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The man in question is an American citizen a medical worker at a mission in Liberia and is right now slowly dying and this is a last ditch attempt to save his life. People like this are heros as is the personnel waiting in the USA to treat him.
Ebola as a contagion is clunky and shy and pretty much a non-starter. So far, it's only managed to kill some 700 people in a primitive 3rd world area of 250 million.
If you want to lose sleep, there are far more serious threats to ponder.
The man in question is an American citizen a medical worker at a mission in Liberia and is right now slowly dying and this is a last ditch attempt to save his life. People like this are heros as is the personnel waiting in the USA to treat him.
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What about the entire US population?
One does not introduce a pathogen with a 90% mortality and no effective vaccination or treatment to a nation currently not exposed to Ebola.
Why not send a few more medical personnel and eqipment there, thus reducing exposure risk to the entire nation?
How do you control a lethal contagion? Isolation, not dispersion.
Ebola as a contagion is clunky and shy and pretty much a non-starter. So far, it's only managed to kill some 700 people in a primitive 3rd world area of 250 million.
If you want to lose sleep, there are far more serious threats to ponder.
90% mortality rate. The reason for the lack of massive transmission in Africa is relative lack of mobility among its population. Currently, Ebola is not airborne in transmission (one needs to come in contact with body fluids). However, EVERY virus mutates and it is quite possible that Ebola will become transmitted via airborne route in the future. Keep in mind that a cough is effectively and aerosol- did you wonder why all of the workers in Africa are wearing masks, goggles, and haz-mat suits?
Why was the Spanish Flu of 1919 so deadly? High mortality rate and airborne transmission. Oddly, that disease affected HEALTHY adult individuals more than children and the elderly.
Release Ebola to the west, in which travel is the rule, rather than the exception, and you will have a pandemic.
Last edited by hawkeye2009; 08-01-2014 at 06:36 AM..
Sweat, urine and spit are body fluids and even noted in this CDC guidance for airlines.
And that body count is only from those dying in hospitals. They aren't counting the ones dying in the bush.
90% mortality rate. The reason for the lack of massive transmission in Africa is relative lack of mobility among its population. Currently, Ebola is not airborne in transmission (one needs to come in contact with body fluids). However, EVERY virus mutates and it is quite possible that Ebola will become transmitted via airborne route in the future. Keep in mind that a cough is effectively and aerosol- did you wonder why all of the workers in Africa are wearing masks, goggles, and haz-mat suits?
Why was the Spanish Flu of 1919 so deadly? High mortality rate and airborne transmission. Oddly, that disease affected HEALTHY adult individuals more than children and the elderly.
Yeah, there was a lot of global troop movement during the Great War.
It came from Kansas and went troop global from there continuing throughout desperated civilian populations. (The troops had been inoculated.)
It's been speculated that America initiated massive german warfare (sick).
Trench life provided the perfect petricubation for nasty mutation. (In vivo plurum)
Oh good grief, are some people just paranoid or what? The man is a US citizen, he has a right to come home, he is going directly to a hospital and will be isolated the entire time. The sky is not falling, you can come out from under your bed now.
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