Ebola has entered the United States
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BipolarPolarBears
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Just look it up ya lazy bum, its quite the hot topic. lel
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Ebola is actually very hard to pass on. So you needn't worry. It's not an airborne virus.
Ebola is contracted by bodily fluids. So unless someone sneezes on you, you can't get it.
The reason why countries like in Africa are susceptible to it is usually because of the funeral traditions which leave individuals exposed when working with the body.
Ebola is contracted by bodily fluids. So unless someone sneezes on you, you can't get it.
The reason why countries like in Africa are susceptible to it is usually because of the funeral traditions which leave individuals exposed when working with the body.
BipolarPolarBears
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You're leaving out a lot of other important details. Like it can only be passed on through blood or bodily fluids, and it's because of Africa's poor water system.
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Lightbringer
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Not only that but when you have patients clumped in a hospital in Africa, the virus is easily transferred.
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Ya all should take infection control measures like this fella:
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Current data from the hot zones in Africa suggest that there are unknown vectors of transmission at play.
Further, research data from this class of viruses suggest that airborne transmission is possible stemming from data collected in the wake of animal infections. The disease has been known to spread in areas where no direct contact was had between animals.
This means the 'via bodily fluid' potentially applies to any aerosol produced by the body - which means sneezes, coughs, and sweat are potential vectors.
It was spreading via taxi cabs in Africa - residual sweat was enough to serve as a vector.
There are several factors. Medical centers re-use a lot of equipment, and that means a lot of it does not get properly sterilized. Hospitals are the first places in Africa to get nailed by these types of disease outbreaks. This is somewhat true of any hospital. Hospitals are generally places that serve to 'set' a virus into a population. Airports will rapidly disperse it across the globe - hospitals 'set' the virus.
Hospital workers work while the disease is incubating but contagious, many people with lowered immune response are shuffling in and out of the building. It's where the person with the unknown, incurable disease goes for help in his final hours before it becomes a regional epidemic spawning from the hospital.
In areas where there are better (and better followed) sanitation procedures - it is less of a problem - but it is still a major part of the problem compared to the statistics of the surrounding community.
Africa is also more vulnerable to these types of diseases because we eradicated smallpox. Smallpox kept the human population in check. It imposed a sort of 'nutrition' and 'medical' standard that must be met before a population could truly breed with impunity. In order to have those standards - you had to understand land use, have rational governing bodies, and be a net productive society.
Now, people just breed to the limits of what their limited agricultural 'industry' can handle.
This is why I predicted that Ebola would not be nearly as fatal in Western cultures as it is in Africa (where it has 90+% mortality rates). People with better overall health and nutrition are much more likely to recover from the disease. Still - I would expect around a 20% mortality rate among westerners - which is exceptionally lethal for a virus.
Ebola is simply filling the hole left open by Smallpox. Many of these people would have never been born if Smallpox were still in tact - there would be plenty of food for most of them, and we wouldn't be sending money into a hell hole that ends up confiscated by warlords who then turn around to loot the world's merchants.
We have very little information, currently - but it would not surprise me if these cases start cropping up all over the world. Within a few weeks, I suspect we will start hearing of people found dead, testing positive for ebola, who traveled to Africa. Not just in the states, but elsewhere.
Pretty soon, the origin of the infection will no longer be directly traceable to Africa - it will be freely communicating outside of Africa.
Should that occur, it is realistically not possible to contain.
I imagine it is already about a month too late to contain it, though. I would advise keeping at least a month's worth of food and water for your family on hand. Come up with a care plan for how to care for family members afflicted with the virus, and be ready to implement it. Decide who you are going to try and care for with the intent to save and who should simply be left to die in quarantine (who is least likely to survive and make the risk of communication worth it).
But I would not, under any circumstance, believe this will be a bullet that is incapable of striking us.
It is precisely that mentality that has led to us even being able to have this discussion.