Posted on 10/16/2014 9:38:02 AM PDT by Rockitz
The director of the University of Minnesota's prestigious Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) tells CNN that the possibility of airborne Ebola is the sum of all fears.
In a piece by CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen titled, "Ebola in the Air? A Nightmare that Could Happen," CIDRAP Director Dr. Michael Osterholm said nothing compares to the threat of airborne Ebola.
"It's the single greatest concern I've ever had in my 40-year public health career," Dr. Osterholm told CNN. "I can't imagine anything in my career--and this includes HIV--that would be more devastating to the world than a respiratory transmissable Ebola virus."
As Breitbart News reported on Tuesday, CIDRAP has advised the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) that "there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks."
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"there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks."
Do you trust Obama political appointee, Dr. Frieden from the CDC, or this guy?
I concluded that it was airborne, two weeks ago.
A sneeze can send thousands of wet aerosol ebola virus bodies through the air to be breathed in or touched on other objects it lands on by others. But, of course, its not transmitted that way.
There is nothing here to see. Move along. Oh, yes, Citizen...pay your taxes.
U Of M Knocks Down Tweet That Ebola Could Be Airborne
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/10/16/u-of-m-knocks-down-tweet-that-ebola-airborne/
“...just remember to leave us in your will”
We need to update this Hal, since this is the age of Obola...In addition to, pay your taxes, the following needs to be added for the benefit of the wee little ones that we serfs are in an Obola America...’ensure that your will has been updated leaving all assets to the state for the benefit of the glorious state’...oh, and if you are a pastor, be sure to submit all sermons for area district governmental review...that is all...
The question is, how are they getting it (not how do we believe they are getting it) and what can be done about it?
This kind of thinking is sadly lacking IMHO.
Many others and I have theorized a very logical mode (aerosol) of transmission. We may not be correct, but nothing we know thus far precludes the possibility.
...what can be done about it?
Current protocol isn't working! Many others and I believe that a filter/cartridge breathing apparatus is possibly not be enough and that a hazmat suit with self-contained air source may be appropriate for health workers.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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...
Re: “I concluded that it was airborne, two weeks ago.”
I agree.
More than 10% of health care workers in Africa are getting infected.
The idea that ALL these people were getting bodily fluids in their mouth or eyes or on broken skin struck me as preposterous.
I don't. Droplet transmission is not airborne transmission but it is how transmission occurs in many cases. In other cases it is surface fomites or actual handling of the sick or waste. A true airborne adaptation would have millions of African infected now, not 10 or 20 thousand.
This guy
bury yer dead
It's a bit hard to believe that the two nurses in Dallas started rubbing their eyes or biting their fingernails just moments after de-gowning.
Can the virus invade healthy, intact skin cells?
What is the nature of its extraordinary virulence?
I just watched today's Congressional hearing on C-Span.
Not one of the experts addressed that issue, which, in my mind, is the ONLY important thing to understand.
Hi Z, I’m all tied up with problems this morning or I’d try to answer. Good questions, though.
No, the virons can’t enter through intact dermis.
Meant to type epidermis but any micro-abrasion will provide a path.
However, health care workers in the USA and Africa seem to have an unusually high percentage of wounded skin that, apparently, they don't know they have.
Then, they seem to have unusually bad luck, since the virus keeps finding the wounded skin they don't know they have.
Bottom Line - we have dozens, perhaps hundreds, of infections in people who were working in hazmat suits.
But we have no clear explanation for how they became infected, except that they “broke protocol.”
Not very helpful.
And not very calming.
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