CDC Removed Info On Coughing And Sneezing From Ebola Q&A

[Purveyor]

WASHINGTON -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly removed some Ebola information from its website. The changes follow claims from news outlets and conservative blogs that the agency hasn't been forthcoming about how the virus spreads, but it was not clear on Thursday afternoon whether the removal was related to the reports.

The New York Post reported Tuesday that the agency "admitted" Ebola can be contracted through casual contact with a doorknob, seemingly contrary to the CDC's insistence that Ebola is only transmissible through direct contact with bodily fluids from a person sick with the disease. The Post cited a page on the CDC's website that said Ebola spreads through droplets that can travel short distances when a sick person coughs or sneezes.

Meryl Nass, an internal medicine physician in Ellsworth, Maine, first highlighted the page on her own blog over the weekend.

The page was a PDF document that explained the difference between infections spread through the air or by droplets. The PDF had been taken down as of Thursday afternoon, with this message in its place: "The What’s the difference between infections spread through air or by droplets? Fact sheet is being updated and is currently unavailable. Please visit cdc.gov/Ebola for up-to-date information on Ebola."

An earlier version of the page is still available in Google's cache. It said that while Ebola is not "airborne" like chickenpox or tuberculosis, it can travel a few feet in the air inside droplets emitted when someone coughs or sneezes.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/cdc-ebola_n_6078072.html

[TorchTheWitch]

1. I remember that page on the CDC's website

It was referenced quite a bit here, and back when I used to trust the CDC I referenced it myself. I stopped doing that when the CDC showed their ass with their woefully inadequate PPE protocol in the Dallas debacle as well as the ridiculous claims that US hospitals were prepared to handle the care of an Ebola patient.

[bananas]

2. The original pdf is in the wayback machine (archive.org)

"Saved 6 times between October 25, 2014 and October 31, 2014."


The Oct 25, 2014 version is about 542k bytes:

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20141025042855/http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/infections-spread-by-air-or-droplets.pdf


The four later versions are about 667k bytes:

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20141027170154/http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/infections-spread-by-air-or-droplets.pdf

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20141028031927/http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/infections-spread-by-air-or-droplets.pdf

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20141029130607/http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/infections-spread-by-air-or-droplets.pdf

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20141029165151/http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/infections-spread-by-air-or-droplets.pdf


The new placeholder version is about 219k bytes:

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20141031094647/http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/infections-spread-by-air-or-droplets.pdf

[snappyturtle]

3. Thank you!

Here's the placeholder version:

The What’s the difference between infections spread through air or by droplets? Fact sheet is being updated and is currently unavailable. Please visit cdc.gov/Ebola for up-to-date information on Ebola.

Seems as if every time I see "CDC" there's something different currently than what they said yesterday or last week...it's confusing. imho

[bananas]

4. Now in LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014933164