[Principled]

...it was unlikely that Brantly's wife and children, who left Liberia shortly before he began exhibiting symptoms, had contracted the disease.

Oh. OK.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Oh. OK.

Shouldn’t the CDC check them just to make sure?

[jocon307]

Yes, good to know that, eh? Since they are out and about wherever.

Look, I very much admire people who go and help the world’s most helpless, don’t get me wrong.

But disease is no respecter of persons.

[bgill]

Exactly. We’re to chalk it up to mere coincidence they left one day and the next he’s sick. Reports from the family was he was fading fast but he walked to the ER across gravel that was surely cutting into his Tyvek suit. Now, after mere hours in a US hospital, he’s improving. Excuse me while I add another layer of tin foil to my hat.