American doctor in Liberia tests positive for Ebola virus

[animlzrule]

Ebola discoverer says would sit next to victim on train:

The scientist who helped discover the Ebola virus said the outbreak in west Africa was unlikely to trigger a major epidemic outside the region, adding he would happily sit next to an infected person on a train.

Even if someone carrying Ebola were to fly to Europe, the United States or another part of Africa, "I don't think that will give rise to a major epidemic," he told AFP in an interview on Wednesday.

"Spreading in the population here, I'm not that worried about it," he said.

More at link: http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-discoverer-says-sit-next-victim-train-031225174.html

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[jjenny]

Ebola discoverer says would sit next to victim on train:

The scientist who helped discover the Ebola virus said the outbreak in west Africa was unlikely to trigger a major epidemic outside the region, adding he would happily sit next to an infected person on a train.

Even if someone carrying Ebola were to fly to Europe, the United States or another part of Africa, "I don't think that will give rise to a major epidemic," he told AFP in an interview on Wednesday.

"Spreading in the population here, I'm not that worried about it," he said.

More at link: http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-discoverer-says-sit-next-victim-train-031225174.html

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It's up to him who he wants to sit next to. I sure as hell wouldn't.
It's obviously more infectious than what he thinks, considering medical professionals who used protective equipment still managed to get it.

 

[Yoda]

Ebola discoverer says would sit next to victim on train:

The scientist who helped discover the Ebola virus said the outbreak in west Africa was unlikely to trigger a major epidemic outside the region, adding he would happily sit next to an infected person on a train.

Even if someone carrying Ebola were to fly to Europe, the United States or another part of Africa, "I don't think that will give rise to a major epidemic," he told AFP in an interview on Wednesday.

"Spreading in the population here, I'm not that worried about it," he said.

More at link: http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-discoverer-says-sit-next-victim-train-031225174.html

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What?? Seriously? Then why are the doctors and nurses wearing hazmat suits?

 

[Yoda]

Good article that tells how this outbreak started.
This concerns me though "Patients are at the most dangerous when Ebola haemorrhagic fever is in its terminal stages, inducing both internal and external bleeding, and profuse vomiting and diarrhoea - all of which contain high concentrations of infectious virus.

Anyone at this stage of the illness is close to death, and probably also too ill to travel, said Bruce Hirsch, an infectious diseases expert at North Shore University Hospital in the United States."



http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-health-ebola-transport-idUSKBN0G011O20140731

 

[FlyerFan28]

No, you aren't alone.
I don't understand why US can't treat these patients in place.

As someone with a pre-existing and low white counts, I think this is the worst idea ever. I'm amazed at what money can buy.

 

[popsicle]

Good article that tells how this outbreak started.
This concerns me though "Patients are at the most dangerous when Ebola haemorrhagic fever is in its terminal stages, inducing both internal and external bleeding, and profuse vomiting and diarrhoea - all of which contain high concentrations of infectious virus.

Anyone at this stage of the illness is close to death, and probably also too ill to travel, said Bruce Hirsch, an infectious diseases expert at North Shore University Hospital in the United States."



http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-health-ebola-transport-idUSKBN0G011O20140731

seems that women wasn't too sick to do all that traveling to see her husband and infect those people. jmo

 

[T4Tide]

What?? Seriously? Then why are the doctors and nurses wearing hazmat suits?

Exactly. Looking like the freakin' people who came to get E.T.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

Ebola is also spread through indirect contact, just like gastroenteritis.... highly communicable.

 

[Yoda]

Exactly. Looking like the freakin' people who came to get E.T.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

Ebola is also spread through indirect contact, just like gastroenteritis.... highly communicable.

hahaha. I just laughed out loud at the E.T. comparison.

 

[LookingHoping]

This was in my email earlier...have to wonder if it will be tested on the two Americans....hopefully the flight crew and medical care folks too.

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...-vaccine-research-for-ebola-hemorrhagic-fever

 

[Yoda]

“We’re trying to figure out what went wrong because he, dr Brantly, was always very careful,” said Tolbert Nyenswah, an assistant health minister in Monrovia.
It is not clear how Dr Brantly became infected as he believes he did not violate any guidelines. “Kent is confident he followed all of the appropriate protocols,” Dr McRay said.

http://www.news.com.au/world/first-...us-for-treatment/story-fndir2ev-1227009414840

 

[jjenny]

Good article that tells how this outbreak started.
This concerns me though "Patients are at the most dangerous when Ebola haemorrhagic fever is in its terminal stages, inducing both internal and external bleeding, and profuse vomiting and diarrhoea - all of which contain high concentrations of infectious virus.

Anyone at this stage of the illness is close to death, and probably also too ill to travel, said Bruce Hirsch, an infectious diseases expert at North Shore University Hospital in the United States."



http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-health-ebola-transport-idUSKBN0G011O20140731

Both of them described as not doing well, so they would be in the most infectious stage right now.

 

[jjenny]

What?? Seriously? Then why are the doctors and nurses wearing hazmat suits?

And numerous health workers, including three doctors, still got it despite the suits. For the guy to claim he would seat next to Ebola patient on the train seems ridiculous.

 

[nightwatch]

Sooo CDC issues travel advisory for West Africa warning about Ebola, but they decide to bring live Ebola patients here to the United States. Hmm...[emoji40]. Jmo


http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/p0731-ebola.html

ciao

 

[HMSHood]

Ebola is spread through contact with bodily fluids? They already showed by doing research in monkeys that it can spread through droplets in the air. So if Ebola patient sneezes or coughs, it appears to me whoever is standing next to that patient could very well get it.
We know the doctors who got this disease were using protective equipment, yet already three doctors got infected and two already died.

I remember reading that Ebola could spread airborne in The Hot Zone.

 

[HMSHood]

Ebola discoverer says would sit next to victim on train:

The scientist who helped discover the Ebola virus said the outbreak in west Africa was unlikely to trigger a major epidemic outside the region, adding he would happily sit next to an infected person on a train.

Even if someone carrying Ebola were to fly to Europe, the United States or another part of Africa, "I don't think that will give rise to a major epidemic," he told AFP in an interview on Wednesday.

"Spreading in the population here, I'm not that worried about it," he said.

More at link: http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-discoverer-says-sit-next-victim-train-031225174.html

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Than why is Ebola a BSL-4 virus? I read about Piot in the book. He is a rather strange person.

 

[T4Tide]

Good article that tells how this outbreak started.
This concerns me though "Patients are at the most dangerous when Ebola haemorrhagic fever is in its terminal stages, inducing both internal and external bleeding, and profuse vomiting and diarrhoea - all of which contain high concentrations of infectious virus.

Anyone at this stage of the illness is close to death, and probably also too ill to travel, said Bruce Hirsch, an infectious diseases expert at North Shore University Hospital in the United States."



http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-health-ebola-transport-idUSKBN0G011O20140731

Yeah....and I'm pretty sure those 5 people in that taxi, who later died, didn't all share body fluids intentionally with that woman.

 

[HMSHood]

I've been sh** scared of this disease ever since I read this as a kid
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone

I read that book too. Scary, especially the first part.

 

[HMSHood]

Good article that tells how this outbreak started.
This concerns me though "Patients are at the most dangerous when Ebola haemorrhagic fever is in its terminal stages, inducing both internal and external bleeding, and profuse vomiting and diarrhoea - all of which contain high concentrations of infectious virus.

Anyone at this stage of the illness is close to death, and probably also too ill to travel, said Bruce Hirsch, an infectious diseases expert at North Shore University Hospital in the United States."



http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-health-ebola-transport-idUSKBN0G011O20140731

The spread of this outbreak from Guinea to Liberia in March shows how tracing even the most routine aspects of peoples' lives, relationships and reactions will be vital to containing Ebola's spread.

Epidemiologists and virus experts believe the original case in that instance to have been a woman who went to a market in Guinea and then returned, unwell, to her home village in neighbouring northern Liberia.

The woman's sister cared for her, and in doing so contracted the Ebola virus herself before her sibling died of the haemorrhagic fever it causes.

Looks like this Ebola epidemic started in Liberia/Guinea border. I remember reading that the Liberian Ebola epidemic was not related to the Guinean Ebola epidemic. Looks like it is.

 

[Sigh Sister]

I remember reading that Ebola could spread airborne in The Hot Zone.

If I'm remembering correctly, the particular strain that the monkey's had appeared to be airborne, but it is not the strain we are dealing with now. It was a strain that we have not seen in humans, IIRC.

 

[Elley Mae]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/31/world/africa/ebola-virus-outbreak-qa.html