Posted on 09/17/2014 12:20:11 PM PDT by Dallas59
he deaths of 10 people in the past week of a mysterious disease in several cities in Venezuela, including the capital of Caracas, have caused panic within the population and has prompted doctors to sound the alarm.
A government spokesman minimized the warnings and described efforts to notify the public of a disease that has killed four adults and four children as a "campaign of disinformation and terrorism."
Despite the government's indifference, the country's doctors insist there is plenty of reason for concern about a highly dangerous and contagious disease of unknown origin.
(Excerpt) Read more at local10.com ...
While true, the virus still makes use of those means to infect another host.
Same issue remains. How long can the virus 'survive' (proper term here is difficult since a virus in not technically 'alive') outside of a host. This newest 'mutation' (adaptation) has learned to survive longer outside the host.
You can say its not 'airborne', but that hasn't prevented people from getting infected who have had no physical contact with someone already infected.
So, what term should be used for 'short term suspension in the atmosphere immediately surrounding an infected patient'?
Viral load may be so high in some communities that fomites are everywhere waiting to be kicked up just walking down the main road or pushing open a door or even a elevator button and then there also is a potential of mosquitoes becoming vectors.
Some theories being examined include the possibility that the disease could be a new type of very aggressive and severe dengue, an atypical version of the Chikunguña fever or an Ebola virus appearance in Venezuela. “
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I spoke to someone tonight whose father is down there with this disease. He said it was Chikunguña and it’s spread by mosquitoes.
Guanarito ...
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...
I have seen people get a seal that way. Problem is, if the seal fails, short of intubation, there is no way to get oxygen in the lungs without a nasty fire...
Thanks for the ping!
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
“a campaign of disinformation and terrorism.”
Maybe they can defeat it with hashtags?
Good thing we’re looking at an extra-cold winter here.
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