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To: Greysard
Ebola is contagious, but it is not *that* contagious.

Do you have a source for that outside of the CDC?

10 posted on 10/16/2014 12:05:02 AM PDT by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: eyedigress

The plane seats may be no problem but what about the plane’s bathrooms? Who knows what is retained on those surfaces....


17 posted on 10/16/2014 12:50:35 AM PDT by 4Liberty (Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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To: eyedigress
Do you have a source for that outside of the CDC?

The statistics of Ebola in Africa (8,000 infected to date) are pretty conclusive. A virus of common cold infects nearly everyone in a large city. Ebola hasn't done that - neither in Africa, nor in Europe, nor in the USA. These numbers are not produced by the CDC; and those are the worst case (in a city) due to poor awareness, widespread superstition, and not so great infrastructure.

Still Ebola is not winding down yet. So it is dangerous and contagious. However every one infected person infects not 100 people, like common cold can easily do, and not even 10 people - but on average somewhere between 0 and 2, depending on personal protection that is used. This affects the rate of spreading. The nurses got infected because they worked with Mr. Duncan up to the moment of his death, which is the most dangerous. Nobody else seems to be infected - neither the power washer crew, nor the Sheriff's deputy, nor the family of Mr. Duncan (as far as we know.) There are pretty good chances to keep this under control.

21 posted on 10/16/2014 1:19:45 AM PDT by Greysard
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