My question is about thermometers and their accuracy.
In a CDC scenario, in quarantine, one takes their temperature twice a day....to monitor your body temp to see if it is *elevated*.
From my layman experience, back when I had a glass thermometer [the kind with mercury GASP!] and those *new fangeled digital thermometers came out, I purchased a digital.
My kids were young, and you know how young kids are *always* sick with something. FFIW, I recall taking their temp with both the glass/mercury as well as the digital....the digital consistently ran 3* over the glass/merc in comparision
Now which one was right?
The readings a suspected Ebola patient takes/records could be bogus, depending on their instrument...perhaps putting them into a contagious state....or not.
I understand the newer IR thermometers are pretty accurate
Jes sayin’, wonderin’
According to WHO/Doctors Without Borders (A/K/A: MSF) ther are one out of eight (12%) who contract Ebola who show no fever until immediately before death.
Taking temperature will detect 88% of Ebola contamined indiviuals- although it is NOT TOTALLY ACCURATE for 100% detection.
Also , WHO/MSF suggests quarantine for 41 days , not 21 days as reccomended by the CDC.
WHO/MSF are the frontline professionals who speak from expierience from West Africa
How was the mercury thermometor administered- oral or anal ?
Anal is the most accurate measurement, as I recall
Oral was questionable due to recent liquids swallowed .