I think (and hope!) that you may be making a leap there. I don’t know that it is true that he has, or even was exposed to Ebola. I mean physically exposed, himself, obviously he was around people who had it. My understanding is you need to have direct fluid to fluid contact, it’s not spread via air or anything like that.
I’m thinking this guy was back in Canada and then learned that his co-worker had gotten sick. At that point he goes into quarantine.
If that is NOT the case then I agree we have a problem.
This seems to be the problem with this outbreak, there is a longer incubation period. Usually people got this and pretty much immediately got very sick and died. Now they are kind of wandering around for a while, not knowing they’ve contracted it.
I also read that you are not contagious until you become symptomatic. But, you know, I’m not sure they are 100% right about that.
And I’ll also say this, after all the lies from this administration (and I think the lefties might just say that Bush was a liar too which I don’t really agree with but that gives you pretty much 100% of the country feeling like they’ve been lied to over the course of the last 12+ years) I’m disinclined to believe a word they say about anything.
So, yeah, we could have a very serious problem on our hands sooner than we would like.
Based on what’s being reported, a woman without symptoms boarded a communal taxi, infecting all five of the other passengers, then boarded a motorcycle and infected the driver, and THEN came down with symptoms.
That suggests an aerosol transmission vector, not a blood contact vector.
UNLESS, the infection happened as a result of another blood eating organism jumping from the infected to the uninfected - lice, fleas, mosquitos.
Based on infection rates (showing an exponential growth pattern as of the last 72 hours), I would not assume transmission is blood borne, or there wouldn’t be a concern about showing symptoms as a basis for quarantine.
People NOT showing symptoms, but who are infected, are apparently spreading the virus.
As usual, the press is doing its usually inferior job of providing accurate information at this stage.