The big problem is the virus can live on surfaces that have been in contact with bodily fluids.
A would-be suicide bomber could do enormous damage during one day on the NYC subways. Someone has to be offering life insurance policies against death by Ebola but I can't imagine how they could set the rates. On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:26 PM, John Berry <berry.joh...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is lots of evidence that this can get past biohazard containment > procedures: > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/07/after-nurse-contracts-ebola-spanish-health-workers-raise-concerns-about-protective-equipment/ > > If this strain is so infectious that this is so, then would it not be > spread by a wet cough or sneeze? > Or when someone had just very mild or beginning symptoms? > > It might be very much not a case of being realistically able to avoid > contact if this gets out of hand (and with current attitudes that seems > kinda likely) but fighting it off once you have it. > > John > > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 5:26 PM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:00 AM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> There are two rays of hope here: >>> >>> 1) That the high rate of infection in Africa will allow evolution toward >>> greater ambulatory transmission of the virus. This sounds nonsensical at >>> first but you need to understand evolutionary medicine and optimal >>> virulence. There is a good chance the virus will have, among its _many_ >>> mutations, a less virulent strain that allows its victim to remain >>> ambulatory longer and thereby spread it faster than a strain that >>> incapacitates its victim. This creates an evolutionary direction toward a >>> longer period of contagion but lowers its virulence. There is, of course, >>> a huge human cost to this evolution. >>> >>> 2) The Japanese have had, since September 2, a 30 minute Ebola test that >>> they have been ready to mass produce -- unfortunately while the US twiddles >>> its thumbs waiting for an event such as the one that just occurred in >>> Dallas to wake up the slumbering fools. >>> >>> More pessimistically: >> >> The Ebola Epidemiology They Won't Talk About >> <http://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-ebola-epidemiology-they-wont-talk.html> >> >> >> >
