Spooky news about Ebola
Sep. 15th, 2014 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melcharThis is very spooky = http://www.wired.com/2014/09/r0-ebola/?mbid=social_fb
I read another story that explains the 'why' of transmission: that this is a blood-bourne disease getting treated in clinics and hospitals that re-use bedding, needles, gowns, gauze! That sanitation is a brief hand-washing, if that. Then when someone dies, the custom is for their relatives to immediately wash the body - the bloody, virally-hot body - and relatives are hiding their sick / dying / dead ... leading to even more spread of disease.
I read another story that explains the 'why' of transmission: that this is a blood-bourne disease getting treated in clinics and hospitals that re-use bedding, needles, gowns, gauze! That sanitation is a brief hand-washing, if that. Then when someone dies, the custom is for their relatives to immediately wash the body - the bloody, virally-hot body - and relatives are hiding their sick / dying / dead ... leading to even more spread of disease.
