Posted on 10/12/2014 11:07:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The first case of Ebola transmitted between patients in America has experts across the country reviewing safety protocols.
At Purdue University, Dr. David Sanders has been studying the virus since 2003 – specifically how this particular Zaire strain of Ebola enters human cells.
While the virus has thus far only been shown to be transferred via bodily fluids, Sanders argues that it could become airborne.
"It can enter the lung from the airway side," Sanders said. "So this argues that Ebola is primed to have respiratory transmission.
"We need to be taking this into consideration," he continued. "What if? This is not a crazy, 'What if?' This is not a wild, 'What if?'"(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at theindychannel.com ...
Obama said we’re safe.
No worries!
Has Mr. Obama been working on this since at least 2003?
Interestingly the latest Dan Brown novel has the plot of a billionaire consortium concerned with overpopulation releasing a disease to infect humans.
Posted earlier today someone had an article from 2006 (a college in Texas) where some greenie said the only way to stop ‘global warming’ was to wipe out 90% of the human population and an airborne Ebola would be the perfect mechanism to accomplish this.
Fighting virus from the sky,
born over there, came here to die,
100 cases came here today.
98 are here to stay.
Pin a toe tag upon my foot,
Got it bad, right in the gut,
Organs liquefying as we speak,
Burn my remains and ship ‘em East.
The CDC is also a moving target on their standards:
Only contact with bodily fluids can transmit the disease, but don’t come within three feet.
Protocol for healthcare workers involves haz mat suits. But we are safe on the bus with Ebola victims...
FBI Interested in Texas “Doomsday” Ecologist who said Ebola Solution to Human Overpopulation (’06)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3211370/posts
Thanks Barry and the ‘RATS! Nice to know that you ***holes “have our back”. Damn yellow-bellied crook bass turds.
Yep. That’s the guy.
Perhaps this was the Gates foundation cure for 3rd world poverty?
Someone said here a few days ago that there has never been a virus that mutated from direct/surface contact to be air borne.
I read the same thing today in a WaPo (I think it was) piece. I think that author said it was basically science fiction to think that could happen.
I hope that is right, because otherwise we really are doomed.
Go back and read who this professor is.
At some point we may have to ‘put down’ the infected to save the rest of us.
Is there any other reason the U.S. military is being sent into the hot zone? They are soldiers, not trained medical staff.
Also wondering when news blackout for ‘national security’ will happen with new Ebola cases. Can’t cause panic...
Dear American friend,
If you are reading this letter, if you opened the envelope and handled the paper, you may already be infected.
The good news is, I have recently come into a large amount of money, but I am unsure what to do, but to be sharing it with you, my new, ill friend all I require is a bank routing number.
A bunch of other stuff.
Nbongo Bhitdhinboon
Lagos
Is there a possibility they are being trained not to save the rest of us, but to handle us?
Well, in one sense it already is “airborne” if you keep letting people from west Africa fly to the United States...
CC
The military that we are sending to Liberia are going to be doing what they specialize in, they are not going there to do medical jobs that they don’t do, we aren’t turning engineers into medics.
Impressive credentials => http://bilbo.bio.purdue.edu/~viruswww/Sanders_home/bio.html
Yup, it can be passed through airborne particles.
This is the case for using respirators and not simply masks ( I put this on another thread).
Here’s the money shot:
“The act of vomiting produces an aerosol and has been implicated in airborne transmission of gastrointestinal viruses.18,19 Regarding diarrhea, even when contained by toilets, toilet flushing emits a pathogen-laden aerosol that disperses in the air.2”
“The precautionary principle—that any action designed to reduce risk should not await scientific certainty—compels the use of respiratory protection for a pathogen like Ebola virus that has:
No proven pre- or post-exposure treatment modalities
A high case-fatality rate
Unclear modes of transmission
We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks.1
The minimum level of protection in high-risk settings should be a respirator with an assigned protection factor greater than 10. A powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) with a hood or helmet offers many advantages over an N95 filtering facepiece or similar respirator, being more protective, comfortable, and cost-effective in the long run...
The potential for transmission via inhalation of aerosols, therefore, cannot be ruled out by the observed risk factors or our knowledge of the infection process. Many body fluids, such as vomit, diarrhea, blood, and saliva, are capable of creating inhalable aerosol particles in the immediate vicinity of an infected person. Cough was identified among some cases in a 1995 outbreak in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo,11 and coughs are known to emit viruses in respirable particles.17 The act of vomiting produces an aerosol and has been implicated in airborne transmission of gastrointestinal viruses.18,19 Regarding diarrhea, even when contained by toilets, toilet flushing emits a pathogen-laden aerosol that disperses in the air.2”
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