October 16, 201411 yr Just so everybody has a little more info on the subject that evidently isn't out in the general public...here you go. COMMENTARY: Health workers need optimal respiratory protection for Ebola | CIDRAP In a nut shell...goggles and face masks aint cutting it. The precautionary principle—that any action designed to reduce risk should not await scientific certainty—compels the use of respiratory protection for a pathogen like Ebola virus that has: •No proven pre- or post-exposure treatment modalities •A high case-fatality rate •Unclear modes of transmission We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks.1
October 16, 201411 yr Aerosol? That's no big deal. It's a sneeze. Same precautions work for an aerosol as spit, blood, etc.. Is that what we are talking about here? I'm not wading thru this whole thing, just curious if that's the confusion. Yes. Good read by BigV below. There is a difference between aerosol and airborne. The thing about the earlier article from CIDRAP is that it wasn't from them, but submitted to them. The researchers are not named in the article and there's clear definition who they are or where they are from. CIDRAP only presented the paper.
October 16, 201411 yr At this point, I'm tired of hearing about it. It's not airborne. Woods is absolutely correct. It's a danger to those in very close proximity it seems but not like it just infects the air everywhere by being exhaled or something. At least that's what I get from the stuff on here.
October 16, 201411 yr From a healthcare worker point of view, aerosol is a big deal, but you can contract a goodly number of viral goodies via aerosol. So that's not a major concern from a public health point of view. Sure, there has to be a different level of protection from Ebola than other viral effectors. However, this means zero with regard to the scare of a pandemic. But control and isolation are key. Traveling to Cleveland ought to be out of the question. Cause Johnny Football could spread this stuff like wildfire up there.
October 16, 201411 yr Its interestering to hear people say Americans were killed by xxxx guns, xxxx falls, xxxx whatever....but only 1 has been killed by Ebola. Who died? No American that I know of. The victim was not American.
October 16, 201411 yr Its interestering to hear people say Americans were killed by xxxx guns, xxxx falls, xxxx whatever....but only 1 has been killed by Ebola. Who died? No American that I know of. The victim was not American. Very true.
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