Possibly, you will stop hearing about it within a year though, as everyone realises the media panic is over hyped...
Ebola scaremongering?
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Possibly, you will stop hearing about it within a year though, as everyone realises the media panic is over hyped...
I believe it can transmit through aerosols over short distances but doesn't cause sneezing/coughing itself, seasonal cold and flu could solve that problem.
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Sorry, misread that post and was like 
Aerosols, must pay more attention...
Aerosols, must pay more attention...
link please?
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I thought that...
So it is not "Scaremongering" but actually for real now.
http://news.sky.com/story/1348716/ebola-outbreak-four-quarantined-in-spain
Sky News are reporting four more people to be quarantined.
Who have those four been in contact with?
Sky News are reporting four more people to be quarantined.
Who have those four been in contact with?
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Thing is that Birdflu happened in a part of the world where people actually listen to medical advice and not think this is some sort of witch craft. When the message got out that you should stay at home and wear masks, people did that, and even NOW it is a practice that everyone in Asia does.
They are not saying that the protective clothing failed. If that is the case then we should see more cases from the other medical professionals who treated the patients, if we do then it was likely the PPE. It is more likely the quarantine procedures, the treatment of the PPE and maybe how they de-robed that caused the infection.
Eh? when was it ever not for real?
Doesn't that just so how idiotic it was to fly that person back to Spain?
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Scaremongering means blowing things out of proportion, but clearly it isn't?
FFS! they are quarantined as a pre-caution. Read the article; over fears that they may have the virus. Yes they likely will have, but they will not be symptomatic. So it does not matter who they have been in contact with at this stage.
The states have done this with the immediate contacts of the man in Dallas as a precaution. This is how you deal with the virus.
Sorry, I had just heard the newsflash on BBC radio at that time, Old Coals has a link now I think.
Agree. From what I know of it. H5N1 is a much bigger worry as it has a much greater potential to jump in its mechanism of action into something horrifying
She fell ill on the 30th September and the incubation period is 8 - 10 days.
I was referring to your statement about the other 4 people and who they may have been in contact with. BBC news this lunchtime seemed to give more details, but it was shy of giving a complete picture. They stated that the 4 other people were in quarantine but initial tests for the virus had come back negative. They must be showing EVD like symptoms though if they are testing them. However the chances that they have passed it to others is unlikely at this stage.
Not in its 'mechanism of action', not sure what you mean by this, but will assume you means a full species jump. H5N1 is already airborne, however we have not seen sustained human to human transmission and hopefully never will. The 'good' thing about H5N1 is that it is fatal to the birds. So you know when you have a case or two. H7N9 however is not so is currently more of a worry as it becomes endemic and undetectable in bird populations unless you carry out blanket testing.
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But remember, according to the forum experts on Ebola, "it's not that contagious".