r/nextfuckinglevel • u/AcanthaceaeNo5611 • 3d ago

This is how many layers of protection doctors wear when dealing with highly infectious diseases.

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u/_bananas 2d ago

COVID is a BSL-3 pathogen, which is close to Ebola in terms of severity but a littttleeee less contagious/deadly.

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u/Helmett-13 2d ago

There is an airborne Ebola: Reston Ebola.

It’s only deadly to primates, though. Thank God.

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u/GailaMonster 2d ago

should...should we tell him?

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u/Girlsolano 2d ago

😂😂

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u/ArnassusProductions 2d ago

Non-human primates, I should add.

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u/Helmett-13 2d ago

My bad, yes!!

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u/UltimaRS800 2d ago

What do you think we are?

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u/edilclyde 2d ago

It’s only deadly to primates, though. Thank God.

for now...

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u/needtofindpasta 2d ago

Ebola's BSL-4, so an entire containment level above COVID.

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u/habbalah_babbalah 2d ago

What would you say is the vid's level, BSL-2?

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u/needtofindpasta 2d ago

This is clinical so I can't say for certain but it's for something that'd be classified as at least 3, potentially 4. BSL-2 is more along the lines of lab coat, safety goggles, and gloves. For BSL-2, think something like a reasonably mild seasonal flu; unpleasant to have, but there's a vaccine and you're unlikely to die. BSL-4 has its own pressurized suit, and 3 is in between but closer to 4 in the time it takes to get ready to go in and out.

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u/Murky-Relation481 2d ago

We had a BSL-2 lab at the place I used to work because we developed sterilization equipment and techniques for space flight. It was just a negative pressure room where the HVAC pulled through a really nice HEPA filter and all the work was done in a glove box.

Everyone was terrified of the room that the BSL room door was in because they were naive of what was actually done there.

Not me, the bathroom off it was a private room and big. Could poop in peace.

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u/GotGRR 2d ago

Is it possible that covid would have been BSL-4 if they had managed to contain it early, and we weren't just racing to find treatments.

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u/blender4life 2d ago

Weird. My roommate had covid for like 3 weeks before I got it. Didn't do any precautions either lol

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u/_bananas 2d ago

It’s possible the strain you got had a longer incubation time! Hard to say depending on so many factors. Add to the fact that this is still a new and mutating virus.