Will obama and family be hidden away in a bunker where he can still be on tv?

basically the other side of the coin

.... My money is on the fact that it has mutated to a form that can be transmitted through the respiratory system. Wait and see!

Can you imagine No Elections?

It has already come out. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have released a study where they claim that Ebola has the potential to be transmitted via exhaled breath and "infectious aerosol particles."

See: http://www.inquisitr.com/1541821/eb...p-researchers-claim/#b8qCuFYHxLHeQR8i.99

University of Minnesota officials are knocking down a tweet claiming its researchers say Ebola is airborne.

University spokeswoman Caroline Marin told the Star Tribune in Minneapolis that the university never made such a claim.

In fact, the tweet refers to a commentary posted a month ago on a university website that was written by Chicago-based researchers who were debating Ebola's "potential to be transmitted" to health workers by aerosolized virus particles, and thus what protective gear they should wear.

World health authorities have been clear that Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids, and that blood, vomit and feces carry the most virus. Health workers are at particular risk because in the course of caring for patients, they draw blood and clean up diarrhea when the patients are most infectious. Likewise in the epidemic zone in West Africa, people involved with burials of highly infectious bodies are at high risk.

What if a sick person's wet sneeze hits your hand and then you absentmindedly rub your eyes? Asked about such scenarios recently, Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, allowed that, theoretically, "it would not be impossible" to catch the virus that way. But it's considered highly unlikely. No such case has been documented.

"Should you be worried you might have gotten it by sitting next to someone?" he said Wednesday. "The answer to that is no."

Frieden said "what actually happens in the real world" � and he cited four decades of dealing with Ebola in Africa � is that the disease is spread through much more direct contact with a sick person.

The World Health Organization says the same thing and notes that few studies have found Ebola in an infected person's saliva, generally in patients who were severely ill.

no good reason to PANIC

calm resolute action would seem to be a better course.

number of ebola deaths to date: less than 2,500

number of flu deaths on an average year: 23,607 (can be as high as 48,000+ on a bad year)

but feel free to panic

or you can just whistle past the graveyard, and hope for the best.

The University of Minnesota denies that its Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) has said Ebola can be transmitted through the air.

CIDRAP News had published a commentary raising that possibility on Sept. 17.

"Being at first skeptical that Ebola virus could be an aerosol-transmissible disease, we are now persuaded by a review of experimental and epidemiologic data that this might be an important feature of disease transmission, particularly in health-care settings," the authors wrote.

Some news sites such as Breitbart.com took that to mean CIDRAP officially endorsed the authors' position.

On Thursday, the university said CIDRAP does not make that claim. The authors, Lisa M. Brosseau and Rachael Jones, are from the University of Illinois at Chicago, not the University of Minnesota, the rebuttal stated.

Ebola experts such as Erica Ollmann Saphire at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla said the virus can't survive as dry microscopic particles wafting in the air or on surfaces, because dessication destroys the viral membrane.

It's also extremely unlikely that the virus could be transmitted through droplets from a nearby person sneezing. Tests in non-human primates have failed to find transmission through droplets, and such transmission has not been documented in people.

However, Ebola replicates with greater efficiency in the respiratory tract of pigs, Ollmann Saphire said. In the laboratory, monkeys housed in cages about 10 inches away from infected pigs have acquired Ebola through droplet transmission.

"So do not bring your infected pig on an airplane," Ollmann Saphire said. "Do not spend multiple days in face-to-face contact with an infected pig."

number of ebola deaths to date: less than 2,500

number of flu deaths on an average year: 23,607 (can be as high as 48,000+ on a bad year)

but feel free to panic

Couple problems with your comparison.

Flu kills mostly old or really young people, it folks with already bad health.

And a very small percentage of people who get the flu die, but about half of everyone that gets Ebola bites the dust.

the fact remains that flu is gonna kill more of us than ebola.

Really? How ebola outbreaks have there been in the US, and what was the mortality rate?

the fact remains that flu is gonna kill more of us than ebola.

ebola has been bouncing around Africa for a long time and hasn't killed everybody. do ya really think it's gonna slam the U.S?

again, for the slow:

number of ebola deaths to date: less than 2,500

number of flu deaths on an average year: 23,607 (can be as high as 48,000+ on a bad year)

ebola has been bouncing around Africa for a long time and hasn't killed everybody. do ya really think it's gonna slam the U.S if Africa can survive decades of it?
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again, for the slow:

number of ebola deaths to date: less than 2,500

number of flu deaths on an average year: 23,607 (can be as high as 48,000+ on a bad year)

ebola has been bouncing around Africa for a long time and hasn't killed everybody. do ya really think it's gonna slam the U.S if Africa can survive decades of it?

Toad, I don't know what interest you have in putting out false information, but today CNN is reporting almost 4500 Ebola deaths. That's more than twice as many as what you wrote.

This blind panic more than matches the irrationality of obama voters and their free phones.

We are truly overrun with stupid on this forum.

There is speculation that Ebola may be evolving and can be transferred through droplets, that means sneezes and coughs etc..
If that is true it may become as common as the flue?
I am a little slow, so what am I missing?

number of ebola deaths to date: less than 2,500

number of flu deaths on an average year: 23,607 (can be as high as 48,000+ on a bad year)

but feel free to panic

numbers from google, but let's use 4500. still not in a panic.

Rancho,
California is missing an idiot, best head home.

This blind panic more than matches the irrationality of obama voters and their free phones.

We are truly overrun with stupid on this forum.

aids, ebola and 200 years of feral groids, gifts from mutha africa that keep on giving.

There is speculation that Ebola may be evolving and can be transferred through droplets, that means sneezes and coughs etc..
If that is true it may become as common as the flue?
I am a little slow, so what am I missing?

Keep listening to speculation. Makes you sound smart.

number of ebola deaths to date: less than 2,500

number of flu deaths on an average year: 23,607 (can be as high as 48,000+ on a bad year)

but feel free to panic

Obama is in the works with allowing non citizens who are infected with Ebola to come to the U.S. for treatment?

You numbers don't mean schit. Look at the TOTAL number of flu cases per yer, then figure the percent that die.

Yeah, he conveniently didn't compare the fatality rate of those infected. I'll do the math. Assuming 1 in 6 Americans gets the flu in a given year, that would put the fatality rate for those infected with influenza around 0.05% vs. 50+% for Ebola. That would mean Ebola is over 1000 times more deadly than the flu.

�There is limited evidence from past outbreaks that suggests there probably are quite a few people who get exposed, who get infected, without ever developing symptoms and without ever developing illness but they develop immunity,� said Lauren Ancel Meyers, a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at The University of Texas at Austin.

The best evidence of this happening with Ebola was a study done during a 1996 outbreak in Gabon, when researchers monitored 24 contacts of known Ebola patients who never became sick. Eleven of them had antibodies to Ebola.

�If this turns out to be true, there is widespread silent Ebola infection that is immunizing,� Meyers said. �We should really investigate it further.�

It�s not unheard of. Immunologists know that people can get exposed to a virus and never become ill. One study showed that people in Peru appeared to have survived rabies � a virus believed to be virtually 100 percent fatal. One in 10 people tested had antibodies to rabies but many couldn�t recall having gotten sick.

�Ultimately, knowing whether a large segment of the population in the afflicted regions are immune to Ebola could save lives,� said Steve Bellan, who worked with Meyers on the letter published in the Lancet medical Journal. �If we can reliably identify who they are, they could become people who help with disease-control tasks, and that would prevent exposing others who aren't immune."

Or their blood could be used to treat the ill, if that approach turns out to in fact help patients survive.

spin it anyway you wish, flu has killed more people every year than ebola by a long shot. if you want an eye opener, look up malaria deaths. but you guys gotta dig for something to panic about so carry on...

There's no way in hell these two nurses got this particular strain of Ebola that is only supposed to be capable of being transmitted by bodily fluids.