re: Ebola Nurse in Maine Takes a Bike Ride - Cops Follow

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Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, underlined the importance of fever in discussing the case of Thomas E. Duncan

Referring to those who had close contact with Duncan, Frieden said a week ago: "The only thing we need to ensure is that their temperature is monitored, and if they develop a fever, that they are immediately assessed, isolated and if found to be positive, then appropriately cared for."

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is helping to shape the U.S. response to Ebola as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was asked by a CNN interviewer on Oct. 4 whether a person could be "contagious without having a fever."

Fauci replied that "the answer to that is no."

He continued: "You never say 100% but it's essentially 100%. … In biology nothing is 100%, but that's quite a reasonable conclusion to make."

Asked in the same interview about screening of air travelers, Fauci said, "Almost invariably, fever is the thing that signals the onset."

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"To create the fullest possible picture of the unfolding epidemic," the authors said, they collected additional information from "informal case reports" and other sources.

The researchers described imperfections in some of the data. In a footnote, they wrote that "in practice, healthcare workers at the district level often do not have a medical thermometer and simply ask whether the person's body temperature is more elevated than usual."

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Yea thats bullshite. I think most of that 13% are doctors in Africa not recording the temperature, not taking the temperature or guesstimating the temperature