Thomas Balfe
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Hello. Bit of a paradox as I am on a ship. But I am happy to now be in the FOG.
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bertv
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As long it is not the Hanta-virus ship. Welcome!
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Thomas Balfe
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No thankfully. Well away from that one. Opposite side of the globe
Packard
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Undoubtedly the ship created an environment similar to the the original Legionnaires disease outbreak. That is a fairly closed ventilation system. Normally hantavirus spreads from rodents and bats, not human to human contact.
Hantavirus, like Ebola causes spontaneous internal bleeding.
The blame for the early Ebola outbreaks was half-baked medical assistance. The charities supplied medicines, but an insufficiency of hypodermic needles, So the needles were reused. The medical clinics were the vectors for the early outbreaks.
I read a book on the subject in the mid-1990s by a Newsday reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for the book. It read like a fast-paced page-turner. Interesting stuff. Recommended.
I just Googled the name and book title: Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance.
Hantavirus, like Ebola causes spontaneous internal bleeding.
The blame for the early Ebola outbreaks was half-baked medical assistance. The charities supplied medicines, but an insufficiency of hypodermic needles, So the needles were reused. The medical clinics were the vectors for the early outbreaks.
I read a book on the subject in the mid-1990s by a Newsday reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for the book. It read like a fast-paced page-turner. Interesting stuff. Recommended.
I just Googled the name and book title: Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance.
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