It isn't time to panic yet. Take precautions, yes, but it hasn't officially spread to America until someone is infected on American soil.
Mr. Duncan was infected in Liberia then came to America while incubating the virus. All the people he had significant contact with are under isolation.
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The one silver lining about ebola is that it doesn't become contagious until after it enters the active phase and the infected manifest symptoms.
So it's not like tuberculosis where someone perfectly healthy can be a carrier spreading it around.
With diligence, attention, modern medical equipment, and proper protocols it can be stopped, it's just all of these things are lacking in the countries where it's reached epidemic levels.
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Where the faint murmurs now dwindling
echo o’er tide and shore."
-A Grave Epitaph in Santa Rosa County, Florida; I wish I could remember the man's name.
Unfortunately anyone gets it has a 75% chance of dying. I don't like the sounds of that. If it got to Australia, the Northern Territory would be a great Incubator, its kinda scary.
I'm not trying to raise the fear level, or be a fear monger, but the man in Texas just died of the virus despite being in America, and treated. How he was permitted to enter the country, or fly at all? This is the thing that has me truly worried about how easily something like this could happen again. What if the next invasion comes in the form of an airborne strain of something just as bad as the Ebola virus?
Could this have been a test to see how easily something like this can spread over here? With the things that are currently going on in the world, I'm not sure what to expect next.
From what I understand, he wasn't sick/showing signs while traveling. So until we have bio-scanners of some sort and everyone travelling gets scanned, it's going to happen.
As I mentioned above, ebola doesn't spread until the infectee is showing symptoms. The problem is that the early symptoms are indistinguishable from the flu. Just be very, very suspicious of anyone who's sick.
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echo o’er tide and shore."
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That's not how viruses work. Since the virus has spread in both Europe and the US, and they are considerably better connected, it can spread from there as well now. Africa, America and Europe have to be quarantined together, if the human race wants any chance of survival.
Unless the danger is blown out of proportion by a fearmongering media...but that seems absurd.
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