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13. No, but our understanding of the hazards is better today.

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 06:20 PM

Oct 2014

(Although perhaps i shouldn't say "our" understanding since it appears hospital administrators have no idea how to handle someone with Ebola. ) Consider how the health care workers in Africa have been working with far less protection under worse conditions for a much longer time. If level 4 suits were absolutely vital, they would all be dead by now.

It's possible that one reason researchers continue to use the full body suits and glove boxes is to protect the Ebola from contamination with our germs. If you're trying to develop a vaccine, you have to be certain that the target organism is the only one involved.

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Much of the panic over Ebola is generated by information originally in the book, [View all] hedgehog Oct 2014 OP

Are you saying... TeeYiYi Oct 2014 #1

That made me laugh, thanks. :) davekriss Oct 2014 #9

Laura Garrets book "The Coming Plague" was also pretty popular among geeks and HereSince1628 Oct 2014 #2

Again, very factual at the time, but books on science tend to age out. hedgehog Oct 2014 #3

"Hot Zone's" bit on the Kinshasa Highway's completion and its effect on future disease spread Recursion Oct 2014 #5

I liked "The Hot Zone". It seems to go against a lot of the stuff people are saying now. Recursion Oct 2014 #4

Cell phones have changed, much has changed Savannahmann Oct 2014 #6

Actually ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2014 #7

I've read both books Savannahmann Oct 2014 #8

So Ebola has gotten less dangerous since 1994? GeorgeGist Oct 2014 #10

I think what he's saying is we have twenty years of progress Savannahmann Oct 2014 #11

No, but our understanding of the hazards is better today. hedgehog Oct 2014 #13

k&r with thanks. uppityperson Oct 2014 #12

In 1994 Mike Huckabee was calling for quarantine camps for people with HIV Bluenorthwest Oct 2014 #14

It gives a good measuring stick for the kind of falsehoods that float hedgehog Oct 2014 #15