re: Nebraska hospital: Surgeon with Ebola has died

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Sure it is if you can't pinpoint the day he became positive. Whether it be a wrong diagnosis the first time or not, four days later he's positive. Where in that time in between the two diagnosis would you feel safe to have intimate contact with someone as in this case?

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If someone with known or suspected contact with someone who had Ebola shows symptoms, they should be isolated and no one should come into direct contact with them. In truth it appears that it takes 12-24+ hours to become contagious, but the onset of symptoms seems to be a reasonable time to begin isolation since the contagious stage of the disease is coming.

I think that some people are making too much of the medical community's precautions regarding Ebola, they are obviously erring on the side of caution. When someone is showing symptoms they are possibly contagious, when they aren't symptomatic they aren't contagious.