CDC, Australian DoD & Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health State That Ebola is an Aerosol Virus & Human-to-Human Transmittable via Inhalation!
- CDC, Australian DoD & Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health State That Ebola is an Aerosol Virus & Human-to-Human Transmittable via Inhalation!
by TruthNow88, http://investmentwatchblog.com/
It seems to be a common assumption that Ebola isn’t Aerosol and can’t be transmitted via inhalation (a lot of news stories I read seem to make this assumption when talking about a story surrounding an infected person). While this is true for SOME strains of Ebola (4 out of 5), there is a strain that is Aerosol and transmittable via inhalation; the Zaire strain, which this current virus is a genetic variant of. Because of this I find that a lot of the precautions being taken, especially at airports, and in planes involving visibly sick people, really aren’t going to stand a chance for containing this virus (they seem to just let other passengers go assuming they are not also infected due to not actually touching the suspected person…). Truth is an airplane is extremely close to a “hospital environment”, which is the perfect condition for Ebola-Zaire to transmit via aerosol. For those that say that Ebola isn’t aerosol or transmittable via inhalation, please check out the follow .gov sources that blatantly say otherwise.
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Australia Group Common Control List Handbook – Volume II – V13.Ebola virus
Exposure / Infection Routes:
– Inhalation (lungs): Aerosols
Human Transmissibility:
– Yes (direct and respiratory)
Human-to human transfer usually occurs through direct contact with bodily fluids from an infected individual though aerosol transmission can occur between individuals in close proximity to one another.
http://www.defence.gov.au/deco/…
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Federal Ministry of Health Abuja, Nigeria – Ebola Virus Disease Fact Sheet
How is Ebola Virus Disease spread?
6. Inhalation of contaminated air in hospital environment;
http://www.health.gov.ng/doc/Ebola%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf
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CDC defines transmission for Ebola as follows.
1 Casual contact is defined as a) being within approximately 3 feet (1 meter) or within the room or care area for a prolonged period of time (e.g., healthcare personnel, household members) while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment (i.e., droplet and contact precautions–see Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations); or b) having direct brief contact (e.g., shaking hands) with an EVD case while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment (i.e., droplet and contact precautions–see Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations). At this time, brief interactions, such as walking by a person or moving through a hospital, do not constitute casual contact.
* Outbreak affected countries include Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Lagos, Nigeria, as of 4-August-2014
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/case-definition.html
Note: This was just recently updated by the CDC to include this footnote.
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It’s interesting to note that the transmission criteria given for Ebola by the CDC (recently updated) now matches the same criteria for transmission as Influenza A (seasonal flu).
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The CDC defines the transmission of Influenza as follows.
Influenza viruses are spread from person to person primarily through large-particle respiratory droplet transmission (e.g., when an infected person coughs or sneezes near a susceptible person). Transmission via large-particle droplets requires close contact between source and recipient persons, because droplets do not remain suspended in the air and generally travel only a short distance (less than or equal to 1 meter) through the air. Contact with respiratory-droplet contaminated surfaces is another possible source of transmission.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/acip/clinical.htm
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I hope everyone is ready to roll up your sleeves for “The Decade of Vaccines”!
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The Global Vaccine Action Plan – The Opportunity
The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), endorsed by the 194 member states of the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 2012, provides a framework for achieving the vision of the Decade of Vaccines—delivering full access to immunization by 2020 and extending the full benefits of immunization to all people, regardless of where they are born, who they are, or where they live.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Vaccine-Delivery
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Almost sounds nice doesn’t it? Too bad the people running it are pure evil.
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TruthNow88
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