Yeah, I mean look at how we are kicking cancer's, Alzheimer's, AIDS' and ALS's arses.
Those aren't wildly contagious!
Yeah, I mean look at how we are kicking cancer's, Alzheimer's, AIDS' and ALS's arses.
Those aren't wildly contagious!
That we know of. Remember, the symptoms are also similar to malaria and the flu.But they KILL far more people every year than ebola has in all of human history.
I do not necessarily disagree, but I think it is important to re-iterate that an important group of patients/victims in Africa were medical professionals - even Western medical professionals - who knew the proper precautions, presumably used them, and still got sick.Ebola outbreaks have always burned themselves out in Africa, a continent with medical and hygiene practices than would make a civil war era hospital look like the freakin Mayo clinic.
It is also worth re-iterating that Nigeria and Sengal (who, using your characterization, have medical and hygiene practices the functional equivalent of pre-Civil war hospitals) contained their exposures quickly and without losing very many people. So, it can be done.
I have sources I trust, some could be considered mainstream, others not. When they all agree, I tend to accept it as "true."You were there, Or that's what you heard on the news?
Identification of close contacts for further daily monitoring for 21 days after exposure is under way. Given that the case did not exhibit symptoms of Ebola during the flights from West Africa, contact tracing of people on the same commercial airline flights is not indicated.
There have been no reports (that I've seen) that they've been able to track down where this guy contracted the virus so they can put THAT person (or persons) under observation.
Duncan, a Liberian national, may have contracted the virus in Liberia while taking a deathly ill neighbor to the hospital four days before he flew to Dallas to visit family members, The New York Times reported.
That does not seem to fit the narrative of how much contact is necessary to transmit the disease. It seems to me that "casual contact" can be enough.Mr. Duncan, the first person to develop symptoms outside Africa during the current epidemic, had direct contact with a woman stricken by Ebola on Sept. 15, just four days before he left Liberia for the United States, the woman’s parents and Mr. Duncan’s neighbors said.
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Mr. Duncan, who was a family friend and also a tenant in a house owned by the Williams family, rode in the taxi in the front passenger seat while Ms. Williams, her father and her brother, Sonny Boy, shared the back seat, her parents said. Mr. Duncan then helped carry Ms. Williams, who was no longer able to walk, back to the family home that evening, neighbors said.
Conspiracy!
Rand Paul Warns of ?Whole Ship Full of Soldiers? Catching Ebola | Mediaite
Infect America with ebola, declare martial law, RULE THE COUNTRY
Ooof. The conspiracy stuff about this makes me a bit loopy.
BTW, ran my own little homegrown mathemagic statesticle analysis and the West African stuff is still on target for ~14k by the end of October. The WHO comment about fewer new cases is a bit misleading. The average daily new cases between reports was at 211 in mid-September and is now down to 128.
As usual, mixed indications. It might actually be slowing down, but it is still growing.
A charity in Sierra Leone says there are 5 new cases every hour.
BBC News - Ebola outbreak: 'Five infected every hour' in Sierra Leone
The statistics seem to support that, overall.
ETA:
Ah- thanks! That's the first I've heard of that!
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/world/africa/ebola-victim-texas-thomas-eric-duncan.html
That does not seem to fit the narrative of how much contact is necessary to transmit the disease. It seems to me that "casual contact" can be enough.