NYC Ebola

[wootoom]

Ok, let's go with he did sneeze or cough on the subway...

So? Ebola is damn near impossible to get the way you described, in fact there hasn't been one documented case of anyone catching it by touching a surface that way ever.

The CDC has even cited a study where surfaces, everything from bed rails to spit bowls, etc. in an active ebola ward were tested for the virus, and the evidence just isn't there.

The chance he was up and around before the onset of symptoms is slim to none, considering

a. he was taking his temperature twice a day since returning to the U.S.

and

b. studies show the ebola virus doesn't show up in saliva until/unless the virus has progressed significantly in you. You'd have to be incredibly sick for your saliva and such to be the issue, unlike feces, vomit, blood.

Meaning he could've done worse on that subway than cough, and all passengers would've been a-ok.

You are easily amused.

 

[miplank]

Close contact is defined as

being within approximately 3 feet (1 meter) of an EVD patient or within the patient’s room or care area for a prolonged period of time (e.g., health care personnel, household members) while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment (i.e., standard, droplet, and contact precautions; see Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations); or

having direct brief contact (e.g., shaking hands) with an EVD patient while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment.

 

[AFeedz]

Close contact is defined as

being within approximately 3 feet (1 meter) of an EVD patient or within the patient’s room or care area for a prolonged period of time (e.g., health care personnel, household members) while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment (i.e., standard, droplet, and contact precautions; see Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations); or

having direct brief contact (e.g., shaking hands) with an EVD patient while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment.

Those are safety precautions for close quarters - not studies of how you can contract ebola, and the virus doesn't live on surfaces.

 

[WoodyO]

Can you catch Ebola from sitting on the shitter after disease-ridden West African sprayed diarrhea all over it?

 

[ha1a1]

Remember this is a newer version of Ebola...with "added function". The goal of the research is to take functions of the common cold (the way it is transmitted) and add it to the more deadly virus. Effectively weaponizing it.

 

[WoodyO]

Perhaps Ebola could be effectively used in a crowded subway tunnel in the same way Aum Shinrikyo unleashed Sarin on pigs in Tokyo.

 

[PICK3]

lots of opinions on infectious diseases and not a aingle ngr here is a D.O.


just sayin'

 

[WoodyO]

I find it very amusing that anybody actually gives a shit about Ebola. It's not a plague or an epidemic. There's a handful of cases, wile people are dying of flu daily.

 

[nangiggles]

lots of opinions on infectious diseases and not a aingle ngr here is a D.O.


just sayin'

*Single

 

[PICK3]

lots of opinions on infectious diseases and not a aingle ngr here is a D.O.


just sayin'

*single






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