Ebola round 2

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They are going to euthanize the Spanish nurse's dog. What about all the dogs and other animals running loose in West Africa?
http://news.yahoo.com/nurse-spain-gets-ebola-raising-global-concern-062847061--politics.html

Those pictures from West Africa show a lot of covered up bodies lying in the streets. So a pet dog could pick up the virus and take it home to its owners? Any one walking around could get it on their shoes, transmit it to their cars, track it into their homes and everywhere else.
 
pacu mom said:
They are going to euthanize the Spanish nurse's dog. What about all the dogs and other animals running loose in West Africa?
http://news.yahoo.com/nurse-spain-gets-ebola-raising-global-concern-062847061--politics.html

Those pictures from West Africa show a lot of covered up bodies lying in the streets. So a pet dog could pick up the virus and take it home to its owners? Any one walking around could get it on their shoes, transmit it to their cars, track it into their homes and everywhere else.
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Hello; YES!
 
If that's the case, the 4,000 troops sent over there to build hospitals are really in harms way. Theoretically, they wouldn't have to have direct contact with an Ebola patient to get the virus.
 
pacu mom said:
If that's the case, the 4,000 troops sent over there to build hospitals are really in harms way. Theoretically, they wouldn't have to have direct contact with an Ebola patient to get the virus.
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Hello; Two reasons to put the dog down occur to me. One is that they fear the dog has had contact with the infected nurse and may have the virus on its 's fur, feet and such. If so, it begs the question of just how long the virus is viable on surfaces.

The other is that they fear the virus can be transmitted to the dog and thus it will become infected. This implies an even more serious problem in my opinion. Should dogs, cats, rats, mice or other animals common around people be vulnerable to infection then we have another vector for transmission. One of the links I posted a few days back implied that insects might be vectors. Now if it turns out the virus can be passed back and forth between people and perhaps dogs, another containment issue looms. Think of the fellow in Dallas puking or otherwise releasing body fluids on a public street and some animal, dog and fly come to mind, getting into it.
 
pacu mom said:
If there's an animal vector.....mosquitos... no one would be safe
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Hello; Due to the disease first being in Africa I would think that the possibility of mosquitos being a vector would already have been investigated. I do not recall reading anything about this. That is why I did not mention them in my previous post. Perhaps someone knows?
 
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