Ebola - Page 12

The Bat problem is not only when they are eaten, but when they leave "whatever" on fruits, wood or other jungle products people later harvest touch or eat... They fly around too (tricky containment problem). Im guessing that as a resevoir species they don't carry as much viral load as sick people do, making that inicial jump the hardest, then wild spread after the first human or primate gets it as the their bodies become ebola factories?

Durring former outbreaks they had had no luck pinpointing the exact animal resevoir ... for sure.

 The literature so far indicates the highest viral load and most dangerous time is after death . Primate or Human Bodies ....
I hope the outbreak ends soon. Will see.

The Swiss had a Ebola survivor ( a vet investigating mass colony ape or monkey death in Africa) and Germany had Marburgvirus.

Can understand the sheer terror which prompts responses about how idiotic people are at not spotting or

handling Ebola correctly to guard against further spread of the disease;  and why some almost 'want' to

believe it has already mutated to become airborne.

But on the plus side, UK has just had a nurse back from working with victims in Sierra Leone, who got

sick himself, and he was repatriated, treated and cured;  he's now well again.   No one who treated him

or came into contact with him here has gone down with it, as far as I know.

As well as slagging off people who don't get it right, I think we should be expressing gratitude to all those

courageous and compassionate people who are working with this awful disease, or continue to research

it in hope of finding a cure,  whether they are local medical staff, international members of MSF and other

NGOs, or volunteers and relatives who aren't necessarily properly trained either, but are just getting on with it.

" and why some almost 'want' to believe it has already mutated to become airborne."

 

They don't seem to want it to become airborne, they seem to think it already has become airborne. And secretly I think they pray for it because to some it is another sign of the bloodmoon end of the world.

I just heard the TV broadcast that the man in Dallas, Sheriff deputy does not have a fever now..FIrst indication , being it is gone, that he is not infected with Ebola. 

We will have to follow this thru and see if they clear him

IT is a new scare people are dealing with...WORKERS walked off jobs at the AIRPORT...THEY say they are not equipped to do the testing and handle someone WHO MAY BE INFECTED..THEY are picketing today.'

People do not want to be sick nor die..

Especially from a disease that is  unknown and is hard to identify where or when you can come in contact with it.

YR

Irrational fear.

Unless you come in direct contact with a body fluid there is no fear to be had. We are now in the 3rd week since Mr Duncan first went to the hospital and NO ONE else is sick to this point.

I don't fear death at all, I don't worry about it. I was once so close to death that it just doesn't scare me. I am more worried about the people around me who count on me to provide than death itself. If I die I die so be it.

Plane cleaners strike at LaGuardia terminal

 

Planes navigate LaGuardia Airport Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

NEW YORK (AP) - Airplane cabin cleaners have set up pickets outside a LaGuardia Airport terminal over health and safety issues.

About 200 Air Serv workers who support domestic flights at Terminal D began a 24-hour strike on Wednesday night.

They say their concerns include possible exposure to Ebola.

The workers, who are seeking to unionize, say they're sometimes exposed to blood and vomit but are not equipped with appropriate protective gear.

They say the number of cabin cleaners per job has been reduced by up to half. They also say the time to clean entire planes has been cut from 45 minutes to as little as 5 minutes.

It wasn't immediately known whether Air Serv was using replacement workers. It didn't immediately return a request for comment.

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told a top-level forum in Washington, D.C., that the Ebola outbreak is unlike anything he’s seen since the AIDS epidemic.

“I would say that in the 30 years I’ve been working in public health, the only thing like this has been AIDS,” Frieden said before the heads of the United Nations, World Bank and International Monetary Fund, according to AFP.

Frieden added: “We have to work now so that it is not the world’s next AIDS.”

RELATED: Poll: 72 Percent Of Americans Very Concerned About U.S. Ebola Outbreak

Frieden’s comments come as the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. died Wednesday despite intense but delayed treatment. The U.S. government also announced it was expanding airport examinations to guard against the spread of the deadly disease.

The checks will include taking the temperatures of hundreds of travelers arriving from West Africa at five major American airports.

The new screenings will begin Saturday at New York’s JFK International Airport and then expand to Washington Dulles and the international airports in Atlanta, Chicago and Newark. An estimated 150 people per day will be checked, using high-tech thermometers that don’t touch the skin.

The White House said the fever checks would reach more than 9 of 10 travelers to the U.S. from the three heaviest-hit countries — Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

President Barack Obama called the measures “really just belt and suspenders” to support protections already in place. Border Patrol agents now look for people who are obviously ill, as do flight crews, and in those cases the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is notified.

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It’s unlikely a fever check would have spotted Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died of Ebola in a Dallas hospital Wednesday morning. Duncan wasn’t yet showing symptoms when he arrived in the U.S.

A delay in diagnosing and treating Duncan, and the infection of a nurse who treated an Ebola patient in Spain, have raised worries about Western nations’ ability to stop the disease that has killed at least 3,800 people in West Africa.

Speaking by teleconference with mayors and local officials, Obama said he was confident the U.S. could prevent an outbreak. But he warned them to be vigilant.

“As we saw in Dallas, we don’t have a lot of margin for error,” Obama said. “If we don’t follow protocols and procedures that are put in place, then we’re putting folks in our communities at risk.”

Health workers are especially vulnerable to Ebola, which isn’t airborne like the flu but is spread by contact with the bodily fluids of infected people.

Around the world, health authorities scrambled to respond to the disease Wednesday:

— In Spain, doctors said they may have figured out how a nurse became the first person infected outside of West Africa in this outbreak. Teresa Romero said she remembered once touching her face with her glove after leaving the quarantine room where an Ebola victim was being treated. Romero’s condition was stable.

—A social media campaign and a protest by Spanish animal rights activists failed to save Romero’s dog, Excalibur. The pet was euthanized under court order out of fear it might harbor the Ebola virus.

— In Sierra Leone, burial teams returned to their work of picking up the bodies of Ebola victims, after a one-day strike to demand overdue hazard pay.

— Health workers in neighboring Liberia also were threatening a strike if their demands for more money and personal protective gear are not met by the end of the week. The average health worker salary is currently below $500 per month, even for the most highly trained staff.

—The World Bank estimated that the economic toll of the largest Ebola outbreak in history could reach $32.6 billion if the disease continues to spread through next year.

In Washington, Secretary of State John Kerry made a plea for more nations to contribute to the effort to stop the disease ravaging West Africa, saying the international effort was $300 million short of what’s needed. He said nations must step up quickly with a wide range of support, from doctors and mobile medical labs to basic humanitarian aid such as food.

As for Duncan, the first victim to die in the U.S., he had shown no symptoms when he left Liberia for the United States but fell ill several days after arriving on Sept. 20.

RELATED: 1st Ebola Patient Diagnosed in the U.S. Dead

His treatment and the effort to isolate anyone exposed to him were delayed because doctors failed to diagnose the disease the first time he showed up at a hospital emergency room with fever and abdominal pain and said he had been in West Africa. The case revealed gaps in the nation’s system for isolating the virus and raised questions about whether he could have been saved if treated sooner. Early detection and treatment are crucial.

“I trust a thorough examination will take place regarding all aspects of his care,” said the woman he had been staying with in Dallas, Louise Troh, the mother of his son.

“His suffering is over,” she said.

In a sign of the unease the disease is causing, a sheriff’s deputy who went into the apartment where Duncan had stayed was hospitalized after feeling ill. Fire Chief Mark Piland in suburban Frisco said the deputy had contact with some members of the family, but health officials said none of the family members had exhibited symptoms and wouldn’t have been contagious.

There are no nonstop flights to the U.S. from the three West African countries affected by the Ebola outbreak. But Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said his department can track passengers whose travel originated in any of the three, regardless of where they connected or if they were traveling on multiple, separate tickets.

Frieden cautioned Americans to expect cases of fever to turn up at airports that wouldn’t be the deadly Ebola virus.

Checks of people in the outbreak zones have found about 1 in 500 show a fever, but none of those so far have been infected with Ebola. Many had malaria, Frieden said.

Liberia’s United Nations peacekeeping mission said Wednesday that an international member of its medical team had contracted Ebola, the second member of the mission to come down with the disease. The first died on Sept. 25.

I wonder why they want to uniounize, I wonder why the time to clean has been cut down to 5 minutes, I wonder why they don't have the proper expensive equipment, maybe it is because whoever owes the airlines isn't making enough money to pay themselves big fat bonuses. Or do you want government intervention, I guess I am not really sure what you are trying to say here.

Another nice fact about Ebola it does have a sexual dimension.

Something to laugh about:::::::

My husband is on his way to Lake Charles for a grandsons football game and visiting relatives.

HE stopped at a long time friend in Vinton, to drop off his Ham Radio equipment and have a visit with them

HE drove up in the driveway and turned off the car. GOT the door open and out came ORIS..and Yelled

stop!!!   He had a THERMOMENTOR in his hand...HE told my husband   "BEND OVER..I want to test you for EBOLA"

YOU came from the Dallas area and I want security in REAR END PROOF..

I laughed just now when he called to tell me HE got his EBOLA Certificate!

This friend always has jokes and keeps him on his toes.

YR

Stupid people just amaze me.

 

This Is What Happens When You Joke About Having Ebola On An Airplane

A U.S. Airways flight from Philadelphia to Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, was held after landing yesterday when a passenger made a joke about having been to Africa, and informing his fellow passengers that he had Ebola. This prompted a squad of hazmat-clad officials to remove the man from the plane. He tested negative for Ebola, and has never been to Africa.