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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHave you recently touched another person's shit/vomit/mucus/semen?
Last edited Thu Oct 23, 2014, 11:21 PM - Edit history (1)
or saliva, blood, sweat, tears, breast milk, urine? (particularly those items from a stranger)
If the answer is NO , you do NOT have ebola. Usually mothers/wives/caretakers/nurses ever come into contact with those items, and they are usually "courtesy of" people they know, or are paid to tend to..
If you recently butchered a West African bat/monkey/other "bush meat", you might run a risk of getting ebola..
If you shook hands with/sat next to/had lunch with someone with a low-grade fever, who may have sneezed or coughed, you MIGHT get the flu or a cold they have, but you will not "catch" ebola...because they probably do not have it, and it's not an airborne disease.
It's too bad that our illustrious media cannot find their way through the weeds to just lay it out in blunt terms so that even the most ignorant in our midst could understand..
arcane1
(38,613 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Not since Saturday night?
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Just look at some of the posts in threads here at DU.
Catching Ebola from sweaty fingers in bowling balls or rented shoes. Ridiculous.
hatrack
(59,587 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)along with almost every one else
Do not order bat ragout or monkey wings
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)sarisataka
(18,655 posts)if this weekend pans out...
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Sorry to be gross, but people leave all kinds of materials behind on surfaces.
polichick
(37,152 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Ew! I deceded to leave NY when on the F train stuck between two station with the thermostat broken - must have hit 99 degrees.. Still my fave city ebola and all..
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)I don't know...maybe it's my new robotic surgery. (had 15% of kidney removed)
...on second thought, I DO take Oxycodone (From Doc. legally)
And it can cause me to spac,,,,
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)semen? Pretty rare.
VScott
(774 posts)These are dark times coming my friends.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html
Do you know something that the CDC does not? Or are you just trying to avoid alarm about things like sweaty rental bowling shoes?
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)oops
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Touching bodily fluids is normal for health care workers.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)I guess I'll just have to bathe in my own now.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)It will take you away
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)to do a manual diff. Actually, I had to smear a couple before I got a decent slide; I was shivering cold so kept messing them up.
But I was wearing gloves. And the patient has cancer, not Ebola.
MattBaggins
(7,904 posts)maced666
(771 posts)Then you could have been in contact with someones saliva, sweat, tears, urine or blood.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)of germs..but if WE wash our own hands carefully, we should all be okay I always taught our sons to sing (Happy Birthday ...to themselves, not out-loud) while they washed their hands with soap In fact, our 40 yr old son recently told us that even as a grown man, he sometimes thinks of Happy Birthday when we washes his hands
More and more restrooms do not even HAVE actual doors and most office buildings have "push" doors without actual door knobs these days
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Unless that office and or bathroom is located in an ebola ward in West Africa or in the hospital room of one of the patients treated here.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)With your bare hand while leaving a public restroom, the answer is Yes.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)... and any number of things
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Otherwise...probably not.
genwah
(574 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)Long story...