What angers me, as late as a couple of days ago they had idiots going on television stating EBOLA couldn’t be spread if a carrier was asymptomatic. If it’s in the blood stream, it is transmittable.
Bodily fluids carrying the infection can obviously infect someone exposed to them.
This is the same sort of lie they told about AIDS in the early days.
Be prepared for a new term “ebola-phobic”. (It will only be applied to “right wingers”)
For Ebola...bodily fluids include sweat. That means no matter who you touched or where you sat or whatever....you left an Ebola trail. You’re one big carrier!!
In the early days of AIDS, we didn’t even know what we had going on. This is the same thing. They want to sound as though they know everything about Ebola, but I guarantee that they don’t. That’s why they lie. They don’t want everyone to know that they don’t know. People get panicked easily, so they lie so people don’t go into hysterics. I’d rather we understand what’s going on and be cautious and observant.
Their job is to minimize public reaction in the interest of Public Health.
And that's because We the People are to stupid to know what's good for our own selves:)
No chance this will spread exponentially, then.
How many more have been sneaked in across our national boundaries, already?
That’s the thing, nobody knows. And who says this is the only plague being brought in?
Overwhelm our medical facilities, then, when no possible stem can be put on the flood of cases, prohibit all public gatherings and keep people segregated in their communities.
Just in time for the 2014 elections.
I am not being cynical or anything.
Since it is true that Ebola is not contagious until a person is symptomatic, why does it anger you when experts provide that information?
How do you expect a virus to leave someone's blood in order to infect someone else? Do infectious agents have tiny airplanes or something? There are many bloodborne infections that are not contagious at all, many of them endemic to the US. You will never catch dengue, malaria, or chikungunya from another person--all are bloodborne diseases, and spread by mosquitoes.
Bodily fluids carrying the infection can obviously infect someone exposed to them.
Expelling bodily fluids is one of the symptoms. An asymptomatic person does not vomiting or have diarrhea; once they start doing that, they are symptomatic, by definition. If we care to anthropomorphize the virus, we can say that it makes people vomit in order to find new hosts.
This is the same sort of lie they told about AIDS in the early days.
What kind of lie was supposedly told? AIDS is far more difficult to catch than Ebola, and is spread because it manages to get from the blood into the semen. A few years ago, I had to go into a hospital room of a man who had just died of AIDS. Although I came within a few feet of him, I did not catch AIDS. That's because blood-borne viruses do not fly.