Is the coming winter a good thing? Would that help stop the spread?
Seeing as how illnesses generally spread like wildfire during the winter as people are inside breathing the same air, as well as being in school, I doubt it.
So what if a dog walks through the vomit and then gets his vomity paws on a couch and then the dogs owner drops a French fry on the couch an hour later and eats it
The incubation period is what scares me. 2-21 days for symptoms to appear.
The good news is that I think there will be a vaccine readily available soon.
I'll try to find the article, but I remember reading that ebola isn't truly contagious until symptoms appear. Unlike the flu, ebola becomes more and more contagious the closer the person who has it is to death. Makes some sense in that it's passed by bodily fluid and a symptom is bleeding everywhere. I think with that, this will be stopped relatively quickly in the USA. Quarantine people that have symptoms and eventually it'll be gone. like I said, I'll try to find that article, but I'm sure that if you google it, you'll find the symptoms are required for contagion.
The incubation period is what scares me. 2-21 days for symptoms to appear.
The good news is that I think there will be a vaccine readily available soon.
I'll try to find the article, but I remember reading that ebola isn't truly contagious until symptoms appear. Unlike the flu, ebola becomes more and more contagious the closer the person who has it is to death. Makes some sense in that it's passed by bodily fluid and a symptom is bleeding everywhere. I think with that, this will be stopped relatively quickly in the USA. Quarantine people that have symptoms and eventually it'll be gone. like I said, I'll try to find that article, but I'm sure that if you google it, you'll find the symptoms are required for contagion.
I know it's not contagious until symptoms appear. The incubation period is a concern for me because someone might contract the virus and be able to freely travel for up to 3 weeks before symptoms appear. All of a sudden someone is an Ebola fountain in a previously uninfected area.
The incubation period is what scares me. 2-21 days for symptoms to appear.
The good news is that I think there will be a vaccine readily available soon.
I'll try to find the article, but I remember reading that ebola isn't truly contagious until symptoms appear. Unlike the flu, ebola becomes more and more contagious the closer the person who has it is to death. Makes some sense in that it's passed by bodily fluid and a symptom is bleeding everywhere. I think with that, this will be stopped relatively quickly in the USA. Quarantine people that have symptoms and eventually it'll be gone. like I said, I'll try to find that article, but I'm sure that if you google it, you'll find the symptoms are required for contagion.
I know it's not contagious until symptoms appear. The incubation period is a concern for me because someone might contract the virus and be able to freely travel for up to 3 weeks before symptoms appear. All of a sudden someone is an Ebola fountain in a previously uninfected area.
That's what made me so successful at Plague, Inc. Contagious before symptoms. No symptoms until the majority of the world is infected. Quite frankly this "not contagious until symptoms appear" business makes Ebola seem like amateur hour.
When I went to boot camp we weren't allowed to touch our face. Sounds weird, but whatever. I'm sure I still did a few times a day, but my complexion was amazing when I graduated. It went right back to **** a few weeks later.
I know it's not contagious until symptoms appear. The incubation period is a concern for me because someone might contract the virus and be able to freely travel for up to 3 weeks before symptoms appear. All of a sudden someone is an Ebola fountain in a previously uninfected area.
It doesn't matter how much traveling they do before symptoms appear, Ebola isn't contagious until the patient is symptomatic. It's not like they would depositing little Ebola bombs all around the country.
I know it's not contagious until symptoms appear. The incubation period is a concern for me because someone might contract the virus and be able to freely travel for up to 3 weeks before symptoms appear. All of a sudden someone is an Ebola fountain in a previously uninfected area.
It doesn't matter how much traveling they do before symptoms appear, Ebola isn't contagious until the patient is symptomatic. It's not like they would depositing little Ebola bombs all around the country.
Correct. They could become contagious after travelling therefore spreading it to somewhere else, i.e. wherever they are when symptoms appear.
It sounds like Texas isn't doing anything right to prevent outbreak in dallas. the guy was sick in an apartment complex for two days and it doesn't sound like they've gone through the sterilization process of the building.
Him and the crew are coming back to America. You do know that there is little chance of this disease spreading in the US right?
Yes I do but why not take every precaution? Treat him over there and then he can come home. I'm sure we are doing EVERYTHING we can here at home to make sure it doesn't spread...
Troy Loney wrote:
It sounds like Texas isn't doing anything right to prevent outbreak in dallas. the guy was sick in an apartment complex for two days and it doesn't sound like they've gone through the sterilization process of the building.
I don't think they'd fly him back if they were capable of giving him the requisite treatment over there....hence the epidemic that is taking place in Liberia.
I heard a little bit more from the Texas situation. Sounds like after a shaky start, the top disease prevention crews have arrived and are doing the requisite steps to prevent outbreak. Essentially all it requires is to map out all the potential encounters, map the contact with the initial contacts, and monitor all of those people. Just checking in twice daily with those people for 21 days to see if they show symptoms.
If Nigeria could prevent an outbreak, i'm sure Texas can.
