Experimental Ebola Treatment tested on two Americans... may be working.

[msglee]

I wonder if Robin Cook is taking notes?

[DavidS]

msglee wrote:
I wonder if Robin Cook is taking notes?

Been there. Done that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreak_%28novel%29

[decay]

don't forget The Hot Zone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone

[freeradical]

Executive Orders

[rjmacs]

3d wrote:
Alot of conflicting info about how ebola is spread.

From CNN, "This is not an airborne transmission," said Dr. Marty Cetron, director of CDC's Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. "There needs to be direct contact frequently with body fluids or blood."

!!!???

And from the very same article, "The CDC advises that when flight crew members encounter a passenger with symptoms that they suspect could be Ebola, such as fever and bleeding, that they keep the sick person away from other passengers. They've been instructed to wear disposable gloves and to provide the sickened person with a surgical mask to prevent fluids from spreading through talking, sneezing or coughing."

Droplet transmission. See my post above.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

3d wrote:
Alot of conflicting info about how ebola is spread.

From CNN, "This is not an airborne transmission," said Dr. Marty Cetron, director of CDC's Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. "There needs to be direct contact frequently with body fluids or blood."

!!!???

And from the very same article, "The CDC advises that when flight crew members encounter a passenger with symptoms that they suspect could be Ebola, such as fever and bleeding, that they keep the sick person away from other passengers. They've been instructed to wear disposable gloves and to provide the sickened person with a surgical mask to prevent fluids from spreading through talking, sneezing or coughing."

Airborne transmission of Ebola has been observed in the laboratory, but to date an occurance in the wild has never been documented. However, as a virus Ebola is subject to mutations that could change that behavior. Our knowledge of such a change would lag behind the change itself; thus, a recommendation such as the one above, while probably unnecessary, is eminently sensible.

[cbelt3]

They've been following Sick Passenger protocols for a long time...

.. After half a year in Baluchistan in the 1980's, I flew home British Airways. First Class. I didn't feel well the day before the flight... thought it was a recurrence of the case of Dysentery I developed over there. (Lost a LOT of weight !)

By the time the plane was over the Med, I was running a high fever and asking for water and blankets. The stewardess put on a mask and gloves, moved the guy next to me to an open seat, and made me comfortable. I slept the rest of the flight.

When the plane landed they took me off the plane via the galley door, and I spend a few hours on a cot in quarantine at Heathrow. A doc checked me over, decided I had an upper respiratory infection, and sent me on my way.

[rjmacs]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
[quote=3d]
Alot of conflicting info about how ebola is spread.

From CNN, "This is not an airborne transmission," said Dr. Marty Cetron, director of CDC's Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. "There needs to be direct contact frequently with body fluids or blood."

!!!???

And from the very same article, "The CDC advises that when flight crew members encounter a passenger with symptoms that they suspect could be Ebola, such as fever and bleeding, that they keep the sick person away from other passengers. They've been instructed to wear disposable gloves and to provide the sickened person with a surgical mask to prevent fluids from spreading through talking, sneezing or coughing."

Airborne transmission of Ebola has been observed in the laboratory, but to date an occurance in the wild has never been documented. However, as a virus Ebola is subject to mutations that could change that behavior. Our knowledge of such a change would lag behind the change itself; thus, a recommendation such as the one above, while probably unnecessary, is eminently sensible.
Do you have a cite for this? Reston ebolavirus (REBV) has exhibited airborne transmission, but is non-pathogenic in humans. Zaire ebolavirus (EBV) is not airborne transmissible, so far as i know.