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chollie Oct 21, 2014 2:51 pm
(never mind)

FliesWay2Much Oct 21, 2014 3:04 pm
Originally Posted by UncleDude (Post 23710850)
I recall during the British Mad Cow Scare more Brits died that year from accidents with underwear elastic than Mad Cow Disease.
And any of us who spent more than six months in the UK (like anyone on a military tour) became banned for life from giving blood.

Flaflyer Oct 21, 2014 6:17 pm
Originally Posted by You want to go where? (Post 23704629)
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.
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.

You want to go where? Oct 21, 2014 6:43 pm
Originally Posted by Flaflyer (Post 23713588)
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.
It has been confirmed through empirical data that the dead bodies of victims are teeming with virus. I also understand that the washing of the body includes the cleaning of body cavities. I can't think of any action more likely to ensure infection other than intentionally injecting oneself with virus.

RadioGirl Oct 21, 2014 7:41 pm
Originally Posted by petaluma1 (Post 23710602)
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/
Unfortunately, it's not astounding. :(

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.
Originally Posted by Flaflyer (Post 23713588)
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.
This.


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