re: Texas health worker tests positive for Ebola

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I thought this was supposed to be really hard to contract. If he/she was protected, how in the world did they get it?

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Given the hundreds of people (minimum) who were possibly exposed, the fact that only person has actually gotten sick thus far just reinforces how difficult it is to catch.

Had this been a new nasty flu strain, we'd have seen dozens of cases by now. People's fear has blinded them to rational thought on this issue.