Why are you so damn focused on fever? I didn’t say patients are not contagious until the onset of fever. I said they are not contagious until the onset of symptoms. There are other symptoms:
“Ebola symptoms vary but sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat are commonly experienced at the beginning of the disease (‘the dry phase’). As the disease progresses, people commonly develop vomiting and diarrhoea (‘the wet phase’), rash, impaired kidney and liver function, and in some cases, both internal and external bleeding.”
And patients are not symptomatic until the onset of symptoms.
Why are you so set against acknowledging that they don’t know all there is about Ebola and that the fact that 12.9% of cases present NO fever?
Therefore they have full Ebola without presenting a fever.
Joint aches can then be written off as stressing the limbs.
So diagnosing it can and has been missed.
And even you mentioned that Kaci had a fever for one day.