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Despite an Ebola death in the U.S., the likelihood of an epidemic here is low
- By Beverly Merz, Executive Editor, Harvard Women's Health Watch
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Beverly Merz, Executive Editor, Harvard Women's Health Watch
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This is an interesting post talking about how Ebola is not airborne, but spread through absorption of fluids. They failed to leave out that sperm is also another fluid that will pass Ebola. IT was also stated “So far, none of the people with Ebola virus disease being treated in the U. S. have infected anyone else..” but the incubation period is 2 to 21 days which is a large range, which means we could still be in the back end of that range. Just some thoughts.
I live in Atlanta (home of the Center for Disease Control). There is a lot of local talk about Ebola victims being brought to Atlanta for treatment. If the CDC has such a well developed understanding of Ebola treatments then why has the USA not exported this to other parts of the world? The government often points a finger at “big pharma” for holding back medicines “for profit”, but why then is the government holding back giving the world what it needs to fight Ebola?
Wish this disease terminated as quickly as possible
What is the chance of Ebola mutating and becoming airborne?
Thanks this worries me Paul
There is a huge amount of controversy at the moment surrounding Ebola with many independent news outlets claiming ‘foul play’ for the purposes of profit, companies having patents over diseases does not help this situation.
Ebola disease is quite rare but deadly virus that causes uncontrollable bleeding both inside and outside the body. It badly damaged immune system and organs.
If Ebola is difficult to spread—how did the RN who wore required protective uniform contaminated while caring for Mr. Duncan?
interesting article. it is good to read about it. however the comment above myself is interesting..
Is the strain of the EBOLA VIRUS involved in the present epidemic “PATENTED” in the USA ? And if so, which Company holds it – – and was the Company, or any of it’s agents, operating in LIBERIA when the infection appeared ?
The patent is owned by the United States, which was indeed present.
The CDC patented a strain of Ebola in 2010
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