[beaversmom]

I’d hate to have chills and headache from the flu and get stuck in the Ebola center waiting for test results.

[MD Expat in PA]

I’d hate to have chills and headache from the flu and get stuck in the Ebola center waiting for test results. Part of the problem in identifying and isolating Ebola patients from others who can become infected is that in its early stages, in its very early symptoms, it is very much like other diseases that are very common in that part of the world like malaria, typhoid fever, and Lassa fever and even the flu.

I can somewhat understand why some who are showing perhaps the early signs of Ebola are very reluctant to go to an Ebola quarantined hospital if they turn out not to be infected with Ebola but suffering from malaria for instance but end up contracting Ebola in the hospital because of very lax and poor infection control procedures.