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That article makes the same conflation of "health-care workers" and "people who know they're dealing with ebola patients and are following bloodborne pathogen p
by bcoates 12y ago
That article makes the same conflation of "health-care workers" and "people who know they're dealing with ebola patients and are following bloodborne pathogen protocol" that VLM is.
There are tons of healthcare workers and sick people in the regions affected, most patients don't have ebola and most workers probably don't have training and equipment to deal with it, so undiagnosed ebola patients with generic flu symptoms infect unwitting workers.
- disputin 12y agoGood point. 10% of infections are from people who have both ebola and flu? Seems initial ebola symptoms are/can be flu-like, so presumably healthcare workers might be casual around newly infected.
- Fomite 12y agoBeyond the flu, Lassa Fever, another hemorrhagic fever, is endemic in the region.