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. On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Brad Lowe <[email protected]> wrote: > The patient in Texas was put in one of the available hospital > isolation units and the 3 paramedics have been put into a 21 day > isolation at home. But the CDC admits that this patient may have > infected others. How long would it take to fill all the isolation > units, doctors are infected, and all the EMT's are in isolation or are > walking away from their jobs? > > It was just two weeks ago Obama said it would be unlikely that Ebola > would reach the US. Google "Ebola unlikely" and you'll see everything > Ebola is "unlikely" to do-- go airborne, spread by airplane, become a > pandemic... > > There is no way the US will consider limiting flights and quarantining > people from countries with the Ebola epidemic. > > It never hurts to have a small stock of bleach, gloves, masks, plastic > sheeting, food and water... and get yourself a copy of the Richard > Preston's Hot Zone if you haven't read it. Its a really horrifying > virus. > > - Brad > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:51 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > > And so it begins exactly as I predicted: He went to the emergency room > with > > flu like symptoms and they ... wait for it .... SENT HIM HOME. > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 6:08 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Sorry but since none of the usual "policy experts" want to touch this > with > >> a ten-foot poll, it is shaping up to have some features in common with > other > >> civilization-impacting failures of "policy experts" with which this > list is > >> all-too familiar: > >> > >> Early symptoms of Ebola are "flu-like" and it is contagious during these > >> "flu-like" symptoms. Now ... consider the fact that flu season is upon > us. > >> But you know what's _really_ frightening about this? Not one of the > goddamn > >> idiot "authorities" has even mentioned, let alone assessed, this > confounding > >> situation's impact on public health containment measures. > >> > >> Now THAT'S frightening! > >> > >> Read the CDC's guidelines on monitoring and movement of persons with > >> "exposure" and tell me their guidelines work for a country in the > throes of > >> massive incidence of "flu-like symptoms". > > > > > >
