Posted on 02/27/2020 11:03:51 AM PST by jstolzen
It’s been killing doctors and other medical staff in Wuxan and they do get good medical care. This is a dangerous new virus.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/here-is-what-coronavirus-does-to-the-body/
are they making up these numbers....
here’s a WHO page also outlining how it could be possibly spread- they do make the case that some ways, such as sneezing, are ‘low risk’ however, it is still a risk-
https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/06-october-2014/en/
Again though- while it’s way more low risk than coronovirus obviously- it’s still not something i wanna bet my life on when it’s so easily preventable by avoiding it altogether if possible-
Ebola is a hemorraghic fever, it’s victims are bleeding out of every imaginable orifice. Medical personnel have a hard time not coming into contact with a patient’s blood in the primitive rural clinics in Africa. They don’t have enough protective clothing, they have to reuse it. That’s why it gets passed to them.
Mother Abigail who used to post here worked on Ebola. She didn’t regard it as a major threat because it isn’t highly contagious. The disease she did consider a major threat is hybrid flu. The bird flus and swine flus that cross with human flu. Those are extremely easy to pass along and they are often killers. 1918 was a swine flu. This Covid virus isn’t a flu but it is just as contagious. If it’s a killer then we have a problem.
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