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Re: Ebola outbreak in Africa
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 4:23 pm
by Stick_Shift
Dr. Kent Brantly, the doctor who contracted Ebola and returned to the US for treatment is returning to the region as a missionary physician.
https://christianchronicle.org/amid-ebo ... pite-fear/
I know him, not personally, but we’ve met and the guy is not making this decision lightly. He’s from Fort Worth.
Thing is, epidemiologically speaking, Ebola is not easy to get. It’s a blood borne pathogen, like HIV. It just kills you a lot faster. You gotta really be exposed to this stuff to get it. Over there, their idea of hygiene is vastly different than ours. It’s nothing for someone to carry a dead body through the streets on the way to burial. People hug and kiss the deceased goodbye.
Contrary to popular belief, Ebola is not airborne and it would take a lot of mutation before it could infect lung tissue the same way as influenza. Ebola likes your liver, not your lungs. Its capsid is engineered to attach to hepatic cells, it would take very long time before it changed its vector.
Re: Ebola outbreak in Africa
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:34 pm
by DynamicDan
It's contracted through body fluids.
Re: Ebola outbreak in Africa
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:55 pm
by crazy2medic
DynamicDan wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:34 pm
It's contracted through body fluids.
This is what I was taught, if any of an infected person's body substance gets on you, you are infected! Blood, sweat, tears, urine, feces, saliva, if it's wet it's infectious!
Re: Ebola outbreak in Africa
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 9:06 pm
by anygunanywhere
Stick_Shift wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2019 4:23 pm
Dr. Kent Brantly, the doctor who contracted Ebola and returned to the US for treatment is returning to the region as a missionary physician.
https://christianchronicle.org/amid-ebo ... pite-fear/
I know him, not personally, but we’ve met and the guy is not making this decision lightly. He’s from Fort Worth.
Thing is, epidemiologically speaking, Ebola is not easy to get. It’s a blood borne pathogen, like HIV. It just kills you a lot faster. You gotta really be exposed to this stuff to get it. Over there, their idea of hygiene is vastly different than ours. It’s nothing for someone to carry a dead body through the streets on the way to burial. People hug and kiss the deceased goodbye.
Contrary to popular belief, Ebola is not airborne and it would take a lot of mutation before it could infect lung tissue the same way as influenza. Ebola likes your liver, not your lungs. Its capsid is engineered to attach to hepatic cells, it would take very long time before it changed its vector.
Go to the Raconteur Report blog and become knowledgeable in Ebola.
Re: Ebola outbreak in Africa
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 9:49 pm
by Stick_Shift
anygunanywhere wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2019 9:06 pm
Stick_Shift wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2019 4:23 pm
Dr. Kent Brantly, the doctor who contracted Ebola and returned to the US for treatment is returning to the region as a missionary physician.
https://christianchronicle.org/amid-ebo ... pite-fear/
I know him, not personally, but we’ve met and the guy is not making this decision lightly. He’s from Fort Worth.
Thing is, epidemiologically speaking, Ebola is not easy to get. It’s a blood borne pathogen, like HIV. It just kills you a lot faster. You gotta really be exposed to this stuff to get it. Over there, their idea of hygiene is vastly different than ours. It’s nothing for someone to carry a dead body through the streets on the way to burial. People hug and kiss the deceased goodbye.
Contrary to popular belief, Ebola is not airborne and it would take a lot of mutation before it could infect lung tissue the same way as influenza. Ebola likes your liver, not your lungs. Its capsid is engineered to attach to hepatic cells, it would take very long time before it changed its vector.
Go to the Raconteur Report blog and become knowledgeable in Ebola.
I’ll take my degree in biology, but I appreciate the advice.
Re: Ebola outbreak in Africa
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 9:51 pm
by Stick_Shift
crazy2medic wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:55 pm
DynamicDan wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:34 pm
It's contracted through body fluids.
This is what I was taught, if any of an infected person's body substance gets on you, you are infected! Blood, sweat, tears, urine, feces, saliva, if it's wet it's infectious!
Pretty much. When I say bloodborne, that generally applies to just about any bodily fluid.
Re: Ebola outbreak in Africa
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:35 pm
by narcissist
Always from Africa it seams some new form of disease is created every other day. Need to just quarantine the entire country?
Re: Ebola outbreak in Africa
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 9:12 pm
by jason812
narcissist wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:35 pm
Always from Africa it seams some new form of disease is created every other day. Need to just quarantine the entire country?
Never heard of a country named Africa.
Re: Ebola outbreak in Africa
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 9:15 pm
by jason812
Stick_Shift wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2019 9:51 pm
crazy2medic wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:55 pm
DynamicDan wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:34 pm
It's contracted through body fluids.
This is what I was taught, if any of an infected person's body substance gets on you, you are infected! Blood, sweat, tears, urine, feces, saliva, if it's wet it's infectious!
Pretty much. When I say bloodborne, that generally applies to just about any bodily fluid.
Well I guess as long as you don't make out with them, there's nothing to worry about.
http://www.fox5ny.com/news/cbp-over-1-0 ... can-border
According to a new report from the U.S. Border Patrol, over 1,100 people from 19 different African countries have been arrested illegally crossing the border into the United States since May 30.
Re: Ebola outbreak in Africa
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 9:00 am
by philip964
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world- ... conspiracy
Ebola outbreak unstoppable as victims refuse treatment. Believe government is behind it.
Re: Ebola outbreak in Africa
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 11:05 am
by crazy2medic
With treatment you MIGHT survive, without treatment your 99.9% chance of dying!
Re: Ebola outbreak in Africa
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 11:10 am
by The Annoyed Man
crazy2medic wrote: Mon Jul 29, 2019 11:05 am
With treatment you MIGHT survive, without treatment your 99.9% chance of dying!
Evolution is a harsh mistress.
Re: Ebola outbreak in Africa
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:37 pm
by crazy2medic
The Annoyed Man wrote: Mon Jul 29, 2019 11:10 am
crazy2medic wrote: Mon Jul 29, 2019 11:05 am
With treatment you MIGHT survive, without treatment your 99.9% chance of dying!
Evolution is a harsh mistress.
Mother Nature takes a dim view of the Slow, the Lazy and the Stupid!
Re: Ebola outbreak in Africa
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2019 9:05 am
by philip964
Re: Ebola outbreak in Africa
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2019 9:47 am
by Grayling813
(Bloomberg Opinion)
- quit reading after that...of course Bloomberg's opinion is that Trump isn't doing enough about ________ (fill in the blank).