Ebola scaremongering?

My first thought on the announcement:

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How exactly do the workers fully protect themselves from contamination, for example, the virus can be passed through saliva/fluids, so say a worker was wearing the full protective suit(as the would be) and a patient coughs up all over the suit, well when the take the suit off how do the safeguard against contamination, you ma say it's washed down, maybe in chlorine or something but do they even have the capability of doing such a thing out there, obviously they have to put the suit back on again so any miniscule trace of fluid could infect them.

Same as for if patient even touches something, chair, bed etc, how do they sterilise the place?

Must be walking into Chernobyl. Actually I really could get interested in this field, wish I studied Virology.
 
I imagine the process of decon is incredibly well rehearsed. It's probably a shower type affair with something rather nasty to remove/kill contaminates.

I'm fairly sure chlorine would kill ebola as such they could reuse the chlorine each time they shower. Wouldn't be too hard to get enough of the stuff transported over with the doctors.
 
jsmoke said:
How exactly do the workers fully protect themselves from contamination, for example, the virus can be passed through saliva/fluids, so say a worker was wearing the full protective suit(as the would be) and a patient coughs up all over the suit, well when the take the suit off how do the safeguard against contamination, you ma say it's washed down, maybe in chlorine or something but do they even have the capability of doing such a thing out there, obviously they have to put the suit back on again so any miniscule trace of fluid could infect them.

Same as for if patient even touches something, chair, bed etc, how do they sterilise the place?

Must be walking into Chernobyl. Actually I really could get interested in this field, wish I studied Virology.
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It's like anything, They don't have the money to buy this level of care for people, that is why it's getting out of control over there, if it was in a first world country they would de-contaminate before removing the suit etc, and actually work in CLEAN hospitals
 
“Like most matters involving an Ebola epidemic, chronicling its first horrifying infection is not an easy endeavor,” McCoy sighs.

It is easy, Terence. Just read the CDC’s Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Information Packet which says that Ebola comes from hospitals and vaccinations in most cases.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/Fact_Sheets/Ebola_Fact_Booklet.pdf

The CDC Ebola fact sheet admits on the very first page that clinics and hospitals are “frequently” the places of Ebola outbreaks.
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It's just flawed. CDC fact sheet doesn't say that. It says that hospital transmission happens frequently during an outbreak. Ie it's transmitted in hospitals not that it started there. It says the poor safety features of African hospitals helps spread it.

Also there aren't any vaccines for ebola so I don't understand how that factors.

The CDC fact sheet also states that the first ever Ebola deaths in 1976 were caused by ” …(close personal contact and by use of contaminated needles and syringes in) hospitals/clinics” .
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It doesn't say anything of the sort.
 
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