Posted on 03/01/2015 1:52:31 PM PST by CorporateStepsister
So long as the person on the bus doesn’t vomit on you and do the death spray of blood, then sure. But then again, the chances are pretty good that the vomit is norovirus or the flu, or maybe even just motion sickness instead of ebola, which is assuring.
That’s pretty much the whole point. It’s highly unlikely anybody who’s at the “death spray of blood” stage is going to be on a bus.
From what we know about Ebola, after infection there’s a considerable period during which the person is not infectious at all and there are no symptoms. Followed by a period during which symptoms are relatively mild but getting increasingly worse, with degree of infectiousness roughly paralleling the severity of symptoms.
Eventually the “spraying fluids in all directions” stage is reached, then death. The corpse is apparently the most contagious of all for a few days, then stops being contagious as the virii “die.”
AFAIK, not all bodily fluids are equal regarding ebola. Blood is the #1 infectious bodily fluid, followed by others. IIRC, you wouldn’t be allowed to give blood if you had been in West Africa as a malaria precaution as it is, though correct me if I am wrong.
I’m sure you’re right, though by the end stage of the disease all body fluids are full of blood.
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