Posted on 10/06/2014 7:24:41 PM PDT by Ray76
The Ebola virus is transmitted among humans through close and direct physical contact with infected bodily fluids, the most infectious being blood, faeces and vomit.
The Ebola virus can also be transmitted indirectly, by contact with previously contaminated surfaces and objects. The risk of transmission from these surfaces is low and can be reduced even further by appropriate cleaning and disinfection procedures.
Ebola virus disease is not an airborne infection.
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The rate that it’s spreading in Africa doesn’t jive with it being hard to catch.
I believe it’s either contagious before symptoms are apparent, or it’s partially airborne, or it doesn’t require cuts on the skin to infect through the skin, or some combination of the above.
Dr. Ada Igonoh caught it from a single visit to an ebola patient’s room. She touched the patient’s IV fluid bag with her bare hands, and the only time she touched the patient was to check is pulse and confirm him dead, and she was wearing double gloves at that point.
Fortunately, it hasn’t spread in Texas yet, and we are past the 9 days that it took for Duncan to show symptoms.
Can be but, the probability is low.
Yet it managed to 'fly' from Africa to the United States.
She was probably exposed upon removing the contaminated gloves. It appears that contaminated objects are infectious, it follows that casual unprotected contact with the infected (touching them) can spread it.
And anyone trust anything coming from the UN?
Previously they have stressed contact with body fluids as the method of transmission and have strongly downplayed or dismissed other methods of transmission.
The fact that they finally say it was the reason I posted it.
If I was the CDC I would be working on a vaccine. If i was the Congress I would pass a law offering a bounty of $10 billion and full indemnity to any company that develops an effective vaccination for Ebola.
Of course they won't even shut down flights from Liberia, so why believe they will do anything practical or effective.
I would like to hear some medical definitions of “airborne”.
An argument can be made that this virus could be considered airborne; for example, assault by bodily fluids.
This usually involves spitting, but if a criminal state of mind can be established, then why wouldn’t coughing, sneezing, hacking, etc., the Ebola virus knowing you are infected satisfy the requirement of a harmful or offensive touching?
“not airborne”
Oh please, a sneeze causes droplets of the pathogen to be in the air.
She could easily have gotten it from touching the IV bag, which she touched w/o gloves; seems like she said he had pulled it out twice.
The Ebolacrats in the administration don’t care about the U.S.
....”The rate that it’s spreading in Africa”....
Well that is no surprise when you here the people there talk about it and what they will and will not do to co-operate.
Far more than not of these people have child-like fears and superstitions....and as many are typically defiante believing there is no Ebola and that this is simply their Gov. attempting to get International Monies.
The list goes on and on of these peoples mindset and cultural beliefs that certainly get in the way of help...and that has ALWAYS been so in Africa. That’s not going to change.
Any who think our going there is going to change these people is a fool....it is a disease ridden and fully unsanitary country both in it’s rural areas as well as it’s cities.....not to mention their desire stands still to eat bush food of all makes and models regardless of Ebola.
No, no. I get it.
I worked with vancomycin resistant MRSA for a year.
Transmission medium and method are identical.
I never cleaned so much.
Surfaces, doors, hands, etc.
Bleach and alcohol for surfaces.
Alcohol, anti biotic soap and alcohol again for hands.
No one ever mentions that Ebola is also a sexually transmitted disease. It’s very dangerous to keep that hushed up. But if you read to the end of paragraphs, you know that “cured” Ebola victims are told not to have sex for at least seven weeks after they are discharged from the hospital because the virus may still be alive in semen.
In that senses, at least, Ebola is not different from HIV — and you know what a wonderful job the “authorities” did with keeping HIV from spreading.
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Yes, it can be carried by Aluminum tubules, where the virus incubates. While in this tubule, it feeds on supplied nutrients and refreshments. Entertainment is provided as well.
Still, nobody talks about transmission via insects.
Perhaps not. She was wearing double gloves. If the outer gloves were contaminated, and she removed and threw those away, then the inner gloves were sterile and posed no contamination to her bare skin. The only way she could have caught it was by touching the IV fluid bag, which the patient had touched. We all were told ebola is hard to catch. Not so. This Dr. Igonoh was very careful.
Wow. Sorry to hear it. MRSA can be no joke.
I’ve been thinking about getting germicidal clorox rather than regular.
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