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I doubt the Ohioans have anything to worry about if the main story we have heard about Vinson's symptoms while there are correct. I've heard two differing versions of when she felt ill so don't know which is correct. But since the family of Duncan have apparently escaped the disease even after being in close contact with him after the frank onset of fever, vomiting and diarrhea for at least two days before he was admitted to Presbyterian Hospital and didn't get sick, it would lead one to conclude that those who were merely in the room or even near Vinson before she was ill would be safe. This as Duncan's relatives and fiancee who further remained in the apartment after Duncan, where virus had certainly been shed on many surfaces of clothing, towels, sheets, furniture, walls, bathroom surfaces, dishes, etc., for another few days and not one of the relatives got sick from virus on even environmental surfaces and his wet linens. That seems to show the current viral strain is fragile off its host. Yet when Duncan got into the hospital, at some point his viral load became so high that his bodily fluids infected Pham and Vinson, while both were wearing and/or doffing protective equipment.

Further, apparently the early viral load in even a newly sick patient apparently isn't sufficient to sicken a well person with a healthy immune system. Apparently even if you get some early, small amount of virus from contact with a newly sick person, healthy immune systems can kill it unlike when one gets a dose of very heavy viral load which is too heavy for its new host to totally kill off, then begins to incubate, grows to a level to sicken but with a still low viral load early on. But as the virus progresses, it is said to eventually replicate so fast and in such vast numbers, it eventually overwhelms the immune systems of even healthy people, who become quite sick and highly infectious and contagious to anyone who gets any of their bodily fluids into his or her body.