[riri]

We all got sick with a horrible flu last winter. My husband, who typically doesn't get too sick, went to Vegas for one evening and left the next morning.

Two days later he was sick as a dog. Two days later I was sick as a dog. And then my son got it.

So, my husband either picked this up on the plane, in the hotel room or at the office he spent a few hours at. So if Ebola spreads like a flu, we's in some trouble.

[palmer]

So if Ebola spreads like a flu

If it did the passengers on Patrick Sawyer's flight would have been infected. Instead his bloody vomit killed the woman next to him plus a couple flight attendants who had to clean it up (not knowing it was ebola). The cases in W. Africa would be in the millions by now. It is possible to spread it by droplets (e.g. animals in separate cages got it, but the cages were 20 cm apart). It mainly spreads by contact and infected surfaces including the "cameraman" who washed some blood off of a car in Liberia.