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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"The spread of this outbreak from Guinea to Liberia in March shows how tracing even the most routine aspects of peoples' lives, relationships and reactions will be vital to containing Ebola's spread.

Epidemiologists and virus experts believe the original case in that instance to have been a woman who went to a market in Guinea and then returned, unwell, to her home village in neighbouring northern Liberia.

The woman's sister cared for her, and in doing so contracted the Ebola virus herself before her sibling died of the haemorrhagic fever it causes.

Feeling unwell and fearing a similar fate, the sister wanted to see her husband - an internal migrant worker then employed on the other side of Liberia at the Firestone rubber plantation.

She took a communal taxi via Liberia's capital Monrovia, exposing five other people to the virus who later contracted and died of the Ebola. In Monrovia, she switched to a motorcycle, riding pillion with a young man who agreed to take her to the plantation and whom health authorities were subsequently desperate to trace.

"It's an analogous situation to the man in the airplane" who flew into Lagos and died there, said Derek Gatherer of Britain's Lancaster University, an expert in viruses who has been tracking the West Africa outbreak closely."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-health-ebola-transport-idUSKBN0G011O20140731
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How do you think she transmitted the virus to five other people? Puked all over them? pooped on them? They would have let her off the bus if she did that. Had wild sex with all five? I think it is very interesting how they are trying to say this very contagious disease is hard to get. In what way? By being 6000 miles away[/b]?[/quote]

I think what is hard to realize for many is that; when something is wiped away (with water for example) that area is NOT CLEAN afterwards.
And any sweat from your hands on a surface is not necessarily visible on that surface and can easily be touched by another person who then wipes their eye...

And on another note: do you know how many threads there are on dcum alone about people who don't wash their hands after pooping - you won't see any poop on their hands but could easily still have traces - even if they wiped their hands with toilet paper for example.  It is not so difficult to imagine how the people in the taxi, in the motorcycle etc got sick.

You don't have to SEE the bodily fluids (and the bacteria/viruses they contain) for them to be there, is basically what I'm saying.
Only disinfectant will get rid of it.

And it also depends on the "hardiness" of the agent:  HIV very quickly dies on a surface, influenza can live for an average of 24 hours+, hepatitis B can live for 2 days on a toothbrush....[/quote]

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