PANIC!!!
Seriously though, I’m very curious to see just what type of “close personal contact” a news cameraman had with an obviously symptomatic person. Perhaps he developed a taste for fruit bat?
http://www.nbcnews.com/...gnosed-ebola-n217271
Beginning to get the feeling the CDC is giving us the Bagdad Bob treatment on the matter.
PANIC!!!
Seriously though, I’m very curious to see just what type of “close personal contact” a news cameraman had with an obviously symptomatic person. Perhaps he developed a taste for fruit bat?
http://www.nbcnews.com/...gnosed-ebola-n217271
Beginning to get the feeling the CDC is giving us the Bagdad Bob treatment on the matter.
He came down with it the day after he was hired and it sounds like he has been in the country and involved there for a while in other capacities, so probably not the case that he got it just standing off from everybody and shooting footage.
Aside from his presence in a hot zone, I have no idea how he got infected and neither do you. He’s an American writer and photo journalist, not a doctor or aid worker. He was there specifically to cover Ebola. One could assume that someone in such a profession would have enough knowledge to take at least basic precautions and avoid close personal contact with feverish persons, but perhaps (maybe obviously) not.
Should it be as difficult to contract as we’ve been told, pinpointing the method of infection should be relatively straight forward; i.e., he picked his nose immediately after helping a patient put in their contact lenses. I remain curious about his particular mode of infection.
He should be treated outside of this country. He went there knowing the risk now he should pay the price.
He should be treated outside of this country. He went there knowing the risk now he should pay the price.
It is interesting that he left the country and came here right after all of this happened, apparently he left his job in a lurch, just walked off the job to leave for the US.
PANIC!!!
Seriously though, I’m very curious to see just what type of “close personal contact” a news cameraman had with an obviously symptomatic person. Perhaps he developed a taste for fruit bat?
http://www.nbcnews.com/...gnosed-ebola-n217271
Beginning to get the feeling the CDC is giving us the Bagdad Bob treatment on the matter.
I found it curious that they left out how he may have contrated the disease, and didn’t even mention that it was under investigation or anything. That’s a pretty important part of the the story.
Update: According to his Mother, “At one point he was trying to help decontaminate a car. He had most of the protective gear on, but he thinks something might have splashed on his body at that point. That’s one possibility, but really, one doesn’t know fully,”.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/03/nbc-news-cameraman-from-providence-diagnosed-with-ebola/
Pretty sure if I’m busy decontaminating a car covered in the Ebolas (while wearing less than full hazmat gear) and “something” splashes on my body, I’m immediately washing myself like Meryl Streep in Silkwood.
Pretty sure if I’m busy decontaminating a car covered in the Ebolas (while wearing less than full hazmat gear) and “something” splashes on my body, I’m immediately washing myself like Meryl Streep in Silkwood.
Pretty sure if I’m busy decontaminating a car covered in the Ebolas, I’m not going to only be wearing “most of the protective gear.”
But, his Mom said he was smart.
Pretty sure if I’m busy decontaminating a car covered in the Ebolas (while wearing less than full hazmat gear) and “something” splashes on my body, I’m immediately washing myself like Meryl Streep in Silkwood.
Pretty sure if I’m busy decontaminating a car covered in the Ebolas, I’m not going to only be wearing “most of the protective gear.”
Pretty sure if I’m busy decontaminating a car covered in the Ebolas, the process is going to look something like this:
Pretty sure if I’m busy decontaminating a car covered in the Ebolas, the process is going to look something like this:
My thoughts exactly. If someone exploded Ebolas all over my car I’m calling the insurance company and claiming total loss. I just don’t get these people. We have one guy that carried a pregnant women into a house that got contaminated. How’d that happen, well she must have leaked all over him…oh god I have a fever…I’m sure a bit of omixicilin will make me feel all better. Hey someone exploded ebolas all over my car, I think I’ll just tidy up a bit with a wet one. Really people!?
~Matt
I was just on CNN’s website and the Live-feed was showing twitter questions to one of their medical correspondents and the question was(to the effect); If someone sweats on a treadmill, how long will the treadmill be contaminated with Ebola?
Just one more reason I need to stop training.
I think that it has a lot to do with other parts of the world simply being desensitized to these kinds of things. Hundreds of people drop dead in west Africa every day from all sorts of crap - whether it’s biological, environmental, or simply circumstantial.
I liken it to the phases of newborn parenting. At first, you sterilize everything, and wipe down any surface or material that may have come into contact with your child’s bodily expulsions. After a year in the trenches, the simple fact that you don’t have recognizable feces, urine, or vomit on any part of your clothing, skin, or furniture is a pretty big win. There’s a 99% chance that it’s still there, but you become desensitized to the things around you.
I think that it has a lot to do with other parts of the world simply being desensitized to these kinds of things.
Yeah, but both of these people are from the US. I also think that in both cases they were there for a long period of time, not sure on that though. While I might expect that from an African citizen that lives there, I would not expect it from an American citizen that lives here and is just there to film for the news.
~Matt
I was just on CNN’s website and the Live-feed was showing twitter questions to one of their medical correspondents and the question was(to the effect); If someone sweats on a treadmill, how long will the treadmill be contaminated with Ebola?
I’d like to find out if Ebola is more or less “Infectious” then HIV. IOW how easily, once you’ve come in contact with it under the same conditions, can you actually get it.
Apparently HIV lasts longer outside the body then does the Ebola. I also don’t know if sweat can transfer these diseases. If the guy vomits or snots or spits it will.
~Matt
Just one more reason I need to stop training.
Oh and training weakens your immune system. So if you’re doing a hard workout day after day and you end up on the Ebolas infected treadmill you’re going to die. The fat dude that is doing his monthly TM walk next to you on the same Ebolas infected machine is going to live 
~Matt
Nah bra, much easier than that… Picked his nose after touching a vinyl sofa where an infected person had sat where that infected person merely left a few droplets of sweat.
Take a look at these videos. I found them on another forum.
There is no way in hell I would be over there and getting this close to sick folks. I am amazed that one second I am being told don’t worry it is hard to get, and then I am being told it is transmissible through sweat. I am pretty convinced we are all going to die.
I was hoping these would embed so you could see the thumbnail/preview… I have no idea what I am doing.
One shows people of Liberia in denial that the outbreak exists and they are not changing their behaviors (eating bush meat).
The other shows a group of reporters among the sick and their families.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XasTcDsDfMg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4AZidJ36nA0
Bad, yes. Precaution, yes. However remember the bird flu a few years ago?
This makes good news.
Enterovirus - this is scary being close to home and it is our sons and daughters at risk Again in the news big time, is it similar virus that has been around but not tested and report as such?
Beginning to get the feeling the CDC is giving us the Bagdad Bob treatment on the matter.
This is the most transparent administration ever and I found these right here on the net so it has to be true, cause, I heard (on the internet) that you can’t lie on the internet.