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A pandemia of ebola is pretty much impossible. It doesn't transmit through air, only through body fluids, which in first world countries the basic hygiene methods should be enoguh to ocntain. Additionally, the big mortality rate and the speed it kills a person assures that widespread is a very remote possibility.
I am paying attention also, I sometimes work with visitors from the affected regions but am not going to panic or change my routine. Will follow the same procedures I do during flu season.
I'm at my survival retreat. I limit my contact with people as much as I can and have been doing it for years. I wonder how many acre feet of bodily fluids are exchanged yearly in big cities. Buses, subways, elevators, moving picture shows, taverns, and all similar places are ideal for spreading the disease. Oh yes, think of the environment on airliners.
The ideal population for this country is beteen forty and fifty million. The Irish potato famine reduced the population of Ireland by over 50%. However, disease should be able to accomplish far more in urban warrens.
Check your supplies and stay holed up; you'll live longer.
A pandemia of ebola is pretty much impossible. It doesn't transmit through air, only through body fluids, which in first world countries the basic hygiene methods should be enoguh to ocntain. Additionally, the big mortality rate and the speed it kills a person assures that widespread is a very remote possibility.
Here is a piece from the Center Of Infectious Research And Policy (CIDRAP) which was written by Lisa Brossuea, ScD and Rahael Jones, PhD, which CIDRAP refers to as "national experts on respiratory protection and infectious disease transmission".
We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks.
Additionally, when the CDC has their people wearing these when around ebola patients, it makes me wonder.
I'm not concerned at all because I don't play with people's body fluids. I am very concerned and afraid of the Enterovirus.
The Reston strain was proven to be transmitted by air from pigs to monkeys, I believe. The problem is that ebola never had the opportunity to thrive on so many subjects. The virus is pretty good at mutating, the advantage has been that every time it jumped to people, the contagions had been contained after a few individuals fell ill, hence no real opportunity for the virus to mutate. This time, however, it has thousands of victims with no visible end in sight, hence the possibility of mutating into a strain that is airborne is real. I am not an epidemiologist so I cannot quantify this chance but it does exist.
Hence, I am definitely watching, I am also ordering extra supplies (like rice, beans etc.) and storing more water.
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