Angela
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All good points, Angela, but I'm concerned about the statements made by the director of the CDC suggesting that medical staff treating Ebola patients were able to leave the treatment area without passing through a decontamination chamber. If that's correct, I imagine that city is now a vector for Ebola, and it really is time to panic.
It's even worse than that. I'm just watching Sanjay Gupta on CNN. The second nurse to have come down with Ebola took a plane from Dallas to Cleveland (and back?) the day before she was diagnosed with Ebola and put in isolation. According to Dr. Gupta plane travel by someone who has been in contact with a known Ebola patient is against the protocols. (Here we go again.) Whether she knew of the protocol against travel or not, she did it, and I don't know of any law that could have prevented her.
It only remains to be said that she was running a temp when she traveled. Granted, she only had a 99.5 fever and you get put in isolation with a 100.4 fever, but since the Index patient who died was only running a 100.3 fever, I am not consoled.
Ed. I think we have to keep in mind that so far in the U.S. the only people to have come down with it are nurses who had to deal with a patient who was vomiting and evacuating. That wouldn't apply to this travel situation.
However, everybody better start bringing their "A" game.