[jpsb]

If you live in a single family home, prepare to quarantine yourself. If you live in an apartment complex or highrise good luck. While I consider it unlikely Ebola ravage the USA in the manner it is ravaging West Africa, it is not at all certain that it won't so a little preparing would be a prudent thing to do.

Question for the experts. Can Ebola get into a city's water supply? TIA.

[Mamzelle]

Well, it's a virus. So far, the worst and quickest, waterborne infections--like cholera--are bacterial.

it never, never hurts to have some food and fuel and water on hand.

As Ebola is transmitted now, we can control it…but if it changes, becomes more like influenza…not so much.

[Cvengr]

If it is a surface water supply, it might be able to enter, depending upon the filtration system.

Nearly all secondary wastewater treatment systems, even tertiary sewer wastewater treatment systems, do not kill or isolate virus from the wastewater treatments.

If the public ignores AIDS infected patients swimming in large public pools, they likely will ignore ebola tainted wastewater in sewer systems. I suspect the sewers will be the most difficult to disinfect. Both water and wastewater treatment plants are probably the easiest locations to systemically treat potentially infected water, but they would require additional treatment systems than already installed.