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Because they are in a hotbed zone, and take lots of precautions. They are constantly exposed to people with the virus.
The chance meeting with someone, as long as you wash your hands and don't let people sneeze on your face, which I don't, is very unlikely to happen. You're far more likely to die from driving your car home.
More than a week after a Liberian man fell ill with Ebola and four days after he was placed in isolation at a hospital in Dallas, the apartment where he was staying with four other people had not been cleaned and the sheets and dirty towels he used while sick remained in the home, health officials acknowledged on Thursday afternoon.
Apparently it's contagious enough to infect at least 2 highly trained medical professionals. People that have been trained in the very precautions that should be taken to prevent it's spread. Intelligent people would say that's more than reason enough for concern.
Actually, that photo is from the tarmac of the Atlanta airport when that US doctor was brought back to the states.
He's in a big plastic tent.
Additionally, most people who catch ebola and are not immediately treated will be secreting fluids.
Yeah, and they had the possibility of projectile vomiting. If someone has a high fever, you can spot that person, and stay the hell away from them. These people did not. And if thats the case, what the person said was wrong, because those weren't CDC employees.
I'm guessing the people who have the "it's not that big of a deal" posts would feel different if their kids were in a restaurant and they found out an ebola patient was there an hour before.
Here is a photo of the Dallas school being scrubbed down after kids who were in contact with the patient went to the school (not the patient himself).
So, follow the same rules you should to avoid the flu, and you'll avoid ebola. People, wash your hands before rubbing your eyes, or touching your face. Its not hard to do.
last year and the year before, I got the flu shot and the flu.
More than a week after a Liberian man fell ill with Ebola and four days after he was placed in isolation at a hospital in Dallas, the apartment where he was staying with four other people had not been cleaned and the sheets and dirty towels he used while sick remained in the home, health officials acknowledged on Thursday afternoon.
Maybe because they can't find people that want to deal with Ebola.
Sounds like the CDC and crew don't have all their plans in place.
They need to get cleanup crews enlisted and trained all over the US as well as the medial folks in hospitals.
I was talking to my sister (a nurse) who said she would not risk her life because the government is too lax to put preventions in place to keep Ebola from coming here.
From your link:
The Texas health commissioner, Dr. David Lakey, told reporters during an afternoon news conference that health workers should have moved more swiftly to clean the apartment but that they had had trouble finding an outside medical team to do the work. They encountered “a little bit of hesitancy,” he said.
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Up To 100 Exposed By The Index Patient In Dallas
