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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Norovirus is only transmitted through contact with fecal matter or vomit. It is not airborne. And yet it can spread thorough a school or cruise ship like wildfire. I'm not so sure that Ebola couldn't do the same.[/quote]

Norovirus can be spread through contaminated water or food. Ebola cannot.

Not even close to the same thing.[/quote]

What if a food service worker who cannot take sick leave gets Ebola, continues to stay at work even when vomiting/diarrhea begins. Trace amounts of vomit/diarrhea gets into food or water, etc.

[b]I don't see how how it couldn't be transmitted in the same way.[/b] Isn't that how norovirus is transmitted through food/water? [/quote]

It's a different virus completely. Different viruses are transmitted in different ways. That's why you can't catch HIV from eating food someone who's infected prepared, and why you can't contract herpes from droplets from a sneeze. Different viruses = different methods for contagion and different levels of contagiousness.

If you're too dense to understand that, perhaps you should leave the thinking up to the WHO and CDC, who -- I assure you -- are much better equipped to puzzle this out than a bunch of moms like us.[/quote]

OK--whatever makes you feel better.  The WHO and CDC aren't infallible.[/quote]

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