Ebola is a bloodborne pathogen, and not contagious without direct contact with bloody fluids.
The coronavirus is a respiratory virus, transmissible through respiratory secretions, which may be on surfaces or in sprays from coughs and sneezes.
There was never a chance that Ebola would become a pandemic or anything other than a regional outbreak in Africa (due to customs that only exist in Africa).
The coronavirus has several properties of a pandemic virus. Whether it proceeds to become one depends on the efficacy of containment measures.
ebola spreads through direct bodily contact, OR through contact with a person’s bodily fluids- people sick with ebola have Diarrhea, vomit, sweating, drooling etc- and those working on them are at risk- while it wouldn’t be the pandemic coronovirus could become- it was still a huge risk that was unnecessary top be bringing into this country- endangering staff potentially who had to care for the infected- People with Ebola riding crowded subways ciould potentially pass it along to others who had broken skin, of sneezing fluids onto others- into their eyes etc
[[Ebola is a lot easier to catch than health officials have admitted — and can be contracted by contact with a doorknob contaminated by a sneeze from an infected person an hour or more before, experts told The Post Tuesday.
“If you are sniffling and sneezing, you produce microorganisms that can get on stuff in a room. If people touch them, they could be” infected, said Dr. Meryl Nass, of the Institute for Public Accuracy in Washington, DC.
Nass pointed to a poster the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly released on its Web site saying the deadly virus can be spread through “droplets.”
“Droplet spread happens when germs traveling inside droplets that are coughed or sneezed from a sick person enter the eyes, nose or mouth of another person,” the poster states.]]
https://nypost.com/2014/10/29/cdc-admits-droplets-from-a-sneeze-could-spread-ebola/
Ebola wasn’t something we wanted to be bringing into our country EXCEPT under very strict conditions for treatment- Had that nurse in Maine been infected- she very well could have endangered other people by refusing to be quarantined
[[The coronavirus is a respiratory virus, transmissible through respiratory secretions, which may be on surfaces or in sprays from coughs and sneezes.]]
Please see the above article about the Ebola being spread the same way- Someone with ebola sneezes on a doorknob, or shopping cart or whatever- several hours later someone comes along touches the cart, then touches their eye, it apparently can be spread that way- and people touch their eyes, noses all throughout hte day without realizing it- it’s a subconscious act- that many people do-
While there is no scientific evidence that direct sneezing can spread ebola- there is no evidence that it can’t either- and if one can get ebola just from touching an infected doorknob that had the ebola on it, then it’s not unreasonable to assume it could be spread through coughing or sneezing, or vomiting, or through blood transmission to an open wound or some other manner-
Again, true, it wouldn’t have been the pandemic, but it was importing a very dangerous disease into our country possibly and the nurse refused to be quarantined out of precaution four others- it was very selfish of her to do so-