CIDRAP: "We Believe There Is Scientific Evidence Ebola Has The Potential To Be Airborne"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/13/2014 14:46 -0400
When CDC Director Tim Frieden first announced, just a week ago and very erroneously, that he was "confident we will stop Ebola in its tracks here in the United States", he hardly anticipated facing the double humiliation of not only having the first person-to-person transmission of Ebola on US soil taking place within a week, but that said transmission would impact a supposedly protected healthcare worker. He certainly did not anticipate the violent public reaction that would result when, instead of taking blame for another epic CDC blunder, one which made many wonder if last night's Walking Dead season premier was in fact non-fiction, he blamed health workers for "not following protocol."
And yet, while once again casting scapegoating and blame, the CDC sternly refuses to acknowledge something others, and not just tingoil blog sites, are increasingly contemplating as a distinct possibility: namely that Ebola is, contrary to CDC "protocol", in fact airborne. Or as, an article posted by CIDRAP defines it, "aerosolized."
Who is CIDRAP? "The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP; "SID-wrap") is a global leader in addressing public health preparedness and emerging infectious disease response. Founded in 2001, CIDRAP is part of the Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota."
The full punchline from the CIDRAP report:
We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks.
In other words, airborne. And now the search for the next LAKE, i.e., a public company maker of powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR), begins.
Here is the full note: we hope the CDC will take the time to read it.
The CDC maintains the Ebola virus can only be spread through contact with bodily fluids.
One doctor, however, told Gretchen Carlson today that it's time to start preparing for the possibility that the virus could start spreading by air.
Dr. David Sanders, top Ebola virologist and Purdue University professor of biological science, explained that a very closely related virus is known to spread among animals via the air.
Sanders also pointed to the way in which the virus enters the body.
"Our own research shows that Ebola Zaire enters human lung cells from the airway side. So it has the inherent capacity to enter the lung from the airway. I'm not saying that there's any evidence that the current spread is due to anything but bodily fluid contact, but we have to consider the possibility that it can enter through an airway route," said Sanders, adding that the virus can "morph" or "mutate" as the outbreak continues in Africa.
He recommended that more regional centers be set up, with "robust training" for the workers in those locations to deal with Ebola patients.
"It's not good enough to train people in all of the hospitals all over the country 75 percent of the way there. We have to have people who are 100 percent trained because using the equipment is not always that simple," said Sanders.
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It only makes sense to me to take all available precautions, therefore, if there is any chance it might be airborne then health care workers need respirators along with protective suits. But then again when as this regime ever used common sense?
Quote: conservgramma wrote in post #2It only makes sense to me to take all available precautions, therefore, if there is any chance it might be airborne then health care workers need respirators along with protective suits. But then again when as this regime ever used common sense?
Now, now ... common sense would stand in the way of implementing policy based upon ideological imperatives.
In other words common sense would have prevented putting a potential crisis to waste.
Quote: conservgramma wrote in post #2It only makes sense to me to take all available precautions, therefore, if there is any chance it might be airborne then health care workers need respirators along with protective suits. But then again when as this regime ever used common sense?
Now, now ... common sense would stand in the way of implementing policy based upon ideological imperatives.
In other words common sense would have prevented putting a potential crisis to waste.
Ideology FIRST Gramma! We're dealing with IDEOLOGUES!!!
Let all else fall in line behind the ideology. We're "Baghdad Bob"-ing our way into the future.
Dr. Ben has a bead on what's going on. Forgive my repetition....
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