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To: Dallas59

Case 1 started showing symptoms one week ago...And already one member in household is showing symptoms? Incubation time is shortened considerably, person 2 is very very delicate, or they are lying about how sick he was during travel.


73 posted on 10/01/2014 6:05:09 AM PDT by SisterK (trapped behind enemy lines)
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To: SisterK
Case 1 started showing symptoms one week ago...And already one member in household is showing symptoms? Incubation time is shortened considerably, person 2 is very very delicate, or they are lying about how sick he was during travel.

From the source article for another thread:

5. Forty-Day Quarantines

Ebola's course of infection lasts around 37 days according to Dr. Duncan and Dr. Scott. This includes a 10 day incubation period followed by a 22 day infectious period whereby the person could be infectious but not exhibit symptoms. In the last five days the most gruesome symptoms appear in people. The 37-day estimate fits nicely with the 40-day quarantines carried out in Europe during the Black Death. Quarantine efforts in Europe were successful according to the two doctors. Sanctioning off infected families effectively "stopped the spread [of disease]." The 40-day period would have allowed for Ebola to run its course, eliminating the possibility of seemingly healthy people from infecting others during the initial 32-day period. Rats, on the other hand, would have ignored the quarantines. Thus, quarantines of plague victims could not have been as successful as an Ebola quarantine since rats are independent creatures; rats would have still been able to infect people despite a quarantine.

148 posted on 10/01/2014 7:35:03 AM PDT by null and void (If the wage gap were real, American companies would be hiring millions of women to save a buck)
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To: SisterK

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/symptoms/index.html
Signs and Symptoms

Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to Ebola, but the average is 8 to 10 days.


279 posted on 10/01/2014 10:48:52 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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