"Here's How You Get Ebola"

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

So cite an example. AIDS has been around a long time now, I'm sure you can find a case to support your position.
Why is everyone wearing full hazmat gear to treat Ebola, but they don't with AIDS? Why do we need to cremate remains of ebola victims, but not with AIDS victims? Why don't they go in and douse bleach all over the homes of AIDS victims, and wrap their cars up in plastic?

Who can say why people behave in the way they do? Some people walk around with half a roll of aluminum foil stuffed into their hats to protect their brains from alien space rays.

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and...ed-through-air

Right now the science says the Ebola virus can only be transmitted through an exchange of bodily fluids. That's how AIDS is transmitted. Perhaps further scientific investigation will show that it's a virus that is somehow more opportunistic than AIDS and more severe precautions are required. But that's not the case now. I'm sure nobody wants to take a chance. In the early days of the spread of AIDS, there were thousands of healthcare workers that refused to provide care to HIV/AIDS patients.

The outbreak of Ebola that has become a humanitarian crisis in West Africa finally reached the U.S. last week when a patient in Dallas, Texas was diagnosed with the virus. Ebola is not an airborne disease and is only transmitted through close contact with bodily fluids like saliva, feces and urine, but that hasn’t stopped a minor panic from setting in now that it has reached American shores. Global health experts are concerned that now, in the U.S., stigmatization of people from the three most affected countries in the region — Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia — could follow. (Newsweek October 5, 2014)

Universal precautions are used when treating patients with non-airborne transmitted viruses. People are bleaching their homes and their dogs and their chickens because they don't understand that once outside the body, viruses are wimpy little creatures that are barely alive at all.

The good news is that Ebola is not spread in the air. You get it from direct contact with an infected person's bodily fluids such as blood, sweat, vomit, or feces. So for developed countries that's encouraging because the Ebola virus can be killed simply with soap and warm water.

With that in mind, one wonders how more than 1,000 people have contracted it. The answer is, they don't wash their hands. They don't even wear gloves in hospitals, oftentimes, wear protective masks, or even use disinfectant and clean needles!

They touch - with their bare hands - dead people who haven't even been washed, who've died from Ebola, at funerals.

AIDS workers are serious about following universal precautions and they don't get AIDS unless there's an accident. A needle prick through a surgical glove will do it.