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woodhog
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Well it looks like a Doctor got infected and they brought him back to the States.
He is in quarantine in Nebraska.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6538901/U-S-medic-quarantined-Nebraska-possible-Ebola-exposure.html
A U.S. healthcare worker who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus while treating patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo arrived in the United States on Saturday and was put in quarantine in Nebraska.
The medic, who is not exhibiting symptoms of Ebola, will remain under observation for up to two weeks at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha, Nebraska Medicine said in a statement.
The individual's name was not released for privacy reasons.
Symptoms such as fever and abdominal pain may appear up to three weeks after contact with the deadly virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
He is in quarantine in Nebraska.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6538901/U-S-medic-quarantined-Nebraska-possible-Ebola-exposure.html
A U.S. healthcare worker who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus while treating patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo arrived in the United States on Saturday and was put in quarantine in Nebraska.
The medic, who is not exhibiting symptoms of Ebola, will remain under observation for up to two weeks at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha, Nebraska Medicine said in a statement.
The individual's name was not released for privacy reasons.
Symptoms such as fever and abdominal pain may appear up to three weeks after contact with the deadly virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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not ebola.
These African hemorrhagic viruses (understandably) cause a lot of concern because they're difficult to treat and have an extremely high case fatality rate.
But the reality is most of them aren't easily transmissible between people. Ebola happens to be one of the ones that can be transmitted from person to person, but it typically requires body fluid contact to do it.
Also, the disease is severe enough and has a fast enough onset that its fairly quarantinable. That's a big reason why these have never really left Africa, except when deliberately brought out of the country.
Also because Africa is a really good place to keep them.
Meh. . .
These African hemorrhagic viruses (understandably) cause a lot of concern because they're difficult to treat and have an extremely high case fatality rate.
But the reality is most of them aren't easily transmissible between people. Ebola happens to be one of the ones that can be transmitted from person to person, but it typically requires body fluid contact to do it.
Also, the disease is severe enough and has a fast enough onset that its fairly quarantinable. That's a big reason why these have never really left Africa, except when deliberately brought out of the country.
Africa is different in regards to general cleanliness, food control, germ control, vaccination, and general health care.
They also tend to have tribe mentality where more people live in close confines. All of this makes for diseases to be spread easier. It also makes for diseases that would never spring up or get far in the US to spread.
But modern societies have their own issues, obesity, heart disease etc that kill more people than then ebola. So its all relative.
My mother has MS which mainly a western culture diease, they typically only find it in clean societies, third worlds dont get it. Still a lot unkown about MS but some speculate the cleanliness brings on MS due the body not getting naturally immune to diseases or that the chemicals used to clean and santaize has a play.