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Troh’s other daughter, Youngor Jallah, 35, who cared for Duncan before calling the ambulance to get him, was told Sunday by CDC officials that she no longer has to isolate herself and her family.
“They came today to say it is okay if I want to go out,” she said.
But Youngor said she feels that people outside her apartment do not want her to come close.
“This whole Ebola thing — this virus is tearing people apart,” Jallah said. “Since the whole thing occurred, nobody has come to visit.”
originally posted by: adomol
It bothers me that Dr. Frieden tweets out information that can be misleading to people. You can't just say that ebola is not airborne without clarification. All this will do is instill a false sense of security and cause more to be infected.
Simply said, infected individuals who are sneezing and coughing are not safe to be around without proper safe gear. We have all seen the images of people in containment suit or scientists working with the virus wearing negative presure suits.
Airborne vs aerosol has already been discussed in a different thead... www.abovetopsecret.com...... so I won't go into it here.
But for Dr. Frieden to tweet this flyer out is irresponsible to say the least...
And his tweet... Twitter...
This after he said it himself At the CDC press conference from a few days ago, as I have quoted in my signature.
Transcript from the conference here... CDC archive
He needs to step up to the plate and be straight with us or get out and let someone can do the job in... if there is someone.
originally posted by: ValentineWiggin
“This whole Ebola thing — this virus is tearing people apart,” Jallah said. “Since the whole thing occurred, nobody has come to visit.”
We found EBOV to be shed in a wide variety of bodily fluids during the acute phase of illness, including saliva, breast milk, stool, and tears. In most cases, the infected bodily fluid was not visibly contaminated by blood. Of particular concern is the frequent presence of EBOV in saliva early during the course of disease, where it could be transmitted to others through intimate contact and from sharing food, especially given the custom, in many parts of Africa, of eating with the hands from a common plate.
originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
I just called out the BS n the White House's facebook page with the following:
We found EBOV to be shed in a wide variety of bodily fluids during the acute phase of illness, including saliva, breast milk, stool, and tears. In most cases, the infected bodily fluid was not visibly contaminated by blood. Of particular concern is the frequent presence of EBOV in saliva early during the course of disease, where it could be transmitted to others through intimate contact and from sharing food, especially given the custom, in many parts of Africa, of eating with the hands from a common plate.
Assessment of the Risk of Ebola Virus Transmission from Bodily Fluids and Fomites
Except that bbcode doesn't work on facebook and I was unable to emphasize how I would have liked.
Anyway, I think we all need to step up aid to west Africa. We should all donate what we can to charities (a lot of good ones do a google search) and demand more action from our politicians. If we collectively bury our head in the sand and let it mutate out of control, we deserve what's coming. If it's not already too late.