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2014-10-07 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Some Ebola experts worry virus may spread more easily than assumed

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Posted by Si vis pacem para bellum 2014-10-07 12:54|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 The ways they said it is spread was true and may still be true. But with mutations and all the survivors allowing a mutation to escape it is only a matter of time before it changes.

We better have a plan for it when it does happen or we are really in bad, bad shape.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-10-07 13:05|| 2014-10-07 13:05|| Front Page Top

#2 These experts worry virus may spread more easily than assumed !

CDC:Doctors, nurses fleeing hospitals...

Posted by Large Elmetle3509 2014-10-07 13:21|| 2014-10-07 13:21|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm thinking about the study that found ebola could survive for weeks on glass and plastic surface in cool conditions; Say an airconditioned hospital.

Assumptions being made here, which may turn out to be wrong.

Posted by phil_b 2014-10-07 15:00|| 2014-10-07 15:00|| Front Page Top

#4 This article quotes many of the scientists at the center of the action in The Hot Zone (published almost 20 years ago).

Basically there are two camps: the CDC people (who dominate the media and insist "all is well") vs. the USAMRIID people (who say aerosol transmission can't be ruled out, and there's no proof that someone who is infected but asymptomatic can't spread the virus to others).

How refreshing that the MSM, for once, is making an effort to present the out-group's views.

Posted by RandomJD 2014-10-07 15:21|| 2014-10-07 15:21|| Front Page Top

#5 It it's all the same to you, I'm going with the USAMRIID crowd. After Fort McPherson closed, a few folks migrated to contract positions over at the CDC. Their initial reports on the organization were not favorable.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-10-07 15:27|| 2014-10-07 15:27|| Front Page Top

#6 It is high time that the 'top men' start acting rationally:

Acknowledge the unknowns, assume that the worst reasonable assumptions about Ebola are true, stop playing politically correct games and STOMP OUT THE FIRE WHILE IT IS SMALL.
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Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-10-07 16:27|| 2014-10-07 16:27|| Front Page Top

#7 It is high time that the 'top men' start acting rationally You dreamer, you.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-07 17:41|| 2014-10-07 17:41|| Front Page Top

#8 More experts call shenanigans on the CDC.

[Transmissibility via "direct contact" with fluids only] reflects an incorrect and outmoded understanding of infectious aerosols, which has been institutionalized in policies, language, culture, and approaches to infection control.
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Being at first skeptical that Ebola virus could be an aerosol-transmissible disease, we are now persuaded by a review of experimental and epidemiologic data that this might be an important feature of disease transmission, particularly in healthcare settings.

No one knows for certain how Ebola virus is transmitted from one person to the next.

Posted by RandomJD 2014-10-07 19:34|| 2014-10-07 19:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Some Ebola experts worry virus may spread more easily than assumed
I'm guessing it spreads easier than the vaccine.

I will also note on Phil_Bs remark, Oncology treatment facilities (Lymphoma, Myeloma, Leukemia, etc.) keep the facilities near a toasty 70 deg F to minimize transient bacterial infections.

Posted by Skidmark 2014-10-07 23:54|| 2014-10-07 23:54|| Front Page Top

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