That is the ONLY test that will weed out these cases....before they get here.
You want to go to the USA....have a blood test and get cleared.
Imbed the results in the passport.
So you have to put off your trip for a couple days....Too damn bad!!
When will these morons get serious? Anyone who comes back from that region, let alone someone who treated Ebola patients, should come back via charter, have an ankle tracking bracelet clamped on them, and then told to stay in their house or apartment for 28 days - 7 longer than incubation period. I don’t have a problem with tax dollars going to help support such a person, such as delivery of groceries to their home - heck, look at all the money we are spending on military and we do need medical staff to help control the outbreak at the source - but our current domestic Ebola policies are just dicing with death. If we don’t start taking this seriously, sooner or later we’re going to come up snake eyes and we’ll get a larger-scale outbreak here.
I'm not sure how accurate these are before the virus starts to really multiply and the viral load picks up. There's some sad irony here--the doctor volunteers, goes there, treats people for a while, and gets infected in his last couple of days there. Sucks for him, sucks for us.
That's just pure speculation, I think worthy of consideration. Why? This guy had to know not to come into the US unless he self-isolated for awhile.
You know many doctors are delusional, playing God
The lab tests give false negatives if they’re administered too soon before symptoms begin. Not really useful for the purpose you are proposing.