What's interesting is that nobody from the apartment where Duncan was staying has so far fallen ill.
Yet a health care worker at Texas Ebola Presbyterian may have ...
Come to think of hit, Duncan himself was a somewhat inadvertent health care worker, having helped to move a desperately ill woman hours before her death.
Does this say anything about how the disease propagates?
Very close contact skin to skin for a period of at least a minute or so with a patient not just symptomatic but quite ill?
There are some in Africa who had only the most fleeting of contact and contracted the disease, but they were dealing with patients near death. The worst seems to be anything that came into contact with a deceased patient in the hours following death, though.
It suggests to me some kind of susceptibility on the part of the receiver, whether the virulence of the contact or something within their own makeup that is more prone to infection by this virus or something about the method of entry by the virus.
As for the people living in the apartment with him, if at least one of them does NOT come down sick I am highly suspicious that they KNEW he was coming to America with Ebola and took precautions. I’m not wishing for any of them to have Ebola, I’m just saying that it seems highly irregular in light of how others are catching it.