Could suicide bombers deliberately contract Ebola and board a flight to the US?

[tangent4ronpaul]

The word "vector" means a vehicle for transmitting the disease. Books are not vectors. You can't get herbes or syph from a book.

actually...

Paper money and coins as potential vectors of transmissible disease.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24571076
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/821787

Abstract
Paper currency and coins may be a public health risk when associated with the simultaneous handling of food and could lead to the spread of nosocomial infections. Banknotes recovered from hospitals may be highly contaminated by Staphylococcus aureus. Salmonella species, Escherichia coli and S. aureus are commonly isolated from banknotes from food outlets. Laboratory simulations revealed that methicillin-resistant S. aureus can easily survive on coins, whereas E. coli, Salmonella species and viruses, including human influenza virus, Norovirus, Rhinovirus, hepatitis A virus, and Rotavirus, can be transmitted through hand contact. Large-scale, 16S rRNA, metagenomic studies and culturomics have the capacity to dramatically expand the known diversity of bacteria and viruses on money and fomites. This review summarizes the latest research on the potential of paper currency and coins to serve as sources of pathogenic agents.

-t

 

[orenbus]

nvm

 

[Acala]

actually...

Paper money and coins as potential vectors of transmissible disease.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24571076
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/821787

Abstract
Paper currency and coins may be a public health risk when associated with the simultaneous handling of food and could lead to the spread of nosocomial infections. Banknotes recovered from hospitals may be highly contaminated by Staphylococcus aureus. Salmonella species, Escherichia coli and S. aureus are commonly isolated from banknotes from food outlets. Laboratory simulations revealed that methicillin-resistant S. aureus can easily survive on coins, whereas E. coli, Salmonella species and viruses, including human influenza virus, Norovirus, Rhinovirus, hepatitis A virus, and Rotavirus, can be transmitted through hand contact. Large-scale, 16S rRNA, metagenomic studies and culturomics have the capacity to dramatically expand the known diversity of bacteria and viruses on money and fomites. This review summarizes the latest research on the potential of paper currency and coins to serve as sources of pathogenic agents.

-t

Can't tell from the abstract what they actually did. They are talking about the simultaneous handling of money and food. Yes, if someone hands you a quarter still moist from their snotty hand and you dip it into food, you could have a problem. The continually moist doorknob in the bathroom at the bar gives me pause as well. But most viruses and bacteria will perish quickly in a dry environment. Nobody is going to catch VD from a book unless that book is wet with the bodily secretions of an infected person.

 

[Philhelm]

Filthy Shades of Grey?

 

[Contumacious]

With all the aircraft crashing recently, I seriously facepalmed when I heard they were flying Ebola patients into the US.

I could see the terrorists sending a suicide biological bomber, but think about it. If people traveling got infected before traveling, before they even knew they were sick, the TSA type security lines and the recirculating air in the aircraft would weaponize it, turning one threat into hundreds... with many, many destinations... I can seriously see this grounding air travel worldwide. It would be total irony. All the security theater meant to keep us "safe" being responsible for taking out the population of every major city worldwide...

Now if you want a real nightmare scenario, say it went airborne or mixed with something like rabies and you've got the closest thing to zombies being real! Moonsuite dangerous to be around and angry, violent, crazy, hostile...

-t

Very interesting scenario which must be considered because the scumbags inside the DC beltway love placing us in harms way.

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[tangent4ronpaul]

Can't tell from the abstract what they actually did. They are talking about the simultaneous handling of money and food. Yes, if someone hands you a quarter still moist from their snotty hand and you dip it into food, you could have a problem. The continually moist doorknob in the bathroom at the bar gives me pause as well. But most viruses and bacteria will perish quickly in a dry environment. Nobody is going to catch VD from a book unless that book is wet with the bodily secretions of an infected person.

The second link has pages 2-12.

poking around, I see herpes survives 3-4 hours in open air. Longer given moisture.

keep in mind that some of us live in very humid areas, not the desert. Also that this book is a best seller, so not likely to stay on the shelf long.

so yeah, transmission is unlikely, but possible.

-t

 

[Mani]

Can't tell from the abstract what they actually did. They are talking about the simultaneous handling of money and food. Yes, if someone hands you a quarter still moist from their snotty hand and you dip it into food, you could have a problem. The continually moist doorknob in the bathroom at the bar gives me pause as well. But most viruses and bacteria will perish quickly in a dry environment. Nobody is going to catch VD from a book unless that book is wet with the bodily secretions of an infected person.

Uh oh...You mean that dirty magazine in the office bathroom with the naked pictures and some of the pages stuck together? And I used to read it just for the articles...

 

[Dianne]

Of course hundreds if not thousands of infected people have crossed the southern border much to Obama's amusement .

However, I believe I understand this U.S. Government's conspiracies so well by now; that two days before the infected Doctor arrived at Emory University I told my husband Ebola is another "scare" deal much like the swine flu ... created to terrify the people and bow to the holy Congress and other thugs for protecting us from it. I told my husband, verbatim "The pharmas and Congress are behind this ... mark my words they will have some treatment at the hospital that will provide a fast cure for Ebola and in the next year to two years we will all be REQUIRED to take an annual vaccine". "And, I wouldn't be surprised if the vaccine had some type of identity chip of some sort".

That is how much I trust this banana republic government .. Then yesterday I turn on the t.v. and they are bragging of the miraculous cure from the "cocktail" .. The Doctor is doing much, much better and they now hope one day soon they can speed up FDA approval and begin distributing the vaccine in the next year or two.

Same stories over and over ... When one fear fails; they come up with another.

 

[James Madison]

-Man Deliberately Infects Self With Ebola
-Waits Until Terminal Symptoms Appear
-Straps Bomb On Chest
-Goes Into Public Space And Activates Bomb
-Blood And Internal Organs, All Containing Ebola, Are Splattered In A 50 Foot Radius
-No Trace Of Illness Left On Suicide Bomber