Ebola Code of Silence

Right now the disease only spreads from person to person by bodily fluids but there is a possibility that could change and the disease could become airborne. If it does, we could face a public health challenge like we haven't seen in this country since smallpox or polio. Worse yet: even if Ebola doesn't mutate, there is a good chance that some other novel infectious disease that we know about now (or will find out about in the future) will cause a pandemic and result in a significant loss of life.
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Nonsense. This is simply fearmongering.. How long has AIDS been around now? I remember all the hysteria about everyone catching it way back when. The AIDS virus and the EBOLA virus are similar in that they are anaerobic.. they die in air..and as viruses go..they are very fragile. They can only remain viable for a few hours and are easily killed with something as simple as bleach. Has AIDS become airborne yet? Or do you STILL have to have body fluids enter an open cut or mucous membrane.. You cannot get AIDS by breathing the same air an AIDS patient does... and THAT is how an airborne virus is tranmitted. IF the AIDS virus hasn't mutated in the last 40 years... what makes the possibility of the ebola virus doing so in the near future a concern?
 
I think there is a code of silence because they don't know how many of these diseases will act/react in a modern society. Centuries ago if you had an outbreak of what ever you had the lack of modern technology, knowledge, experience and an already less healthier population. They'll spread faster and easier but how will they act on a healthier individual in better conditions with better treatment.
 

With the AIDS epidemic of the 80's and 90's I think we DO know how these diseases act in a modern society. There is a world of difference in the 1st world countries and west Africa. There is no comparison. AIDS ran far more rampant there too. The main difference has been though that people who were not in the high risk group did not fear AIDS.. it seemed targeted at homosexuals and IV drug users. The key to this... as with AIDS is education.
 
QuickSilver said:
Nonsense. This is simply fearmongering.. How long has AIDS been around now? I remember all the hysteria about everyone catching it way back when. The AIDS virus and the EBOLA virus are similar in that they are anaerobic.. they die in air..and as viruses go..they are very fragile. They can only remain viable for a few hours and are easily killed with something as simple as bleach. Has AIDS become airborne yet? Or do you STILL have to have body fluids enter an open cut or mucous membrane.. You cannot get AIDS by breathing the same air an AIDS patient does... and THAT is how an airborne virus is tranmitted. IF the AIDS virus hasn't mutated in the last 40 years... what makes the possibility of the ebola virus doing so in the near future a concern?
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Based on this links info: http://www.nature.com/news/ebola-virus-mutating-rapidly-as-it-spreads-1.15777

apparently that ebola virus is mutating at a great rate (50x in the first month?) and the fear is that it will mutate into an airborne virus.

And according to this link: http://www.globalresearch.ca/top-do...already-be-transmissible-via-aerosols/5405907

they aren't even sure if the virus isn't aerosolized which means you wouldn't have to touch a sick person or even come in contact with bodily fluids as their sneeze may leave the virus suspended in the air so that if you walk through that area, you could inhale the virus. This virus is rapidly mutating whereas I guess the AIDS virus didn't/isn't. This is definitely more serious I would think.
 
In regard to expectations of or from the US health care system.

I'm going to go conspiracy for a minute. How many times has anyone gone to the doctor for stomach trouble and/or fever and the doctor actually tested you for ANY disease. How many times has someone be ill over the years where it could've been one of these nasty diseases and it was written off as the flu or "a" stomach virus. Did the civilian medical community 'conspire' to cover up or even ignore many outbreaks or other diseases. Was the doctors reaction "they're doing ok, I'm not going to start a panic, do paper work etc". I think they missed ALOT over the decades. And they this is partially why they don't know, are silent because they don't have the data or want to divulge it.
 
QuickSilver said:
With the AIDS epidemic of the 80's and 90's I think we DO know how these diseases act in a modern society. There is a world of difference in the 1st world countries and west Africa. There is no comparison. AIDS ran far more rampant there too. The main difference has been though that people who were not in the high risk group did not fear AIDS.. it seemed targeted at homosexuals and IV drug users. The key to this... as with AIDS is education.
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True there is the AIDs experience but Ebola seems to be affecting general populations a lot more. With AIDs you more or less know where the high risk areas are. In the US AIDs always has been prevalent with certain behaviors and the population practicing those behaviors. Ebola doesn't seem to be following a particular demographic other than those from certain African villages. I thought(I could be wrong that AIDs has to get directly into the body ie infected blood into an open wound or sex). They seem to be saying simple contact with Ebola body fluids transmits the disease. They're afraid of this Dallas guy's sweat. They're saying exposure to Ebola patients fluids period and that could include the tiny droplets put in the air when sneezing, coughing or vomiting which how many outbreaks spread through the centuries.
 
WhatInThe said:
True there is the AIDs experience but Ebola seems to be affecting general populations a lot more. With AIDs you more or less know where the high risk areas are. In the US AIDs always has been prevalent with certain behaviors and the population practicing those behaviors. Ebola doesn't seem to be following a particular demographic other than those from certain African villages. I thought(I could be wrong that AIDs has to get directly into the body ie infected blood into an open wound or sex). They seem to be saying simple contact with Ebola body fluids transmits the disease. They're afraid of this Dallas guy's sweat. They're saying exposure to Ebola patients fluids period and that could include the tiny droplets put in the air when sneezing, coughing or vomiting which how many outbreaks spread through the centuries.
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It DOES seem to have a higher viral load than AIDS.. yet all the fluids transmitting AIDS will transmit Ebola.

I think some folks have been reading too many Stephen King Novels though.
 
A professor has just traced the Aids virus back to Kinshsasa in the 1920's; it was the first of that type to take hold and spread...
Some collegues of his are doing the same with Ebola....it won't mutate fast enough to become airborne for a while yet, if ever,
land Aids/HIV hasn't either.
 
Let's not get all "Stephan King" about this until we see how it pans out. Not anything we can do about it at present is there? Are we going to hide under the bed until the all clear sounds?
 
in 1987 it was said that 1 in 5 would get aids.ebola was discovered in Africa in 1976 and is still caught in the same manner as it was then.it appears that some are jumping the gun,as has occurred before..
 

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