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★ Will the Ebola Viral Disease become an epidemic?
Is it the start of the end of the world?
by Shelby Buttimer, Librarian, Film
Critic, Web Web Designer ★

This is NOT the end of the world. As
deadly as Ebola is, it's actually rather
terrible at spreading itself.

1. It is only contagious via bodily fluid.
The best pandemic virus are spread
through the air. It's the most efficient
way to get a whole plane full of people
sick. You have no more chance of
catching Ebola from sitting next to
someone on a plane or a train than you
would of catching Herpes. Not gonna
happen.
Some people are confused about
"airborne". Yes, if someone with active
Ebola coughs in your face, you can get
Ebola that way and I suppose that for
the 2 seconds it's in the air, it's
"airborne". Ebola is not "airborne" in
the sense that a cold or flu virus is
airborne in that the virus can not hang
around in the air waiting to infect
people, it can't survive in air filters or
on surfaces. A truly airborne virus can
infect a whole room full of people with
one person's cough. Ebola is not
airborne.

The other tremendous disadvantage
Ebola has is that it doesn't typically
cause coughing or sneezing like a cold
virus. It causes bleeding out of various
unpleasant orifices. That's certainly
very unpleasant, but doesn't spread
the virus like a good cough or sneeze.


2. It is only infectious once you are
showing symptoms.
So even in the incubation period, the person carrying it can't spread it. And when the carrier starts showing symptoms, they're
incapacitated within hours. This is a
terrible way to spread disease. A really
efficient pandemic virus would give the
person the sniffles and slight headache
for a week or so before taking them
out so that the person will ride the
train, go out to dinner, go to work, etc.
Diseases don't spread well when the
person is at home sick in bed while
they're infectious.


3. The only reason Ebola has spread as
much as it has is because it started out
in ideal disease-spreading conditions-
poor countries with poor medical care,
among people who have little trust for
their governing authorities, who
generally aren't sufficiently educated
to understand the importance of
quarantine, and who have funeral
rituals which involve touching the dead
body. Ebola would never survive in the
United States or any other first world
country with good medical care and
with the ability to quarantine as
needed.

★ Can Ebola be transmitted by
mosquitoes? ★
Nope. Mosquitoes aren't a natural
host. Sure, mosquitoes can bite people
who have Ebola, but the virus will die
inside the mosquito. Same with ticks
and other biting insects.

Will Ebola become airborne?
Almost certainly not. The virus is incredibly
delicate. Even if you just dry out a
bloody rag contaminated with Ebola,
the virus will die. And the virus hasn't
mutated significantly since it was found
in 1976, so the odds of it mutating to
be able to survive in the air are pretty
darn slim. Not to mention that Ebola
doesn't cause coughing and sneezing,
two of the best ways for an airborne
virus to spread, even if it does become
airborne on some off chance.

Ebola is not intelligent, folks. Is it
dangerous? Sure. Is it deadly?
Absolutely. Is it intelligent? NO. Nor is
it malicious. Ebola is not plotting world
domination any more than that cold
that's going around your office. It's just
a virus. And we know how to deal with
it. The only reason its survived this
long is that it's popped up in the best
possible place for it to survive - a place
with terrible healthcare and with poor
sanitation. It will die out again and it
won't take over the world.

{culled frm facebook}

Stay informed, Ignorance is deadly.

Don't panic! .

Nice piece.

FTC!

I hope

FrancisTony: Nice piece.

FTC!

How was d exam

Lorlaahlozz: How was d exam

e gbono fa. Nice anyways. Hoping for the best.

You stay @Ib?

FrancisTony:

e gbono fa. Nice anyways. Hoping for the best.

You stay @Ib?

Yup

Lorlaahlozz: Yup

Okay. Nice

So on point. Being concious of our personal hygine and people's health around us wd go along way to curb the spread.

Be concious, be clean and dont promote ignorance.