08-03-2014, 08:52 PM
Ebola isn't highly contagious unless you are in direct contact with body fluids. It's like AIDS in that way. If you are old enough to remember when AIDS made it's first appearances in the US, you can relate to todays panic over the Ebola virus.
One of the reasons it's so deadly in Africa is that they don't have the hygiene standards we do in the US. Without access to soap and running water it makes it more difficult to protect yourself when caring for a family member with the disease. The chances of blood, vomit or sputum infecting you increases without proper hand, body, and clothing/bedclothes washing.
IMO, as for the two Americans with the disease, they are citizens of the United States and have a right to be treated in their own country. I am confident the Atlanta CDC has the correct tools and procedures to contain any outbreak.
One of the reasons it's so deadly in Africa is that they don't have the hygiene standards we do in the US. Without access to soap and running water it makes it more difficult to protect yourself when caring for a family member with the disease. The chances of blood, vomit or sputum infecting you increases without proper hand, body, and clothing/bedclothes washing.
IMO, as for the two Americans with the disease, they are citizens of the United States and have a right to be treated in their own country. I am confident the Atlanta CDC has the correct tools and procedures to contain any outbreak.