Posted on 10/02/2014 5:35:28 PM PDT by servo1969
A photo posted to Twitter by New York Post web editorial assistant Connor Ryan shows an unprotected family member delivering food to the quarantined Texas family of the Liberian man hospitalized with Ebola.
Red Cross worker delivers supplies to quarantined family of Ebola victim in Dallas. http://t.co/KL8jrwAJBg pic.twitter.com/cw9frK9tJK
— Connor Ryan (@connortryan) October 2, 2014
Photo: James Breeden/Splash News
In the photo, a quarantined family member is bringing in supplies left at the apartment door by Red Cross volunteers.
More… The media also released these shocking photos today:
WFAA image of individuals pressure washing Mr. Duncan’s ebola laced vomit from the pavement/sidewalk. The men are not wearing any biohazard protective clothing or gear and there is a woman walking through the liquid in the parking lot wearing sandles. (wtd)
Here’s another photo of the unprotected worker cleaning up Ebola vomit on the sidewalk with a power washer.
A worker power washes the sidewalk in front of the apartment unit at The Ivy Apartments where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in Dallas, Texas October 2, 2014. Up to 100 people may have had direct or indirect contact with the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, and four people have been quarantined in a Dallas apartment, health officials said on Thursday. (REUTERS/Mike Stone)
NBC....FYI...Ebola
One of our team in Liberia ‘tested positive for Ebola’. He’s getting good care &we are self quarantined. Appreciate all the support @nbcnews
— Dr. Nancy Snyderman (@DrNancyNBCNEWS) October 3, 2014
“Do you want people reading this to think we are illiterate idiots?”
Well if they do they are prolly just ignernt. :-)
Were the doctors in full PPE every hour of every day? Couldn't they have been exposed while not in PPE? Dr. Brantly does not believe he got Ebola while caring for patients.
I won’t post anymore to you about this but you need to up your research and think in common sense terms. CDC website on ebola easy to find - here is your link. And when it says not spread by water I don’t think they mean ebola vomit mixed with water.
I've been reading several scientific research articles about Ebola every day for months, now. I've actually kept up with the research on it for years. What I am trying to do is lay out the facts--not the suppositions, not the fearmongering, but the evidence-based facts. It doesn't help anyone to let them panic about touching a doorknob that someone with Ebola might have touched before they developed symptoms. But it does help people to understand what DOES and MIGHT cause Ebola, because having correct knowledge is how people can protect themselves.
The CDC, of course, is reading the exact same scientific journals that I read.
Ebola virus in water (contaminated by vomit) is not likely to survive because the pH and salt content are both wrong. A virus that lives in blood needs fluid that has the same properties as blood to survive. That does not include vomit-contaminated water.
From the back, he looks like “Kid DynoMITE.”
They'll get better at handling this. /s
Remember the movie "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", they were going to save the world with their music, at the end of the movie they sucked at it. Their mentor said "They do get better!".
By the time government is handling their 100th case of ebola here they'll think to put gloves and masks on these underpaid servants. Or maybe the government will fund a $5 million dollar study on how to clean up vomit.
According to Bausch et al., J Infect Dis 2007; 196:S142–7, only one saliva sample of 8 that were positive by RT-PCR assay contained viable virus. So it would seem that saliva is *not* a major transmitter of Ebola. The virus preferentially reproduces in fibroblasts and endothelial cells; it also infects macrophages.
I am not aware of any good, solid, controlled study that establishes viral load in specific bodily fluids, likelihood of virus in any given fluid, duration of virus in any given fluid, etc. These studies desperately need to be done.
Anyone have any idea what they are washing off in the lower picture? it’s not the sidewalk, it’s something laying on the sidewalk.
I’m with you. Our govt is clueless. The CDC seems confused at best and outright lying at worst. Just assume that with Ebola as with sniping distance is your friend.
It is known. If you are aware of any published research that shows otherwise, please post the reference, in the form of a link to PubMed or the PubMed ID number.
And that is exactly why they should never be allowed here. Diversity continues to kill......
Ebola, like other viruses, mutates constantly, nicht wahr?
Omg i didnt know. Hope they will repeat it.
Ebola Family members not complying....
Police officers on Thursday took up posts outside the family’s Dallas apartment ‘to ensure compliance’ with an official order to stay, County Judge Clay Jenkins said in an afternoon news conference.
“They were non-compliant with requests to stay home,” said Jenkins, who did not elaborate.
From that same paper, please note that only 2/3 of the tested samples contained virus detectable by RT-PCR--which only detects nucleic acids, and cannot differentiate between viable and dead virus. Out of those 8 samples positive by RT-PCR, virus could only be cultured out of one sample. That means that only 8.33% of the patients sampled had viable virus in their saliva.
In any case, you should not kiss or hug Ebola patients without full PPE.
If Bob Beckel knew and hinted about this, he’s criminal!
exDemMom...quick question since you obviously have been following this closely. Dr. Gupta said on CNN about an hour ago in response to a question about immunity if one survives Ebola that there are five strains of Ebola currently active (pretty sure that’s what he said)...and that surviving one strain would make a person immune to that particular strain but he wasn’t sure about the others.
Do you know if the studies that have been done in the past are lumping all the Ebolas together or are specifically about this current one that seems to be the biggest threat? It’s hard to keep track of all the “news” that is coming out now.
Looks like a door mat.
No worries, as long as the guy doesn’t have sex with it, he can’t get infected.
Yes.
Viruses are limited in how much they can mutate, since they have to keep their ability to bind the cell surface receptors that they use to infect, and to co-opt the cell machinery they use to replicate. However, within their limits, they mutate quite readily.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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