Michael Osterholm on Ebola

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
It can't be spread unless you touch secretions from someone who is sick. Even the doc that got it said he broke isolation protocol.

It's enough for one sick person to go through one international airport for it to spread everywhere.

Someone contracted it by stealing a sick person's cell phone from the hospital. Do you know how many places you can leave your secretions at in an airport?

[Anonymous]

I think a lot of you have anxiety disorders. Isn't there something real in your life you can worry about instead?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It can't be spread unless you touch secretions from someone who is sick. Even the doc that got it said he broke isolation protocol.

It's enough for one sick person to go through one international airport for it to spread everywhere.

Someone contracted it by stealing a sick person's cell phone from the hospital. Do you know how many places you can leave your secretions at in an airport?

Because certainly, someone who has unprotected access to an entire Ebola isolation ward In a hospital caught it directly from the cell phone he stole?

God knows what else he touched in the ward, along the floors, walls, etc. Everyone there has Ebola... Vomit, feces...all manner of human yuck could be anywhere!

Oh yes, it was the cell phone.

Give your head a shake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of you have anxiety disorders. Isn't there something real in your life you can worry about instead?

My friend is a doctor. Her husband travels extensively for the government.

Both are not worried. I trust her completely, as she knows the deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Because certainly, someone who has unprotected access to an entire Ebola isolation ward In a hospital caught it directly from the cell phone he stole?

God knows what else he touched in the ward, along the floors, walls, etc. Everyone there has Ebola... Vomit, feces...all manner of human yuck could be anywhere!

Oh yes, it was the cell phone.

Well, I imagine he was stealing the phone and not feces. Yes, he could have touched something else. The point is touching something is enough to leave secretion, cell phone or a wall.