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

[Bruce Wayne]

I think the lack of giving a fudge has to do with swine flu and previous so called epidemics.

This is a lot more serious than swine flu though isn't it? I believe survival rates if you catch this are around 20%.

 

[peteblue]

I'm just digging a moat around the house and putting up gun turrets. To be on the safe side I'm wearing rubber gloves whilst using an iPad to access this thread..............

 

[peteblue]

I'm just digging a moat around the house and putting up gun turrets. To be on the safe side I'm wearing rubber gloves whilst using an iPad to access this thread..............

 

[peteblue]

It printed twice.......twice.......I've got it for sure.......

 

[Bruce Wayne]

*pray for Pete*

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

By the way, it is transmittable by air I believe. The missus has a thing for infectious diseases, and she's amazed at how relaxed everyone seems to be about it all. But then she has been in a grump this week so she may just be hoping everyone dies.

No confirmed evidence of any strains of Ebola to be airborne as far as I know. If it mutates into airborne transmission
then it would be immeasurably worse than today.
Ebola is transmitted via bodily fluids and is destroyed by simple hot water and detergent. Effective barrier nursing and educating people in those areas are paramount. Touching their dead relatives seems to be a common route of transmission.

 

[DualityNSNO]

This is a lot more serious than swine flu though isn't it? I believe survival rates if you catch this are around 20%.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

• EVD outbreaks have a case fatality rate of up to 90%.

So even less...

 

[peteblue]

No confirmed evidence of any strains of Ebola to be airborne as far as I know. If it mutates into airborne transmission
then it would be immeasurably worse than today.
Ebola is transmitted via bodily fluids and is destroyed by simple hot water and detergent. Effective barrier nursing and educating people in those areas are paramount. Touching their dead relatives seems to be a common route of transmission.

None of this sounds good for Bungle.......

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

None of this sounds good for Bungle.......

Keep the munging to a minimum is my advice.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

No confirmed evidence of any strains of Ebola to be airborne as far as I know. If it mutates into airborne transmission
then it would be immeasurably worse than today.
Ebola is transmitted via bodily fluids and is destroyed by simple hot water and detergent. Effective barrier nursing and educating people in those areas are paramount. Touching their dead relatives seems to be a common route of transmission.

http://healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/pigs-monkeys-ebola-goes-airborne-112112

 

[Muggins]

okay so let's talk business. What is the antedote? and how much is it?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

okay so let's talk business. What is the antedote? and how much is it?

Not sure there's a cure is there? From what I understand, any treatments are just to make the patient as comfortable as possible whilst blood leaks out of every available orifice.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

http://healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/pigs-monkeys-ebola-goes-airborne-112112

From that article:

What do these findings mean? First and foremost, Ebola is not suddenly an airborne disease. As expert commentators at ProMED stated, the experiments “demonstrate the susceptibility of pigs to Zaire Ebolavirus and that the virus from infected pigs can be transmitted to macaques under experimental conditions… they fall short of establishing that this is a normal route of transmission in the natural environment.” Furthermore, because human Ebola outbreaks have historically been locally contained, it is unlikely that Ebola can spread between humans via airborne transmission.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

http://healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/pigs-monkeys-ebola-goes-airborne-112112

Although obviously just because it isn't proven to be airborne currently there is no reason why it cannot mutate to that in the future.

 

[peteblue]

From that article:

What do these findings mean? First and foremost, Ebola is not suddenly an airborne disease. As expert commentators at ProMED stated, the experiments “demonstrate the susceptibility of pigs to Zaire Ebolavirus and that the virus from infected pigs can be transmitted to macaques under experimental conditions… they fall short of establishing that this is a normal route of transmission in the natural environment.” Furthermore, because human Ebola outbreaks have historically been locally contained, it is unlikely that Ebola can spread between humans via airborne transmission.

Are we saying that pigs CAN fly......