[HamiltonJay]

Its spread by bodily fluid contact, but not just blood. As I understand it once the fever starts, contact with ANY body fluid is enough... Not just blood. And you can also get it from touching a contaminated surface, doesn’t need to be direct contact with the infected person.

Yes it is not airborne fortunately, but the idea of quarantining a folks would protect them, true, it would from a greater public health setting control the spread, but if you were already infected when put into quarantine, like confined to your house, you would likely infect others in your home.

[Doomonyou]

Thanks for the clarification, I should of said “bodily fluids” instead of “liquids,” but that is what I meant.

[Smokin' Joe]

Its spread by bodily fluid contact, but not just blood.

True, including saliva, sweat, other mucosal emanations, and excreta. I do not know how long the virus remains viable on surfaces.

[palmer]

"Other than in samples grossly contaminated with blood, EBOV was not found by any method on environmental surfaces and by RT-PCR on the skin of only 1 patient".

See http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/196/Supplement_2/S142.full