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"These ideas are not based on the medical facts. People only need to be quarantined if they are showing symptoms and if you do not have a fever, there is no ris
by bokonist 12y ago
"These ideas are not based on the medical facts. People only need to be quarantined if they are showing symptoms and if you do not have a fever, there is no risk of you transmitting Ebola to someone."
Also, that above fact is wrong. "Yet the largest study of the current outbreak found that in nearly 13% of "confirmed and probable" cases in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and elsewhere, those infected did not have fevers." http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-1012-ebola-fever-20141012-story.html#page=1 http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-1012-ebola-fever-2014101...
Even letting one-in-ten get through undetected is too high. Especially since any strains of the virus that are harder to detect are exactly the strains that most the most threat and must be kept out.