I sent this letter to the Nurses Association of NSW and requested an interview for their comments
Hello,
I am an Australian living on the central coast (Near
Gosford) and I have a radio show in the USA which is also global and there has
been a lot of discussion about Ebola recently. I have been looking into
the transmission vectors for the virus and suspect it to be able to be inhaled
in aerosol form and there seems to be a difference between what is being said
publically by the CDC and what is contained on their own website and other
research results.
After observing the increasing groundswell on this topic in
the worldwide scientific community I would appreciate an interview with an
official from your organization please.
This request comes from the alarming quantity of Carers,
doctors and medical professionals who are becoming infected despite training,
processes, and in some cases where it has been a life career in HFV’s. It
is high infection rate for a disease which is stated as only “on direct
contact” with infected materials and which should be easily manageable.
Image 24th October 2014 shows only Carers,
doctors and Medical Professionals
The following are what I would like comments on.
Researchers at the University of Illinois School of
Public Health
“But this “reflects an incorrect and outmoded
understanding of infectious aerosols… virus-laden bodily fluids may be aerosolized and inhaled
while a person is in proximity to an infectious person,” they wrote.”
The CDC website has 2 curious pieces of information which
contradict their own public announcements of it being “contact only” and
another, that Ebola is transdermal.
1.
CDC Ebola Guidance for Airlines
– search page for “droplets”
“Do
NOT use compressed air, pressurized water or similar procedures, which might
create droplets of
infectious materials.”
2.
CDC Telebriefing on Ebola
outbreak in west Africa (52 minutes in) either listen, read or search page for
“Unbroken”
“JACOB
WARD: If I
could follow up quick, the direct contact, if you could define direct
contact. That truly means you're physically touch it, not in the same
room with it or with the bodily secretions or anything like that, it's actually
having to touch it?
STEPHAN
MONROE: That’s
correct. Touching it and introducing it through some sort of mucus membrane or unbroken skin, a cut on
the skin, something like that.
JACOB
WARD: Great,
thank you. “
