[Citizen Zed]

Page was updated 3 days ago. Maybe they have it all figured out now?

[gov_bean_ counter]

My concern is that they don’t know what they don’t know...

[2harddrive]

Hey Obama, be a MAN - Implement a travel BAN!!

[LOC1]

Obama utterly failed in his most basic responsibility, to keep America safe. He is the Chief Executive in charge. Ebola was a known threat. His policies allowed it to come to the US. Obama cannot hide behind congress, or behind some bureaucrat. Obama owns this abject failure. May his soul burn in hell.

[Selene]

“Although coughing and sneezing are not common symptoms of Ebola”

What if a person has a cold + obola?

[I want the USA back]

And through the little droplets expelled by breathing.

[P-Marlowe]

Although coughing and sneezing are not common symptoms of Ebola...

Coughing and sneezing are both common symptoms of being alive. Few of us can get through a single day without coughing and sneezing.

Unless Ebola actually prevents a person from the everyday events of coughing and sneezing, then being anywhere within 15 feet of someone with Ebola is a dangerous undertaking.

If that is the case, then you might want to steer clear of people who aren't coughing and sneezing.

[RummyChick]

So is it considered contagious with aerosol transmission or not?

[Uncle Miltie]

"Ebola dried on surfaces such as doorknobs and countertops can survive for several hours; however, virus in body fluids (such as blood) can survive up to several days at room temperature."

There ya go.

[boycott]

Here’s one for them .....

We know diseases can affect people differently. We know that large numbers of native American Indians were wiped out from disease they got from the Europeans. The Europeans had become immune to many things that the Indians had not — potential diseases from farm animals like chickens, pigs, etc.

Are we at greater risk to the ebola virus? Can it spread more rapidly in the USA than it has in Africa? Are they more immune to it than we are?

WE DON’T KNOW THOSE ANSWERS. No one does. There are too many unknowns. That’s why we should play it safe and suspend all travel from western Africa until we have a better understanding. It’s not worth the risk.

[Pecos]

The NBC cameraman who became infected, did so by hosing out the car of a victim who was transported in it. A water drop rebounded into his eye - enough to give him the disease. Therefore, coughing and sneezing can indeed transmit the disease. Or, a person could cough into his/her hand, and then touch a doorknob. If a second person touched the same doorknob, and then rubbed his/her eye, picked his nose, or scratched the skin enough to expose the under layer of skin, the disease would be transmitted.

These modes of transmission are not that hard to figure out, once you throw away political correctness and apply some very basic logic.

[marsh2]

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/03/nbc-news-cameraman-from-providence-diagnosed-with-ebola/

NBC cameraman Ashoka doesn’t know how he contracted the disease. He did not have direct contact with an infected person’s body fluid. He did, however, wash a car wearing some protective gear and speculates he might have gotten in second hand.