So glad I just flew back from Toronto on Wednesday. Yes I know the risk of me being infected is zero - I just had a feeling this would happen when I was away from the middle-of-nowhere (Saskaland).
"I'm not worried about this individual having Ebola. There's a number of circumstances around where they were and their symptoms, et cetera, which make it exceedingly unlikely that this person has Ebola virus," he said.
"That being said, they technically fit the criteria of someone we should test and this is something that we always follow through on."
Glad our screening processes in Canada are better than those in Texas.
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Yep. What makes it so scary is also what helps contain it. People tend not to live long enough or will become too obviously sick to pass it along.
And the high death rate. While a lot more people get other diseases like the ones on the chart, they do not kill people as efficiently so we don't worry about them as much.
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Strange Virus IMO, doctors who one would think would take all precautions seem to be getting it, over 3000 dead since they announced it's only spread by "body fluid" transfer.
Are they truly sure this thing isn't airborne or at the very least can be transfered with simple skin touch or drinking water?
But what would Ebola do in China where there's 1.4 billion people instead of a million or so where Ebola is starting out.
Same with Measles and Mumps, we are talking several billion people to work with here...Like most people I personally have had both, pain in the ass but not a killer.
Strange Virus IMO, doctors who one would think would take all precautions seem to be getting it, over 3000 dead since they announced it's only spread by "body fluid" transfer.
Are they truly sure this thing isn't airborne or at the very least can be transfered with simple skin touch or drinking water?
What reason would they have to lie? Ebola has been studied fairly extensively since the 70's, I'm fairy certain that all the doctors/scientists involved are confident in their knowledge of Ebola's ability and mechanism to spread.
What reason would they have to lie? Ebola has been studied fairly extensively since the 70's, I'm fairy certain that all the doctors/scientists involved are confident in their knowledge of Ebola's ability and mechanism to spread.
I never said they lied, viruses can change and mutate. It just seems strange to me 3 doctors and some case workers have caught this if it's truly just a fluid contact virus.
How many doctors got Aids working with those patents?
I never said they lied, viruses can change and mutate. It just seems strange to me 3 doctors and some case workers have caught this if it's truly just a fluid contact virus.
How many doctors got Aids working with those patents?
Aids is spread through sexual fluids and direct blood to blood contact. Not mucous not saliva. Ebola on the other hand is spread through pretty much every bodily fluid and unlike aids patients are uncontrollably excreting those fluids.
In short when dealing with aids you don't a hazmat suit...you may when dealing with an Ebola patient.
I never said they lied, viruses can change and mutate. It just seems strange to me 3 doctors and some case workers have caught this if it's truly just a fluid contact virus.
How many doctors got Aids working with those patents?
AIDS has been transmitted through accidental pokes, although it's rare. But like others said, Ebola can be contracted through all body fluids, unlike AIDS. As much as viruses mutate, going from droplet transmission to airborne transmission would be an incredibly huge (and unlikely) mutation. I'm not saying it's not possible, it's just not probable.
AIDS has been transmitted through accidental pokes, although it's rare. But like others said, Ebola can be contracted through all body fluids, unlike AIDS. As much as viruses mutate, going from droplet transmission to airborne transmission would be an incredibly huge (and unlikely) mutation. I'm not saying it's not possible, it's just not probable.
From what I understand the virus would have to infect the lungs in a bigger way than it does now, reduce it's size so it can stay airborne and cause a lot more coughing?
If anything the most dangerous and probably mutation that Ebola can undergo would be surviving longer outside of a host body. Imagine an Ebola virus that can stay active on surfaces that have come into contact with a host for weeks at a time and still infect. Compared to AIDs, Ebola just doesn't have anywhere near the amount of time in an infected host to spread as effectively and it's vulnerable to UV. A mutation to do so would be advantageous to the virus and the Ebola virus is mutating.
An airborne, surface persistent and UV resistant Ebola would be something like the weaponized bio weapons out of a Tom Clancy novel. Just UV resistant and surface resistant would be far more likely
