Ebola

[boarderbloke]

pars, oneoff, others, anyone???

If ebola is so contagious, please explain how NONE OF THOSE that were living with T. Duncan in that small apartment/motel room, came down with ebola?

He had to be in a contagious stage for a couple days prior to reaching the point when he became so violently ill. Still the people continued to live there for a day or to, before the CDC arranged for the place to be cleaned and decontaminated.

Yet two nurses, mostly covered in protective gear, and at this point knowing they're dealing with an ebola patient, still contracted the disease? How can that be?

How come no one else in the emergency waiting room or any medical personal that dealt with T. Duncan's first visit to the hospital, when it was unknown that he had ebola, was so sick, and protective garb wasn't wore, contracted ebola? None of those people contracted ebola.

Something is a little off with this story. Yes, I know this sounds a little Alex Jones'ish, but what gives? No one other than the two nurses have contracted ebola, from T. Duncan.

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[charliep]

The CBC national did a really good job of answering questions on Ebola including the one from the last post. Ebola is transferred in body fluids. The sicker a person is with Ebola, the more more contagious they are. In the early stages of the disease, a person is not very contagious.

Go to minute 30 of the national.

[URL="http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV%20Shows/The%20National/ID/2565985581/"]the national[/URL]

[oneoff]

Viruses multiply at a rate along the lines of 1,2,4,8,16,32,64.128.256.512,1024,2048,5096,10,000 ,20,000,40,000,80,000,160,000,320,000,640,000,1M,2 M,4M,8M,16M,32M,64M,128M,256M,500M,1B etc etc until you are in really big numbers or some control measure is employed to stop that spiral growth or the human body works to limit those "virus" numbers available for reproduction. And the time frames per "doubling" may be something of the order of 20 minutes (I don't know anywhere exactly).

The major safety gear is layers of impermeable clothing and common bleach and disinfectants by the barrel..

But what to do with mountains of one time use protective garb and masks and needles and tubes and bedsheets and excrement and vomit and wipes and such infrastructure as sewer pipes that lead to your city lagoons and waste disposal area that have to be maintained. Or protecting the cleaning personelle in public and even private washrooms. Or even any food preparation area or restaurant. Hard to catch, ornot, isn't the issue. There is no room for even one such virus particle in the public world environment.

There are now trillions of such particles and those numbers are currently still increasing with no end in sight........When that corner is turned; then some progress can be made to actually bring new case levels down (and risk) closer to zero.

For any of that to happen; it is going to be a complete turnaround for those who staunchly avoid any perceived personal health risk (no matter how small)...to now accept an ebola type potential epidemic (no matter how small it may turn out to be in the coming months).

I will refrain from mentioning specific "glyphosate"; organic crusades; chemical pesticides residues and other phytosanitary issues that some have seen as major concerns. Just why isn't an ebola problem included in that list.