Posted on 10/20/2014 8:47:21 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
As America loses its cool about Ebola, we need to remember one thing: the way the virus circulated here reminds us that Ebola is actually not easily spread.
This past Sunday marked 21 days — the full incubation period for the infection — since health officials began following the close contacts of Thomas Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the US. Today marks a full month since he took several flights from Monrovia to arrive in Dallas on September 20.
Thankfully none of these people, not even Duncan's fiance, got Ebola. The fact that the very people he lived with while he was running a sweaty fever and vomiting are clear of the virus is an important reminder that it is not easy to catch.
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About par for Africa. The difference is so far no one has been confirmed to have caught it from them. Which is a credit to one of them and, so far, blind luck in the other case.
It seems to be not so contagious in the early stages, but very contagious in the latter stages, just before the person dies.
5% of Ebola-infected people can develop symptoms AFTER the 21 day window has passed. 2% can develop symptoms after a 41-day (6 week) window has passed.
Senior center, cruise ships, daycares, and schools.....
#2 or the thousands of dead in Africa.
That's not chiseled in stone, either according to WHO- maybe 42 days.
You omitted jails/prisons.
Just the fact that it can survive outside the body for up to 6 days means it is airborne and can easily spread. It’s a virus no different from the common cold, or the flu which is an RNA virus just like Ebola. When someone at your work has the flu or a cold does everyone at your work get it as well? You’re lucky if you get one or two. But that doesn’t mean millions of people do not get it every year nationwide. What we don’t want is Ebola becoming “common” because when that happens we are effed. A sure sign will be when several people from different parts of the country get it and they don’t know how they got it and this piece of rat slime in the White house is absolutely no doubt in my mind whatsoever trying to make that a reality.
In my house last year, 3 out of the four of us had a horrible, bad, on death's door flu. It lasted a good ten days.
Once we all got sick, my son my husband and I, we all isolated ourselves in my bedroom. We used only the bathroom in my bedroom.
My daughter would leave drinks or soup or whatever outside the door. She never came into contact with us or the room. Literally, I was texting her from my room. LOL.
She never got sick. And that's the flu, pretty easy to spread.
The Amerikan people are suprising at what they will accept as the new normal but they are not going to accept people dropping from Ebola as "normal".
This thing has a 70% kill rate and kills you pretty quickly. It's not gonna take, even the most obtuse soccer mom, long to realize if Little Billy gets Ebola, she'll be digging a hole in the backyard, more than likely.
Society will shut down and the economy will collapse long before we are just "living with ebola".
It’s possible that members of his family DID get ebola, but only in a very mild form (for some reason this happens with some people).
IMHO they should ALL be checked for anti-bodies; and if these are present, then their blood might be used to help those with worse infections.
Funny about Ft. Detrick. It used to be listed as one of the few facilities that had Level 4 Units but it’s been quietly off the list the past two weeks. Could be it’s been designated for army use only with our troops being shipped over to the Hot Zone.
There are 25 nurses who have quarantined themselves in THPH to keep away from their families.
There is one group who have been allowed to come in to the command center and work in their offices but because they were/still on the monitor list can’t treat patients.
THPH still hasn’t reopened their ER or ICU and the hospital has only 1/3 of it’s normal patient load.
United States is not ebola-free yet. I continue to trust that ebola should be regarded as a level 4 bio-hazard, that we do not know its incubation limitations, and it has mutated 300 times so far.
stay safe
Thanks for the info.
Thanks for the link. *sigh*
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