Quote (Scaly @ Oct 8 2014 04:36pm)
So was Brian.
Yea. People are infectious when they are vomiting. Most people won't be able to drive a truck by the time they are infectious. On the offchance they do the virus would only survive in sweat for a couple of hours maximum. Ebola count in sweat is extremely low compared to other fluids like blood, faeces and vomit. If ebola comes into contact with water then it's survival is cut to mere minutes outside a human host. A 0.05% bleach solution will kill it almost immediately. Given the chlorine cleaning products used in most washrooms it's highly unlikely that the virus would survive for long outside of the host. After you have ebola on your skin it has to enter the body, through a cut or eyes, mouth etc. It can't seep through your skin and unlike bacteria it does not multiply while outside the body - it just dies.
This truckdriver would have had to come into physical contact with an infected person's bodily fluids unknowingly (if he knew he wouldn't be driving a truck while feeling sick he would be under observation by the cdc and quarantined the instant he felt any symptoms), been unlucky enough to catch the virus from that, still be able to drive while experiencing high fever, nausea, diahreea and haemorrhaging, find a washroom which has had no chlorine/bleach cleaning products used on it for the last 24 hours (or longer if it's colder), another person would have to then use that washroom within a couple of hours, not wash their hands and touch the same exact spot he touched and be unlucky to get some of the tiny amount of virus carried in sweat into themselves through a cut, rubbing eyes, licking fingers etc.
As it stands there is little chance for an American to unknowingly come into contact with an infected person in the USA.
This is spot-on. AIDS kills more people daily in the first world than ebola could in a year. Even the flu is more dangerous.
And notice how ebola has been contained to what? Somewhere around four countries? And all four just don't have infrastructure to quarantine an epidemic.
Nigeria IIRC had an outbreak and contained it to less than a dozen people once they found out. It was as simple as washing your hands and bleaching everything.
Ebola is having a mass outbreak in communities that have limited access to fresh water and sanitation methods. These areas have been victims of war and bad weather destroying everything. But having a mass outbreak anywhere else? That's unlikely because ebola isn't airborne.
The panic and cries to shut down air traffic is really silly.
Quote (Skinned @ Oct 9 2014 03:47am)
Only pussy liberals and feminists don't go to work while they're vomiting blood.
You are what you eat
