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. CIDRAP’s 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.”
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and pets can carry it but did they put down the dog? no.
The system is just not taking ebola seriously yet.
This was posted here a few days ago:
From Pigs to Monkeys, Ebola Goes Airborne
http://healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/pigs-monkeys-ebola-goes-airborne-112112
So...WHAT has changed? Why is it different?
Did you know the US government has a patent on Ebola?
If the dog doesn't have Ebola there is no reason to kill it.
As for being airborne, 30+ years of experience shows no sign of Ebola being airborne. Much like AIDS, it requires a transfer of bodily fluids in order to infect. Ebola Reston is the only strain thought to be airborne and it isn't lethal to humans, only monkeys.
It's ironic that AIDS, with is 100% lethality is treated so casually but Ebola with its 70% to 90% lethality has folks running for the hills. The only difference is the speed at which it kills.
Political correctness is going to kill us.
I guess we should all bend over and kiss our arse goodby.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
People are more worried about suffering horribly with Ebola than they are about dying from it.
Do not forget the 10 year incubation period for Aids. A even bigger difference. Ebola is not the same and should not be compared to Aids. It is more similar to the Black Plague.
Yes, I read that about 2 weeks ago.
“As Lenny Bruce once said”... you’re showing your age...
You don’t get AIDs by touching somebody who has it unless you come in direct contact with their blood.
You don’t get AIDs by coming into contact with surface moisture on an armrest left by someone else that is infected with it.
You can with Ebola.
There are risky behaviors that if you don’t do, you are very unlikely to get AIDs. Touching a doorknob after someone with Ebola touches it is practically impossible to protect yourself from.
And there lies the difference. They are not the same. And you know that.
Glade aerosol air freshener new scents: ‘Freshly pressed linen’ ‘Orange blossom’ ‘Deadly Ebola’.
If you are 100% sure of what you posted, would you be willing to treat a person with ebola with the same protective gear Nurse Pham was using?
If they have a patent, then they have a cure. Most everyone scoffs at the notion that Ebola’s mode of destruction is using up the bodies Vitamin C supplies, which causes, initially scurvy and then vascular tissue failure and death. In theory, Vitamin C could be there, inconvenient treatment that allows our own bodies the time to cure itself.
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