[exDemMom]

See, that is the part I am having trouble with...If you become infected with Obola, the virus was potent enough to infect you...so, if you cut yourself and your blood gets on someone else, what keeps the Obola virus in you from infecting someone else? Does it have to gain strength in you before it can then be transmitted to someone else?

Viremia in the blood shows up maybe a couple of days before symptoms. Obviously, if someone were to be exposed to blood with detectable viremia, they would risk getting Ebola. However, exposure to blood is quite rare outside of the medical setting. Even non-contagious diseases transmitted by insects become contagious through blood transfusions.

[elpinta]

New, Hawaii, possible:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3210149/posts

[Smokin' Joe]

However, exposure to blood is quite rare outside of the medical setting.

Never worked a construction job?? How about paper cuts for the office worker? Most of the adults I know get probably 2-3 cuts a year, but the kids I know are almost weekly getting scrapes, scratches, or cuts, just as part of being active. Not so rare as you might think.