This is the same disease that DOCTORS, taking all precautions, have still contracted.
A virus that all the references on say the infective load (i.e. number of individual virus particles to infect) are 1 to 10.
In a nation where few, if any doctors and nurses have any experience recognizing, much less diagnosing, a hemmorhagic fever.
And a government reassuring us, that left SMALLPOX in a closet for 50 years.
Prudence is the logical course here. . .
Their precautions omitted respirators. It was assumed that contact with infected fluids was the vector. A cough or sneeze might pass it.