TSA Agent being watched for Ebola
Oct 21, 2014, 3:04 pm
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Oct 21, 2014, 6:17 pm
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Everyone seems to worried about catching Ebola. They come up with ever more fanciful ways for it to be transmitted, despite the fact that the data suggests that the contact has to be either very significant or very late in the disease's progress for someone to be infected.
Exposure to late stage patients, like a burial party or the two Texas nurses, seems to be extremely dangerous, but living in the same house, like the Duncan friends or children in Africa, seems to have a very low transmission rate.
Oct 21, 2014, 6:43 pm
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One TV program had a tidbit that the Ebola Fear folks need to learn. They said in African villages the cultural practice is for adult relatives to wash and prepare the body for burial. Unprotected contact with deal Ebola victims seems to have a very high infection rate for the burial party. Yet there are many households where parents die from Ebola yet none of the children are infected.
Exposure to late stage patients, like a burial party or the two Texas nurses, seems to be extremely dangerous, but living in the same house, like the Duncan friends or children in Africa, seems to have a very low transmission rate.
Exposure to late stage patients, like a burial party or the two Texas nurses, seems to be extremely dangerous, but living in the same house, like the Duncan friends or children in Africa, seems to have a very low transmission rate.
Oct 21, 2014, 7:41 pm
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A school system in NJ has told 2 kids from Rawanda to stay away from out of fear of Ebola. As most of us here know, Rawanda is far from West Africa and has had no cases of Ebola.
The ignorance of the American public is astounding.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/elementar...s-from-rwanda/
The ignorance of the American public is astounding.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/elementar...s-from-rwanda/
This is just more of the long-running soap opera "Anything For Security: An Abundance of Caution".
For a country that (worn out illustration) put a man on the moon, for a country that has an awful lot of very intelligent people, there's a frightening amount of stupidity sloshing around in the general population and the media.
One TV program had a tidbit that the Ebola Fear folks need to learn. They said in African villages the cultural practice is for adult relatives to wash and prepare the body for burial. Unprotected contact with deal Ebola victims seems to have a very high infection rate for the burial party. Yet there are many households where parents die from Ebola yet none of the children are infected.
Exposure to late stage patients, like a burial party or the two Texas nurses, seems to be extremely dangerous, but living in the same house, like the Duncan friends or children in Africa, seems to have a very low transmission rate.
Exposure to late stage patients, like a burial party or the two Texas nurses, seems to be extremely dangerous, but living in the same house, like the Duncan friends or children in Africa, seems to have a very low transmission rate.