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MohRokTah

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5. Statistically, with as many as were exposed, somebody should be showing symptoms if...

Reply to morningfog (Original post)

Wed Oct 8, 2014, 12:02 PM

Oct 2014

this specific strain of Ebola has become more easily transmitted than prior experience dictates.

OF greater concern to me is the current hot spots where it's still growing and mutating. What worries me the most is that it could evolve into a form where shedding of the virus begins while the infected subject is still asymptomatic. If that happens, things will get much worse in those nations and the threat of it spreading outside of those hot spots increases dramatically.

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Two weeks since Duncan started having symptoms, 10 days since isolation. No one else symptomatic [View all] morningfog Oct 2014 OP

this is a very good thing ProdigalJunkMail Oct 2014 #1

K & R. nt ChisolmTrailDem Oct 2014 #2

Pure luck. Not skill or competence, sadly. TwilightGardener Oct 2014 #3

Not skill or competence, no. But, luck in the nature of the virus and morningfog Oct 2014 #6

He's dead, Jim. nt msanthrope Oct 2014 #4

He's dead. But no one else is symptomatic, as of yet. morningfog Oct 2014 #7

I got it. Atman Oct 2014 #20

See you that, and raise you this.... msanthrope Oct 2014 #21

Statistically, with as many as were exposed, somebody should be showing symptoms if... MohRokTah Oct 2014 #5

Drs warning that virus can be viable AFTER a cure. dixiegrrrrl Oct 2014 #9

That's been known with Ebola for some time now. MohRokTah Oct 2014 #10

I imagine they can take blood samples from the potentially infected Baitball Blogger Oct 2014 #8

The test for Ebola requires active shedding of the virus. MohRokTah Oct 2014 #11

At first, I was thinking "why would the CDC freak out?" Chan790 Oct 2014 #16

Already a study came out that showed some people are infected but LisaL Oct 2014 #17

Unfortunately, Ebola can't be dectected during its incubation period rocktivity Oct 2014 #12

11 days since isolation. Each day without a new infection morningfog Oct 2014 #13

Actually, there was one yesterday afternoon. Edit:potentially-one. NO diagnosis yet. Chan790 Oct 2014 #14

i agree. that would mean containment. first case in dallas. medical caught unaware. and still, seabeyond Oct 2014 #15

If nobody else got infected (and that is a big IF right now) it would not mean they were able to LisaL Oct 2014 #18

lol. no. doesnt work that way. firstly, the IF, is not that big, and every day gets smaller. seabeyond Oct 2014 #19

It's a smaller IF everyday. And, the somehow is because Ebola is not easy to catch. morningfog Oct 2014 #23

Some experts more worried than we have been told adigal Oct 2014 #22