Ebola is really, really hard to get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

This is terrifying.

The article is implying that Ebola is "airborne" because a cough can transmit the virus to a nearby unprotected person. What the article leaves out is that dying of Ebola involves bleeding, diarrhea, and sometimes convulsions, throwing the blood, sweat, feces, etc. everywhere. At that point, who cares about a cough?

[Anonymous]

You can get it from shaking hands, touching something that person has touched.

We all have tiny breaks--cracks in our skin--especially during winter.

The long incubation time makes this a real fucker to contain.

Signed, a former Hazleton (Reston lab from Hot Zone) immunologist

[Anonymous]

We had an Ebola scare right over in Reston a number of years ago. Read The Hot Zone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had an Ebola scare right over in Reston a number of years ago. Read The Hot Zone.

Yes. I am the person above you. I worked at that lab fresh out of grad school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can get it from shaking hands, touching something that person has touched.

We all have tiny breaks--cracks in our skin--especially during winter.

The long incubation time makes this a real fucker to contain.

Signed, a former Hazleton (Reston lab from Hot Zone) immunologist

Fuck. So what do we do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can get it from shaking hands, touching something that person has touched.

We all have tiny breaks--cracks in our skin--especially during winter.

The long incubation time makes this a real fucker to contain.

Signed, a former Hazleton (Reston lab from Hot Zone) immunologist

If it was that difficult to contain we would have all been dead a long time ago. The disease is actually pretty self containing because symptoms are so awful - symptomatic people aren't going out to dinner parties/the office.school and the disease is very lethal to the host.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can get it from shaking hands, touching something that person has touched.

We all have tiny breaks--cracks in our skin--especially during winter.

The long incubation time makes this a real fucker to contain.

Signed, a former Hazleton (Reston lab from Hot Zone) immunologist

If it was that difficult to contain we would have all been dead a long time ago. The disease is actually pretty self containing because symptoms are so awful - symptomatic people aren't going out to dinner parties/the office.school and the disease is very lethal to the host.

And yet here it is, not being effectively contained

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can get it from shaking hands, touching something that person has touched.

We all have tiny breaks--cracks in our skin--especially during winter.

The long incubation time makes this a real fucker to contain.

Signed, a former Hazleton (Reston lab from Hot Zone) immunologist

If it was that difficult to contain we would have all been dead a long time ago. The disease is actually pretty self containing because symptoms are so awful - symptomatic people aren't going out to dinner parties/the office.school and the disease is very lethal to the host.

And yet here it is, not being effectively contained

How many people actually have it now (in the U.S.)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can get it from shaking hands, touching something that person has touched.

We all have tiny breaks--cracks in our skin--especially during winter.

The long incubation time makes this a real fucker to contain.

Signed, a former Hazleton (Reston lab from Hot Zone) immunologist

If it was that difficult to contain we would have all been dead a long time ago. The disease is actually pretty self containing because symptoms are so awful - symptomatic people aren't going out to dinner parties/the office.school and the disease is very lethal to the host.

Wrong. This is the first time it's been on a plane to the US. It hit lab animals in Reston-not people.

This is major. This is different. It is exponential because the incubation is 21 days. People will show up in the ER, urgent care thinking its flu and bam--wildfire.

People are merely mimicking the sound bites put out by CDC. False assurances. The CDC is shitting its pants right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can get it from shaking hands, touching something that person has touched.

We all have tiny breaks--cracks in our skin--especially during winter.

The long incubation time makes this a real fucker to contain.

Signed, a former Hazleton (Reston lab from Hot Zone) immunologist

If it was that difficult to contain we would have all been dead a long time ago. The disease is actually pretty self containing because symptoms are so awful - symptomatic people aren't going out to dinner parties/the office.school and the disease is very lethal to the host.

And yet here it is, not being effectively contained

How many people actually have it now (in the U.S.)?

We won't know for a few more weeks given its 21-day lag time from first exposure. New cases are on a plane daily too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can get it from shaking hands, touching something that person has touched.

We all have tiny breaks--cracks in our skin--especially during winter.

The long incubation time makes this a real fucker to contain.

Signed, a former Hazleton (Reston lab from Hot Zone) immunologist

If it was that difficult to contain we would have all been dead a long time ago. The disease is actually pretty self containing because symptoms are so awful - symptomatic people aren't going out to dinner parties/the office.school and the disease is very lethal to the host.

And yet here it is, not being effectively contained

How many people actually have it now (in the U.S.)?

That's the kicker, right? We won't really know for a few more weeks.

[Anonymous]

I'm not clear about the spread of Ebola in countries like the US where there is excellent medical care available to most people, good sanitation, overall high quality of living VS the spread of the disease in parts of Africa that are extremely poor, no indoor plumbing, poor sanitation, poor or nonexistent health care, poor communication, and much of the population is undernourished and in poor health overall.

Anyone know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
We won't know for a few more weeks given its 21-day lag time from first exposure. New cases are on a plane daily too.

Well, the doctors he saw, the nurses, hospital staff, the relatives he stayed with, random strangers he met in two days and whoever touched anything after him.

CDC really dropped the ball.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
We won't know for a few more weeks given its 21-day lag time from first exposure. New cases are on a plane daily too.

Well, the doctors he saw, the nurses, hospital staff, the relatives he stayed with, random strangers he met in two days and whoever touched anything after him.

CDC really dropped the ball.

I agree. Now I'm sure they have a completely underfunded mandate, but still.

[Anonymous]

Just like the doctors on the news shows and CDC tell us like little children just to wash our hands and cough in our elbow during flu season. But you know what half of us get the flu anyway even with the shot. Think of how fast the norovirus spreads through schools and cruise ships. Or C-Diff spreads through hospitals. The Ebola virus is very scary and the CDC is doing nothing about keeping more of it coming to the US.