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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| US ARMY Says EBOLA = FLU in Airborne Stability, Needs Winter Weather To Go Airborne |
| 2014-10-01 |
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| Posted by:BrerRabbit |
| #22 Interesting artic, rammer. Nice to see something with actual numbers. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-10-01 23:10 |
| #21 Current data indicates that without any precautions one Ebola patient infects less than two people. This is small for contagious diseases we are familiar with. The factor for Measles is almost 20. Flu is around 5. Ebola outbreaks should be quickly contained anywhere it turns up in the developed world. |
| Posted by: rammer 2014-10-01 20:47 |
| #20 Eight, if you count socialism in it's various forms. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-10-01 20:28 |
| #19 7 |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2014-10-01 20:00 |
| #18 A child infected with enterovirus 68 has died, the Rhode Island Department of Health said today, marking the first publicly announced death
I've forgotten, how many plagues were there? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-10-01 19:57 |
| #17 WHO now warning the Haj could spread MERS into Africa. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2014-10-01 19:51 |
| #16 "Does serial lying infest our government?" Well, duh! |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-10-01 18:10 |
| #15 DOW closed down 248 and some change. Airlines and cruise lines led the tumble. No surprises here. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-01 17:41 |
| #14 Wait a NY minute, I saw on the telly just today the CDC assuring us that Ebola could not be transmitted via an airborn route. Alas, the truth is a casualty again. I'm beginning to think the Entovirus EV-D68 sweeping across the U.S. came across the border with the illegal kids at this point despite what the CDC says. Does serial lying infest our government? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-10-01 17:34 |
| #13 If this gets going outside the very poor communities of West Africa, there will be panic on a scale we haven't ever seen. Poor people don't have the resources to flee, which helps contain the outbreaks. Things will be very different if gets going in a developed country. Spread, say, by the thousands crossing by boat from N Africa to Europe. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2014-10-01 16:40 |
| #12 FWIW the Marburg outbreak in 1967 in Germany and Yugoslavia was successfully contained. Maybe one shouldn't panic, yet. If temperate zone winter temperatures should indeed help Ebola go airborne however, wouldn't actual 'Global Warming' have helped prevent a possible pandemic? |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-10-01 16:14 |
| #11 Even the panic is hypothetical. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2014-10-01 15:33 |
| #10 The only thing in that article that's worthwhile was this "Public knowledge of imminent Public Health threats negatively affects supply chains and the logistics planned responses" aka panic. The rest is hypothetical. We could also be hit by that 24 karat solid gold meteorite as big as Manhattan. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-01 15:08 |
| #9 While the Army sez it is equal to the flu, when I asked Mrs. Ret. what the Navy medical community (NASWI hospital) was doing about Ebola, she rapidly changed the subject. The game's afoot, Watson. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2014-10-01 14:46 |
| #8 I hope this is incorrect. Although I expect we will find out in the next few weeks. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2014-10-01 14:02 |
| #7 On the bright side, perhaps the airline reclining seat problem has been solved.... at least temporarily. "No problem sir, you may sit wherever you like. The boarding door is now closed." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-01 13:27 |
| #6 Yes. It is way more transmissible than we are being told. Look for this to get out of hand. I wish I could say I'm surprised the first case happened in my State, but I'm not. |
| Posted by: Injun Ulomoque8628 2014-10-01 13:17 |
| #5 Turban Bugs? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-10-01 13:14 |
| #4 Bedbugs? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2014-10-01 12:02 |
| #3 ...or fleas... |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2014-10-01 11:54 |
| #2 Similarly, our skin offers little resistance to even the smallest amounts of Ebola. Something pinging in my head, a question for any of our Rantburgs: Can this be transmitted by insect? Fly, mosquito... |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-10-01 10:22 |
| #1 Not sure I read that right, if I did that really sucks. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-10-01 10:03 |