If it’s as difficult to get as HIV, I find it compelling that they are looking for this many people.
Unless he managed to spew vomit on that many people.
And if it’s transmitted easily that way, imagine someone crashing out in Times Square. Or Madison Square Garden.
It's NOT as difficult to get as HIV. Whoever says it is is either lying or is ignorant. And there is evidence it CAN be spread without direct contact, despite the denials to that effect. Read the book.
The transmission methods is the part of this story that I am watching closely. From very reliable sources I have learned one can catch Ebola from
contact with infected animals (pigs, bats, monkeys)
contact with "droppings" of infected animals
eating any part of an infected animal
touching anything excreted (blood, sweat, urine, fetal matter) by an infected person.
any part of your skin touches any part of an infected persons skin
inhaling the droplets an infected person exhales via sneeze cough.
touching any item an infected person has recently touched.
touching a hard surface that has recently been in contact with anything wore, excreted or touched by an infected person who is dead or nearly dead from Ebola.
I am sure there are other means of Ebola spreading. It appears to me that Ebola is very contagious and could easily spread in a high density US city. I also think things are much worse then we are being told. Only 1500 infected? Only 800+ dead in West Africa? Really? I think way more.
My biggest worry is it gets into our wild pigs, bats and monkeys. Then like Africa we will be dealing with Ebola for a long long time.
HIV is transmitted only through blood or semen.
Ebola is transmitted through bodily fluids. This includes sweat.