Ebola Outbreak

[BlueBearBoots]

The Ebola virus is invisibly small and needs the tiniest amount of fluid to survive in. For those of you who are wondering about this , touch your finger to lips and then touch the surface next to you. If you had Ebola, it could live there for several hours. And anyone who touched that place could catch it by picking their nose or brushing their hand across their mouth at any point during the next day probably - the slight perspiration of skin giving the virus new life.

Hi, quick question whilst you are here could fleas or flies spread the disease?

 

[BigJoe#1]

The Ebola virus is invisibly small and needs the tiniest amount of fluid to survive in. For those of you who are wondering about this , touch your finger to lips and then touch the surface next to you. If you had Ebola, it could live there for several hours. And anyone who touched that place could catch it by picking their nose or brushing their hand across their mouth at any point during the next day probably - the slight perspiration of skin giving the virus new life.

Hi, quick question whilst you are here could fleas or flies spread the disease?

Presumably if they land on said infectious material and then land in someone else and then they..... Hmmm good question BBB.

 

[marco]

The Ebola virus is invisibly small and needs the tiniest amount of fluid to survive in. For those of you who are wondering about this , touch your finger to lips and then touch the surface next to you. If you had Ebola, it could live there for several hours. And anyone who touched that place could catch it by picking their nose or brushing their hand across their mouth at any point during the next day probably - the slight perspiration of skin giving the virus new life.

Hi, quick question whilst you are here could fleas or flies spread the disease?

they say it cant cross species, but they did some research where pigs were involved and they found it in the pork that could get into the food chain

 

[BlueBearBoots]

The Ebola virus is invisibly small and needs the tiniest amount of fluid to survive in. For those of you who are wondering about this , touch your finger to lips and then touch the surface next to you. If you had Ebola, it could live there for several hours. And anyone who touched that place could catch it by picking their nose or brushing their hand across their mouth at any point during the next day probably - the slight perspiration of skin giving the virus new life.

Hi, quick question whilst you are here could fleas or flies spread the disease?

they say it cant cross species, but they did some research where pigs were involved and they found it in the pork that could get into the food chain

The Ebola virus originated in fruit bats which is the natural carrier and humans originally caught it from eating contaminated meat, monkeys I think so it can cross species!!

 

[marco]

Hi, quick question whilst you are here could fleas or flies spread the disease?

they say it cant cross species, but they did some research where pigs were involved and they found it in the pork that could get into the food chain

The Ebola virus originated in fruit bats which is the natural carrier and humans originally caught it from eating contaminated meat, monkeys I think so it can cross species!!

they may have injected it into the pigs for research because there DNA make up is much like a humans, that rings a bell 'the bats' so yes your right it can cross species

 

[mammutly]

The Ebola virus is invisibly small and needs the tiniest amount of fluid to survive in. For those of you who are wondering about this , touch your finger to lips and then touch the surface next to you. If you had Ebola, it could live there for several hours. And anyone who touched that place could catch it by picking their nose or brushing their hand across their mouth at any point during the next day probably - the slight perspiration of skin giving the virus new life.

Hi, quick question whilst you are here could fleas or flies spread the disease?

No. Not in the sense of the flea harbouring the virus in its blood and carrying it to people. Viruses tend to be species specific on the whole. It is possible for an insect or any animal to mechanically transmit bodily fluids between humans, but pretty unlikely.

 

[BlueBearBoots]

The Ebola virus is invisibly small and needs the tiniest amount of fluid to survive in. For those of you who are wondering about this , touch your finger to lips and then touch the surface next to you. If you had Ebola, it could live there for several hours. And anyone who touched that place could catch it by picking their nose or brushing their hand across their mouth at any point during the next day probably - the slight perspiration of skin giving the virus new life.

Hi, quick question whilst you are here could fleas or flies spread the disease?

No. Not in the sense of the flea harbouring the virus in its blood and carrying it to people. Viruses tend to be species specific on the whole. It is possible for an insect or any animal to mechanically transmit bodily fluids between humans, but pretty unlikely.

Hmmm but it came from fruit bats?

 

[mammutly]

Hi, quick question whilst you are here could fleas or flies spread the disease?

No. Not in the sense of the flea harbouring the virus in its blood and carrying it to people. Viruses tend to be species specific on the whole. It is possible for an insect or any animal to mechanically transmit bodily fluids between humans, but pretty unlikely.

Hmmm but it came from fruit bats?

A specific species to species link is possible. Usually, the virus is less harmful to one than the other and the transmission mechanism is pretty hard - like actually eating the host. But in general, a virus is specifically adapted to a one species environment. Ebola couldn't survive in fly blood.

 

[BlueBearBoots]

No. Not in the sense of the flea harbouring the virus in its blood and carrying it to people. Viruses tend to be species specific on the whole. It is possible for an insect or any animal to mechanically transmit bodily fluids between humans, but pretty unlikely.

Hmmm but it came from fruit bats?

A specific species to species link is possible. Usually, the virus is less harmful to one than the other and the transmission mechanism is pretty hard - like actually eating the host. But in general, a virus is specifically adapted to a one species environment. Ebola couldn't survive in fly blood.

Thanks I'm relieved at that and thinking about it it's obvious - lots of flies in Africa so ....

Do think it's time to stop people movement in and out of the affected area though

 

[marco]

Hmmm but it came from fruit bats?

A specific species to species link is possible. Usually, the virus is less harmful to one than the other and the transmission mechanism is pretty hard - like actually eating the host. But in general, a virus is specifically adapted to a one species environment. Ebola couldn't survive in fly blood.

Thanks I'm relieved at that and thinking about it it's obvious - lots of flies in Africa so ....

Do think it's time to stop people movement in and out of the affected area though

i'd be very surprised if there is not a case or two in the UK within the next 3 weeks meaning its already arrived here