One person can infect a whole plane, a whole plane can infect the rest of the country?
Why are people from West Africa still allowed to fly to United States?
Why are people from West Africa still allowed to fly to United States?
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One person is unlikely to infect an entire plane, just the people who are close to him, and then those people can infect other people close to them. Ebola needs moisture.
Supposedly ebola is difficult to contract, yet there is a nurse's aide in Spain right now who only touched a glove to her face and was infected. That tells me that it is actually not that difficult.
But this government makes a practice of ignoring obvious dangers until they can't be ignored any more.
Larry Phischman
Not with Ebola. Ebola is NOT airborne, and can only be transmitted through the exchange of bodily fluids. So, unless every passenger on a plane makes out with or shares a needle with an symptomatic Ebola patient, they can't get infected. The reason Ebola is so prevalent in west Africa is the local tradition of family members washing the body of a deceased person before burial.
Anonymous
Well, Ebola is not airborne, so only if people come into contact with body fluids are they going to be infected. So far, the people who were in the Dallas victim's apartment -- for days -- have not been infected. It's actually not as easy to catch as you seem to think.
However, I agree that instituting a ban on travelers from specific areas may be a good idea, temporarily speaking. Merely taking someone's temperature and asking about where he's been are not serious measures, especially if he's as yet asymptomatic.
Sam
Because not everyone in West Africa have Ebola. There are millions of people in West Africa, and only a couple thousand (at most tens of thousands) have Ebola, which is a small fraction of the entire population.
Anonymous
It is based on politics and not on science.
The argument given by the CDC is that stopping people from the affected. Countries traveling to America would prevent our scientists and medical volunteers from ending the epidemic there.
Of course there is no reason that exceptions could not be made for these people.
If the head of the CDC was doing his job and protecting Americans from this epidemic people from that area would be forbidden from coming here. Isolation, containment, an quaranteen is the basis of dealing with an epidemic.
http://www.inquisitr.com/1533690/ebola-health-officials-should-stop-acting-like-politicians-dr-joe-alton-interview/#wu6zIjGuV8pVsYHH.16