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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  But they have worked with this Ebola virus for 40 years and they do know its behavior. Because the CDC had inadequate protective gowning protocols, an ER doctor missed a diagnosis or PPE doffing was done inappropriately or failed after working with very ill patients and workers got sick doesn't change the nature of the virus and how it infects people.
There isn't one bit of empirical proof that a well person who tests negative twice for Ebola over time and isn't symptomatic or even running fever can spread any virus, let alone enough to infect anyone else even if they're sputum or mucus - all she's got to share since she's not vomiting or having diarrhea or bleeding in public - got into anyone's body. Once there is evidence it comes from asymptomatic people and gets those who touch anything a healthcare worker's once touched sick, then we can all panic. Until then, let her live just like Dr. Fauci and the other Ebola workers at Bellevue, Emory and NIH are living.
If Maine really thought she was a true public health hazard, they would have a court order based on science allowing them to seize her, have a bio-containment ambulance sitting across the street from her house with hazmat suits at the ready and if she stepped foot out of that house, they would use a bullhorn and tell her to stay put, dress in PPE and go take her into custody and the ambulance would rush her into isolation. And the Departments of Public Health in Baltimore, Atlanta and New York would do the same for their Ebola workers if they tried to leave their homes. |
You are assuming that ebola exists in a vacuum and has remained consistent throughout its existence. The point some experts (medical scientists) are trying to make is that ebola has and is evolving. That is one of the biggest points of interest in studying the current outbreak in Africa that is much, much larger than any recorded to date.
21 Days - The Atlantic