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Originally Posted by cologal
I am not sure about your intent posting this link. What do you mean with the statement....clear picture of the incidence and risk groups affected?
Surely you can't mean that no one, other than these people, should worry about HIV. Tell that to Elizabeth Glaser...my bad you can't because she died of AIDS.
But now AIDS is a manageable disease...
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Why so defensive?? My intent was to show a link to facts about how most people are contracting HIV since people above compared the 1980s onset epidemic to this Ebola epidemic.
There is one difference with Ebola at this point in time in the US: epidemiologists fear it has gone or could go airborne, God forbid.
The link I posted earlier clearly explains that ominous possibility. Additionally, this info from CDC leaves room for fears of this virus being contracted by sitting beside a victim or touching surfaces where droplets may have landed and can live for several hours and could transmit by hands touching that and then touching facial orifices......
"Although coughing and sneezing are not common symptoms of Ebola, if a symptomatic patient with Ebola coughs or sneezes on someone, and saliva or mucus come into contact with that person’s eyes, nose or mouth, these fluids may transmit the disease.
What does “direct contact” mean?
Direct contact means that body fluids (blood, saliva, mucus, vomit, urine, or feces) from an infected person (alive or dead) have touched someone’s eyes, nose, or mouth or an open cut, wound, or abrasion.
How long does Ebola live outside the body?
Ebola is killed with hospital-grade disinfectants (such as household bleach). Ebola dried on surfaces such as doorknobs and countertops can survive for several hours; however, virus in body fluids (such as blood) can survive up to several days at room temperature. http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html
Until it's determined it's definitely not airborne, quarantines are wisely being set, to avoid needless, unprotected exposures to a person with the disease. I don't see anybody pro-quarantine who is making it a "moral" (puritanical sexual) issue as someone above implied.