re: Why are/were US airlines flying to Liberia during an Ebola outbreak?

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Babies touch everything. You can't always wipe something down before they've licked it or stuck their fingers in their mouth.

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and that would be tragic IF a baby in the USA got ebola, but I would be more concerned with other disease (i.e. that enterovirus) affecting babies than ebola.

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if it can be passed in this manner, it's not hard to spread.

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actually it is pretty hard to spread

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Ebola is not spread through casual contact; therefore, the risk of an outbreak in the U.S. is very low. We know how to stop Ebola’s further spread: thorough case finding, isolation of ill people, contacting people exposed to the ill person, and further isolation of contacts if they develop symptoms. The U.S. public health and medical systems have had prior experience with sporadic cases of diseases such as Ebola. In the past decade, the United States had 5 imported cases of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) diseases similar to Ebola (1 Marburg, 4 Lassa). None resulted in any transmission in the United States.

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Actually, the enterovirus IS much more worrisome to me. I'm not freaked out at all about Ebola. I'm just not partnering with my tennis friend tomorrow. She can play line 3 with someone else until after that Dr appt.

That said, it seems that containing Ebola seems to depend a lot on

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isolation of ill people

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and many people like my friend's husband (who just flew back today from west Africa via the Middle east) refuse to go to the Dr bc the have "the flu."

I think people should be told to calm the eff down but telling people that it's hard to spread may make many not seek medical care if they think sneezing all over shopping carts won't do anything.

There are a lot of oil & gas guys around here who travel to that region frequently. They need to keep their sneezy selves at home or go to the Dr.

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NC_Tigah

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Please excuse me but I have been studying anatomy and molecule cell biology and histo since 5am and I am having a hard time understanding what your argument here is. Could you please clarify?

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We found EBOV to be shed in a wide variety of bodily fluids during the acute phase of illness, including saliva, breast milk, stool, and tears. In most cases, the infected bodily fluid was not visibly contaminated by blood.

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yes I know ebola is spread by fluids from infected ppl

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Of particular concern is the frequent presence of EBOV in saliva early during the course of disease, where it could be transmitted to others through intimate contact and from sharing food.

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are we still talking about my uncle because he doesn't share food with his patients?

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The isolation of EBOV from semen 40 days after the onset of illness underscores the risk of sexual transmission of the filoviruses during convalescence

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or have sex with them?

Your own link (at the top in bold) says that if guidelines and procedures are followed that the risk of transmission is low (I couldn't get it to copy and paste for some reason). So what are you trying to say?

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