So...if I understand correctly.... if you are working in an Ebola contaminated area of the world, you can just hop on a plane to the USA, no questions asked? And then transfer all around at various airports and get on various connecting flights, and come back to Anytown USA and join in the, say, NYE festivities, and no prob, until on Jan 1 you start bleeding profusely from every orifice?
Cause that is not ok.
Yes, it is the Obola Ebola doctrine.
Ebola is not transmitted that way. You could sit next to an infected person for days. If the are no fluids transferred, you won’t get it.
Of course, they end up bleeding from every possible opening, so it’s hard not to get a drop or two on you.
You and I might not think it’s right but nothing is stopping them. And if you’re a doctor or nurse or even a surgeon, you can immediately start seeing your American patients again.
“Not contagious” Oh, that’s rich! How about Dr. Ted Cieslak give him a big kiss and let the non-contagious patient sneeze on him.
Wasn’t there a doctor from Nebraska that was in Africa the last time? Same guy maybe?
Not to any sane person it’s not.
Thats why one of the first questions you get asked at the hospital is if you have been traveling out of the country within the last 90 days.
It appears that Ebola patients are highly contagious only in the few days before death.
The Dallas patient lived in an (illegal) apartment with 19 other people, and even went to the ER once sick with Ebola and returned to the apartment before his final trip to the hospital, and 0/19 housemates were infected.
The nurse he infected flew to Cleveland while well, got sick and flew back to Dallas with a fever, zero secondary cases up or back.
The Lagos index case stormed onto a plane in Freetown (he was denied boarding because he was sick), flew 2 1/2 hours to Lagos, vomited onto his seatmate, and was taken into custody in Lagos. Except for the seatmate, there were no infections on the plane.
The NY doctor was all over Manhattan, developed a fever and rode the subway to Brooklyn to go bowling, and checked into Bellevue the next day, with zero secondary cases.
The very high attack rate in the West Africa event was related in part to the funeral practices of the Mende people, and the outbreak was brought under control when they were finally convinced, or forced, to accept body retrieval and cremation without a funeral.