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In reply to the discussion: Ebola outbreak: Liberia shuts most border points [View all]McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)35. Relatively long incubation and ease of airtravel make this very scary.
Anyone who has been exposed will be tempted to fly to an industrialized country (if they have the money) knowing that a better ICU means a better chance of survival. And no one who is coming here in hopes of getting better medical care if/when they get sick will tell immigration "Yeah, someone with Ebola vomited blood on me."
We may have to start quarantining people who come to the US from certain regions.
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One problelm: locals associate hospitals with dying, so don't take people there.
Divernan
Jul 2014
#3
I just edited my post to add info re a lot more medical personnel being treated/died
Divernan
Jul 2014
#19
In that you have to understand that the staff and facilities are not what we are used to here
Marrah_G
Jul 2014
#29
Ebola is a virus, and as such hard to adapt to mutiple creatures, as needed with a vector.
happyslug
Jul 2014
#42
Monclonal antibodies taken from survivors could provide vaccinations for strain variants.
DhhD
Jul 2014
#10