32 years in the medical profession, 32 years of dealing with infectious diseases, 32 years of inservices and training classes on everything from Hep B & C, to HIV, to H1N1, TB, and most of the bacterial diseases as well.
It isn't time to panic on Ebola, not yet. One needs "significant exposure" to contract it. You can't get it from breathing the same air on a plane or bus, you won't get it from sitting in the same seat as someone who has it. It has to come from
bodily fluids and them those bodily fluids have to get mixed with your bodily fluids. Avoid blood, feces, urine, and vomit. Good advice normally.
Also, human skin, as long as it is intact, is an excellent barrier. Even if you got blood from an Ebola infected person on your skin, you are safe. Wash it off. The virus has to have access to the inside of your body.
At this point Ebola is not an airborne virus. If an infected person coughs, you would have to be close enough to catch it in your face to get infected.
Perspective is needed here. Hepatitis is not only more infectious than Ebola, it's more prevalent with thousands already infected in the US. We aren't panicked about getting Hepatitis.
Perspective again: there have now been over 3000 deaths in Africa attributed to Ebola. There are millions on people in the three countries where the disease is running amok. Their healthcare system is almost non existent and less than 4000 cases. Perspective.
It isn't time to panic on Ebola, not yet. One needs "significant exposure" to contract it. You can't get it from breathing the same air on a plane or bus, you won't get it from sitting in the same seat as someone who has it. It has to come from
bodily fluids and them those bodily fluids have to get mixed with your bodily fluids. Avoid blood, feces, urine, and vomit. Good advice normally.
Also, human skin, as long as it is intact, is an excellent barrier. Even if you got blood from an Ebola infected person on your skin, you are safe. Wash it off. The virus has to have access to the inside of your body.
At this point Ebola is not an airborne virus. If an infected person coughs, you would have to be close enough to catch it in your face to get infected.
Perspective is needed here. Hepatitis is not only more infectious than Ebola, it's more prevalent with thousands already infected in the US. We aren't panicked about getting Hepatitis.
Perspective again: there have now been over 3000 deaths in Africa attributed to Ebola. There are millions on people in the three countries where the disease is running amok. Their healthcare system is almost non existent and less than 4000 cases. Perspective.
