Can ebola survive in exposed bodies of water.
Can it survive water treatment?
Maybe find out the answers before trying to write the next Tom Clancy novel?
The next Tom Clancy novel? Ebola was already used in executive orders!
When I got my Red Cross firstaid/aed/cpr course they had a specific order and method your supposed to take your gloves off as standard procedure.
I wonder if they teach this in Spain, they should have at least have them do a refresher and make sure they follow the routine before handling ebola patients.
But don't they say it not that easy to get? So if that were really the case how is taking off your suit incorrectly causing someone to get infected?
But don't they say it not that easy to get? So if that were really the case how is taking off your suit incorrectly causing someone to get infected?
Because of you touch the outside of your glove with your skin, then their is a high risk chance you have become infected. The smallest cut on the skin is all it takes, even one that you don't notice. The most dangerous part is the removal of the gloves, and this is often where errors occur. Like the nurse in spain is suspected of brushing her face with her gloves while removing them. The smallest error can lead to infection.
if only you would travel around africa hosting lectures on disease avoidance we could eliminate ont only ebola but also the flu from the entire continent. truly amazingpowers of make believe you've got there.The incubation period can be fairly long but the actual time they can spread it is much shorter and only occurs once symptoms show up. Is it really that difficult for some of you to realize maybe take precautions around sick people? In general, I tend to keep other people's body fluids off/out of me, and if they're visibly sick, that goes orders of magnitude higher. Weirdly I tend to not get sick unless it's because I end up around some asshole that is sick but keeps forcing their presence around other people (and also being asshole like not covering their mouths when they cough or other things to try and limit themselves infecting others).
Do you understand the logistics it would take to do that? Has nothing at all to do with the value of African resources and everything to do with the fact that African countries can't actually accomplish that and trying to do it will likely just lead to worse problems.
Africa does not havethe capability to fight this, that capability will either come from the west or the disease will never be contained. Doctors without borders have been begging for help on this outbreak since DECEMBER and nobody (not the US, not the UN, not the WHO, not european countries) gave a shit about the outbreak... and so it spread and spread.The best thing is to spread knowledge and awareness of the disease, setup treatment facilities, and work to fight the disease head on. Which is exactly what they've been doing.
Because of you touch the outside of your glove with your skin, then their is a high risk chance you have become infected. The smallest cut on the skin is all it takes, even one that you don't notice. The most dangerous part is the removal of the gloves, and this is often where errors occur. Like the nurse in spain is suspected of brushing her face with her gloves while removing them. The smallest error can lead to infection.
Microbiology graduate here. Some facts about Ebola from the Public Health Agency of Canada:
Infectious dose: 1-10 viral particles.
Survival Outside Host: Filoviruses have been reported capable to survive for weeks in blood and can also survive on contaminated surfaces, particularly at low temperatures (4°C).
One study could not recover any Ebolavirus from experimentally contaminated surfaces (plastic, metal or glass) at room temperature.
In another study, Ebolavirus dried onto glass, polymeric silicone rubber, or painted aluminum alloy is able to survive in the dark for several hours under ambient conditions (between 20 and 250C and 3040% relative humidity) (amount of virus reduced to 37% after 15.4 hours), but is less stable than some other viral hemorrhagic fevers (Lassa).
When dried in tissue culture media onto glass and stored at 4 °C, Zaire ebolavirus survived for over 50 days.
A study on transmission of ebolavirus from fomites in an isolation ward concludes that the risk of transmission is low when recommended infection control guidelines for viral hemorrhagic fevers are followed. Infection control protocols included decontamination of floors with 0.5% bleach daily and decontamination of visibly contaminated surfaces with 0.05% bleach as necessary.
Last word: For those who keeps insisting that Ebola isn't highly contagious, including the spokesman for the CDC, there's a reason why we keep it in a BSL-4 lab, there's a reason why healthcare workers show up in a positive pressure suit.
1 to 10 viral particles that lands on your mucous membrane, be it eye, nasal passage, mouth, etc. is all it takes for the virus to multiply out of control and evade the immune system.
My professor once said: "You know you're screwed when the people treating you are in biohazard suits."
Because of you touch the outside of your glove with your skin, then their is a high risk chance you have become infected. The smallest cut on the skin is all it takes, even one that you don't notice. The most dangerous part is the removal of the gloves, and this is often where errors occur. Like the nurse in spain is suspected of brushing her face with her gloves while removing them. The smallest error can lead to infection.
Don't go to Iceland, the huldufólk will just get you. Greenland is safer anyway.
I agree it's highly infectious and I am not a disease expert, but what does it say about contagious?
What I had read was that Ebola is not very contagious when compared to, flu, colds, measles, etc due to that fact that its not airborne, and those who are infected don't shed virus until it's obvious they are infected.
:thumbsup: No real airport and only a seaport with limited routs from northern Europe. Plus ebola is clearly used to warm humid climates so it will be weaker in colder environments until it evolves.
That has been my understanding as well. I think the biggest 'scare' part is that we don't know how to treat ebola as well as the more infectious contagions we are familiar with like diphtheria, whooping cough, measles etc
You can survive ebola in the wild. But the only solution i've seen is when the blood of the survivors are given to those infected. It usually works. However, it's only been done in Africa and as a last resort.
Infectiousness does affect contagiousness. All things equal, the less virions it takes to spread the infection, the more contagious the virus is.I agree it's highly infectious and I am not a disease expert, but what does it say about contagious?
What I had read was that Ebola is not very contagious when compared to, flu, colds, measles, etc due to that fact that its not airborne, and those who are infected don't shed virus until it's obvious they are infected.
Let's face it, while I won't be suprised if at least one of the original patients family members come down with it, we know the nurse was in contact with his bodily fluids.
Microbiology graduate here. Some facts about Ebola from the Public Health Agency of Canada:
Infectious dose: 1-10 viral particles.
Survival Outside Host: Filoviruses have been reported capable to survive for weeks in blood and can also survive on contaminated surfaces, particularly at low temperatures (4°C).
One study could not recover any Ebolavirus from experimentally contaminated surfaces (plastic, metal or glass) at room temperature.
In another study, Ebolavirus dried onto glass, polymeric silicone rubber, or painted aluminum alloy is able to survive in the dark for several hours under ambient conditions (between 20 and 250C and 30–40% relative humidity) (amount of virus reduced to 37% after 15.4 hours), but is less stable than some other viral hemorrhagic fevers (Lassa).
When dried in tissue culture media onto glass and stored at 4 °C, Zaire ebolavirus survived for over 50 days.
A study on transmission of ebolavirus from fomites in an isolation ward concludes that the risk of transmission is low when recommended infection control guidelines for viral hemorrhagic fevers are followed. Infection control protocols included decontamination of floors with 0.5% bleach daily and decontamination of visibly contaminated surfaces with 0.05% bleach as necessary.
Last word: For those who keeps insisting that Ebola isn't highly contagious, including the spokesman for the CDC, there's a reason why we keep it in a BSL-4 lab, there's a reason why healthcare workers show up in a positive pressure suit.
1 to 10 viral particles that lands on your mucous membrane, be it eye, nasal passage, mouth, etc. is all it takes for the virus to multiply out of control and evade the immune system.
My professor once said: "You know you're screwed when the people treating you are in biohazard suits."