First confirmed case of Ebola in the USA

kevin 714

kevin 714

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bikeama said:
From what I have read (you know news propaganda) I agree with you.

However my younger daughter is finishing her Phd in cellular biology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She will graduate next spring. She already has a Masters in Pharmacology. Ebola scares the shit out of her, I flew to the east coast last month and she told me if I am next to someone who came from a trip to Africa and was sweating. GET OF THE FUCKING PLANE BEFORE IT TAKES OFF DAD, EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO OPEN THE EMERGENCY DOOR.
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no wonder everyone was scared of me :laughing
 
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afm199 said:
No, you have to touch bodily fluids and it has to hit a mucus membrane or open wound. Pink eye happens when you touch a source and then your eye.
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A bodily fluid. So if I have pink eye, rub my eye which has tears, and then that gets on a door knob, you touch the door knob then rub your eye, then that bodily fluid got in your mucous membrane. Except with Ebola, I can touch my eye, nose, mouth, dick, or butt, and spread it to you. When you get it on your hand, you can wile your nose, touch your food, rub your eye, or touch a number of other places to be exposed to infection.

I don't know if Ebola is more contageous than pink eye, but it sure has the potential to be. Not being airborne doesn't mean it is not highly contageous.
 
channelcat

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Johndicezx9 said:
You asked, I answered, CDC agrees per that link: "CDC says risk of Ebola outbreak in the United States is extremely low..."
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bs. they have no idea wtf. blind leading the blind, saying what they are told to say to protect their $125k a year+ benefits jobs.
 
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channelcat

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channelcat said:
bs. they have no idea wtf. blind leading the blind, saying what they are told to say to protect their $125k a year+ benefits jobs.
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Johndicezx9 said:
Yeah, those scientists are sooooo stooooooooopid... :laughing
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The scientists could provide a 25% positive model of epidemic possibility, and if the nice folks administering, and paying, for that research decided that the percentage possibility that information would be politically or economically unsettling vs. the actual percentage chance of outbreak, they would quash it till the next news cycle.
what do you do all day? smoke pot and carve wooden duckies?
 
Johndicezx9

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channelcat said:
The scientists could provide a 25% positive model of epidemic possibility, and if the nice folks administering, and paying, for that research decided that the percentage possibility that information would be politically or economically unsettling vs. the actual percentage chance of outbreak, they would quash it till the next news cycle.
what do you do all day? smoke pot and carve wooden duckies?
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Surprisingly, it must not make me paranoid... :thumbup
 
MikeL

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afm199

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teg916 said:
A bodily fluid. So if I have pink eye, rub my eye which has tears, and then that gets on a door knob, you touch the door knob then rub your eye, then that bodily fluid got in your mucous membrane. Except with Ebola, I can touch my eye, nose, mouth, dick, or butt, and spread it to you. When you get it on your hand, you can wile your nose, touch your food, rub your eye, or touch a number of other places to be exposed to infection.

I don't know if Ebola is more contageous than pink eye, but it sure has the potential to be. Not being airborne doesn't mean it is not highly contageous.
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It is highly contagious. People die from contagious diseases every year by the hundreds of thousands. It could kill millions, but I suspect tens of thousands is more likely, of that a tiny proportion in the US. Airborne diseases are the population killers. I've been saying it, it won't become an epidemic. There's a good chance people in the US will die from it, particularly in vulnerable populations.

There are far worse threats to the US> (That's all I am saying. I am not saying it doesn't exist or is a particularly horrible disease. It does and it is.)
 
afm199

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In about 4-6 weeks we'll know more. It takes up to 20 days from first contact for the disease to emerge with symptoms. Patient one in Texas returned to the US ten or eleven days ago. So two weeks from we'll be seeing either many cases or none or few among the people he was in contact with.
 
Asphaultnaut

Asphaultnaut

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if it's gonna be a problem, it'll be a problem here in CA first.

TB on the rise, whooping cough reappearing, measles on the rise.

All the "anti vaccine" nuts, Kumbaya types who don't believe that the Earth-Mother would make something so deadly, and millions of "under the radar" individuals who see running across the desert in poorly sanitized container trucks as "progress" will see to that.

If we don't get it here in a couple months, then there's practically no worry. California will be the Canary State.
 

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Reli

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Snore, tired of the Ebola hype.

In its first 9 years, AIDS killed more than twice as many Americans as the Vietnam War did. Ebola will pale in comparison to that.
 
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