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originally posted by: 727Sky
a reply to: Wrabbit2000
Yep the CDC and others have very defined answers to whether something is airborne. Myself I would not want to be sat next to someone who is infectious that might sneeze or cough and I end up breathing some of their air.... or get splattered with their cough or sneeze.. No expert but just common sense IMO... Which seems to be lacking by those who insist it cannot be transmitted airborne.. If you can get it by just touching someone then no doubt in my mind you can get it from exhaled/hurled moisture from someone infectious.
originally posted by: GogoVicMorrow
a reply to: grandmakdw
Yeah, you could catch it that way, but that's still not technically airborne.
originally posted by: cloaked4u
a reply to: grandmakdw
Dude, if that story is true then everyone on the plane got it. WHY Because the planes air system is shared and blown thruout the plane. All of those people on that plane would of gotten sick or got ill depending on a persons immune systems. Every one of them would of got what the kid had. Did you ever ask or know how many people 3 to 4 days later became ill. NO# 1 cause for vacationers on planes who later get ill on vacation. Sick people on planes going home. Same thing goes with children in school. Usually the person sitting next to a person who is caughing and sneezing transferes that on to the other people around them and children are usually the ones who don't wash hands and spread that mucus on door handles all over the place causing YOU, who touch such things without knowing, to get sick. Anything the kid touched that day when he she was sick. Then your child brings that home to your house. Then YOU, and your family get sick. GERMS are everywhere in your environment. Go to the mall and touch every handle, then ich the inside of your nose. BINGO, you get sick.
Dude, if that story is true then everyone on the plane got it. WHY Because the planes air system is shared and blown thruout the plane.
We believe that at present no suitable outgroup sequences to root the EBOV phylogeny exist and that a temporal rooting gives the most consistent results.
This approach indicates that the outbreak in Guinea is likely caused by a Zaire ebolavirus lineage that has spread from Central Africa into Guinea and West Africa in recent decades, and does not represent the emergence of a divergent and endemic virus.
As the GP sequences show, without more diverse sequences, especially those from the animal reservoir, it is difficult to narrow down the estimates of when and through what means the Central African EBOV lineage has been introduced into West Africa.
Using data from two epidemics [in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1995 and in Uganda in 2000], we built a mathematical model for the spread of Ebola haemorrhagic fever epidemics taking into account transmission in different epidemiological settings. We estimated the basic reproduction number (R0) to be 2·7 (95% CI 1·9–2·8) for the 1995 epidemic in DRC, and 2·7 (95% CI 2·5–4·1) for the 2000 epidemic in Uganda.
Epidemiological modelling based on the data from previous EBOV outbreaks has produced a basic reproduction number (R0) of 2·7 with a 95% confidence range of 1.9 to 4.1 (Legrand et al., 2007). This R0 is comparable to influenza (Mills et al., 2004) and would seem to be comfortably within the range required to generate an EVD pandemic. In answer to the question of why this has not already occurred in human history, perhaps the most persuasive response is that EVD very fortunately only emerged into human populations around the time of its discovery in the mid-1970s (Walsh et al., 2005), by which time we were fairly equipped to deal with it in remote low population density settings. Whether we can contain it within a large city, should the necessity to do so arise, remains to be seen.
Overall, Ebola virus socio-ecology systems have shown to be linked by direct and indirect transmission through contact with objects from patients. For example, the blood or secretions of an infected person or objects that have been contaminated with infected secretions can reach humans from a variety of hosts/sources
Case identification and detection, contact tracing and patient clinical assessment and management are not the object of this Guidance document and instructions can be found elsewhere.1, 2 However, regarding IPC measures to be implemented during interviews for contact tracing and case finding in the community, the following principles should be kept in mind: 1) shaking hands should be avoided; 2) a distance of more than one metre (about 3 feet) should be maintained between interviewer and interviewee; 3) PPE is not required if this distance is assured and when interviewing asymptomatic individuals (e.g., neither fever, nor diarrhoea, bleeding or vomiting) and provided there will be no contact with the environment, potentially contaminated with a possible/probable case; 4) it is advisable to provide workers undertaking contact tracing and case finding in the community with alcohol-based hand rub solutions and instructions to appropriately perform hand hygiene.
Infection, although occurring indirectly through body fluids, is strongly suspected to occur through airborne as well as skin contact transmission.
originally posted by: tinker9917
Who says it has not mutated and is not about to become the new "Black Plague"
originally posted by: 727Sky
a reply to: Wrabbit2000
Yep the CDC and others have very defined answers to whether something is airborne. Myself I would not want to be sat next to someone who is infectious that might sneeze or cough and I end up breathing some of their air.... or get splattered with their cough or sneeze.. No expert but just common sense IMO... Which seems to be lacking by those who insist it cannot be transmitted airborne.. If you can get it by just touching someone then no doubt in my mind you can get it from exhaled/hurled moisture from someone infectious.