Tyger
Paranormal Adept
An Ebola patient has been transferred into the US from Africa and is currently in Atlanta.
I just heard about this yesterday on NPR after seeing a 'Frontline' report over the weekend about an Ebola outbreak at the NIH in Washington D.C. Or I thought that's what I saw - I thought it was about an Ebola outbreak at the NIH. What was reported was quite detailed regarding the speed of transmission and how much is unknown about how this transmission happened. I know I saw this show this past weekend and yet I cannot access it, either on the Frontline web side or anywhere. What? Have I just done a 'time-slip'?
Then I hear about the patient coming into Atlanta and it being very much downplayed as not a risk. How can this be if NIH had to build a whole new unit to contain the ebola?
BTW I want to be clear that I am not against this patient coming into Atlanta. The patient may be an American doctor who contracted the virus in Africa - not sure on that - and they may have brought him in for research purposes. I just think a bit more openness would be nice - and yet, isn't this exactly the kind of thing that people panic about?
I have an historical knowledge of the social impacts of the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. From what I am hearing Ebola has all the earmarks of that other plague's ability to break down societal bonds. The Black Death was horrific from a societal point of view.
Ebola – What You’re Not Being Told
LINK: Ebola – What You’re Not Being Told | Conscious Media News
TEXT: "Though the method of transmission in the study was not officially determined, one of the scientists involved, Dr. Gary Kobinger, from the National Microbiology Laboratory at the Public Health Agency of Canada, told BBC News that he believed that the infection was spread through large droplets that were suspended in the air.
“What we suspect is happening is large droplets; they can stay in the air, but not long; they don’t go far,” he explained. “But they can be absorbed in the airway, and this is how the infection starts, and this is what we think, because we saw a lot of evidence in the lungs of the non-human primates that the virus got in that way.”
Translation: Ebola IS an airborne virus.
UPDATE: Someone pointed out that in medical terms, if the virus is transferred through tiny droplets in the air this would technically not be called an “airborne virus”. Airborne, in medical terms would mean that the virus has the ability to stay alive without a liquid carrier. On one hand this is a question of semantics, and the point is well taken, but keep in mind that the study did not officially determine how the virus traveled through the air, it merely established that it does travel through the air. Doctor Kobinger’s hypothesis regarding droplets of liquid is just that, a hypothesis. For the average person however what needs to be understood is very simple: if you are in a room with someone infected with Ebola, you are not safe, even if you never touch them or their bodily fluids, and this is not what you are being told by the mainstream media. Essentially I am using the word “airborne” as a layman term (which kind of makes sense, since I am a layman in this field). "
I just heard about this yesterday on NPR after seeing a 'Frontline' report over the weekend about an Ebola outbreak at the NIH in Washington D.C. Or I thought that's what I saw - I thought it was about an Ebola outbreak at the NIH. What was reported was quite detailed regarding the speed of transmission and how much is unknown about how this transmission happened. I know I saw this show this past weekend and yet I cannot access it, either on the Frontline web side or anywhere. What? Have I just done a 'time-slip'?
Then I hear about the patient coming into Atlanta and it being very much downplayed as not a risk. How can this be if NIH had to build a whole new unit to contain the ebola?
BTW I want to be clear that I am not against this patient coming into Atlanta. The patient may be an American doctor who contracted the virus in Africa - not sure on that - and they may have brought him in for research purposes. I just think a bit more openness would be nice - and yet, isn't this exactly the kind of thing that people panic about?
I have an historical knowledge of the social impacts of the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. From what I am hearing Ebola has all the earmarks of that other plague's ability to break down societal bonds. The Black Death was horrific from a societal point of view.
Ebola – What You’re Not Being Told
LINK: Ebola – What You’re Not Being Told | Conscious Media News
TEXT: "Though the method of transmission in the study was not officially determined, one of the scientists involved, Dr. Gary Kobinger, from the National Microbiology Laboratory at the Public Health Agency of Canada, told BBC News that he believed that the infection was spread through large droplets that were suspended in the air.
“What we suspect is happening is large droplets; they can stay in the air, but not long; they don’t go far,” he explained. “But they can be absorbed in the airway, and this is how the infection starts, and this is what we think, because we saw a lot of evidence in the lungs of the non-human primates that the virus got in that way.”
Translation: Ebola IS an airborne virus.
UPDATE: Someone pointed out that in medical terms, if the virus is transferred through tiny droplets in the air this would technically not be called an “airborne virus”. Airborne, in medical terms would mean that the virus has the ability to stay alive without a liquid carrier. On one hand this is a question of semantics, and the point is well taken, but keep in mind that the study did not officially determine how the virus traveled through the air, it merely established that it does travel through the air. Doctor Kobinger’s hypothesis regarding droplets of liquid is just that, a hypothesis. For the average person however what needs to be understood is very simple: if you are in a room with someone infected with Ebola, you are not safe, even if you never touch them or their bodily fluids, and this is not what you are being told by the mainstream media. Essentially I am using the word “airborne” as a layman term (which kind of makes sense, since I am a layman in this field). "
