...the current strain of Ebola afflicting humans might be spread through tiny liquid droplets propelled into the air by coughing or sneezing. We know for a fact that the virus occurs in sputum and no one has ever done a study [disproving that] coughing or sneezing is a viable means of transmitting, he said. Unqualified assurances that Ebola is not spread through the air, Bailey said, are misleading. A person could pass body temperature checks performed at the airports by taking ibuprofen or any common analgesic. CDC officials also say that asymptomatic patients cannot spread Ebola....Yet diagnosing a symptom can depend on subjective understandings of what constitutes a symptom, and some may not be easily recognizable. Is a person mildly fatigued because of short sleep the night before a flight — or because of the early onset of disease? Moreover, said some public health specialists, there is no proof that a person infected — but who lacks symptoms — could not spread the virus to others. I keep trying to tell everybody.... latimes/nation/la-na-ebola-questions-20141007-story.html#page=2
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 00:41:06 +0000
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