Yes, really that should be a given.
Don’t know the time line here, but the guy felt good enough to go bowling last night, today he was sick as a dog with a 103 degree fever, which is super high esp. for an adult.
Now, what would they be telling us, that he only became contagious today? Does that make sense?
Science loving freepers, chime in.
Four years ago I caught the H1n1 flu. My fever hit 103 in 12 hours after the first symptoms.
Apparently the asymptomatic are not a problem, except for the people who have it and show no symptoms or the rare breed who have a natural immunity to it (but still act as carriers).
The screening procedures are bunk. QUARANTINE.
Patients infected with the Ebola virus are contagious as soon as they start exhibiting symptoms. The farther into the disease they go, the more contagious they become. This doctor would have had a low-grade fever, nausea, other digestive symptoms, headache, body aches and joint pain early on. The problem is these early symptoms can mimic other non-life threatening diseases. Given where this fellow had been, he should have quarrantined himself and been on the lookout for possible development of Ebola symptoms. His own arrogance may have killed him and infected countless other New Yorkers.