[Rockitz]

Does it bother anyone else when they hear that you can't catch ebola from an infected person who's asymptomatic? I've heard this even from conservative talk radio.

[caligatrux]

Does it bother anyone else when they hear that you can't catch ebola from an infected person who's asymptomatic?

It bothers me, too. I understand they are relating what they believe to be true about the ebola virus(es) they have examined and studied at length in the past.

But science and medicine are imperfect.. in large part because they were created by and are being used by imperfect beings who make mistakes.

[Morpheus2009]

I don’t buy it. If some person has been in an ebola hot zone, they shouldn’t be allowed to donate blood, if they survived it they shouldn’t be allowed to donate blood for a long time either. In fact, a person’s blood is easily the most infectious bodily fluid for many diseases. I wouldn’t be surprised if we found that this was true for ebola too.

I am not someone who has been to medical school, but I have been trained in workplace first aid, and given the emphasis on blood as a dangerous means of disease transmission, I feel that extreme caution should be taken regarding the blood of someone who has ebola, even if they are asymptomatic.