Posted on 09/08/2014 9:36:12 AM PDT by Raebie
GENEVA, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The Ebola virus is spreading exponentially in Liberia, where many thousands of new cases expected over the coming three weeks, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday. In a statement, the WHO said that motorbike-taxis and regular taxis are "a hot source of potential virus transmission" in Liberia where conventional Ebola control interventions "are not having an adequate impact". The United Nations agency said that aid partners need to scale-up current efforts against Ebola by three-to-four fold in Liberia and elsewhere in West Africa. In Liberia it had killed 1,089 people among 1,871 cases, according to the WHO's update of last Friday.
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Not a good development. Excrement meet fan :-(
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I hope the PPE manufacturers are ramping up production. After we send ours to Africa there might not be enough left for the rest of us. Kinda like when we “ran out” of ammo.
Read how quickly viruses can spread in a western civilization environment, the common office space.
60% of office staff acquired test virus from a single fomite source within two hours. How’s that for speed?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3202070/posts
Follow the short version link to the MailOnline article
“Infections can spread from an office door handle to half the workforce in just two hours, new research has found.
Using tracer viruses, a study found as much as 60 per cent of workers in the building carried the bug planted after 120 minutes....”
“Study found between 40 and 60 per cent of office contaminated in two hours
Pushing buttons in lifts and touching phones spread infection quickest
Disinfectant wipes and regularly washing hands is best way to kill germs
Hmmmm.... Is it time to panic yet?
Good point! Eww! Now I will avoid cabs even more.
We Americans are conditioned to avoid physical contact with others, even in crowds. That is not true of other cultures. I noticed that in Disneyworld over the summer--as packed as it was, every American was surrounded by a "no-touch" zone, but the foreigners seemed not to care if they bumped into people.
The Ebola virus is still not transmissible except through direct contact with infected patients or bodily fluids. Human behavior is driving the transmission.
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