Re: Ebola - all or nothing?
This one seems odd, too. More than once, Ebola has had an outbreak in Africa in my lifetime. Each time we are told that this is not transmitted like a cold or flu- which we all know that it can be transmitted via coughing, sneezing, people leaving infected mucus on things we touch, etc. Other than swapping spit with someone, that's how the cold and flu are transmitted.
Which is to say that the cold/flu virus shows up in your saliva and mucus, and that it also has an ability to "hibernate" on a surface that appears dry.
So the times that Ebola has come and gone, it's been really fast- devastating, just like now, but fast. Fast enough to illustrate that it's not the easiest thing to transmit.
This time, we are being warmed that all body fluids are to be avoided. All of them, including saliva and mucus.
But I thought this wasn't transmitted like a cold.
If it can't be tranmitted via an aerosol of mucus and saliva- then it's not there. How does a tiny little virus become less effective through the air? A drop is a drop is a drop. Be it 1ml, 0.1ml, or 0.01ml- the size of the virus is containable in that drop. Is it the exposure to air that causes it to be less? Which would say that dry door knobs and whatnot are ok. What is it about being airborn that lesses what it can do? And why are we told to be worried about that anyway?
So can it or can't it be transmitted like a cold/flu?
The other bodily fluids does make sense- both stool and vomit have a high probabiluty of containing blood, since bleeding through your internal organs is an effect of the virus.
This one seems odd, too. More than once, Ebola has had an outbreak in Africa in my lifetime. Each time we are told that this is not transmitted like a cold or flu- which we all know that it can be transmitted via coughing, sneezing, people leaving infected mucus on things we touch, etc. Other than swapping spit with someone, that's how the cold and flu are transmitted.
Which is to say that the cold/flu virus shows up in your saliva and mucus, and that it also has an ability to "hibernate" on a surface that appears dry.
So the times that Ebola has come and gone, it's been really fast- devastating, just like now, but fast. Fast enough to illustrate that it's not the easiest thing to transmit.
This time, we are being warmed that all body fluids are to be avoided. All of them, including saliva and mucus.
But I thought this wasn't transmitted like a cold.
If it can't be tranmitted via an aerosol of mucus and saliva- then it's not there. How does a tiny little virus become less effective through the air? A drop is a drop is a drop. Be it 1ml, 0.1ml, or 0.01ml- the size of the virus is containable in that drop. Is it the exposure to air that causes it to be less? Which would say that dry door knobs and whatnot are ok. What is it about being airborn that lesses what it can do? And why are we told to be worried about that anyway?
So can it or can't it be transmitted like a cold/flu?
The other bodily fluids does make sense- both stool and vomit have a high probabiluty of containing blood, since bleeding through your internal organs is an effect of the virus.
