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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wtf [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/cdc-ebola_n_6078072.html[/url]

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First of all, Huff Post has posted quite a few articles claiming vaccines cause autism. So take anything you read there with a grain of salt.

Second, the point is that Ebola is NOT airborne. This whole think about droplets would mislead the public. NO ONE has contracted Ebola from a sneeze.[/quote]

You don't know if anyone has contracted it through sneezing.

The science says it is in saliva and mucus. And if that is wrong, the conclusion becomes: we don't know all of "the science" yet.

But we're importing it anyway through casual travel and individual HCW traveling as they please. Hickox wants to bike. Spencer and Vinson chose subway, plane. Do we know their moment of contagiousness? [/quote]

Sitting next to someone is not going to make you sick. [b]Sitting next to someone bleeding, vomiting or crapping all over the place would be contagious. You don't get a fever and start spewing bodily fluids on the same day. That didn't happen with any of the people who've caught it by self monitoring. [/b]They get a fever and report it, having infected no one along the way. [/quote]

Here's my problem: human error. There are a couple of days before the "crash and bleed out" where symptoms are gradually rising because viral load is rising. Like when Spencer was wandering the city. We are expecting an enormous amount of responsibility from the next infected person, be it a returning HCW or another Duncan. We are assuming that protocol will be followed meticulously. And I am not comfortable because of the past errors that have been made-- errors by Dallas Pres., Spencer, etc.

Amber Vinson reportedly called CDC before boarding her return flight to Dallas. Said her temp was 99.5. Said she was a Presby nurse and part of the team that treated Duncan. WHY did she get the clear FROM CDC to use public transport?? Another human error. It could have been worse.

My kids deserve better, sorry. If CDC can't get the science straight (scrubbing transmission info from their site), we cannot be sure other errors will not happen in the future. 70% fatality rate at this point.[/quote]

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