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Thread #154975   Message #3647425
Posted By: GUEST,mg
01-Aug-14 - 02:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Anybody else watching Ebola break out?
Subject: RE: BS: Anybody else watching Ebola break out?
one thing i worry about is it seems that cases so far have been in rural villages..not too high a concentration of people..perhaps they mostly walk rather than take buses...what happens when you have this loose in a heavily crowded slum area? Or a university? Or a big marketplace...or cities with lots of bus travelers...

Not just the exponential rate of transmission, but where do you quarantine? In a rural setting you can make clearings in the jungle or rope off the grassland and set up tents...where do you bury or burn people?

and you have many mobile people in parts of africa and other places this can travel to...miners, soldiers, possibly prostitutes, truck drivers..all of whom have been involved in aids transmittal..

and watch the animal transmission..sounds like primates, fruit bats, rodents, pigs can all be involved. If there is a big rat population, as there could be..I would assume it could be a host. Part of the problem is eating these animals, including the fruit bats.

A couple of things I read suggest that crushed garlic might help and also a particular detergent used to scrub pigs...could you not scrub humans as well? Also, could you have people wash in very mild bleach solutions, which will kill viruses..and they do use on corpses of those who died...some people are told by doctors here to take a mild bleach bath before surgery because of mrsa issues. also some essential oils, tea tree, I think thyme, clove perhaps, are antifungal.