[palmer]

Yes, two so far, but we are 9 days past his death. The next few days will show the remaining cases if there are any. The infected nurse in Akron may have been a little careful since she is a nurse of some sort. Containing her sneezes if any, washing her hands, keeping from lots of close contact. There is virus in saliva early according to the study I read and that would be the most risky point of contact.

The real problem is that we have 150 potentially incubating cases entering every day and scattering around our country ready to show up at a clinic or, eventually, dying in the street, shedding viruses like crazy.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I’m wondering why America had been as “lucky” as it was with respect to Ebola. This is a world in constant contact. There is no countrywide quarantine on Liberia. Hands that shook hands with Ebola carriers probably have been in the USA for years if not decades.

Perhaps there are other factors that influence an attack of Ebola to be specially deadly, factors that are present in Africa. Without such a factor present, perhaps the sufferer usually survives and nobody knows it was not a common flu.