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#Ebola is not spread through casual contact or through the air.

— CDC (@CDCgov)

September 30, 2014

#Ebola is spread by direct contact w/bodily fluids of a sick person or exposure to contaminated objects, like needles pic.twitter.com/lVjLoWYBki

— CDC (@CDCgov)

September 30, 2014
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Spit, sweat and snot are on the list which means a cough or sneeze to me. A brush across someone in a crowd? Who the hell would want to be near that crap without protective clothing?

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/west-africa-outbreak-infographic.pdf

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/index.html

When an infection does occur in humans, the virus can be spread in several ways to others. Ebola is spread through direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with

  • blood or body fluids (including but not limited to urine, saliva, feces, vomit, and semen) of a person who is sick with Ebola
  • objects (like needles and syringes) that have been contaminated with the virus
  • infected animals
  • Ebola is not spread through the air or by water, or in general, food. However, in Africa, Ebola may be spread as a result of handling bushmeat (wild animals hunted for food) and contact with infected bats.
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Anyone returning to the US for infected regions should be quarantined for the entirety of the incubation period. Hopefully that is already happening.

The US government should announce that people are surely free to travel to the infected region, but if they want to come back into the US, they must not only be isolated for the 3 week incubation period, but would have to pay the expense of that isolation from their own pocket.

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CNN report this morning is a bit scary ..... A reporter said her group (3 of them) had very little to no security measures applied to them upon their return from Africa even though they said they told people they had been reporting on Ebola..... that is not what the CDC is claiming has been happening security-wise... .

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But that might lead to racial profiling and hurt someone's feelings. Can't have that.

Rick

Anyone returning to the US for infected regions should be quarantined for the entirety of the incubation period. Hopefully that is already happening.

The US government should announce that people are surely free to travel to the infected region, but if they want to come back into the US, they must not only be isolated for the 3 week incubation period, but would have to pay the expense of that isolation from their own pocket.

Look at that guys: Xenophobia spreading faster than the disease itself.

"Sweden eradicates all pigeons"

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Look at that guys: Xenophobia spreading faster than the disease itself.

"Sweden eradicates all pigeons"

Right, because protecting the population from disease is xenophobic.

I guess you didn't put me on ignore after all, eh? Kinda disappointed in you.

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It's more like an STD than a cold, really.

Sweat, Urine, I guess I missed that in sex class what was the std is that easy to spread? Kind of the point STD usually needs some kind of sexual contact to spread. This disease doesn't need sexual contact at all.

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Mckinney was just named #1 city in the country to live in. Ebola moves in to North Texas. Coincidence, I don't think so.

Welcome Ebola.

Apparently, this thread doesn't have a "Mark Solved" option.

But, everyone should consider the issue resolved. Thread winner.

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They really need to screen these peeps who go to africa and come back into the country.

There's plenty of traffic between Europe and Africa including most of my family members that do business and travel back and forth between those two places. These are very isolated cases and not a big deal. People are freaking out for no reason.

Of course this is not to say that people should be wreckless and not do the necessary care needed to travel there in terms of the vaccines/shots etc but Africa isn't totally like what many people perceive it to be.

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Second case in Dallas expected.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/01/texas-ebola-patient/16525649/

BTW, the obvious means of transmission comes from what we call "Bloody Sputum", and it gets hacked up onto the ceiling of the inside of ambulances all the time. So the thought that this shit isn't airborne is misleading at best. There's a reason why the emergency workers treating these patients are wearing level A suits with respirators, and yet they are still getting infected.

Rick

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