Ebola in Texas..

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Danzig

they do know how it's transmitted, that it can't be transmitted thru casual contact.
that's why i'm surprised so many people are going nuts about this.

You keep trumpeting this over and over like it is etched in stone somewhere.

There are NO absolutes. What they know about this virus changes hourly.

>>>Ebola is airborne, according to a new report by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota. Researchers at the university just advised the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that “scientific and epidemiologic evidence” now exists that proves Ebola has the potential to be transmitted via exhaled breath and “infectious aerosol particles.”<<<


http://www.inquisitr.com/1541821/ebo...ZgTDq73J8dz.99

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

You keep trumpeting this over and over like it is etched in stone somewhere.

There are NO absolutes. What they know about this virus changes hourly.

>>>Ebola is airborne, according to a new report by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota. Researchers at the university just advised the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that “scientific and epidemiologic evidence” now exists that proves Ebola has the potential to be transmitted via exhaled breath and “infectious aerosol particles.”<<<


http://www.inquisitr.com/1541821/ebo...ZgTDq73J8dz.99

i'm sorry that i'm trying to point out calmly that all this hysteria is, frankly, unwarranted.
but, by all means, have at it.

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i'm sorry that i'm trying to point out calmly that all this hysteria is, frankly, unwarranted.
but, by all means, have at it.

4000 deaths with estimates of 10000 by the end of the month because, ya know, the WHO has it all figured out.

It's not hysteria when they are all backtracking on their initial summations. 3 hours ago CIDRAP confirmed it can be spread through the air, but just not where you are. You're fine.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

4000 deaths with estimates of 10000 by the end of the month because, ya know, the WHO has it all figured out.

It's not hysteria when they are all backtracking on their initial summations. 3 hours ago CIDRAP confirmed it can be spread through the air, but just not where you are. You're fine.

oh, wow. yeah, that's a huge mess, 4k deaths.
compared to malaria in 2012 that killed 600,000. or the typical month in american car crashes that kills that many.
and yes, i am fine. i don't work in the health care field with people with ebola, and haven't been to africa-and won't be.
the thing that gets me most, are the people saying this is all a conspiracy to kill off a bunch of people-they sure picked the wrong way to do it. other ways are much quicker and take out a lot more people. but let's not let all that get in the way of a conspiracy theory-cause they're really much more fun.


'so far none of the family or friends of Thomas Eric Duncan –- the first patient to die of Ebola in the U.S. –- have become ill. With their 21-day quarantine period almost at an end, it doesn't appear the virus had a chance to spread, he said.

"This is a terribly important lesson that virus is not going to run rampant in Dallas or anywhere else in the U.S.," Schaffner said. "Let's not forget that we've done some things right."'

oh, how boring....

[bigrun]

2nd nurse with ebola..


http://abcnews.go.com/Health/nurse-i...ry?id=26206090

[Arletta]

Originally Posted by bigrun

2nd nurse with ebola..


http://abcnews.go.com/Health/nurse-i...ry?id=26206090

Old news DJ.. see post #64

[dellinger63]

I'd love to see the President, his entire family and all of congress step up and visit each of these Ebola patients sans mask to show the public how the virus can't be passed w/o physical contact.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Arletta

Old news DJ.. see post #64

oops, saw story on eve news, didn't check posts

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i'm not worried about it at all and don't get why anyone else is. unless one lives in one of the african countries, or is a medical professional there, i don't see why anyone is concerned.

Originally Posted by Danzig

no, why would i be? the chances for someone in this country getting ebola is incredibly slim-the chance of getting it from someone is 'miniscule'.
i'd be more worried about the flu, or a car accident-both of which hit far more people every day than ebola does. and i don't worry about them either.

'Unless you exchange or come in contact with blood or body fluids of an infected person, you are not at risk for Ebola. This infection results from close contact with a patient who is at a late stage in the disease.'

you cannot get it from casual contact. i haven't been to africa, neither has my spouse. we aren't in the health care field.

Originally Posted by Danzig

i love how the texas pols are going nuts over this, while having arguably the worst healthcare of the fifty states.

CDC finally reveals truth by saying it knows little about how Ebola is spread

Under questioning from Congress on how two Dallas nurses contracted Ebola, Tom Frieden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, ‘While we do not yet know exactly how these transmissions occurred ….’ Right there, at last, Frieden said what he should have been saying all along, that he and everybody else only knew what they thought they knew about Ebola.


http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.1977364

It's a shame they don't realize we have a resident expert right here on DT. Oh - but Malaria is worser, so just move along...