Open borders and Ebola.
We are not worthy of his great and wonderful leadership.
The fact that they disclosed the names of the five airports....simply means a smart infected guy from Africa....will fly into Frankfurt, and pick one of the other forty US international airports as the entry point. Or they might even get smart...flying from Africa onto Thailand, and then onto the US west coast. You’d have to be awful naive in the CDC to advocate this limited response and think it’ll be the most minimum step you could take before getting fired.
The article misses the point on this research. You can have Ebola without having a fever (for up to roughly three weeks). The point is that the risk of infection through casual contact is quite low until fever appears, and normally for a couple days after fever appears, because virus levels are quite low early in the progression of the disease.
One warning they don't mention is that sexual contact involves more exposure for a much longer time than other contact with bodily fluids, and Ebola is contagious through sex both before it is contagious through normal contact and after for at least 90 days beyond apparent recovery from the disease.
Besides, our first patient flew in BEFORE he had a fever. The safest policy is to tighten VISAs — no non-essential VISAs.
I have a feeling that the incubation period is not truly known and that just like any flu...some barf, some have diahara, very low grade, a cough, a sneeze....so until you’re really sick...”minor” symptoms simply doesn’t disrupt your life.
Entirely misses the point. The point is that a normal temperature does not rule out infection.
Putting it another way, false positives are not the danger; false negatives are.
The Times has been straying from the plantation lately.
WAKE UP!!!! CLOSE THE BORDERS. STOP THE FLIGHTS.
US News, CDC, and current president - not a current surefire sign of understanding basic concepts!
But, but you’re not contagious until you have a fever! obola and his good buddy Backpedal Frieden promised us!!!
STOP THE AIRTRAFFIC, STUPID.
If the Dallas nurse’ boyfriend has Ebola, this will contradict what the CDC is telling us about Ebola. This means the disease is transmittable before overt symptoms are exhibited. I think Ebola becomes infective as soon as the virus begins replicating and is present in the saliva and body fluids before significant cellular damage, fever, and symptoms.