Posted on 10/15/2014 11:10:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A Northeast Ohio area teacher was on board the same plane that carried Amber Vinson, the Dallas nurse who travelled through Cleveland and was hours later diagnosed with Ebola virus. Two Solon schools announced that they will be closed on Thursday as a precaution after learning that a Solon Middle School staff member traveled home from Dallas on Frontier Airlines on Tuesday on a different flight, and an elementary teacher from Cleveland who confirmed contact with an Ebola infected person will be staying home from work until cleared by health officials to return to work.
Solon sent the following email to parents:
““Solon Middle School and Parkside Elementary School will be closed tomorrow, Thursday, October 16, as a precaution. We learned today that an SMS staff member traveled home from Dallas on Frontier Airlines Tuesday on a different flight, but perhaps the same aircraft, as the Texas nurse with Ebola.
This circumstance came to light late in the day and we have been working since then to get as much information as possible from public health authorities. Although we believe what the science community and public health officials are telling us about the low risk of possible transmission of the virus through indirect contact, we are nonetheless taking the unusual step of closing the dual school building for Thursday so that we can have the schools cleaned and disinfected.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health officials were clear that they do not consider our staff member to be at risk since she did not come in direct contact with the Texas nurse and was not on the same flight. It is important to remember that Ebola is spread through direct contact with the blood or other body fluids...
(Excerpt) Read more at clevelandleader.com ...
Did anyone else catch this near the bottom of the article?
***Meanwhile, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District confirmed that it was made aware that a teacher who works at Cranwood School may have come into contact with a person diagnosed with Ebola virus. City Health Officials have assured officials that students, staff, and families were not at risk, but CMSD has taken several precautions to ease any concerns about safety at the school. Overnight, the school is being cleaned with a bleach-based cleaning solution in accordance with the guidelines provided by the CDC.
The teacher is at home and will remain at home until cleared by health officials to return to work. CMSD insists that the measures taken at Cranwood were strictly precautionary.***
Who is the person with Ebola that the teacher came into contact with? Is it the traveling nurse or someone else? A clarification would be nice, but I guess that’s too much to ask of journalists these days.
Not having a second grader (or any kids) makes the question academic. I would turn the knob myself, but wash up afterwards.
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...
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...
“Nobody else seems to be infected - neither the power washer crew, nor the Sheriff’s deputy, nor the family of Mr. Duncan (as far as we know.) “
No one on the multiple flights he took to get here were affected as well it appears; fortunately.
Lets hope that holds up.
Considering it has been 26 or 27 days since Duncan flew on United, I think that threat has passed. The problem is the new Duncans flying in as we speak.
I appreciate your response. It shows your honesty.
(FYI - I would not want to touch that doorknob, and I was once federally certified to handle radioactive material, and have graduate level education in applied microbiology.)
- Best
“whole facilities will be closing their doors whenever someone sneezes within a mile.”
What is going to happen when flu/cold season hits? Obama and the CDC can’t think that far ahead.
Back in the late '60s, there were any number of student political groups, dozens of them, each peddling their own brand of leftist nonsense. The one thing they all had in common was, if there were more than 6, one of them was a police snitch.
I'm a "Comments" addict. I'll skim an article for the gist of the story, and then concentrate on what the proles are saying. I'm interested in trends.
One thing that I've noticed is an increase in commenters, across the Web, who troll with the "Inner Party" meme. It may sound like tinfoil nonsense, however, I've seen a good many ham handed attempts, lately, to manipulate the narrative toward an Obama approved lie.
I suspect a SEIU employed Journalism grad with a list of PC noms de plume and a quota of steering comments. One 'tell' you see is that, unlike most others, an Obama troll seldom gets confused about the "to, too, two" usage mistake. People who do not, as a rule, comment, make this error consistently.
Why should FR be immune? I'd bet on the LEO "Thin Blue Line" types as actually being Alinski True Believers, based on their conviction that conservatives are too narrowly law abiding to question a cop's motives.
The same with our new crop of public health experts. For every 10 one-day old posters who get zotted out of the saddle within the hour, how many lurkers have slowly built up what in spy novels is called a "legend", and pump the DNC fictions?
It's a cruel world, and sometimes you are left with only your own opinions to protect you.
Maybe you can answer this. If Ebola has a protein envelope that supposedly lets it penetrate certain cells easier, does that same envelope affect survival outside the host? I have read that non-enveloped viruses have better survival.
Two many trolls to little time too find them.
We don't deserve Ebola being brought in here by Obama and the CDC idiots. But as long as they are doing this, sabotaging the United States by open borders policies. Then it is only just that it blows up in their faces and leads to larger Democrat losses in November. That the Ebola blame falls on the Democrats instead of them being able to defect onto Republicans with lies about CDC funding etc
all viruses have a protein capsule or coat. This protein coat has the sites that help it recognize and bind to host cells and inject its viral DNA.
Some viruses, when they are expelled from the host cell, take with them an additional coating made of the infected cell’s membrane - a lipid coating.
These lipid coated viruses last longer outside the host, and are often harder for immune systems in the host to attack (because the cell membrane lipids act a bit like camo).
I think Ebola does not have this additional lipid coating - not sure. I never studied ebola. (Do you want to know about bacteriophage T2?)
To say I have nothing but contempt for the nurse that caused all of this would be an understatement.
She should have known better.
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So, letting people from Obola countries travel to the US is ok...but commenting on it here on FreeRepublic is dangerous?
Thanks for stopping by Dr. Freiden...
I have this reference: https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Infection_Mechanism_of_Genus_Ebolavirus which says:
The tubular Ebola virions are generally 80 nm in diameter and 800 nm long. In the center of the particle is the viral nucleocapsid which consists of the helical ssRNA genome wrapped about the NP, VP35, VP30 and L proteins. This structure is then surrounded by an outer viral envelope derived from the host cell membrane that is studded with 10 nm long viral glycoprotein (GP) spikes. Between the capsid and envelope are viral proteins VP40 and VP24 [14] (Fig 6).
That sounds like what you described, a lipid coating.
yep -lipid coating.
Lipid protects and provides “camo” to immune systems to some degree.
I had no idea that it made them more susceptible to bleach. It seems to me bleach is going to do the trick, lipid coat or no coat.
Best
Well, my FRiend, I do not dispute that there are trolls as you describe, but I would not be too quick to label one as such without being able to cite some evidence. But maybe that’s just me.
(BTW, I am not such a troll, but I do not make the error in homophones that you refer to. Many of us oldsters, who were actually taught English composition back in the old days, have excellent writing skills.)
FReegards
Ehhh...what do they know?
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