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What if this is like when "women don't get AIDS but HIV"?  It took them a long time to figure that one out because they weren't seeing full blown AIDS cases in women for some time.

This is the largest Ebola outbreak ever and we can't accurately predict how the virus will react and if there will be any changes to it at all.  We can speculate all we want and scientists can make their best educated guesses but no one knows for sure.  Is it really too much to ask that people in high risk categories isolate themselves from the general public?  A bike ride or other outdoor activity isn't really an issue but she should limit her interactions with others during the incubation period and not make a fuss about it.  Especially since her former roommate has ebola and doesn't know how she got it. [/quote]

HIV/AIDS was brand new then. Ebola has been studied for 40 years. Not the same thing at all.  We know it's caught from symptomatic people, which is why health care workers are at risk. We know it's not transmitted she people don't have symptoms.  Why are you so willing to be scared by this?  More kids died in school shootings last month, more people died from entovirus , more died trick-or-treating on Halloween than have died from Ebola in this country.  Why are so many people wanting to be so scared of this?[/quote]

I'm not afraid of it, not at all.  In fact I have barely paid any attention to it at all. However, I think your question is sort of self-righteous and silly. It's obvious what people are afraid of: that this could very slightly mutate, or we discover that we are wrong about how it behaves, and then we could potentially have a life-cha nging situation on our hands. Clearly there are other things killing people in greater numbers right this moment. My guess is that those who are afraid (Again,I am not one of them) fear the unknown possibilities.[/quote]

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