Posted on 08/12/2014 8:10:41 AM PDT by djf
So I guess I worry too much about the coming ice age wiping out 90% of our food crops.
There is a documented case of a wife contracting Ebola 82 days AFTER her husband recovered from it. It was found that Ebola will remain alive in the testicles for an unknown length of time. As the man with the Ebola antibodies passes infected semen, those antibodies fight off a relapse of the disease in that man. However, there is near certain, AIDS like infecting for the receiving partner.
Vitamin C
Zinc
Colloidal silver
I find it very very interesting that what they think might be a vector is a fruit bat. Fruit bats are one of the few species on Earth that DO NOT make their own Vitamin C. Humans and the great apes being another.
I've read that one odd feature of this particular strain of Ebola is that ALL vitamin C is quickly stripped from the body. They don't know if the virus is causing vitamin C to be eliminated from the body as a defense mechanism, sensing it as a threat, or as fuel for its reproduction and/or sustenance. The rapid and total loss of vitamin C is one of the devastating features of the virus.
Make that Ebola Barry.
The worse something is, the greater chance it came out of Africa and the ME.
It sure seems that way some days...
How to ruin barrys day? Spread the rumor that infected bats like to fly over golf courses.
For later (((ping))).
Anything that eats fruit might be a threat to him...but thankfully, those particular bats aren’t in the US.
Two squadrons of B-52s loaded with napalm flying arc-light missions round the clock - cauterize the infected area!
Or zombies.
Funny you mention that, Ebola virus does affect the victim’s mood and behaviour. It makes them agitated and want to move around, increasing the spread of the disease and making it a little zombie like.
I don’t think fruit bats go in caves. Fruit bats are not even the same suborder of animals the rest of the bats are in. Fruit bats live in the open and fly in the daytime and have big eyes with keen sight. They constitute a separate suborder called Megachiroptera, in the family named Pteropodidae, of the order Chiroptera (bats).
They once belived that fruit bats derived from primates, but DNS studies show they came from bats, although they split a very long time ago (like lemur from monkeys).
Most of the early outbreaks occurred during rainy weather. I am not aware one way or another if fruit bats would seek shelter when the weather was bad (most critters do). Normally, they would hang out in trees.
Here’s a question:
If Level 4 containment is required for movement of victims, how can it be said that it’s not more contagious than AIDS?
Are AIDS patients kept in Level 4 isolation? I’m not aware of that.
Hopefully that bit of sarcasm should dispel that myth. I’m not saying Ebola is airborne, just that clearly it’s more contagious than HIV.
There’s a difference between how “contagious” a disease is and whether it’s airborne or not. A disease can be “airborne” and be less “contagious” than one that isn’t.
Ping!
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...
The virus will eventually clear, but it may remain in some fluids (seminal fluid, breast milk) for several weeks after symptoms subside. As another poster mentioned, live virus has been found in semen 82 days after illness onset. In breast milk, live virus was found after about 40 days.
As far as I know, no one becomes a carrier.
The virus will eventually clear, but it may remain in some fluids (seminal fluid, breast milk) for several weeks after symptoms subside. As another poster mentioned, live virus has been found in semen 82 days after illness onset. In breast milk, live virus was found after about 40 days.
As far as I know, no one becomes a carrier.
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