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It doesn’t “spread easily through casual contact”, though, unless your idea of “casual contact” involves licking people or wallowing around in their bodily fluids; it’s called “The Caretaker’s Disease” in Liberia for a reason, because it mostly infects those who are in constant sticky contact with someone who is leaking death out of every orifice. America’s Patient Zero flew here on a commercial airliner with over a hundred other people, and it is dirt easy to spread contagion on an airplane, where the passengers and crew are in a sealed environment with low humidity and little personal space; if ebola “spread easily” through “casual contact”, we’d be ass deep in melting plague zombies by now.
That’s like saying, “freaking out over being crushed by an animal that weighs somewhat less than a humpback whale.” Aside from the common cold or a norovirus, there’s not much that spreads faster than flu.
Ebola spreads fast, and it spreads pretty easily by even casual contact. It doesn’t spread through the air, though, and the contamination isn’t very long-lived outside the body. What’s stopped all past ebola outbreaks is that it spread like wildfire and killed all available victims in remote areas, before any new victims were available for it to continue spreading to. This time it’s not in a remote area with a new-victim shortage. What’s keeping the transmission rate still fairly low is that the time between the start of virus shedding, and the time where you’re basically crippled by pain and illness and can’t get out to spread it to anyone but immediate caretakers, is very short.
On the other hoof, as Dallas Presbyterian Hospital, and basically all of Africa, have shown, if you make those immediate caretakers available to the virus during the virus-shedding period, what you’re mostly doing is providing new hosts. With anything less than state-of-the-art protective gear and extensive training in how to use it, they will catch it. And then it can spread.
With the proper protective gear, it can be safely handled. Certain laboratories have done so for decades with no outbreaks. The proper experts treated two infected Doctors Without Borders volunteers without any new cases among the caretakers. The problem is that the people with the training and practice in safely handling it are few in number and found only in a few places. If we take the danger seriously while it’s rare here, we can hold the number of cases low enough that the actual experts can continue to treat it. If we let it surpass that point, and start having to pass ebola cases to non-experts for treatment, then it will break containment and spread a heck of a lot faster.
Oh you, I think that comment is funnier then the pic here. Well played.
Sorry to burst your bubble but there is no cure, once you are infected with ebola you’re fucked.
Uh huh…
I too had the giggles.
Uh, no. We have methods of treating it. That’s not the same as having a cure.
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