Originally Posted by
MiraculousM
This is only the case if someone doesnt have ANYTHING wrong with them. You do not know if the "vomitter" had anything wrong with them. What if they had HIV? Or Hep B? or even noro virus? Yes, this is not in hospital conditions but as noone has the medical history of the person who vomitted, there is a huge biohazard risk.
sorry but not knowing what caused the person to vomit doesn’t mean that it is high risk. HIV and Heoatitis B are both blood borne virus, you can’t catch either from being near, touching or inhaling vomit.
Sorry but it does really annoy me when someone adds to the stigma of HIV in-necessarily. It is a treatable chronic condition. If the person is on treatment and their viral load is undetectable, there is ZERO risk of transmission (U=U). Even if the person has a high viral load and you have blood to blood contact, the risk is still low, even if someone was sharing needles with someone who is HIV positive the risk of transmission is low. Most people with HIV diagnosed early due of unrelated medical problems in old age.
Meanwhile back to vomit as I said. It is a low but not zero risk. And this is the case not knowing for certain what caused the person to vomit and contrary to what you have stated, if the person had nothing wrong with them then the risk of infectious disease would be zero.
Originally Posted by
snaxmuppet
As someone who has taken many cruises I know that in the case of norovirus if someone vomits near you then move away... far away! The virus can be spread in the micro-droplets from the vomit so it is airborne. You really don't want to be nearby. I realise that in a plane environment it is sometimes unavoidable but if someone throws up it might not be because of airsickness... they may be ill in other, more serious, more contagious ways. I treat all vomit as a biohazard!
it can cause micro-droplets and travel, but they still have to get into your mouth, so touching the droplets then putting your fingers in your mouth or eating food/drink that has been contaminated. This is why you should wash your hands before eating (a practice which for some reason people seam reluctant to do in the air).
as I said it is a Low risk which should be taken seriously but equally shouldn’t be exaggerated (I for one wouldn’t want a plane to have to divert every time someone vomits onboard for example as some here seam to be advocating).