Have you touched an Ebola Patient’s Puke, Sweat, Sh*t, or Blood? If Not, You Don’t Have Ebola. [View all]

[riqster]

Last edited Fri Oct 17, 2014, 01:38 PM - Edit history (3)

Hopefully, everybody will calm the f*** down now.
And stop blaming nurses, too, PLEASE.

That’s because there has been no evidence that Ebola spreads between people through the air. Health experts repeatedly emphasize that human-to-human transmission requires direct contact with infected bodily fluids, including blood, vomit and feces.

And to infect, those fluids have to reach a break in the skin or the mucous membranes found around your eyes, mouth and nose.

Source info at the link. Enough with the [IMG][/IMG], already.

http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/have-you-touched-an-ebola-patients-puke-sht-or-blood-if-not-you-dont-have-ebola/

On edit: yes, other bodily fluids can also carry the virus, such as sputum or breast milk. I excluded them from the title because they are not typically spread by Ebola patients. Typically, the patients vomit, defecate, sweat, or bleed, or some combinations thereof.
It is of course wise to be mindful of contact with other people's bodily fluids in any case: influenza, for example, is a risk to millions of people. So too are HIV, Hep C, the common cold, and so on.

Mindfulness is, however, not panic. We need to calm down and deal with this in a rational manner.