Watch carefully the parsing of this. Sometimes you hear the word "had" instead of "reported." I doubt Ebola is so exacting and might you be contagious one hour before the fever, that you have the fever before you realize you have a fever, etc. If I was on that flight I'd be scared spitless.
Good post and even more grist for this mill:
Let’s say she did indeed have a fever during the flight and this is why the CDC is trying to contact everyone on her flights. Well...
...haven’t we been told the vehicle of transmission are bodily fluids? But now, someone who has a fever can transmitt the virus? How are the general population of people supposed to differentiate between those with a fever and those without? Shoukd we all carry thermometers around, testing everyone we meet?
And what’s the “threat” anyway with a mere fever? Where are the copious amounts of bodily fluids that are supposed to be the fomite here, when someone just has a fever? Their sweat? Is sweat now a fomite? Because while that might still techically not be “airborne” that changes the game IMO.
If sweat can transmitt this then how exactly are people supposed to guard against that, an invisible odorless liquid that can remain on a surface for hours?
It’s one thing to say, “stay away from people puking all over the place or bleeding out their eyes” but entirely ANOTHER thing to say, “watch out for someone’s sweat”! Especially in a common space like an airport or a train station or a bus station!
Sheesh, ban the dang flights already! This PC crap is literally going to kill us!!