"Here's How You Get Ebola"

[MikeG22]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Plus one, prayers offered for her full recovery. Ebola/Hemorrhagic Fever is a nasty way to go.

The medicos were predicting something like this would happen. Still no reason for panic, IMO.

They are also predicting there will be many more. Not quite outbreak but isn't that what they said about ISIS too? Is Ebola the JV team virus?

[hillbilly]

Originally Posted by MikeG22

Where's Dr. Ike? He said I'm full of crap. Gown, cap, gloved, face shield and nurse still contracted the virus. Hopefully being caught so early she fights it off.

Rumor is there is another case in MA.

I noticed you said ''face shield'' and not sealed respirator with o2 tank so I'm guessing she was still breething same room air. Makes a feller wonder doesn't it?

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by MikeG22

They are also predicting there will be many more. Not quite outbreak but isn't that what they said about ISIS too? Is Ebola the JV team virus?

Ay-yi-yi. Why is everything some sort of conspiracy with youse mugs or some sort of political football of false equivalency?
Give it a rest Mike.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by hillbilly

I noticed you said ''face shield'' and not sealed respirator with o2 tank so I'm guessing she was still breething same room air. Makes a feller wonder doesn't it?

I dunno but if I had to hazard a guess? I'd say this nurse effed up and didn't follow protocol.

Heres a link Dave. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease

[bobabode]

FWIW, here's a link to a PBS special about Ebola

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365340607/

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by hillbilly

I noticed you said ''face shield'' and not sealed respirator with o2 tank so I'm guessing she was still breething same room air. Makes a feller wonder doesn't it?

If it were airborne in Africa it would be spreading a lot faster than it is. Airborne disease like flu have infection rates of 10 or more for each person that has it. Ebola seems to have a rate of a bit under 2.

It will be nasty enough without making up stuff before there is evidence. Hundred or thousands of dead here by the end of the year, and millions in Africa.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

If it were airborne in Africa it would be spreading a lot faster than it is. Airborne disease like flu have infection rates of 10 or more for each person that has it. Ebola seems to have a rate of a bit under 2.

It will be nasty enough without making up stuff before there is evidence. Hundred or thousands of dead here by the end of the year, and millions in Africa.

4,000 deaths in Africa and a mortality rate of about 80 percent. And if health care workers are getting it (even if they "screw up") even after using protective gear then Bob Dylan's
phrase "You Do Not Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows" apt here.

DQ I have been x-raying sick patients (even HIV positive ones) for 20 years. I have never been afraid until now.

[hillbilly]

Originally Posted by icenine

4,000 deaths in Africa and a mortality rate of about 80 percent. And if health care workers are getting it (even if they "screw up") even after using protective gear then Bob Dylan's
phrase "You Do Not Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows" apt here.

DQ I have been x-raying sick patients (even HIV positive ones) for 20 years. I have never been afraid until now.

I'm wondering what the difference in housing and hospitals are between the USA and Africa. Are their houses air tight like ours? I ask this because in the US air is trapped in our homes and we all breeth it. If a house isn't built air tight or have A/C then most likely the windows would be open allowing fresh air, less chance of breething an infected persons air. May sound silly but the un-asked questions could be important as we've not had to deal with Ebola here before now.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by icenine

4,000 deaths in Africa and a mortality rate of about 80 percent. And if health care workers are getting it (even if they "screw up") even after using protective gear then Bob Dylan's
phrase "You Do Not Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows" apt here.

DQ I have been x-raying sick patients (even HIV positive ones) for 20 years. I have never been afraid until now.

That's 4000 'laboratory-confirmed' deaths in Africa. Total real number is guessed to be 2.5 times that.

You'll certainly want to be careful...

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by hillbilly

I'm wondering what the difference in housing and hospitals are between the USA and Africa. Are their houses air tight like ours? I ask this because in the US air is trapped in our homes and we all breeth it. If a house isn't built air tight or have A/C then most likely the windows would be open allowing fresh air, less chance of breething an infected persons air. May sound silly but the un-asked questions could be important as we've not had to deal with Ebola here before now.

The main difference between the US and Africa is thousands of modern hospitals. We'll be able to identify and isolate cases before they infect more than one other. Outbreaks will flare and then die down. Here.