[exDemMom]

1. Pushing his symptom onset date back from the 26th to the 24th makes it slightly more plausible that the man was experiencing at least some initial symptoms upon his arrival on the 20th. That would mean that his fellow travelers were more at risk than has been presented.

From all of the descriptions, Ebola symptoms hit suddenly, and hard. If he did not report having symptoms on the 20th, he truly did not have symptoms.

The symptoms that cause it to be contagious are the expulsion of diseased bodily fluids.

[Delta Dawn]

So, simply spitting or blowing one’s nose will not expel the virus from the infected person before the onset of symptoms?