[Alter Kaker]

True, but traveling to/from and hanging around airports might get you killed.

Although many people with ebola have taken flights, not one person has contracted ebola on a flight to date and there was only one incident where anybody caught ebola in an airport. That took place in Lagos, Nigeria when a gentleman arriving from Liberia started vomiting blood in the terminal, and janitors and medical personnel responded without taking basic precautions.

Your friend's chances of catching ebola while traveling to a country without any ebola cases whatsoever are essentially zero. She has a greater chance of being struck by lightning on the way to the airport -- that's literally the case, not a metaphor. There are plenty of health and safety concerns for travelers to South Africa and ebola isn't one of them.

[jjsheridan5]

Although many people with ebola have taken flights, not one person has contracted ebola on a flight to date and there was only one incident where anybody caught ebola in an airport.

While this is true, it could also be misleading. The overwhelming majority of victims come from 3 countries filled to the brim with people voted "most likely to never be spotted an airplane". We have a tiny sample size here, and while Ebola has been a steadily spreading disease, it is clearly not the most efficient disease in the world when it comes to going from host-to-host (or the doubling time would be 5-10 times faster than it is).