Posted on 10/20/2014 8:47:21 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
As America loses its cool about Ebola, we need to remember one thing: the way the virus circulated here reminds us that Ebola is actually not easily spread.
This past Sunday marked 21 days — the full incubation period for the infection — since health officials began following the close contacts of Thomas Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the US. Today marks a full month since he took several flights from Monrovia to arrive in Dallas on September 20.
Thankfully none of these people, not even Duncan's fiance, got Ebola. The fact that the very people he lived with while he was running a sweaty fever and vomiting are clear of the virus is an important reminder that it is not easy to catch.
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But it would be eve harder with a travel ban.
let’s tell that to the medical staff at Dallas Presby Hospital
What happens if one of these people develops Ebola AFTER quarantine at 32 days?
No the real lesson, is that it’s pretty easy to spread.
We have had one person with Ebola come into the country and two American healthcare workers now have it as a result.
In Africa the cases double about every 3 weeks. This one in America has already doubled plus. Two more cases doesn’t seem like much now, but 3 weeks from now, it could be 4 more people sick. And then 6 months from now it will hundreds of new sick per day.
Ebola, the “October surprise!”
I think there are a lot more infections and they are covering it up.
The nurse’s boyfriend, for example, whose employer said he had it and suddenly does not, but is off the radar.
Lets say, I dunno....Duncan’s family knew he had @#$% Ebola and they deliberately stayed away from him.
And this would further reinforce the real lesson - people with Ebola are going to try as hard as possible to get to this country, in an attempt to save themselves...
And btw, infect people like the two Americans who caugh5t the virus from him.
At least until election day, we’re supposed to forget that the virus stays in semen a lot longer.
Nothing to worry about for 15 more days... /s
Tell those at Fort Dietrick that everything is okay, they can remove their positive pressure PPE suits while working with Ebola...
How does that square with nurses infected by limited contact with Duncan? Is the American strain of the virus different than the one in Africa? Or is the virus devolving?
Yeah, it’s no more difficult to spread than Norovirus, which seems to occasionally run rampant through senior’s centres...
Seems when the patient starts spewing from either end is when they really are contagious. You just don’t know when that is going to start..like on a flight.
So after that you need to really limit the people exposed to the patient. It was reported that patient zero in Nigeria was euthanized when he became to hard to handle and was exposing people needlessly. Sounds rough, but it did minimize the risk.
Are we even sure that his family and people close to him didn’t get it? I thought they were taken away to a safe facility to be monitored. Have we seen them, or are we just getting reports? I’ve not followed the blow-by-blow of the story, but just asking if we absolutely know if those people are unaffected?
Watch the early contacts come down with ebola past the 21 day period....as per WHOs warning that it could go out to 42 days. IMHO they are safe...but I’d still keep everyone under QT until 30 days just to be safe......and they wouldn’t be getting on a damn plane, train, taxi, or ship!
I read somewhere that different strains may have longer incubation periods. The only truth about the virus is there is little knowledge about it.
Perhaps this proves to be correct. However, with the disease raging in those affected West African countries, how many more of these guys might come over here unless we really ramp up our diligence with screening, travel ban, etc.?
What this really points out, is the absolute sh*thole that some parts of Africa are. The medicine, the sanitation, the cultural customs and norms....
Exactly, how do we know? They have been locked away since the beginning. Well, of course we can trust the CDC..../s
Hard to catch at first, but much easier when the patient is liquifying or already dead.
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