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Here's a development . . .

oldenGoldenDecoy — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:22:20 +0000

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Here's a development . . .

Bio-high-tech treatment for Ebola may have saved two US citizens

~OGD~

I think the biggest

rmrd0000 — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 17:17:05 +0000

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I think the biggest transmission risk is via contact with body secretions and fluid. The other risk I appears to be contaminated household utensils and medical equipment. The plastic covering may be all that was required for transport if fluids and secretions are handled properly. For long term care isolation makes sense.

We have the capability to

EmmaZahn — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 16:13:00 +0000

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We have the capability to provide a controlled environment at the epicenter of infection. Outfit some containers with necessary equipment and supplies and transport them there rather than contagious patients to uninfected areas.

BTW, do you think a suitably-equipped container would have been a been a better isolation chamber than what was used on these flights?

What is that? 15 mil plastic?

If we face the prospect of

rmrd0000 — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 15:52:12 +0000

In reply to Yes, stealth infection is a

If we face the prospect of stealth infection, it is probably wise to evaluate the disease under a controlled environment. Infectious disease specialists may be able to develop vaccines or other therapies.

Something I thought about

EmmaZahn — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 15:39:09 +0000

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Something I thought about after replying above. Why are you so blasé about a risk that has the potential to virtually destroy populations (est. 90% mortality) in a very short time span but quite hyperbolic about the slow-boil-frog threat of Climate Change? What warrants your confidence in our ability to cope with one but not the other? This is a sincere question. It baffles me.

Yes, stealth infection is a

EmmaZahn — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 15:32:38 +0000

In reply to We should not be concerned

Yes, stealth infection is a greater threat but the risk level is not what bothers me as much as the pointlessness of it. Why take the risk it at all? It's one of those low probability - high consequence things I wish people would think harder about.

No one is going to talk you

trkingmomoe — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 15:05:29 +0000

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No one is going to talk you down off that scary ledge. I posted the links for everyone to read that is interested in this subject. This is not personal.

We should not be concerned

Verified Atheist — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 14:30:45 +0000

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We should not be concerned about the two people that we're bringing to this country that we already know have Ebola, but rather about the possible visitors to our country that have Ebola but do not know it. I have the utmost confidence in the CDC's ability to quarantine these two victims.

You think I did not read all

EmmaZahn — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 12:40:20 +0000

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You think I did not read all this and more of this before I wrote -- plus I remember the Reston outbreak, as should you. It caused a bigger media panic over a lot less than is happening now.

Not sure if it was then or when knowledge of AIDS first erupted that Scientific American had an excellent article on pandemics and how some of our most annoying commonplace diseases were initially extremely lethal but their spread was constrained by geography while either non-lethal strains evolved or it died out completely. It may be archived online. I don't know. I haven't looked.

As white papers and less-thans, try the WHO Global Alert and Response Ebola page that begins:

"Ebola virus disease (formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever) is a severe, often fatal illness, with a case fatality rate of up to 90%. It is one of the world’s most virulent diseases."

Ebola is already in this

trkingmomoe — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 06:02:40 +0000

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Ebola is already in this country and has been here several decades. Ft. Detrick, MD has had it for a long time in a Biosafety level 4 unit at the USAMRIID's facility. They have been working on a Vax because they consider it a biological warfare threat. CDC in Atlanta also has it as well other BSL4 facilities. The European(ECDPC) and Chinese equivalent to our CDC is also working on this epidemic.

Emery University Hospital has a unit set up for level 4 contagions. That special jet didn't just get commissioned. Emery receives patients more often then you realize in that unit. They are flown in by special transport. This is not their first rodeo.

Instead of me writing a long explanation of the disease you can read it here:

http://www.nature.com/news/largest-ever-ebola-outbreak-is-not-a-global-threat-1.15640

And here:

http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2014/08/02/ebola-is-already-in-the-united-states/

I hope this clears up any doubt.

I just spent the last couple of hours trying to find something on the internet that was not on white paper level so it could be understood by everyone. It is late and I will be out of town for the next 5 days and I didn't want to leave this unanswered. I have been following this story since the outbreak started.