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SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 10:44 PM Oct 2014

Have you recently touched another person's shit/vomit/mucus/semen?

Last edited Thu Oct 23, 2014, 11:21 PM - Edit history (1)

or saliva, blood, sweat, tears, breast milk, urine? (particularly those items from a stranger)


If the answer is NO , you do NOT have ebola. Usually mothers/wives/caretakers/nurses ever come into contact with those items, and they are usually "courtesy of" people they know, or are paid to tend to..

If you recently butchered a West African bat/monkey/other "bush meat", you might run a risk of getting ebola..

If you shook hands with/sat next to/had lunch with someone with a low-grade fever, who may have sneezed or coughed, you MIGHT get the flu or a cold they have, but you will not "catch" ebola...because they probably do not have it, and it's not an airborne disease.

It's too bad that our illustrious media cannot find their way through the weeds to just lay it out in blunt terms so that even the most ignorant in our midst could understand..

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Have you recently touched another person's shit/vomit/mucus/semen? (Original Post) SoCalDem Oct 2014 OP
Define "recent" n/t arcane1 Oct 2014 #1
within the last 21 days. notadmblnd Oct 2014 #4
LOL, good one! n-t Logical Oct 2014 #5
yeah, that was my question. jberryhill Oct 2014 #27
Yes (nt) bigwillq Oct 2014 #2
Even when people are spoon fed accurate info they refuse to stop spreading fear notadmblnd Oct 2014 #3
Nah, just my own . . . hatrack Oct 2014 #6
actually, no! oldandhappy Oct 2014 #7
Congrats.. you are ebola-free SoCalDem Oct 2014 #8
also panic free and fear free!! oldandhappy Oct 2014 #14
No but sarisataka Oct 2014 #9
you naughty naughty person SoCalDem Oct 2014 #12
duzy Doctor_J Oct 2014 #16
If you frequently take mass transit, the answer is probably yes. stevenleser Oct 2014 #10
True - especially sweat, saliva and urine. polichick Oct 2014 #17
Gloves? flamingdem Oct 2014 #22
I try to but the Women I meet usually get pretty pissed off about it. BlueJazz Oct 2014 #11
really? even the vomit? Doctor_J Oct 2014 #20
Yep. Even the vomit. They act like I'm some kind of nut. "You sick perverted bastard" BlueJazz Oct 2014 #25
Yeah, how often do people come into contact with Ed Suspicious Oct 2014 #13
This has the potential to devastate the German and Japanese porn industry. VScott Oct 2014 #15
Curious about why you did not include urine or sweat in your list? Nye Bevan Oct 2014 #18
I actually forgot them.. I'll add them now SoCalDem Oct 2014 #19
Yes. ZombieHorde Oct 2014 #21
Darn. I planned to take a nice hot bath tonight in a stranger's salivabloodsweattearsmilkurine. Kablooie Oct 2014 #23
Try Calgon.. SoCalDem Oct 2014 #24
smeared and wright stained a CBC slide yesterday magical thyme Oct 2014 #26
Everyday MattBaggins Oct 2014 #28
Have you touched a bathroom/office door after someone didn't wash up properly? maced666 Oct 2014 #29
We are all human and we ALL "could" come into contact with all kinds SoCalDem Oct 2014 #30
but probably not Ebola.... Marrah_G Oct 2014 #35
If you've touched the door handle ... GeorgeGist Oct 2014 #31
Oh heck ... the handle of a shopping cart makes it a yes ... etherealtruth Oct 2014 #33
If that public bathroom is in a place they are treating ebola patients...then you could be right Marrah_G Oct 2014 #36
Nobody on this site has kids? genwah Oct 2014 #32
Yes, breast milk from a stranger. zappaman Oct 2014 #34

notadmblnd

(23,720 posts)
3. Even when people are spoon fed accurate info they refuse to stop spreading fear
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 10:49 PM
Oct 2014

Just look at some of the posts in threads here at DU.

Catching Ebola from sweaty fingers in bowling balls or rented shoes. Ridiculous.

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
8. Congrats.. you are ebola-free
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 10:56 PM
Oct 2014

along with almost every one else

Do not order bat ragout or monkey wings

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
10. If you frequently take mass transit, the answer is probably yes.
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 11:00 PM
Oct 2014

Sorry to be gross, but people leave all kinds of materials behind on surfaces.

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
22. Gloves?
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 11:37 PM
Oct 2014

Ew! I deceded to leave NY when on the F train stuck between two station with the thermostat broken - must have hit 99 degrees.. Still my fave city ebola and all..

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
25. Yep. Even the vomit. They act like I'm some kind of nut. "You sick perverted bastard"
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 11:45 PM
Oct 2014

I don't know...maybe it's my new robotic surgery. (had 15% of kidney removed)
...on second thought, I DO take Oxycodone (From Doc. legally)
And it can cause me to spac,,,,

 

VScott

(774 posts)
15. This has the potential to devastate the German and Japanese porn industry.
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 11:09 PM
Oct 2014

These are dark times coming my friends.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
18. Curious about why you did not include urine or sweat in your list?
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 11:13 PM
Oct 2014
Ebola has been detected in blood and many body fluids. Body fluids include saliva, mucus, vomit, feces, sweat, tears, breast milk, urine, and semen.

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html

Do you know something that the CDC does not? Or are you just trying to avoid alarm about things like sweaty rental bowling shoes?

Kablooie

(18,627 posts)
23. Darn. I planned to take a nice hot bath tonight in a stranger's salivabloodsweattearsmilkurine.
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 11:41 PM
Oct 2014

I guess I'll just have to bathe in my own now.

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
26. smeared and wright stained a CBC slide yesterday
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 11:46 PM
Oct 2014

to do a manual diff. Actually, I had to smear a couple before I got a decent slide; I was shivering cold so kept messing them up.

But I was wearing gloves. And the patient has cancer, not Ebola.

 

maced666

(771 posts)
29. Have you touched a bathroom/office door after someone didn't wash up properly?
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 12:15 AM
Oct 2014

Then you could have been in contact with someones saliva, sweat, tears, urine or blood.

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
30. We are all human and we ALL "could" come into contact with all kinds
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 12:20 AM
Oct 2014

of germs..but if WE wash our own hands carefully, we should all be okay I always taught our sons to sing (Happy Birthday ...to themselves, not out-loud) while they washed their hands with soap In fact, our 40 yr old son recently told us that even as a grown man, he sometimes thinks of Happy Birthday when we washes his hands

More and more restrooms do not even HAVE actual doors and most office buildings have "push" doors without actual door knobs these days

Marrah_G

(28,581 posts)
35. but probably not Ebola....
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 06:05 PM
Oct 2014

Unless that office and or bathroom is located in an ebola ward in West Africa or in the hospital room of one of the patients treated here.

GeorgeGist

(25,319 posts)
31. If you've touched the door handle ...
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 05:55 AM
Oct 2014

With your bare hand while leaving a public restroom, the answer is Yes.

Marrah_G

(28,581 posts)
36. If that public bathroom is in a place they are treating ebola patients...then you could be right
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 06:07 PM
Oct 2014

Otherwise...probably not.

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