Ebola Outbreak

[BlueHammer85]

I'm locking myself in my room wearing a gas mask.

 

[Blue Hefner]

How many people c
Think there is a 3 week incubation period. Assuming that one is contagious during the incubation period then if you think about the number of people who could be infected starting from one person over 3 weeks, it is truly mind boggling.

Like I said earlier, according to that I've heard/read, its only contagious when I person has sympoms so a person who is vomiing, bleeding etc is unlikely to be walking around spreading it

That will make a huge difference. I wonder at what point they become contagious, is it when they are bleeding and vomiting or is it as soon as they get the raised temperature which I assume is an early symptom? "When a person has symptoms" is quite vague in that sense. Also, how quickly does the illness progress? I suppose that will dictate how long you can wander about coughing in people's faces before you aren't physically capable of mingling in society.

How many people cough in other people's face on a daily basis, I'm not being flippent just asking if that is a geunine issue to worry about

Can it be caught threw coughing or sneezing?

The majority of cases have come from people having contact with the dead or being in contact with vomit, blood etc

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Like I said earlier, according to that I've heard/read, its only contagious when I person has sympoms so a person who is vomiing, bleeding etc is unlikely to be walking around spreading it

That will make a huge difference. I wonder at what point they become contagious, is it when they are bleeding and vomiting or is it as soon as they get the raised temperature which I assume is an early symptom? "When a person has symptoms" is quite vague in that sense. Also, how quickly does the illness progress? I suppose that will dictate how long you can wander about coughing in people's faces before you aren't physically capable of mingling in society.

How many people cough in other people's face on a daily basis, I'm not being flippent just asking if that is a geunine issue to worry about

Can it be caught threw coughing or sneezing?

The majority of cases have come from people having contact with the dead or being in contact with vomit, blood etc

Alright then coughing in their hand and then shaking hands with someone fairly soon after.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Why do you refer to the priest like that? That's very dismissive.

Broadly speaking, I have little or no respect for those who choose to perpetuate organised religion.

I'm not religious but that right there is a disgusting vile comment about a elderly man who died a most awful death trying to bring comfort to people when it he didn't have to risk himself.
Sometimes reading shite like this makes me think that if Ebola or whatever wipes us all out is it really any loss when we have a world of people that think like this

Well there you go, you don't think it would be any loss if people like me were wiped out by ebola yet you think what I said was disgusting and vile. I think there is a certain irony in that. I never said I was pleased he had died or anything like that, I just used the word "fucking" in one post and then later stated that I do not respect those who devote their lives to perpetuating religion.

 

[bluemoon32]

I'm locking myself in my room wearing a gas mask.

Some people always have to bring sex into a discussion

 

[Blue Hefner]

That will make a huge difference. I wonder at what point they become contagious, is it when they are bleeding and vomiting or is it as soon as they get the raised temperature which I assume is an early symptom? "When a person has symptoms" is quite vague in that sense. Also, how quickly does the illness progress? I suppose that will dictate how long you can wander about coughing in people's faces before you aren't physically capable of mingling in society.

How many people cough in other people's face on a daily basis, I'm not being flippent just asking if that is a geunine issue to worry about

Can it be caught threw coughing or sneezing?

The majority of cases have come from people having contact with the dead or being in contact with vomit, blood etc

Alright then coughing in their hand and then shaking hands with someone fairly soon after.

According to a 2007 article in The Journal of Infectious Desease, the risk of causal contact with skin, such as shaking hands is 'likely to be low'

 

[Lancet Fluke]

How many people cough in other people's face on a daily basis, I'm not being flippent just asking if that is a geunine issue to worry about

Can it be caught threw coughing or sneezing?

The majority of cases have come from people having contact with the dead or being in contact with vomit, blood etc

Alright then coughing in their hand and then shaking hands with someone fairly soon after.

According to a 2007 article in The Journal of Infectious Desease, the risk of causal contact with skin, such as shaking hands is 'likely to be low'

Quantify "likely to be low".

 

[Blue Hefner]

Alright then coughing in their hand and then shaking hands with someone fairly soon after.

According to a 2007 article in The Journal of Infectious Desease, the risk of causal contact with skin, such as shaking hands is 'likely to be low'

Quantify "likely to be low".

I am by no means an aurthoriy on the subject but imagine it means unless there they are heavily infected you won't catch it.

Which brings me back to my orignal point that anyone who is heavily infected ie bleeding, vomitting etc is unlikely to be walking round shaking hands with people.

'Wet and bigger droplets from a heavily infected individual, whi has respiratory symptoms caused by other conditions o who vomits violently,could transmit the virus over a short distance, to another nearby person' WHO website

I'm at work so can't, unfortunalty spend he day discussing this but will pop back to the thread from time to time. But 5Live have had good people on discussing it and the WHO website seems a good place for faq

 

[Lancet Fluke]

According to a 2007 article in The Journal of Infectious Desease, the risk of causal contact with skin, such as shaking hands is 'likely to be low'

Quantify "likely to be low".

I am by no means an aurthoriy on the subject but imagine it means unless there they are heavily infected you won't catch it.

Which brings me back to my orignal point that anyone who is heavily infected ie bleeding, vomitting etc is unlikely to be walking round shaking hands with people.

'Wet and bigger droplets from a heavily infected individual, whi has respiratory symptoms caused by other conditions o who vomits violently,could transmit the virus over a short distance, to another nearby person' WHO website

I'm at work so can't, unfortunalty spend he day discussing this but will pop back to the thread from time to time. But 5Live have had good people on discussing it and the WHO website seems a good place for faq

Well they also said there was pretty much zero risk of the people who were treating the patients who had been flown back from Africa catching it. That has turned out to be an optimistic view of things. I wouldn't be happy shaking the hand of someone who had a low grade fever and was suspected of having Ebola even if the chances of transmission are "likely to be low".

 

[Blue Hefner]

Quantify "likely to be low".

I am by no means an aurthoriy on the subject but imagine it means unless there they are heavily infected you won't catch it.

Which brings me back to my orignal point that anyone who is heavily infected ie bleeding, vomitting etc is unlikely to be walking round shaking hands with people.

'Wet and bigger droplets from a heavily infected individual, whi has respiratory symptoms caused by other conditions o who vomits violently,could transmit the virus over a short distance, to another nearby person' WHO website

I'm at work so can't, unfortunalty spend he day discussing this but will pop back to the thread from time to time. But 5Live have had good people on discussing it and the WHO website seems a good place for faq

Well they also said there was pretty much zero risk of the people who were treating the patients who had been flown back from Africa catching it. That has turned out to be an optimistic view of things. I wouldn't be happy shaking the hand of someone who had a low grade fever and was suspected of having Ebola even if the chances of transmission are "likely to be low".

The risks of transmition to europe would have been zero if the nurse had correct ppe and/or followed protacol.

I don't know enough about the American chap to comment on how he caught it