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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. 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. They get a fever and report it, having infected no one along the way. [/quote]

Google "Patrick Sawyer," read about the 19 people he infected, directly or indirectly, and then get back to us.  Sometimes, people are in denial and continue to go about their daily activities.  Dr. Spencer came darn close to doing the same, and that's why he initially lied about the extent of his movements to first responders.  [/quote]

So I did google "Patrick Sawyer" and the people he infected all had direct contact with him. So many HCWs got infected because he lied about his exposure to Ebola and they thought he had malaria - plus he urinated on them. But the 200+ people on the planes with him, when he had diarrhea and vomiting - NONE OF THEM GOT EBOLA. So just chill - it' not that easy to get Ebola.[/quote]

The people who were sent to pick him up from the airport by the conference he was attending did get it, guess you didn't read enough or are just reading what suits your conclusion.  They weren't health care workers.[/quote]

Sawyer was seriously ill when he left Monrovia, so it's no surprise that he was infectious. The fact is, people who are not symptomatic are not infectious. None of your grandstanding changes that.

I also would give the nurse a hug if I could. She's not only not infectious; she doesn't even have Ebola, as far as anyone can tell.[/quote]

If you aren't quarantining those most likely to become symptomatic, you stand a chance of not catching them before the transition. [b] It's not grandstanding, it's common sense. [/b] That's why the CDC has been quarantining non health care workers with direct contact.  The differential treatment between health care workers and others with direct contact is for policy reasons, not science reasons.[/quote]

It doesn't work. They did it with SARS in Canada. The statistical analysis afterwards showed that it prevented ZERO cases. It's a useless intervention that is expensive and a PITA.

All of the quarantining is because folks like you are ignorant and hysterical. [/quote]

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