Ebola is really, really hard to get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't find all Ebola threads where I posted.

But I recall many posters insisted it's a problem in Africa and will never get here.

Well, congrats, we have the first case in the US.

Patting yourself on the back that a deadly disease has reached our shores. Nice.

[Anonymous]

Public toilets where someone vomits or has diarrhea and then flushes. Those germs go all over the place. It is easier to catch then you think. Time to stock up on canned goods and stay in the house.

[Anonymous]

No OP Ebola is not really, really hard to get. It isn't airborne but its much more contagious than other fluid transmitted diseases like HIV. Its safe to sit next to someone with HIV at any stage in the disease. Sitting next to someone with Ebola in the late stages of the disease is not safe.

Has it not occurred to you that there is a reason why the # of infected is growing exponentially this fast while HIV spread is nowhere near as fast?

Ebola is less of a threat in the US because there are many areas with low density where infected individuals would not come in contact with others and standard practices in ERs separate patients/use disinfectant. There are improvised, urban areas where an outbreak could affect a cluster of people creating a spot outbreak.

If it hits areas of China, India, Haiti, other African nations or other improvised high density urban areas then the outcomes could be even worse.

This is serious and tragic..not everyone just move along nothing to worry about for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public toilets where someone vomits or has diarrhea and then flushes. Those germs go all over the place. It is easier to catch then you think. Time to stock up on canned goods and stay in the house.

The fed govt has a pandemic teleworking policy in place, I think. Hope we don't need it, but who knows. Nothing about this is going well, and it's time to start contingency planning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't find all Ebola threads where I posted.

But I recall many posters insisted it's a problem in Africa and will never get here.

Well, congrats, we have the first case in the US.

Patting yourself on the back that a deadly disease has reached our shores. Nice.

Not the PP, but he or she has every right to point this out.

[Anonymous]

The norovirus (stomach flu) spreads like wild fire. I think Ebola will spread pretty fast.

[Anonymous]

I just hope schools are proactive and shut down before it shows up in any US school. Once it gets into the schools we are in big big trouble.

[Anonymous]

The crazy survivalists were right! I wish I had bought a bunker!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The crazy survivalists were right! I wish I had bought a bunker!

"[B]ought a bunker"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Be more worried about dying from cancer or the flu. Seriously, ebola is NOTHING compared to other illnesses.

And now they are saying possibly 1.4 MILLION cases in West Africa by the end of January.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-case-us-cdc-vows-stop/story?id=25873850http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-case-us-cdc-vows-stop/story?id=25873850

Last week, the CDC released a report saying that without the proper intervention, the Ebola outbreak could reach 1.4 million cases by the end of January.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If someone has Ebola and wipes sweat from their forehead and then pushes a grocery cart would the virus remain active on the cart waiting for the next person? Bodily fluids are STILL risky me.

In theory yes, although it is more commonly transmitted by saliva, vomit and feces. I can survive several days outside the body.

[Anonymous]

^^ It can, not I can

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not that hard to catch. Yes, it is passed through bodily fluids, but that includes sweat. That includes mucus or spit that you might not know is on someone's hand as they shake hands with you. So no, it's not hard to catch and it takes up to 20 days for symptoms to appear so it's easy to spread to many people in that time frame.

Actually it isn't considered contagious during the incubation period. But once symptoms appear it is highly contagious. Unfortunately the early symptoms are a lot lot other common diseases and infections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not that hard to catch. Yes, it is passed through bodily fluids, but that includes sweat. That includes mucus or spit that you might not know is on someone's hand as they shake hands with you. So no, it's not hard to catch and it takes up to 20 days for symptoms to appear so it's easy to spread to many people in that time frame.

Actually it isn't considered contagious during the incubation period. But once symptoms appear it is highly contagious. Unfortunately the early symptoms are a lot lot other common diseases and infections.

Which, as I pointed out, is why it's easy for it to spread to numerous people before a person is officially diagnosed with Ebola.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, there is this:
http://scgnews.com/ebola-what-youre-not-being-told

This is terrifying.