I don’t believe that for a second. In my many years of nursing, the standard was that with a virus, one starts becoming infectious within the 24 hours prior to onset of symptoms. I don’t think they want that info spread because it would make people panic.
That’s better than being infectious immediately. Quickly scanning wikipedia, I couldn’t find that information and is why I posted the question.
Yep. I was reading on Canada’s Public Health website about Ebola, and according to them, there is a possibility of infecting someone before showing symptoms, which is what one would expect with any other virus, so why would this be different?
“...the standard was that with a virus, one starts becoming infectious within the 24 hours prior to onset of symptoms.”
Even IF one isn’t contagious until after symptoms, the symptoms are like the flu. Muscles aches, low fever, etc. Those symptoms (the kind lots of people, and almost all men, shrug off)) can last for several days until the more severe symptoms show up that may cause one to go the the doctor.