My barber the other day asked me if I am from West Africa and if my family members are ok. Fellow T riders look at me with suspicion. This thing is scary.
Yes, Ebola is a scary epidemic. Reports I am reading are making things look worse. Even medical workers are not spared. It is worse than HIV/Aids, or terrorism. No one knows where it will strike next.
The antidote they have developed seems to be working on white patients only. Ask Dr. Rick Sacra why the antidote worked for him and not Thomas Duncan, if you dont believe me.
And now two nurses who took care of Duncan are fighting the Ebola virus. If medical workers are not safe, who am I, who are you? Mark you, hospitals in the USA are not your run down health center in Mwisho wa Lami. They are top of the range medical facilities. Medics and all workers are highly trained. And they have all the gear needed to protect themselves.
With the current scare, and a world inter connected with air transport and relatives and friends in multiple continents, one has reason to be worried. Very worried!
By Peter Gaitho | babaashley2@gmail.com
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@ Peter Gaitho........What is
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@ Peter Gaitho........What is this garbage U just wrote!Really!!!..........
Go do Ur research about Ebola before U post an article like this.WOW!uNLESS U HAD SEX WITH THOMAS DUNCAN....OR u KNOW SOMEONE WHO DID...i suggest u stop disparaging a dead man's name.
What about the children and babies getting Ebola...Are they having sex??What an idiot!Damn!
And that cure they have only works if U are at the early stages of infection...like the first 2 weeks.
Not everyone who has Ebola dies....2 out 10 survive.Depends on Ur body.
Slap Urself while U at it!Ujinga is ujinga i tell U!
@ iphone4G...or whoever you
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@ iphone4G...or whoever you are, please note that Mr. Gaitho does not deserve this kind of insult. Not even anybody else on this thread. If you think he erred, you just needed to correct him but not insult him. What comes out from your mouth or heart clearly describes what type of a person you are. Please be nice and considerate to other people and they will respect you. Just advising you...
@Githua M.
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@Githua M. Kariuki...............this type of thinking and misinformation will get people killed.I stand by my comments!
Its like being a safe driver
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Its like being a safe driver the whole life only to be knocked by a tuk tuk....Guess he wanted to say that we might take all the care we can then...Viola!! before you know it something hits you bad..
@kiko......No.no its not...I
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@kiko......No.no its not...I actual heard this story with two different African men.....he's the third african man I have heard say this.....pipo actually believe this.......he's straight up misinforming and his source is gossip!...ignorance just annoys m
What are body fluids? Ebola
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What are body fluids?
Ebola has been detected in blood and many body fluids. Body fluids include saliva, mucus, vomit, feces, sweat, tears, breast milk, urine, and semen.
Can Ebola spread by coughing? By sneezing?
Unlike respiratory illnesses like measles or chickenpox, which can be transmitted by virus particles that remain suspended in the air after an infected person coughs or sneezes, Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with body fluids of a person who has symptoms of Ebola disease. Although coughing and sneezing are not common symptoms of Ebola, if a symptomatic patient with Ebola coughs or sneezes on someone, and saliva or mucus come into contact with that person’s eyes, nose or mouth, these fluids may transmit the disease.
What does “direct contact” mean?
Direct contact means that body fluids (blood, saliva, mucus, vomit, urine, or feces) from an infected person (alive or dead) have touched someone’s eyes, nose, or mouth or an open cut, wound, or abrasion.
How long does Ebola live outside the body?
Ebola is killed with hospital-grade disinfectants (such as household bleach). Ebola on dried on surfaces such as doorknobs and countertops can survive for several hours; however, virus in body fluids (such as blood) can survive up to several days at room temperature.
Are patients who recover from Ebola immune for life? Can they get it again - the same or a different strain?
Recovery from Ebola depends on good supportive clinical care and a patient’s immune response. Available evidence shows that people who recover from Ebola infection develop antibodies that last for at least 10 years, possibly longer.
We don’t know if people who recover are immune for life or if they can become infected with a different species of Ebola.
If someone survives Ebola, can he or she still spread the virus?
Once someone recovers from Ebola, they can no longer spread the virus. However, Ebola virus has been found in semen for up to 3 months. People who recover from Ebola are advised to abstain from sex or use condoms for 3 months.
Can Ebola be spread through mosquitos?
There is no evidence that mosquitos or other insects can transmit Ebola virus. Only mammals (for example, humans, bats, monkeys and apes) have shown the ability to spread and become infected with Ebola virus.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html
See how much info you were
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See how much info you were hoarding to yourself! Now can you request Mr. Editor to delete your earlier diatribe against a headline...Jeez!! Get an Iphone 6 like yesterday
@Iphone4G, Your mouth could
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@Iphone4G,
Your mouth could enter into a competition with a sewer pipe and win coz the contents it spews every now and then are worse than what sewer lines carry! Why insult Mr Gaitho? He's fully entitled to his opinion and if you sense he's wrong on an issue, just correct him or share with us your version of the same. Else, just shut that big hole on ur face up
And just to let you know, some of us are slowly closing in on you. We have established you are somewhere in the neighborhood of Allentown, Pennsylvania about 300 miles from where I am. One of these fine weekends we shall converge somewhere and meet you in person for some little chat
All the same, thanx for your unsolicited discourse on Ebola 101
@MLACHAKE.....hehehe.....I
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@MLACHAKE.....hehehe.....I have nothing personal aganist Mr.Peter Gaitho......I just don't like when people who know better say things,in this case write articles......that are not well researched as factual.Their pipo who are going to believe this misinf
The analogy of the use of
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The analogy of the use of condom and dying from ebola has got nothing to do with the late Mr. Duncan. If I understand the writer well, and I do believe writers have poetic license, he must have been communicating the fact that one can take good care of themself, but the gods got other plans and you get knocked by something else you may have no control over. As for Mr. Gaitho, he should not use such an alarming headline to pass his message. That's my two cents.
Thanks @Kiko....I am sitting
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Thanks @Kiko....I am sitting here wondering why all these people arguing with.this woman, iphone, agree to be pulled into her interpretation of the article, yet it is all so clear that the writer was only looking at a would-be irony of life...not even Mr. Gaitho himself came out to rescue his work from the jaws of this woman. A good example to iphone would have gone like this......... imagine dying of ebola yet you lived your bored hours in america denying yourself a chance to respond to Mwakilishi posts with matusi na mawe...
@guest..........stop!U can't
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@guest..........stop!U can't spin this article.......n from Ur comment can't handle a woman with an opinion?says a lot about U.....
The fear of Ebola is the
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The fear of Ebola is the begining of wisdom....my feloow Kenyans learnabout Ebola especially those of U who live in dallas and those of U who frequent west african joints to go eat Ebaa,fufu n egusii soup........yeah I always see u guyz there..fish n plantin pipo....educate yourself n be aware..thank U.
iphone4G. totally behind you
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iphone4G. totally behind you all the way . tell it as it is and guess what ...? you have a right to your opinion just like everyone else. thanks for the little research about ebola.
@raia......thankU.
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@raia......thankU.
I am so out of here. How
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I am so out of here. How could I be sharing the same forum with guys who flopped their Lit. 101? Who neve knew of figurative language? Really? So one cannot be taken down the vilage path until the cows come home when we shall kick the can down the path? So did we call one former minister a bull when we all called him The Bull of Auckland? Or do we call our politicians monkeys when we say that the forest is the same but the monkeys may be different? Am going bananas, or kuku, over this. N'ga...washana naye!
@kiko.....ati lit
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@kiko.....ati lit 101??.....What?...The fear of Ebola is begining of wisdom...take precaution and stay safe!
Interesting debate. Go on...
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Interesting debate. Go on... but no insults to anyboby. Let's all be sobber and tolerant, and sure enough everybody is entitled to his/her opinion.
But how can the holloi polloi
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But how can the holloi polloi stay safe if the trained personnel are getting it just by taking care of the infected? What will the individual Kamau, Omondi and Wanjala do to stay safe? That is the elephant in the room
@kiko.....First let say these
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@kiko.....First let say these two nurses had direct contact with someone who had Ebola and they were not wearing Ebola protectation gear--someting like that...He was already in the advanced stages of the dieasese...which means he was already having projectile vomiting and explosive diarreahoe.
O.k....if U suspect u have Ebola....U go to the emergency room--in america----and ask the ER nurses.....DO U HAVE EBOLA PROTOCOL BECAUSE I THINK I HAVE EBOLA!....they will ask u a couple of questions like,have U been to West Africa,why do u think u have Ebola,have u had any contact with someone with EBOLA.....questions on those lines...to establish history.
So let me say this...if U have eaten taco burrito and its not agreeing with you stomach...no, U don't have Ebola.
If u are experiencing projectile vomiting due to a drunken night...no,U don't have Ebola.
Basically,unless U have had DIRECT CONTACT---contact with contaminated vomit,urine,diarreahoe,saliva,sweat....and this person has to already be in advanced stages of the diesease...u don't have Ebola....but feel free to visit the ER.
Also,their currently 2 known cases of Ebola in America...the two nurses....if U have had direct contact with them.....which is not possible because when they became more ill they were already in the hospital...u don't have Ebola.
Otherwise improve U diet and eat more immune boosting foods like oranges and sukumawiki,garlic.....things of that nature
Ur are probably not going to get Ebola so relax.thank U.
Now me taimagine i dont
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Now me taimagine i dont understand all this. You want to know Ebola is dangerous but Kikuyus love money, come to my church. My pastor is wearing googles, gloves, gumboots and a motor cycle helmet as he preaches from behind a glass window he just installed at the pulpit. He is demanding we pay tithe by mpesa but if its cash, then its collected by an askari who counts it as the pastor watches from his small glass covered pulpit. Hata sacrament tunapatiwa na askari. The money is left in a plastic paper bag and the pastor takes it to the bank after we all leave the church. This is ridiculous ... kwani blessings cant get thru a glass window?
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