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The Spanish nurse appears to have contracted the virus by touching her face when removing protective gear after cleaning a patient's room.
Im surprised they dont wear two pair of gloves.
Once something bad happens, you have to rationalize what happened, based on your belief system.
The current belief is that Ebola is not airborne, and that Africa is filled with absolutely fucking retarded health workers who are dying in record numbers.
Bring in the Robots! Surely that's American Kick Ass save the day shit...
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/191619-ebola-killing-robots-now-being-used-in-us-hospitals
Ebola-killing robots now being used in US hospitals
Ebola can kill humans quickly, sometimes just a few days after symptoms appear. Its effect on airplanes however, can be even more infectious. Last night for example, the mere mention of the word after a woman threw up caused American Airlines Flight 2791 to make an emergency landing. Hospitals aren’t messing around either: To combat this new threat some have even introduced a special purpose robot — an Ebolabot if you will — to fight back.
If only hospitals weren't the final resting place of victims who had previously been infected 2 to 24 days prior to their check in.
I don't think Ebola is going to kill everyone, but I think people are absolutely daft to think it is not going to spread to some degree in first world countries. It already has...
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/ebola-u-s-september-study-article-1.1935149
Experts say that there is a 20% chance that Ebola could arrive on U.S. shores by the end of September.
But the U.S.'s robust health care system should be able to stop transmission and manage isolated incidents, researchers wrote in the journal PLOS Currents: Outbreaks.
Looks like they are wrong...
The authors' goal was to calculate where and when Ebola would strike next, using international travel patterns. They predict it will first reach countries in Africa not currently embroiled in the health crisis.
http://time.com/3482193/ebola-cases-8000/
Over 8,000 people in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have been infected with Ebola, according to new data from the World Health Organization (WHO).
The numbers show there were 2,799 new cases in the last 21 days. Of the 8,011 people infected, 3,857 people have died. “The situation in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone continues to deteriorate, with widespread and persistent transmission of [Ebola],†says the WHO in a statement.
See... this sounds reassuring, but I will disseminate it for you.
http://news.discovery.com/human/health/why-ebola-wont-spread-in-the-united-states-141009.htm
1. The virus is not airborne, and there's no evidence that it will get that way. While the current epidemic in West Africa is the most widespread since Ebola was identified in the 1970s, the route of transmission is still through bodily fluids like blood, sweat, urine or vomit. That means you have to have very close contact with an infected person to get the virus. While some people may fear a mutation that will turn it airborne, that scenario would likely happen first in West Africa, Ribner said.
Clearly the Virus is being transmitted at rates which exceed previous Ebola outbreaks. There is something definitively different about this strain.
"We found no virus on surfaces in the room, even in the bathroom or around the bed. Contrast that with West Africa, where there is gross pollution of the entire patient environment."
Because people clean the fucking rooms, non-stop in a hospital environment. Plus, NOBODY is taking every square inch of moisture that is the in the room, off for lab samples. It shouldn't matter anyways if the patients room is polluted, as they specifically claim that it does not spread except by direct contact.
See... you cannot trust anyone. If you see another case in Texas. That's basically game over. I think Britain is in more trouble than Spain or the USA at this point anyways.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2786874/Breaking-news-British-man-dies-suspected-Ebola-Macedonia-UK-victim-virus-killed-thousands.html
Briton dies of suspected Ebola in Macedonia - despite NOT having been to Africa: Armed guards outside hotel after virus 'claims first British victim'
The unnamed man is the first UK victim of Ebola, if disease is confirmed
The epidemic has killed 3,800 and infected at least 8,000 so far
Macedonian authorities confirmed the dead man's nationality this evening
Health officials have also quarantined his friend, who has symptoms
The friend said the two travelled to Skopje directly from Britain
This raises the terrifying prospect that they contracted it in the UK
Paramedics and staff at Skopje hotel where men stayed also in quarantine
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/08/ebola-in-europe-what-went-wrong.html
Her fever was low-grade, just 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit), far enough below the 38.6-degree Ebola red alert temperature to not cause alarm. Her doctor told her to take two aspirin, keep an eye on her fever and keep in touch, according to Spanish press reports quoting Romero’s husband Javier Limón Romero. He says she didn’t initially exhibit any of the other Ebola symptoms: vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, and she certainly didn’t feel sick enough to stay in bed.
Less than a week later, Romero tested positive for the virus – news she learned not from her doctor but from watching a Spanish Europa Press news report on her smartphone from her hospital bed. Her husband and a second nurse’s aide who treated the same Ebola patients were immediately put under quarantine when Romero’s diagnosis was confirmed. Now a third nurse who also worked with the same Ebola patients who infected Romero is exhibiting the same low-grade fever. This time, authorities acted quickly to isolate her. Had they had the same response to Romero’s slight fever, they could have stopped the spread of the deadly virus. Instead, scores of people in Madrid who used the same public transportation, restaurants, and grocery stores as Romero wait anxiously to see if they, too, will get sick.
It is highly likely that Romero will have infected at least one other person, probably her husband, because she was not isolated immediately. Even in African nations with limited resources hardest hit with the epidemic, isolation is well known to be the first line of defense against the virus that has killed more than 3,400 people so far and infected 7,500.
