Ebola’s Hard To Catch — For The Average Person
At the same time, Ebola remains difficult to catch. It doesn’t secretly linger in your body for months. It’s not transmitted by mosquitos. You won’t get Ebola by sitting next to someone who’s not visibly ill in the subway or on the airplane.
Just look at the evidence from Dallas. The first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, Thomas Duncan, first became contagious to others on September 24. That was now 22 days ago — one day longer than the maximum incubation time for Ebola — but
none of the dozens of people in Dallas who interacted with Duncan outside of the hospital have gotten sick.
Instead, the only people who contracted Ebola from Duncan so far are two
nurses who were with him as he received intensive care in the hospital, and when he was at his most contagious.
The average person infected with Ebola also only infects one to two other people, on average, Michaeleen Doucleff
writes for NPR’s “Shots” Blog.
That’s not great — even two infections can lead to an exponential growth rate — but as NPR shows, it’s not as bad as many other illnesses.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamo...-understand/2/
Apparently Ebola is about as contagious as Hep C.
I'm not for voluntarily bringing patients, especially non citizens, into this country for treatment as it does pose an unnecessary risk to those we are asking to treat them. The civilian doctors and nurses going over there understand and accept the risks. Forcing military into that situation is a different story with differing sides of the argument about "volunteering".
The area is somewhat quarantined as there are no commercial flights going in or out of the area by the airlines' own doing, not mandated by Government...Good for them.
The virus scare is losing it's legs so now the issue is turning to civil rights over forced quarantine.
You can't make this shit up...Oh, Wait, they just did.