Ebola coming to a town near you.

[Brooke]

I'd rather our epidemiologists be more careful.

I don't understand what you mean.

[Brooke]

I'm ok (so far).

Best to put off that planned visit to Liberia, though.

[Rob52240]

I don't understand what you mean.

They exposed themselves to the virus they were studying.

[MiloMorai]

Best to put off that planned visit to Liberia, though.

Don't you mean Texas?

[Arlo]

Don't you mean Texas?

I'm in Texas. 5 ft from Dallas county.

[ghi]

1st case of ebola in US (Dallas):

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/first-case-ebola-diagnosed-u-s-cdc-confirms-n215231

Yep, it's wise to keep travel open to ebola hot zones.  What could go wrong?

 

[Brooke]

They exposed themselves to the virus they were studying.

Oh.  Yep, they probably very much wish that, too.

However, the news I posted isn't about health-care workers who got ebola in Africa and, once noticeably sick, were medevacced to the US under biowarfare-level precautions.

This is about a normal person taking a normal passenger flight (full of other passengers) from Liberia to the US.  Then, after being being here with family and interacting with people for 6 days, feeling ill enough to go to the hospital, and -- get this -- being admitted only 2 days after that, finally to find out that he or she has ebola.

This is a whole different league.

[ghi]

I was reading this morning on The Extinction protocol ; "U.S. quietly preparing for Ebola outbreak: CDC issues Ebola guidelines for U.S. funeral homes – how to dispose of bodies"
after all the blahh, bs, they were hiding the truth ,  I believe the virus is transmitting airborne;

http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/u-s-quietly-preparing-for-ebola-outbreak-cdc-issues-ebola-guidelines-for-u-s-funeral-homes-how-to-dispose-of-bodies/

[Brooke]

Maybe we'll be lucky, and Dallas Patient Zero won't have infected anyone else among the hundred other airline passengers, the bunch of people in the airport, the health-care/secretarial staff in the hospital visits, the other people in any emergency rooms visited, the patrons or staff in any restaurants or shops visited or any restrooms visited in the preceding 8 days in Dallas, etc.

Think of it as an experiment in idiocy.  What will happen?  Maybe nothing.  But "Just because you walk into a fireworks factory with a lit match and get away with it doesn't mean you aren't an idiot."  (John Mauldin)

[Brooke]

I don't think it's airborne yet, or we'd be seeing huge upswings in infections and death that would be impossible to miss (or, for those with suspicious minds, to cover up).

The fear, though, is that -- because mutation to airborne transmissibility can happen (and in fact has happened for strains that infect pigs and monkeys) -- it will happen.  Then the world is in big, big trouble.

[Arlo]

http://qz.com/273972/stay-calm-and-carry-on-why-its-nearly-impossible-for-ebola-to-spread-in-the-us/

[ghi]

Oh.  Yep, they probably very much wish that, too.

However, the news I posted isn't about health-care workers who got ebola in Africa and, once noticeably sick, were medevacced to the US under biowarfare-level precautions.

I remember reading this last month;
"Report: Armed men attack Liberia Ebola clinic, freeing patients"  http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-armed-men-attack-liberia-ebola-clinic-freeing-patients/

"The attack comes just one day after a report of a crowd of several hundred local residents, chanting, 'No Ebola in West Point,' drove away a burial team and their police escort that had come to collect the bodies of suspected Ebola victims in the slum in the capital, Reuters reports.

West Point residents went on a "looting spree," stealing items from the clinic that were likely infected, said a senior police official, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the press. The residents took medical equipment and mattresses and sheets that had bloodstains, he said. Ebola is spread through bodily fluids including blood, vomit, feces and sweat."

who would steal a mattresses and sheets with bloodstains?

[Arlo]

who would steal a mattresses and sheets with bloodstains?

Someone who didn't have a mattress or sheets.

[ghi]

Ebola patients buying survivors' blood from black market, WHO warns

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/18/health/ebola-blood-black-market/

[NatCigg]

http://qz.com/273972/stay-calm-and-carry-on-why-its-nearly-impossible-for-ebola-to-spread-in-the-us/

i was hoping to read about environmental difficulties for the virus to survive.  not much more than my assumption it lives at 98.6 degrees in animal fluid.  

um,... if I cough, I make the virus Airborne in a mist. if that mist lands in your eye before the virus dehydrates and denatures, havent you been infected by Air?