Health workers need optimal respiratory protection for Ebola

[Dakine10 5,452]

So this person is a quack that wrote the article. ? This person says that data shows it can.

It can in experimental data in monkeys with active symptoms. This case was a human without active symptoms. I was responding to the question you asked, which was about the asymptomatic nurse.

This researcher is suggesting we use extra precautions because there is still much we don't know about the virus and because of the high mortality rate. Nothing I said contradicts that. I am fine with that position, but it's based on hypothesis.

[JohnR! 5,495]

No one knows the answer to that question. All anyone can do is speculate, and that is just too big a temptation, isn't it?

the question is did this nurse while traveling with a low grade fever have the ability to infect other folks on the airplane? .. If so why is not the CDC up to speed on this.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

The 0'bola administration has had their travel warnings to Ebola land out for months. But don't let facts get in the way of your "middle-of-the-road" outrage.

http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/alertswarnings.html

Reading is not fundamental to you is it.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Reading is not fundamental to you is it.

Yes, it is. I'm not sure you can say the same about yourself, though. Reading the travel warnings that have been issued months ago tells me that the administration has cautioned people from traveling to the affected areas and limit travel to the absolutely necessary. You claimed that - and I quote - "However our current Admin sees no reason to limit travel" The reality, of course, is quite different. The administration has indeed:

• The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens against non-essential travel to Sierra Leone.
• The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens against non-essential travel to Liberia.
• The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to screening procedures, travel restrictions, and reduced aviation transportation options in response to the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. This Travel Alert will expire on February 27, 2015.

So unless you have an issue with the use of proper vocabulary and meant to say "ban" instead of "limit" (these are different words with different meanings), the administration has demonstrably taken steps to - I quote again - "limit travel". The links above make that abundantly clear - to anyone who cares to read, that is.

Edited October 17, 2014 by Mr. Big Dog

[Dakine10 5,452]

A nurse infected with Ebola may have had symptoms sooner than originally believed, authorities say, and an airline is notifying up to 800 passengers linked to flights she took between Dallas and Cleveland.

About 50 people from Texas Health Presbyterian have signed a document legally restricting where they can go and what they can do until they are clear of Ebola, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said Thursday night.

Among other things, they'll be placed on a "Do Not Board list" that would prohibit them from flying commercially like Vinson did.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/17/health/us-ebola/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I think we need another article about how many Americans need mental health support to deal with paranoia resulting from media coverage about Ebola.

[Dakine10 5,452]

Tracking a Serial Killer: Could Ebola Mutate to Become More Deadly? Why we need to terminate Ebola 2014 before the virus learns too much about us.

The Ebola virus, seen here through a scanning electron microscope, is mutating as cases increase, raising the odds that the virus could become more transmissible.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141015-ebola-virus-outbreak-pandemic-zoonotic-contagion/

Edited October 17, 2014 by Dakine10

[Dakine10 5,452]

[Dakine10 5,452]

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Exactly!

[Dakine10 5,452]

Exactly!

In case you were wondering, the number of deaths from Ebola in America is currently tied with the number of deaths from eating live cockroaches.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Oddly Casualty weapons would fall to the left of Fireworks, but no one calls out the loony anti gun crowd for mass hysteria on that issue .

[Dakine10 5,452]

Oddly Casualty weapons would fall to the left of Fireworks, but no one calls out the loony anti gun crowd for mass hysteria on that issue .

On the chart I posted, It would be somewhere to the right of drowning. They intentionally left firearms statistics off that chart so people wouldn't hijack Ebola threads to talk about gun safety.

Here's another chart for perspective.

http://www.nsc.org/NSC%20Picture%20Library/News/web_graphics/Injury_Facts_37.pdf

[Curmudgeon 227]

On the chart I posted, It would be somewhere to the right of drowning. They intentionally left firearms statistics off that chart so people wouldn't hijack Ebola threads to talk about gun safety.

Here's another chart for perspective.

http://www.nsc.org/NSC%20Picture%20Library/News/web_graphics/Injury_Facts_37.pdf

Well, that worked well then

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

On the chart I posted, It would be somewhere to the right of drowning. They intentionally left firearms statistics off that chart so people wouldn't hijack Ebola threads to talk about gun safety.

Here's another chart for perspective.

http://www.nsc.org/NSC%20Picture%20Library/News/web_graphics/Injury_Facts_37.pdf

Assault weapon and assault by a firearm are two very different things. The threat of being hurt by an assault weapon is almost nonexistent yet harped on all the time by Anti-Gun crowd as the number one issue.

However expressing concern about a possible epidemic with victims in the many 1000's is paranoia. Only in the world of the loony left

As for hijacking a thread. I responded to a post that ranked Ebola in relation to other dangers, and merely pointed out that assault weapons generate more paranioo but are less of a threat than Ebola. So I guess your post Hijacked the thread, I merely responded to your subject matter

Edited October 17, 2014 by The Nature Boy