All These Countries Are One Flight Away From Ebola Pandemic
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Many people are asking why flights from known Ebola affected countries are not banned. As you will see below many countries have taken it upon themselves to do just that. Please note the calender below of current Ebola Affected areas during the month of October and their relationship to the flight map I have included above.
Flights out of major airports in the affected countries arrive in 39 airports in 35 other countries. There are seven in Europe, in the UK, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain and the Netherlands; four in the Middle East; and three in the US (Houston, Atlanta and New York).
So far, the World Health Organization hasn’t endorsed any travel restrictions. “We would have to consider any travel recommendations very carefully, but the best way to stop this outbreak is to put the necessary measures in place at the source of infection,” Gregory Hartl, a WHO spokesperson, told CBC. Closing borders “might help, but it won’t be exhaustive or foolproof,” he said.]
Legitimate public health concerns remain. Aside from coming into contact with open cuts, Ebola likely enters a person’s body through mucus membranes, such as the surface of the eye or by clinging to cells in their throat. Because the virus is bloodborne—it grows only in an animal’s bloodstream—it’s not as easily transmitted as something like, say, the flu. Still, it can survive in liquid or dried materials for a number of days outside a human host.
It also is an STD of sorts, having been found in semen 61 days after its onset, with transmission occurring seven weeks after the patient recovered. Otherwise, the incubation period—meaning, between exposure and when a person begins to show symptoms—is between two and 21 days.
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