The CDC is acting on and perpetuating action around a false 21 day time frame from exposure to manifestation of the disease. Disturbing and dangerous.
According to the WHO, the maximum time frame for exposure to disease manifestation is 42 days. Link here: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/...
From the article:
"As questions of how many people the second Dallas nurse infected during her journey to and from Dallas throw scary possibilities, a WHO situation assessment report gives more cause for concern by stating that the incubation period of the virus has been seen to extend to as long as 42 days in some cases. It says that recent studies conducted in West Africa have demonstrated that 95% of confirmed cases have an incubation period in the range of 1 to 21 days; 98% have an incubation period that falls within the 1 to 42-day interval.
For WHO to declare an Ebola outbreak over, a country must pass through 42 days, with active surveillance supported by good diagnostic capacity and no new cases detected in the period."
Additionally, the CDC is ACTIVELY promoting the false talking point that the disease is not spread through casual contact with an infected person. This is not accurate. Ebola is inaccurately being compared to the AIDS virus which is a disease that is NOT spread through casual contact, and it is NOT spread through the saliva. Ebola is spread through saliva and other bodily fluids, and it can survive outside the patient for over a week on contaminated surfaces (think about a cough or blocked sneeze on a hand or arm, and then how easy it is to touch a surface after such an action). Again, from the article:
"The Ebola virus is believed to be able to survive outside the body for a week or more during which time anyone who comes in contact with contaminated surface can pick up the virus. The death rate in the current Ebola outbreak has increased to 70% with the toll at 4,447. There could be up to 10,000 new cases of Ebola per week in two months, WHO has warned."
It is highly disturbing that the CDC is informing the public of false time frames around the spread of the disease. But, it is much worse and far more horrific that they are basing their own policies and quarantine times around an inaccurate time frame. This alone, will make it impossible for the agency to reduce spread of the disease.
It is already uncontained, as a symptomatic patient flew on an airline.
This issue is not about lack of proper funding. This is outright incompetence at best, or deliberate deception at worse.
And, the media is still parroting the CDC talking points without investigative journalism. (Shocking...insert dramatic eye roll here).
UPDATE EDIT:
http://www.who.int/...
NEW studies (and the disease is evolving rapidly) cited in this link from WHO are stating that the disease can manifest outside the 21 day period:
"Recent studies conducted in West Africa have demonstrated that 95% of confirmed cases have an incubation period in the range of 1 to 21 days; 98% have an incubation period that falls within the 1 to 42 day interval. WHO is therefore confident that detection of no new cases, with active surveillance in place, throughout this 42-day period means that an Ebola outbreak is indeed over."
People below are pointing out that the 42 days is a double safety net, I infer because they think the disease manifests at a maximum of 21 days. However, the studies are showing that actual cases of Ebola are NOT showing up until 42 days after initial exposure.
95% of the exposed population will manifest the disease within twenty one days, it is true, however these studies show that there are outlying cases which a person could still be infected and could manifest the disease for up to 42 days after exposure.
So, doesn't it make simple common sense that quarantine times and policies should be generated around the maximum time from exposure to symptoms which is now shown to be 42 days.
The WHO recommendation page has not been updated since September and these are brand new studies. Shouldn't we be going with the latest information?
And, btw, for all those who seem to be dismissing information out of a desire to protect the reputation of democrats and the CDC, that is just as much politicizing the issue as it is for FOX news to be using it as a bludgeoning tool against democrats. The important point is to go with facts and the latest most accurate information.
UPDATE 2: Casual contact and surviving on outside surfaces
The original link stated that the virus could live on outside surfaces for up to a week and the virus could be spread in this method. There has also been questions about casual contact:
Googled more, and this is what I found:
http://www.abc.net.au/...
You can get Ebola from direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infectious person
This is the main method of transmission.
"You can get Ebola if the blood, saliva, sweat, vomit, urine, semen or other bodily fluids of a sick person comes into direct contact with your broken skin or mucous membranes such as the mouth, nose, eyes or vagina."
So, contact with your mouth, nose, or eyes would be contact with mucous membranes. You do NOT need broken skin although it can be spread that way. Sharing food, kissing, and any contact with exposed fluids (and yes, those fluids would be in a cough or sneeze and the disease while NOT airborne, it is aeresol spread and can be transmitted through the passing of those droplets to your nose or mouth, this article states that it is unlikely, but definitely possible), it can spread the disease.
Additionally, you CAN get Ebola from contact of contaminated surfaces (so if you can get it by touching a contaminated surface, I don't know how you argue it can't be spread through casual contact, you don't get more casual then not touching the person at all!)
According to this link, the Ebola virus can indeed survive outside the body on surfaces for several days in bodily fluids such as blood for over a week:
"The Ebola virus can survive outside the body, so coming into direct contact with infected bodily fluids on surfaces such as bedding, clothing or furniture and then touching your eyes or mouth can spread the disease.
"Ebola is killed with hospital-grade disinfectants, such as household bleach," the CDC says.
"Ebola on dried on surfaces such as doorknobs and countertops can survive for several hours, however [the] virus in body fluids such as blood can survive up to several days at room temperature."
The virus can also survive on the skin of an infected person for several days, even after their death. The UK's National Health Service says this has meant traditional African burial rituals have played a part in Ebola's spread.
"The Ebola virus can survive for several days outside the body, including on the skin of an infected person, and it's common practice for mourners to touch the body of the deceased," the NHS says. "They only then need to touch their mouth to become infected."