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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28610112
Does anyone think it will reach Europe?
Does anyone think it will reach Europe?
How so? The incubation period can be up to 21 days.carriers kind of tend to die before travelling far though.
So one of the scientists who died could not have travelled to visit his peers somewhere?you're thinking in your own terms. most potential candidates for an Ebola infection aren't going anywhere fast.
So one of the scientists who died could not have travelled to visit his peers somewhere?
you're thinking in your own terms. most potential candidates for an Ebola infection aren't going anywhere fast.
Teeds it only takes one on a plane. If the risk was not so great of spreading why are the WHO getting involved and the UK government mentioning that we are "ready" ? Not rocket science to know that the chances of someone leaving Africa with the virus is rather large. Don't get me wrong, I am not worrying in the slightest, just think that it is a when not an if when someone outside of Africa is infected.ahem. also, contrary to what popular movies teach us, most scientists don't run off an infection site or hospital or whatever without getting themselves checked out and/or waiting out the incubation period without further exposing themselves to risk.
So like an enclosed space like an airplane? Airplanes, like most public forms of transport are just petri dishes that move....The virus is not spread via air but by fluids so you would have to cough or sneeze or be more intimate with someone to spread it...
So like an enclosed space like an airplane? Airplanes, like most public forms of transport are just petri dishes that move....
its contact with any of the persons fluids so surely sneezing counts? Aslong as u sneeze on someone
yup, so local, and carrier is dead. since there is no news to the contrary, still contained.At least one of the deaths was a man who had just flown from Liberia, who knows who he came into contact with on the plane or at the airport
WHO is there because it is what they do. Your government is telling you this because they are simply being supportive and quenching panic before it starts.Teeds it only takes one on a plane. If the risk was not so great of spreading why are the WHO getting involved and the UK government mentioning that we are "ready" ? Not rocket science to know that the chances of someone leaving Africa with the virus is rather large. Don't get me wrong, I am not worrying in the slightest, just think that it is a when not an if when someone outside of Africa is infected.
that is correct. still, humans yet survive -amazingly- (I wonder why??) Hmmm...contrary to popular belief the air is actually a *fairly unfriendly place* if you're a bacterium or virus and airborne exposure chances are really slim (Maybe that's why?)So like an enclosed space like an airplane? Airplanes, like most public forms of transport are just petri dishes that move....
what this guy said, and then *maybe*.Nah. You'd have to tongue up to someone, not sneeze. Close and intimate contact.
yeah, someone would have to get you directly in the face, so open eyes /nose / mouth for there to be a chance.its contact with any of the persons fluids so surely sneezing counts? Aslong as u sneeze on someone
before you perish horribly. try some Ethiopian spiced spaghetti. I had some once and it's awesome
Or say it shuts banks down.Ebola - they should rename it "flying AIDS", that'll get the world's attention.