Had a good speaker on this at the PATCON.
There is a lot of confusing – and often contradictory – information about the Ebola virus circulating.
Hopefully this Q&A will clear things up.
Q: What IS the Ebola virus?
A: Ebola is an infection with a virus of the family Filoviridae, genus Ebolavirus. So far, only two members of this family of viruses have been identified – Marburgvirus and Ebolavirus.
Five subspecies of Ebolavirus have been identified, four of which can cause disease in humans:
- Ebola virus (Zaire ebolavirus)
- Sudan virus (Sudan ebolavirus)
- Taï Forest virus (Taï Forest ebolavirus, formerly Côte d’Ivoire ebolavirus)
- Bundibugyo virus (Bundibugyo ebolavirus)
- Reston virus (Reston ebolavirus): This is the one that has not caused disease in humans (but it can be fatal in non-human primates). This is the strain that killed dozens of lab monkeys at a research facility in Reston, VA, in 1989. Four workers at that facility tested positive for Ebola. In 1996, nine lab workers were exposed to this strain after handling infected animals. None of those infected developed symptoms or became ill, but they did develop antibodies to the strain. It is possible that the Reston strain can be transmitted via small-particle aerosols (airborne), but that hasn’t been confirmed.
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Good article.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit I have spent the last decade or so reading absolutely everything about infectious diseases, especially ones like ebola, because I'm weird like that.
and cruising the internet, I've read everything possible about what's going on :
It's not ebola, it's marburg (also a filovirus)
it's not ebola, it's a coverup for a UN vaccination program that has gone awry with similar symptoms to ebola. (makes my hair stand up considering Gates has gone on record stating that vaccinations will help with the "population explosion problem" - (paraphrasing)
It's not airborne, nothing to worry about, but we don't know the actual #'s in any country that has been striken by supposed ebola. And the #'s of those deaths not attributed to the disease, but the circumstances (medical care collapse and enforced quarantine.).
Supposed medical workers in gear suited for hazmat care are getting infected, yet we see cleaners with their sleeves rolled up and Joe-Rent- A-Power-Wash spraying the streets with infectious bodily fluids. Huh. Hope their sewer treatment plant workers aren't asleep that day.
One article states that Africans are riding in taxi's and spreading disease because hospitals are turning them away, BUT it's really hard to become infected from non-living surfaces.
It's weaponized.
Not one report of which strain the Dallas Liberian guy has, just that he's critical.
Why are military troops-4000 being sent over to combat this disease in an area that is capable of building their own hospitals and giving care? What is the real purpose of that?
while we are looking at zebras (ebola) the enterovirus-68 is paralyzing and killing children and it's found in almost every state of the nation.
Some great questions/points though I certainly can't be of any help. :)
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