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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IT is spread by sex when no symptoms or signs,
it is latent in other species.
NOTHING to worry about?
With all the concern for how Ebola spreads, little has been said about the symptoms of the disease.
You will get slightly different definitions depending on who you ask, but generally and "airborne" infectious agent has the following properties: (i)infectious agent that is capable of infecting cells of the human respiratory tract (ii) and can be expelled either directly (rare) or in aerosolized droplets (iii) which can attach to and initiate infection cells of the (primarily upper) respiratory tract of a human target leading to a systemic infection. Moreover, this must be the dominant means of transmission. An Ebola sneeze or cough CAN be infectious if it gets in your eyes, nose, or mouth, even if you inhale it. The cloud of droplets will contain some saliva, and also possibly blood (especially late stage) which is absorbed directly through mucuous membranes.
Does the virus have a limited life span outside of a host, like HIV?
It is not true it only takes a simple mutation and Ebola is airborne. The virus would have to change it’s complete mode of transmission - which would be a major revision of its species. Such a change HAS NEVER HAPPENED IN HISTORY. The “possibility” discussed by the scientists is due to the fact that science can rarely, if ever, rule anything as being impossible. This is not the usual meaning of what we think of possibility in common usage.
Yes there is, but that’s a Wednesday which doesn’t start with a ‘T’ so it should be safe to have sex with the ‘Obola’ infected.
I have seen nothing that indicates insects as vectors.
Post upthread —#19, I think — refers to the involvement of insects in transmission. Thoughts, please?
That kind of a mutation probably would have occurred if it were to do so.
The kind of genetic mutations that are needed for it become airborne would fundamentally change the virus.
For example, the chances of it mutating to an airborne condition MAY have already happened millions of times. But the mutation that causes it to turn airborne could very well have changed the receptors that make it fatal to humans.
Mutations are random changes. In all directions.
The human defenses are pretty good. It takes a shifty little bastard to get us down.
PS: Sorry, it was post 18 and not 19.
It’s a medical definition.
Airborne in these terms means that the virus is expired in your breath and it lives, suspended in the air. The key is that others would be infected by breathing in the air.
Ebola transmits through waste, vomit, and oozing blood from your openings. Contact with a surface (skin, toilet, blanket, clothes,etc) will transfer the virus. The transmission through sneeze droplets is possible, but not proven.
Transmission, in medical terms, is pretty difficult. Lethality is high. So the thing to remember is, hard to get...easy to die.
It doesn’t appear to be transmitted via insects. As HIV is not.
It has to do with insects not respire get the same as us. I read something about that months ago. I will see if I can find it.
These are the reasons why these outbreaks are rare, and the death tolls usually measured in the dozens. Transmission is difficult.
And they are not well educated, and they do not trust the medical services.
They live in a cesspool, they don’t understand how any of this works, and they are often resistant to help.
Compare that to our culture where we tend to defecate indoors, we do nothing but watch TV and we EXPECT the gov to take care.
Gee, it would be horrible if that resource rich nation lost all of their parasitic people now wouldn’t it? //sarcastic conspiracy comment all rolled into one
Actually, yes.
Yes and it’s dependent upon conditions.
It attacks the immune system. More detail than you could possibly want here: https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Infection_Mechanism_of_Genus_Ebolavirus
Looks to me like it spreads under the radar by attacking the immune cells directly. Then when the body recognizes there is an infection it spreads by the immunoresponse into the bloodstream. A strong immune system is no guarantee of anything IMO.
Aside from those at the top of Gov. there....no concern except to keep the Int’l Leaders off their back...otherwise people are of little concern overall or Africa would be in a better place today....obvious they aren’t. Unfortunately the people don’t much care to help themselves either....like some we know in this country.
“MRSA tried to kill me, resulting in 2 very long and painful months in the hospital.”
Glad you didn’t die - (you are so hard headed, MRSA didn’t have a chance).
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