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21 Days Not Enough Time For Ebola Quarantine— We’re Screwed (picture)
Hospital workers and public health officials in the U.S. have come under fire for a series of missteps in their response to the Ebola crisis, from initially misdiagnosing Thomas Eric Duncan to allowing a nurse who cared for him at a Dallas hospital to fly on a commercial airliner shortly before she too was diagnosed with the deadly illness.
Now an engineering professor with expertise in assessing the risks posed by biological pathogens claims he’s identified another big problem with authorities’ response to the crisis.
In a paper published Oct. 14 in the journal PLOS Currents: Outbreaks, Drexel University’s Dr. Charles N. Haas argues that there’s not enoug idence to support the recommended 21-day quarantine period for people suspected of harboring the virus. MORE
The more news coms out, the more this looks like a cleansing project
Not so much a ‘cleansing project’ as a lack of ‘cleaning products’. Unless it gets put in the drinking water in massive quantities, it will never gain a foothold in the first world; at best a plume here or there where sanitation protocols have gone unmet.