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

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So your institution's studies will show no Ebola virus in either emesis or feces for the first 36 hrs of symptomatic disease?

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Not absence, but low enough viral load to largely (almost entirely) preclude infection of another individual.

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In absence of virus, what is presumed etiology of gastroenteritis in that circumstance?

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You don't need to be shedding particularly large quantities of the virus from the symptoms for the virus to cause the symptoms, you know.