Posted on 08/16/2014 1:23:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Experimental drugs and airport screenings will do nothing to stop this plague. If Ebola hits Lagos, we're in real trouble.
Attention, World: You just don't get it.
You think there are magic bullets in some rich country's freezers that will instantly stop the relentless spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa? You think airport security guards in Los Angeles can look a traveler in the eyes and see infection, blocking that jet passenger's entry into La-la-land? You believe novelist Dan Brown's utterly absurd description of a World Health Organization that has a private C5-A military transport jet and disease SWAT team that can swoop into outbreaks, saving the world from contagion?
Wake up, fools. What's going on in West Africa now isn't Brown's silly Inferno scenario -- it's Steven Soderbergh's movie Contagion, though without a modicum of its high-tech capacity.
Last week, my brilliant Council on Foreign Relations colleague John Campbell, former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, warned that spread of the virus inside Lagos -- which has a population of 22 million -- would instantly transform this situation into a worldwide crisis, thanks to the chaos, size, density, and mobility of not only that city but dozens of others in the enormous, oil-rich nation. Add to the Nigerian scenario civil war, national elections, Boko Haram terrorists, and a countrywide doctors' strike -- all of which are real and current -- and you have a scenario so overwrought and frightening that I could not have concocted it even when I advised screenwriter Scott Burns on his Contagion script....
(Excerpt) Read more at foreignpolicy.com ...
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php
“SURVIVAL OUTSIDE HOST: The virus can survive in liquid or dried material for a number of days”
http://www.eva.mpg.de/primat/ebola_workshop/pdf/Leroy_et_alScience.pdf
Thank you.
Different sources say different time periods as it varies on the conditions. The link the the Canadian health Dept sheet says several days. I can’t find the one that said 5 days.
For areas which get sunlight it would be less. Areas with AC it might be more. If its dried it can still revive.
Could you post a link to the "if it's dried it can still revive" reference?
The link to the Canadian safety sheet posted earlier has that.
Advocating drinking colloidal silver to prevent Ebola infection is no greater a level of scientific sophistication than the Africans who lay out bat entrails and dance over them.
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