Edited.  Several family members of Dallas Ebola victim are quarantined.

Overexcited local radio report from last night, I've edited my post.  Dallas Ebola patient's relatives under quarantine.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/texas-ebola-patients-contacts-now-reach-100/story?id=25912405

If this happens in a few more locations around the US I believe it will cause some serious panic issues, directly affecting services and our normal "flow."

If I had a kid in DISD he wouldn't be going to school today.  Bringing the flu home from school is expected.  Bringing Ebola home is a bit different.

As best as I remember, alcohol does not kill Ebola. I do remember bleach works. There was a long list of other chemicals that work as well. Honestly, as difficult as it would be to make this decision, if it came to the point of my kids needing to wear N100 masks, we would button up the hatches and bug in. I know that may not be the right course of action for everyone, and I don't really think it will come to that, but if it got bad enough for that, I would just stay home and watch from a distance.

The disease will aerosolize, so you are absolutely wrong.  A mask will help if it is appropriately rated.

 

The CDC saying it is not transmitted by an airborne route is, as far we know, accurate. That statement however can be misleading if you don't know what that means. It can be transmitted by droplet. In the hospital we generally have three types of isolation. Airborne, droplet, and contact. Here are examples of those.

Airborne - tuberculosis. Isolation is putting that person in a negative pressure room, with 2 doors in series with only one door being open at a time. Gown, Gloves, and N95 mask worn. These are particles that are small enough that basically they can just float and hang out in the air.

Droplet - Flu. Gown, glove, mask (doesn't have to be N95). Droplets disperse with sneezing and coughing, but will be pulled down by gravity, rule of thumb is anything within 3 feet of the patient is contaminated. If you stay more than 3 feet away you don't have to gown up.

Contact - staph skin infection. Gown, glove. Only have to gown and glove if you are going to touch the patient.

You all might already know this stuff, and this isn't hard and fast science.

Part of the problem with Ebola is how virulent it is and how stable it is outside of the host. This leads to the problem where just a small drop of infected blood can cause so much trouble.

This.

 

yeah, and 1 of the brothers live here in Phoenix.  awesome

Has anyone established yet if these folks are US native citizens, legal immigrants, or illegal immigrants?

Really like this quote from the Blaze;



And pictures of the crews cleaning the sidewalks in the complex;



Love that Hazmat equipment they are using!!!!  Lord help us!!

Thanks Big O

Oops, sorry, missed that another thread had been started on this.

And now a possible case in Hawaii, and one just reported in Utah.  

I warned people about this months ago, and got labeled a tin-foiler for my trouble, "never make it over here" they said.

Keep on truckin' sheeple, fuck yeah, 'murrica.

This is how you know the .gov really has not got a clue.

If they were serious, they would have had a crew out to clean-up all the vomit at the apartment complex from the ebola guy,
but no, just a couple of jokers with a broom and a power washer.

No suits, and probably no disinfectant.

Both are now potentially contaminated from spray and mist in the air.
Not to mention the chick standing there watching and anyone else that walked by.

ETA: The good news is, this photo is from today,
the bloody vomit has only been there since Sunday.

WFAA Dallas video here

Nice, I don't see any drains anywhere near where they are power washing in the video.

I did not know alcohol is ineffective vs Ebola.  It's what they prefer to use at her work, but obviously I will have to do some research and see if there is a better alternative to alcoholing the counters.

I don't want my kid out wearing a mask either. Just figured it'd be a good thing to have a few of, just in case some unforeseen situation cropped up.  The wife, it's possible she might have to wear one while at work. Heck, it's not out of the realm of possibility that healthcare workers might be reclassified as "essential services" and some sort of Executive order broken out to force them to work on pain of jail, etc.  Again, better to have the masks and not need.