Ebola? Who Cares?? It's all about MERS now.

[bizzaro]

If you touch the skin of someone who is sick with Ebola you might get it since it can transfer by sweat. You do need contact to bodily fluids though, so as long as you don't touch anyone sick with it you're fine. And it's not contagious in the incubation stage, only after the person has turned ill.

Also up to 21 days if they survive infection, after symptoms dissipate.

 

[bizzaro]

Right. All of this is part of the reason why panic about it running rampant in US/UK is not warranted. Although highly virulent, not highly contagious when universal precautions are used.

In the UK if it gets in the first thing they would do would be isolate. If a larger population became infected - e.g. a town the police and the army would quarantine the town and distribute medical supplies and medical care.

In cases of viral infections restriction of movement is the key thing to stop it spreading.

Close down airports and ports, railway stations and so on. Prevent public congregation.

Plus better sanitation and access to information.


Its easier to do that in the UK than it is in west Africa where there are cultural and poorly organised institutions where they can't restrict movement easily.


When you prevent its spreading eventually the virus dies out as it runs out of new hosts to infect.

 

[RAFUH]

I think there is worry about it traveling by air(plane) via infected people. It wasn't an issue for past outbreaks as they were more rural not in transportation hub cities. That's very different from the virus being transmitted from one person to another via air like SARS or flu.

Latest I read from CDC is it's not an airborne virus.

 

[orchard]

Technically no, however an experiment is described in the vid Juan posted earlier, where it was presumed that it survived in exhaled moisture for a limited time mate.

I think there is worry about it traveling by air(plane) via infected people. It wasn't an issue for past outbreaks as they were more rural not in transportation hub cities. That's very different from the virus being transmitted from one person to another via air like SARS or flu.

Latest I read from CDC is it's not an airborne virus.

 

[RAFUH]

Technically no, however an experiment is described in the vid Juan posted earlier, where it was presumed that it survived in exhaled moisture for a limited time mate.

Don't think that vid is going to do for me as a reliable source especially as it said they didn't identify the mode of transmission just one persons theory and it's tied to all sorts of conspiracy theories on a range of topics. Not that irule out the possibility the virus could mutate.

More likely human error in preventing transmission .... Occam's razor and all that

 

[orchard]

Trust someone called Bill if you wish mate, but I wouldn't rule it out personally.

Don't think that vid is going to do for me as a reliable source especially as it said they didn't identify the mode of transmission just one persons theory and it's tied to all sorts of conspiracy theories on a range of topics. Not that irule out the possibility the virus could mutate.

More likely human error in preventing transmission .... Occam's razor and all that

 

[RAFUH]

Definitely could mutate to airbourne transmission. Don't think it has.

Scary as it sounds, if it was airbourne, the outbreak would be much worse and would already be off African continent

 

[arminisgod]

Human vaccine trials have just been approved anyway. The SARS virus was far more serious than this, and that soon got sorted.

Basic soap and bleach kills the Ebola virus

 

[orchard]

That's good, we'll be immune with the quantity of bleach we consume per season

Human vaccine trials have just been approved anyway. The SARS virus was far more serious than this, and that soon got sorted.

Basic soap and bleach kills the Ebola virus

 

[magicjuan]

Definitely could mutate to airbourne transmission. Don't think it has.

Scary as it sounds, if it was airbourne, the outbreak would be much worse and would already be off African continent

Both of those things have been reported. Within Africa the reports of contagion are much higher, the fact that people have and are being tested off continent, inc here, shows there is concern and opportunity.

 

[magicjuan]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=GY1Col2ZgAI

bleach, ok....miltons it is then

 

[bizzaro]

Right, this strain has a death rate of about 50% not as high as being reported. The virus is very weak, easy to kill and only spreads by fluidly contact.

It would be easily contained in a developed health system.

The higher the mortality rate generally the lower the infection rate

Since people succumb to the virus before infecting others.

So this lower mortality rate isn't necessarily good news. It means people survive longer to infect more people

But it could be theres been no change just doctors have learned how to better manage symptomotic patients manage their condition better until they fight back. More likely

 

[ricardobee]

*reluctantly stops touching people

 

[bluelife]

Still safe to move?

 

[Groucho]

Still safe to move?

Not to West Africa mate, no....