Dameerto wrote:sneezing/sweating/spitting etc, it can live for a few hours once outside the body. All it takes is one person thinking he has flu attending the opening/closing ceremony and the entire continent has a potential nightmare.
Socrates wrote:
It only lives a few minutes at most outside the body unless contained in a pool of blood or vomit. It is only infectious during the period of extreme illness, not before hand.
Dameerto wrote:Socrates wrote:
It only lives a few minutes at most outside the body unless contained in a pool of blood or vomit. It is only infectious during the period of extreme illness, not before hand.
That is categorically untrue. It can survive for several hours dried onto something such as a hand rail or door knob - and anyone displaying symptoms is infectious.
Socrates wrote:Dameerto wrote:Socrates wrote:
It only lives a few minutes at most outside the body unless contained in a pool of blood or vomit. It is only infectious during the period of extreme illness, not before hand.
That is categorically untrue. It can survive for several hours dried onto something such as a hand rail or door knob - and anyone displaying symptoms is infectious.
Totally wrong, the vast majority of people getting ill do so through cleaning up infected blood or vomit. Risk from inanimate objects such as airline seats is zero.
Socrates wrote:
Totally wrong, the vast majority of people getting ill do so through cleaning up infected blood or vomit. Risk from inanimate objects such as airline seats is zero.
The incubation period, or the time interval from infection to onset of symptoms, is from 2 to 21 days. The patients become contagious once they begin to show symptoms.
Ebola is killed with hospital-grade disinfectants (such as household bleach). Ebola dried on surfaces such as doorknobs and countertops can survive for several hours; however, virus in body fluids (such as blood) can survive up to several days at room temperature.
Dameerto wrote:Fidel Castro wrote:Africa is a massive continent. I'm sure some people just see it as one country. How would ebola in Sierra Leone or Liberia affect people in Morocco, Tanzania or Zimbabwe?
Ask them after an infected person has travelled there, mingled with a crowd of 50k, and then started showing signs of the illness afterwards. It would be impossible to contain in those circumstances as there would be no way to track down everyone the infected person had come in contact with, and something contained to west Africa would suddenly have a chance of breaking out.
Fidel Castro wrote:Dameerto wrote:Fidel Castro wrote:Africa is a massive continent. I'm sure some people just see it as one country. How would ebola in Sierra Leone or Liberia affect people in Morocco, Tanzania or Zimbabwe?
Ask them after an infected person has travelled there, mingled with a crowd of 50k, and then started showing signs of the illness afterwards. It would be impossible to contain in those circumstances as there would be no way to track down everyone the infected person had come in contact with, and something contained to west Africa would suddenly have a chance of breaking out.
There's just as much chance someone from Liberia or Sierra Leone will attend a game in the premier league. Should be cancel that as well?
Fidel Castro wrote:Seeing as there is a good chance neither country will qualify, I think there will be more people from those countries willing to travel to the UK. A lot of people support pl teams, whereas I dont think theyll give a fuck about attending Morocco vs. Tunisia
Mikhail Chigorin wrote:I just worry that, in the UK, 'our' Government will be impressive at issuing soundbites and talking the talk, to make it look as though something positively constructive is being done.
However, when it comes down to properly organising resources and putting money where their collective mouths are, this abject set of political incompetents fill me with no confidence whatsoever.
I fear that no-one in these islands has any grounds for complacency, with regard to this global threat.
Mikhail Chigorin wrote:I just worry that, in the UK, 'our' Government will be impressive at issuing soundbites and talking the talk, to make it look as though something positively constructive is being done.
However, when it comes down to properly organising resources and putting money where their collective mouths are, this abject set of political incompetents fill me with no confidence whatsoever.
I fear that no-one in these islands has any grounds for complacency, with regard to this global threat.
ruralblue wrote:I have Ebola this morning. Went to bed a little shaky and all lemsipped up woke silly o' clock with the fever. It's really not ad bad as they make out just feels a tad like mild flu.
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