BREAKING: NBC Cameraman Has Ebola

Your nose is an orifice, as is your mouth.

Ebola may not make you sneeze but what happens if someone with Ebola sneezes?

I don't feel bad for him.

All Non-Essential travel to these parts is supposed to be stopped. Selling a story is not essential. Why don't you just get an aid worker to blog about it instead of getting untrained non-medical personal to walk around with a bunch of equipment getting in people's faces.

viral pathology wrote:

Your nose is an orifice, as is your mouth.

Ebola may not make you sneeze but what happens if someone with Ebola sneezes?

Then you could potentially get sick. No one is denying that you can't get sick from being near someone infected, that's why you quarantine anyone who has had close contact.

However, flu like contagiousness is not a concern for the reasons I stated before.

People with the cold or flu walk around sneezing and coughing everywhere. People with ebola are not.

As far as the virus developing the ability the transmit itself more efficiently via the air, the number of mutations required is large, and the chance of that happening is small. Even smaller is the chance of that happening while still retaining its other properties. Remember, not all mutations are going to make it more dangerous, it's just as likely that it mutates to become less infectious. Mutation is a random occurrence.

markschultz25 wrote:

it takes time, and there are different strains. i dont think you can sa y "what has stopped it before" is going to work when the virus is probably already in a state of mutatiing.

Have you ever taken any classes in the biological sciences?

I'm curious wrote:

markschultz25 wrote:

it takes time, and there are different strains. i dont think you can sa y "what has stopped it before" is going to work when the virus is probably already in a state of mutatiing.

Have you ever taken any classes in the biological sciences?

Obviously not.

So of the five known Ebola type viruses, what makes them different?

Common ancestry?

What makes one suddenly appear (to our knowledge) and jump to humans?

The Bungibiyo virus first appeared in 2007.

You have to wonder why WHO stumbles around trying to figure these things out. Didn't they take Biology classes and therefore have all the answers?

viral pathology wrote:

So of the five known Ebola type viruses, what makes them different?

Common ancestry?

What makes one suddenly appear (to our knowledge) and jump to humans?

The Bungibiyo virus first appeared in 2007.

You have to wonder why WHO stumbles around trying to figure these things out. Didn't they take Biology classes and therefore have all the answers?

No one is saying that we have all the answers. However, the world follows certain natural laws, and we can use these laws to predict what might happen. There is a reason that people aren't afraid of Hep C or HIV becoming airborne.

It's not that people don't understand biology, or natural laws. It's that people don't trust the government, the CDC, or medical "experts" to tell the truth.

These days we tend to treat illnesses and such like civil rights cases instead of dangerous diseases. In the effort to appear "enlightened" we welcome people carrying diseases into our country and endanger US citizens.

GottaSayIt wrote:

It's not that people don't understand biology, or natural laws. It's that people don't trust the government, the CDC, or medical "experts" to tell the truth.

These days we tend to treat illnesses and such like civil rights cases instead of dangerous diseases. In the effort to appear "enlightened" we welcome people carrying diseases into our country and endanger US citizens.

That's a whole different issue. I'm only talking about the concern of the disease becoming airborne.

That said, all of this uproar is because ebola is "scary." There are way more dangerous, contagious, diseases that people carry and no one cares.

Hey, when they cancel major marathons because this thing has gotten outta hand (you know, as a safety precaution since its now here already), THEN, just MAYBE, runneers on here won't be so lackadaiscal and dismissive of the threat ebola poses.

I feel the same way about liberals in San Francisco. Let it popup there, and lets see if they're singing the same tune.

EVERYBODY PANIC!! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

Cancel major marathons? When did that happen?

No Way wrote:

That said, all of this uproar is because ebola is "scary." There are way more dangerous, contagious, diseases that people carry and no one cares.

The population of Liberia is 4 million, and only a few thousand have been infected so far.

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listen to the epidemiologist.

viral pathology wrote:

So of the five known Ebola type viruses, what makes them different?

Common ancestry?

They have the common ancestry of being injected from needles.

But the number of people infected is growing at an exponential rate, which makes it scary. Last time, Ebola was confined to small villages, and now it's in major population centres.

So are we going to quarantine that region or not?

Another potential case popped up at Howard University Medical Center in DC.

This is like Stephen King's "The Stand".

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, in case we don't all make it.

You want to quarantine 3+ countries?

Huh???!!!??? wrote:

This is like Stephen King's "The Stand".

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