Posted on 10/14/2014 9:29:08 PM PDT by Nachum
The highly respected Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota just advised the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) that there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles, including exhaled breath.
CIDRAP is warning that surgical facemasks do not prevent transmission of Ebola, and healthcare professionals (HCP) must immediately be outfitted with full-hooded protective gear and powered air-purifying respirators.
CIDRAP since 2001 has been a global leader in addressing public health preparedness regarding emerging infectious diseases and bio-security responses. CIDRAPs opinion on Ebola virus is there are No proven pre- or post-exposure treatment modalities; A high case-fatality rate; and Unclear modes of transmission.
In April of 2014, CIDRAP published a commentary on Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) that confirmed the disease could be an aerosol-transmissible disease, especially in healthcare settings, similar to the known aerosol transmission capability of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
Although CIDRAP acknowledges that they were first skeptical that Ebola virus could be an aerosol-transmissible disease, they are now persuaded by a review of experimental and epidemiologic data that this might be an important feature of disease transmission, particularly in healthcare settings.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Martha would suggest a Very Topless Christmas to one and all, and close with the words,
“Let’s hope Barry doesn’t kill us all before the year is out, and G_d bless us, every one.”
Even that is not a certainty. Lab workers conjectured about other mechanisms besides propagation through HVAC ducts that could have explained the infections.
Sure would like to see that link. Are you sure it wasn't from a fictional work?
Pretty much
Sorry, incubation meaning still viable in the human body after initial exposure.
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php
“Lab workers conjectured about other mechanisms besides propagation through HVAC ducts that could have explained the infections.”
Please share the conjecture if you will. I’d love to hear it. Perhaps they were French kissing each other or something.
Just sloppy lab maintenance — tracking things around.
Should have said, “Communicable.”
That’s not at all what incubation means.
Maybe, and maybe not. The question is which way do you want to bet?
The stakes? Your life.
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I know. I clarified. My bad. Not the greatest using a outdated smartphone.
We as humans don’t have to worry much about Reston. Non-human primates, not so lucky.
“We as humans dont have to worry much about Reston. “
You do know that viri can mutate. Don’t you?
I wouldn't lie awake at night worrying about Reston mutating. Zaire and the others are threatening enough as is.
It is reported that in some cases the “incubation period” can be up to 42 days.
http://m.naturalnews.com/news/047267_Ebola_outbreak_incubation_period_viral_transmission.html
My impression is that we still don’t fully understand the replication and transmission sequences for the various strains of ebola.
Symptoms seem to be secondary to tertiary symptoms of the actual viral attacks and easily confused with other viral symptoms until its too late.
Additionally, the 2-22 day period before symptoms become manifest, not only make it difficult to identify or verify, it encourages either very costly quarantine or very hazardous risk of exponential contagious dispersion, simply by inaction and relaxed precautions.
“I wouldn’t lie awake at night worrying about Reston mutating”
I used to think we were paying the CDC to lie awake at night thinking about that sort of thing. I no longer do. Our government is being run by dangerous morons playing with things they neither understand nor respect. It’s going to get a lot of people killed.
The 42 day "safe interval" is just 2*21.
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