3 weeks to incubate and infected have been on international flights. 50% to 90% mortality rate, that's some nasty s**t. This is the worst breakout in history They say it is not airborne, but this says research says otherwise. Tiny moisture droplets you inhale and absorb in your airways. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20341423 unless I am mistaken, that makes it airborne even if temporarily. Someone sneezing on a plane would infect a few people, maybe more. This is really serious.
My wife was saying to me tonight how much shes scared of this, she thinks a virus will wipe out humans if anything and not war. She might not be wrong!
Reports of it showing up in Atlanta Georgia in the US, not confirmed but that's coming from a US radio station I listen to. They say it is confirmed but I don't know.
I was starting to get worried about this, but now Sisu has done this post I feel happier that it will blow over.
Sisu, you should be banned! You truly are a stupid ****. Ebola is a serious issue but it does not need your usual sensationalist conspiratorial approach to any discussion about it!! If you bothered to do any proper research then you'd know that the reports from Atlanta are in relationship to the repatriation of a suspected US citizen - not any breakout of the virus in the US. But then you'd say that was just a cover story hey! It's fools and idiots like you that spread panic. You should be bloody ashamed of yourself.
Airborne or not, it is terrifying that a lethal virus is less than 24 hours from pretty much any point on the globe. It'd need to mutate to become airborne, but at the same time, that's not impossible. Sisu, which news agency was reporting cases over here? I've not heard anything.
Lad this ain't a new thing it's a fast killer. This is why thus far it's outbreaks in Africa don't go furthermore However I can see the hysteria as USA films all show stupid Americans running about so the country gets infected in 5 mins Think of the medicine San frontier doctors going over volunteering to help poor people do they think it's airborne.... Nope. Are they dropping nope. Just have sympathy with victims for now and not worry about us here
Ebola is spread through contact with bodily fluids. Good hygiene causes it to die out. The problem in Africa is partly cultural. They always wash a body before burial so if the deceased died of Ebola then they have close contact when they wash the body. As so many die the locals are also very suspicious of notifying cases as they see people taken into isolation and then the majority die therefore they associate the isolation with the persons death and tend not to report cases allowing it to spread. The more remote the community the less educated to the disease they tend to be. Sisu scaremongering is not on. Ebola is not like Spanish flu which killed more people in Europe after WW1 than the actual war did
My post only included scientific research results by SCIENTISTS. It was in the interests of safety as this should be told to everyone. Especially if it arrives in the UK, which given the picture of infection spread is a month old due to the 3 week incubation period of the virus. ignoring all of that because I posted it is silly.
As for "not possible". I have no reason to doubt the assumptions of the scientists in Canada, it does not need to mutate, you are not getting it, the virus does not float about in the air, it is contained in fluid from your body, the respiratory tract, tiny droplets that remain airborne temporarily when you sneeze or cough, this IS exchanging fluids, can't you understand that. if someone infected sits next to you on a plane and starts coughing you inhale those aerosols you can get infected. You have created a dangerous misconception by saying what you said should it arrive in the UK, it could already have.. The rejection of common sense, information ect because I posted this is ridiculous. This is a deadly virus ffs. The source, as I said, I deem it unconfirmed. http://beforeitsnews.com/alternativ...rus-confirmed-in-atlanta-georgia-3003924.html
Another BBC piece on sneezing and coughing spreading this disease on planes http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140731-can-ebola-spread-on-planes
Sleep, what's that. A quote from the last article I posted for "balance" "just a 3.5% risk of catching the illness if you were sitting in those seats. A handful of other studies, looking at measles and TB, also suggest that in-flight transmission rates are similarly low. From studies such as these, Oxford says that “the biggest risk is not on the plane, but in the taxi on the way to the airport”." So this is the CDC and researchers at Oxford agreeing, a 3.5% chance you could get infected. But, given there are over 200 people on flights, and the number of flights they take that 3.5% starts to look not so benign
This has been well documented. Nothing new here, Sisu. The article clearly says the virus is aerosol-borne and therefore NOT air-borne. Its limited short-range transmission in minute liquid droplets (aerosols) has been known as long as Ebola has. I do admit, though, that Ebola is a worrying disease. Very nasty way to die*. If it does become air-borne, we have a possible second Spanish 'flu' on our hands. However, the study of virology has revealed far, far worse viruses. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it, to be honest. *A virologist colleague of mine works with Ebola, and once was locked away in a military virology quarantine room with a bottle of whiskey for the night to see if he was going to live or die. He says it was the longest and worst night of his life. (To date, anyway, as he still works with the virus!). Not that he remembers the tail end of the night as he was wasted out of his mind by then! Luckily, he woke up with only a killer hangover and no signs of infection. I'd have quit, personally, but he loves his work. He's not a quitter like me.
