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Many people have been mis-informed regarding human to human transmission of Ebola. The Canadian Health Dept. States that airborne transmission of Ebola is strongly suspected and the CDC admits that Ebola can be transmitted in situations where there is no physical contact between people, I.e.: via airborne inhalation into the lungs or into the eyes where individuals are separated by 3 feet. That explains why 81 doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers have died in West Africa to date. These courageous health care providers use careful CDC level barrier precautions such as gowns, gloves and head cover, but it appears they have inadequate respiratory and eye protection.
Currently the CDC advises health care workers to use goggles and simple face masks for respiratory and eye protection, and a fitted N-95 mask during aerosol-generating medical procedures. Since so many doctors and nurses are dying in West Africa, it is clear that this level of protection is inadequate. Full face respirators with P-100 replacement filters would provide greater airway and eye protection, and I believe this would save the lives of many doctors, nurses and others who come into close contact with, or proximity to, Ebola victims.
Since CDC level respiratory/eye precautions for Ebola are inadequate for healthcare workers in West Africa, I assume they will also be inadequate in the United States.
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(08-15-2014, 06:16 PM)sally Wrote: I think I have it.
Nah, it's probably just Donald Trump's fear-mongering fucking with your head.
Ebola can only be contracted through physical contact; like having sex with someone displaying Ebola symptoms such as an itchy dick, sweaty wrong-hanging balls, stuff like that.
Shit. Well at least you know that you don't have a yeast infection.
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Ebola promises something for everyone.
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(08-15-2014, 09:24 AM)Maggot Wrote: Many people have been mis-informed regarding human to human transmission of Ebola. The Canadian Health Dept. States that airborne transmission of Ebola is strongly suspected and the CDC admits that Ebola can be transmitted in situations where there is no physical contact between people, I.e.: via airborne inhalation into the lungs or into the eyes where individuals are separated by 3 feet. That explains why 81 doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers have died in West Africa to date. These courageous health care providers use careful CDC level barrier precautions such as gowns, gloves and head cover, but it appears they have inadequate respiratory and eye protection.
Currently the CDC advises health care workers to use goggles and simple face masks for respiratory and eye protection, and a fitted N-95 mask during aerosol-generating medical procedures. Since so many doctors and nurses are dying in West Africa, it is clear that this level of protection is inadequate. Full face respirators with P-100 replacement filters would provide greater airway and eye protection, and I believe this would save the lives of many doctors, nurses and others who come into close contact with, or proximity to, Ebola victims.
Since CDC level respiratory/eye precautions for Ebola are inadequate for healthcare workers in West Africa, I assume they will also be inadequate in the United States.
Dreaded Ebola is still a mystery! And until a cure is found for it, the medical PR machine is in full force saying what people want to hear. Which is about it not being easily contagious unless direct contact with infected people is involved. Are they just saying that to avoid mass hysteria panic? Can we trust them? For now we'll never know, so consequently they may be actually concealing the real truth.
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The CDC is expected to make an announcement this afternoon.
The first case of Ebola has reportedly been diagnosed in the U.S.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/30...09394.html
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I just heard that here as "breaking news" but I didn't stay to listen to the story.
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/30/health/ebo...StoryPhoto
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(CNN) - A patient being treated at a Dallas, Texas, hospital is the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday.
Several other Americans were diagnosed in West Africa and then brought to the United States for treatment.
The person who first tested positive for Ebola in the United States is a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, hospital spokesman Stephen O'Brien said Tuesday.
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OMG WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!
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Omgg fuck this shit y'all! I will be promptly moving my ass to south fucking mexico if this shit starts spreading!! Fuck Ebola fuck it rigjt in it's hemorraging eyeeee
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Sorry all -- I meant to merge IroningBroad's last post with the EBOLA IS IN AMERICA thread, but did it in reverse.
Working on fixing it.
ETA: Thanks for fixing it, Duchess!
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(09-30-2014, 05:55 PM)IroningBroad Wrote: Omgg fuck this shit y'all! I will be promptly moving my ass to south fucking mexico if this shit starts spreading!! Fuck Ebola fuck it rigjt in it's hemorraging eyeeee A little word of advice from somone who knows a thing or two about Blood Bourne Pathogens... A 3 rd world country is not the best place to flee.
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(09-30-2014, 05:53 PM)IroningBroad Wrote: OMG WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!
I survived it, it's not a biggie.
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Once the investigators track down the people with whom the unidentified man had contact in the 4 days after he returned from Liberia (he was not showing symptoms), experts are saying that those contacts will be isolated and monitored for 21 days.
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And so it begins!
Unless this guy flew back to the USA in his own plane, all the passengers on that plane he was on are now at risk. And all the people those passengers met here and touch will be at risk, and on and so on! Any one, US citizen on not, in an Ebola infested country S/B put in quarantine ("in those countries") for two or three weeks or whatever the incubation period is and has to get a clean bill of health before being allowed to return to their home countries!!! The dumb ass authorities are letting this turn into a pandemic! Fuck, the end may be in sight!
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(09-30-2014, 06:57 PM)Blindgreed1 Wrote: (09-30-2014, 05:55 PM)IroningBroad Wrote: Omgg fuck this shit y'all! I will be promptly moving my ass to south fucking mexico if this shit starts spreading!! Fuck Ebola fuck it rigjt in it's hemorraging eyeeee A little word of advice from somone who knows a thing or two about Blood Bourne Pathogens... A 3rd world country is not the best place to flee.
Ha sorry..when I panic I say some crazy shit...in retrospect I guess fleeing to Mexico is pretty dumb 
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(09-30-2014, 06:57 PM)sally Wrote: (09-30-2014, 05:53 PM)IroningBroad Wrote: OMG WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!
I survived it, it's not a biggie. you only survived it because the Rhesus monkey gave you AIDS in your vagina and it cancelled out the Ebola.
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Thanks Duchess and HOTD for merging my post with this one.I hadn't realized there was already one posted.
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We started talking about it a little bit when the first doctor with Ebola was flown to Georgia. There were (are) a lot of people who disagreed with the US letting them come here. It was the first time Ebola had ever been in America.
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I'm so glad that the two Americans were brought home, in a protected medical plane, for treatment. They appear to be in recovery mode.
I believe they would have died without the proper medical environment and sanitation that could be afforded them in a quarantined US facility. No one was infected as a result of them being treated here and some advances in treating the disease were gained in the process.
As for people visiting other countries and returning to the US (or other home countries) having been unknowingly infected and not showing any symptoms yet, not sure how that risk could be completely removed without putting the whole country on a kind of lock down -- no incoming or outgoing international flights.
I don't believe that Ebola can be detected before symptoms start to manifest, but Ebola sufferers are definitely not infectious before they start to show symptoms. So, I'm hoping that the man who was diagnosed in the US four days after returning from Liberia sought medical attention as soon as he became ill.
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