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Ebola: It's In The US Now

So what is the REAL mortality rate on this strain of Ebola? This is not a number determined from simply comparing the number that have died to the number that have been verified as being infected. The number needs to be the number who have reached the stage of the illness to where they either have survived and recovering, or have died as a result. From that live display link I posed earlier, the mortality rate is more like 71 percent than the 50 percent being quoted in the media.
 
It's still not proven to be Ebola yet, is it?

Of course, if he does have it, it would be my guess that he touched SOMETHING in that 30 minutes he was in the apartment. Let's face it, 30 minutes is a long time to be in a room and not touch SOMETHING. Much less breathing air in a closed space that surrounded someone definitely infected with Ebola.

What about the woman and children that were staying with Ebola Tom? Seems to me that they would be prime candidates for the next headlines.

Of course, unexpected cases will be the ones (if they appear) that will be real meaningful eye-openers. That would be when things would start getting REALLY uncomfortable.

I don't think Dallas will be really out of the woods till a good month has elapsed after Ebola Tom was pulled out of the environment there. Too many unknowns as to where he might have spread the virus and someone picked it up unknowingly. For now, EVERY case of someone suddenly not feeling well is going to have to be treated as a potential case of Ebola.
 
Now the family is claiming the hospital didn't treat Ebola Tom as well as they treated American doctors. Um- we knew the doctors had Ebola before they even left Africa. He may have said he had come from Liberia, but he did NOT say- oh, my neighbor with ebola died, I carried her living and dead body around, and now I think I may have EBOLA. That would have gotten people's attention, and he would not have been sent home. His treatment was delayed for several precious days because he withheld critical information.
 
Can you get Ebola from sneezing?

It is possible to spread through coughing or sneezing, but health officials say it’s unlikely. Saliva or mucus from an infected person would have to get into a healthy person’s eyes, nose, mouth or open wound for the disease to spread.

I feel so much safer! After all, I've never caught a common cold...Oh wait.
 
Nanci said:
Can you get Ebola from sneezing?

It is possible to spread through coughing or sneezing, but health officials say it’s unlikely. Saliva or mucus from an infected person would have to get into a healthy person’s eyes, nose, mouth or open wound for the disease to spread.

I feel so much safer! After all, I've never caught a common cold...Oh wait.
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Well, here's a question that has been dancing around in my head. When someone with Ebola vomits, obviously there is going to be an odor associated with that event. How big are the particles that constitute the "smell" that your nostrils detect? How small is an individual Ebola virus, comparatively?
 
Rich Z said:
Well, here's a question that has been dancing around in my head. When someone with Ebola vomits, obviously there is going to be an odor associated with that event. How big are the particles that constitute the "smell" that your nostrils detect? How small is an individual Ebola virus, comparatively?
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It's a pretty big virus. Generally the droplets are about 3 feet away before they fall to the ground
 
A British man has died of suspected Ebola in the Macedonian capital of Skopje.

If confirmed, the unnamed 58-year-old is the first British victim of the Ebola outbreak that has killed thousands in West Africa and has spread to North America and Europe.

A second man, a friend of the deceased, has also shown symptoms of the disease. The man's death and nationality was confirmed by the Macedonian Foreign Ministry this evening.

The spokesman said the friend told the authorities there they had travelled to Skopje directly from Britain and had not been in any country known to have Ebola outbreaks - raising the terrifying possibility that he contracted the disease in the UK or Macedonia.

The UK Foreign Office says it is investigating the incident. So far the epidemic, the worst on record since Ebola was discovered in 1976, has claimed 3,800 lives and infected at least 8,000 people.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tim-virus-killed-thousands.html#ixzz3FgvQ3tlS
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I'm betting they'll find out that he was somewhere with someone who had it....just like the guy in Dallas that failed to let the hospital know that he had been in direct contact with a sick and dying Ebola victim...
 
Sounds to me like this ride is about to get real bumpy.....
 
Excellent article, Rich.
What I get from it.... :

The good : some few people receive the virus and their immune system does a great job and they recover, never having had symptoms. EBV, CMV, and HSV can present similarly. And I have heard anecdotal accounts of HIV occurrences like this. (These EBV, CMV, HSV, and HIV individuals would remain asymptomatic carriers...for the remainder of their lives.)

The bad : the above few people are still for a period of time sources of spreading the Ebola virus infection, indeed, and frighteningly, perhaps with neither themselves nor others knowing it (unless the 'asymptomatics', for whatever reason, happen to be tested for Ebola). Male semen I would suppose still sheds live virus for the 2-3 month period mentioned in most accounts of Ebola infection.
Also bad--because these men may not know they have had (and unknowingly overcome) Ebola virus, and are shedding it in their semen for the stated 2-3 months.
These individuals will in due course become no longer infectious, regarding Ebola virus.
Surely they are testing workers who work intimately with Ebola patients...who never appear to develop symptoms. It would be wise, imho.

This reminds me of other diseases that some individuals are able to almost miraculously live through, (some of whom remain asymptomatic carriers...like Typhoid Mary).
 
vetusvates said:
Excellent article, Rich.
What I get from it.... :

The good : some few people receive the virus and their immune system does a great job and they recover, never having had symptoms. EBV, CMV, and HSV can present similarly. And I have heard anecdotal accounts of HIV occurrences like this. (These EBV, CMV, HSV, and HIV individuals would remain asymptomatic carriers...for the remainder of their lives.)

The bad : the above few people are still for a period of time sources of spreading the Ebola virus infection, indeed, and frighteningly, perhaps with neither themselves nor others knowing it (unless the 'asymptomatics', for whatever reason, happen to be tested for Ebola). Male semen I would suppose still sheds live virus for the 2-3 month period mentioned in most accounts of Ebola infection.
Also bad--because these men may not know they have had (and unknowingly overcome) Ebola virus, and are shedding it in their semen for the stated 2-3 months.
These individuals will in due course become no longer infectious, regarding Ebola virus.
Surely they are testing workers who work intimately with Ebola patients...who never appear to develop symptoms. It would be wise, imho.

This reminds me of other diseases that some individuals are able to almost miraculously live through, (some of whom remain asymptomatic carriers...like Typhoid Mary).
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alien DNA. Plain and simple. :)
 
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