[exDemMom]

Spend any amount of time in close proximity to a patient with diarrhea or vomiting, and you will come into contact with a contaminated surface. Infection control procedures reduce - but do not eliminate - exposure.

In other words, if you are a healthcare worker caring for Ebola patients, you risk being infected. The rest of us don't have as much to worry about. Or we have nothing to worry about, since most of us aren't ever going to be anywhere near someone who has Ebola--certainly not within range of droplets or fomites.

[flamberge]

...most of us aren't ever going to be anywhere near someone who has Ebola...

For now that is true.

If the epidemic is confined to Africa and burns itself out, that will remain true.