from the Monrovia flight are hospitalized and isolated with ebola symptoms.
4-Aug A doctor and three other health care workers who treated Sawyer in Lagos are exhibiting ebola like symptoms and are being tested.
Some questions, and possible answers:
1. Have all the passengers and crews from both flights Sawyer took while he was exhibiting symptoms been located and tested? Doubtful.
2. Have many of these people travelled outside Africa? Probably.
3. Is this a problem?
Oy. This guy was trying to get to the US but he collapsed before he made it here. This could have been us.
In their crowded situations - if one gets - it will be a mass slaughter.
There are already stories of these kids not being used to our type of hygiene so any disease would spread like crazy.
Nigerian Doctor Who Treated American for Ebola Tests Positive
I always seem to read these headlines as
Nigerian “Doctor Who” Treated American for Ebola Tests Positive
Damn you BBC and your Sci-Fi
Ebola can still be active 28 days on a surface.
Your scenario was just the beginning of the picture.
I’m confused. Didn’t I just hear Obama say on tv that ebola is not easily transmitted. You must be wrong. I mean, Obama must know what he is talking about, he has experts who advise him and he would not purposely mislead us would he?
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