possible ebola in dallas

[tRidiot]

This guy caught it while in africa, he has not been referred to as a doc or othe health care provder. To say that ebola absolutely only transmits with close blood bodily fluid secretion is BS. That may be the clinical definition, but 20k+ cases say otherwise.

Understand the context here, yes... but certainly not enough to say that since he isn't a medical worker he wasn't exposed to blood or body fluids. Lots, lots, lots, LOTS of people in direct or indirect contact with a patient can easily be exposed to blood and/or bodily fluids. Simply a person wiping their nose and touching a doorhandle at a supermarket, bathroom, restaurant, rental car, bus or terminal, etc... could transmit it. I'm not sure 100% what you're getting at, but I don't think there's anywhere near enough evidence to suggest airborne transmission at this point in time.


Should we try to plan for worst-case scenario? Sure... but I wouldn't be too quick to start handing out masks to the general public or anything like that, yet.

 

[ignerntbend]

If you're reading this in 2014, I'm pretty sure that the human race has already been wiped out by AIDS.

 

[71buickfreak]

Understand the context here, yes... but certainly not enough to say that since he isn't a medical worker he wasn't exposed to blood or body fluids. Lots, lots, lots, LOTS of people in direct or indirect contact with a patient can easily be exposed to blood and/or bodily fluids. Simply a person wiping their nose and touching a doorhandle at a supermarket, bathroom, restaurant, rental car, bus or terminal, etc... could transmit it. I'm not sure 100% what you're getting at, but I don't think there's anywhere near enough evidence to suggest airborne transmission at this point in time.


Should we try to plan for worst-case scenario? Sure... but I wouldn't be too quick to start handing out masks to the general public or anything like that, yet.

I was not suggesting airborne transmission. What I was getting at is that all these people keep saying it is super hard to catch ebola, yet some many, even docs who are trained on how to keep clean, get it. While being immersed in patients all day is certainly going to make it easier to contract, but most of the people that have caught it were not health care providers, rather family members and through casual contact. This person was in the wild as a contagious carrier. It will spread from there. I find it highly unlikely that no one else will become infected because of this one guy.

 

[Biggsly]

Who could have seen this coming?


First to blame Bush.

 

[71buickfreak]

He was in Dallas for 6 days while infected, the hospital kept him in a regular room for 2 days.

 

[Spata]

He went to the hospital twice. The 2nd time they admitted him.

 

[71buickfreak]

He went to the hospital twice. The 2nd time they admitted him.

Exactly, 2 days later! Yeah, the US system can handle it just fine....

BTW, You need to brighten that avatar of yours Spata, I need a clearer view

 

[Biggsly]

Can be transmitted by squitos, gnats, flies, ticks...

and Waffle House.

 

[ignerntbend]

Exactly, 2 days later! Yeah, the US system can handle it just fine....

BTW, You need to brighten that avatar of yours Spata, I need a clearer view

You could get virtual ebola from that avatar.

 

[reddog1]

He went to the hospital twice. The 2nd time they admitted him.

Game over man.