re: Ebola Diagnosed in Dallas TX: Patient was sick for days before hospitalized

quote:

---

I keep hearing the medical experts swear that Ebola is not airborne and is hard to get, but somehow doctors and nurses, who presumably are taking all the necessary precautions, keep getting it, and the government took extraordinary precautions when transporting the two Americans that were brought, as though they were transporting a nuclear warhead. There seems to be a disconnect between their words and their actions.

---

Well, to be fair:

The doctors have MUCH more contact. It is like the dental hygienist leaving the room when taking a x-ray after saying "it is safe". YOU get ONE x-ray....SHE gives 10 x-rays a day.


AND....any 'handling' is based upon the severity of the issues IF something goes wrong. You are MUCH more likely to spill a full glass of milk than half a glass of poison. BUT, you will be MUCH morecareful with the poison.



So....having a 1 in a million chance of contracting a thing...exposed a million times...likely to get it.


And, 1 in a million chance of contracting an nearly always fatal something.....take ALL precautions to avoid that slim chance