Ebola is here, We're all gonna die.
10-01-2014, 03:54 PM
#31
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Originally Posted by RomeoJulietLima
Ebola, does spread.. just take precautions. I am disappointed that the doctor in north TX Presbyterian is saying we are all safe. We are if we follow protocol. Unfortunately, most of do not.. Ebola has been here. Read Demons in the Freezer! Or any of that authors books. It has been known for a while. It is just breaking out on a level people notice. No, not everyone will die, think aids, it will be controlled one day...
I will never think the government will ever control health issues.. Truly not their jobs.
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I will never think the government will ever control health issues.. Truly not their jobs.
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In general, yes, you are safe, and he is right that it is extremely unlikely to spread across America like wildfire due to better knowledge, sanitation, and containment practices.
Some sources have said it is like AIDS / HIV - NOT TRUE, much easier transmission. However, it is also NOT like influenza, where there is airborne transmission and you could get it really without knowing how. It is more like hepatitis A, which also causes occasional localized outbreaks even in this country. Difficult to get through casual contact, but if you drank from contaminated water, or had direct contact with an infected person, it could be transmitted.
10-01-2014, 04:16 PM
#33
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Originally Posted by cardiomd
The truth is somewhere in between. What I really, really fear is that one of the Liberian-traveling-guy's kids or contacts gets sick, goes to day care, where the kids all have poopy-smeared playsets and rapidly translate to each other, then back home to mom and dad. Then the genie is really out of the bottle. It will be a cluster outbreak very similar to what is seen in Africa, rapidly infecting a community. However, then that community will be quite rapidly isolated and the chain will very likely be broken.
In general, yes, you are safe, and he is right that it is extremely unlikely to spread across America like wildfire due to better knowledge, sanitation, and containment practices.
Some sources have said it is like AIDS / HIV - NOT TRUE, much easier transmission. However, it is also NOT like influenza, where there is airborne transmission and you could get it really without knowing how. It is more like hepatitis A, which also causes occasional localized outbreaks even in this country. Difficult to get through casual contact, but if you drank from contaminated water, or had direct contact with an infected person, it could be transmitted.
In general, yes, you are safe, and he is right that it is extremely unlikely to spread across America like wildfire due to better knowledge, sanitation, and containment practices.
Some sources have said it is like AIDS / HIV - NOT TRUE, much easier transmission. However, it is also NOT like influenza, where there is airborne transmission and you could get it really without knowing how. It is more like hepatitis A, which also causes occasional localized outbreaks even in this country. Difficult to get through casual contact, but if you drank from contaminated water, or had direct contact with an infected person, it could be transmitted.
10-01-2014, 04:37 PM
#34
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
Yep! It's no flu, but it's also far easier to spread than AIDS as well. What is not helping is our lack of entry screening of pax coming back from Africa to the states. If you go over there, you are screened with a thermal scanner looking for fever. Yet when you return to the states, you aren't.
Last year when I went to Hong Kong for business there was a "thermal station" where you had to have your temperature scanned, can't remember whether it was coming or going though.
10-02-2014, 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Boomer
I had Ebola as a kid. No big deal.
Luckily it's not a question on the FAA medical. Yet.
Luckily it's not a question on the FAA medical. Yet.
What?
"Ebola cereal! I may have Ebola rice for dinner."
The jokes that 8 year olds find funny.
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