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To: Black Agnes
Here is the link:

Are the Ebola outbreaks in Nigeria and Senegal over?

Recent studies conducted in West Africa have demonstrated that 95% of confirmed cases have an incubation period in the range of 1 to 21 days; 98% have an incubation period that falls within the 1 to 42 day interval. WHO is therefore confident that detection of no new cases, with active surveillance in place, throughout this 42-day period means that an Ebola outbreak is indeed over.
35 posted on 10/20/2014 2:26:34 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: PA Engineer

I read the whole article. They state the incubation period is 21 days, but contradict themselves. Regardless of that, the disease is still there in vaginal and seminal fluids for months afterwards, so it could easily be spread after 42 days, which is the cutoff the WHO uses to claim a region free of Ebola.

I don’t think it’s wise because of the possibility of transmitting the disease sexually well beyond that 42 day point.


36 posted on 10/21/2014 6:42:45 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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