This is how you get Ebola

[JustRalph]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jinamoore/tw...iberia#3iy2lbx

Want to know how it's spreading?

[Robert Goren]

This reminds me of the paranoia surrounding Aids in the 1980s. Reason and Facts are out the door.

[TJDave]

We should send the Ferguson police dept. over there. They have the experience to get the job done!

[johnhannibalsmith]

Aw geez, everyone had forgot how terrified they were of Ebola with all this rioting.

[JustRalph]

Originally Posted by Robert Goren

This reminds me of the paranoia surrounding Aids in the 1980s. Reason and Facts are out the door.

I was very close to the Aids epidemic and watched it up close and personal while working at a hospital. While Reaganites were begging Dianne Feinstein to close the bath houses in San Fran she and her minions were denying Aids was a problem. When one Airline steward was found to have exposed over 200 men outside of San Fran, flying all over the country, and being personally responsible for lots of the early spread, Feinstein and her crowd refused to discuss grounding anyone etc. It was called "demonizing"

There wasn't much confusion, there was plenty of denial though. The paranoia was real and reasonable. I see some minor similarities but being that it's a known quantity, in a known area, it should be easier to control. But if more stories like the above come out, it's going to kill a ton more people.

[DJofSD]

Originally Posted by JustRalph

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jinamoore/tw...iberia#3iy2lbx

Want to know how it's spreading?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease

It is not entirely clear how Ebola is spread.[16] EVD is believed to occur after an ebola virus is transmitted to an initial human by contact with an infected animal's body fluids. Human-to-human transmission can occur via direct contact with blood or bodily fluids from an infected person (including embalming of an infected dead person) or by contact with contaminated medical equipment, particularly needles and syringes.[17] Semen is infectious in survivors for up to 50 days. Transmission through oral exposure and through conjunctiva exposure is likely[18] and has been confirmed in non-human primates.[19] The potential for widespread EVD infections is considered low as the disease is only spread by direct contact with the secretions from someone who is showing signs of infection.[17] The quick onset of symptoms makes it easier to identify sick individuals and limits a person's ability to spread the disease by traveling. Because dead bodies are still infectious, some doctors disposed of them in a safe manner, despite local traditional burial rituals.[20]

Medical workers who do not wear appropriate protective clothing may also contract the disease.[21] In the past, hospital-acquired transmission has occurred in African hospitals due to the reuse of needles and lack of universal precautions.[22][23]

Airborne transmission has not been documented during previous EVD outbreaks.[2] They are, however, infectious as breathable 0.8–1.2 micrometre laboratory generated droplets;[24] because of this potential route of infection, these viruses have been classified as Category A biological weapons.[25] Recently the virus has been shown to travel without contact from pigs to non-human primates, although the same study failed to achieve transmission in that manner between primates.[26]

Bats drop partially eaten fruits and pulp, then land mammals such as gorillas and duikers feed on these fallen fruits. This chain of events forms a possible indirect means of transmission from the natural host to animal populations, which has led to research towards viral shedding in the saliva of bats. Fruit production, animal behavior, and other factors vary at different times and places that may trigger outbreaks among animal populations.[27]