[Mom MD]

Yes it would. Thats why there is an isolation called droplet precautions. As far as I know the CDC is not recommending droplet precautions, only contact isolation. Pretty cavalier.

Noro virus is also contact isolation. Every time we have a case in the hospital you can count on 1/2 the staff on the floor coming down with it in the next 48 hours, then it runs through the staff of the entire hospital....

[TexasFreeper2009]

my concern is that these people are contagious but not initially showing symptoms ... and that this is being played down because supposedly if they are not showing symptoms like sneezing... then they are not easily transmitting the disease to others.

BUT

People sneeze all the time (like I just did) for a variety of reasons besides showing signs of Ebola infection.

People sneeze because they have allergies, people sneeze because they have a slight cold, heck people even can sneeze because they smelt something funny!

So you could potentially have an asymptomatic Ebola carrier with allergies ... going around spreading the virus. NOT because he is showing signs of Ebola, but because he has allergies and just sneezes all the time anyway.

[tomkat]

I appreciate reading your input .. thanks.