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SheilaT

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4. How about people with passports
Wed Oct 8, 2014, 02:38 PM
Oct 2014

from any of the however many other countries there are out there who might have spent time in one of those countries? Like the doctors and the cameraman? The Spanish nurse.

Once again, unless people have actual symptoms of Ebola, they are not contagious. Certainly, someone could cross the line to being contagious while on a long flight, but the likelihood of that actually happening is vanishingly small. And despite what a lot of people keep on saying, there is still absolutely no indication that Ebola is passed other than by direct contact with bodily fluids. So even someone who is violently ill with Ebola while on the plane, who is vomiting and has bloody diarrhea, only those poor souls unfortunate enough to come in direct contact with said vomit and diarrhea are at risk.

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Since there are no direct flights from SheilaT Oct 2014 #1
I think they will be pulling aside everyone with passports from those 3 countries, uppityperson Oct 2014 #2
How about people with passports SheilaT Oct 2014 #4
I once got a milder flu from a fellow traveler on a Northern Italy tour, who threw up CTyankee Oct 2014 #12
Given how contagious flu actually is, SheilaT Oct 2014 #15
thanks for that information! Fascinating. CTyankee Oct 2014 #17
If you get a chance, read the book SheilaT Oct 2014 #19
The passports will have stamps showing a departure from those companies. hugo_from_TN Oct 2014 #18
Delta has direct flights from South Africa to Atlanta. yellowcanine Oct 2014 #5
Thank you for the correction. SheilaT Oct 2014 #6
Oh crap. I am flying into Atlanta from South Africa next month. yellowcanine Oct 2014 #3
Not to make you paranoid davidpdx Oct 2014 #10
I am not actually worried about that too much given the way Ebola transmits. yellowcanine Oct 2014 #11
I just did that. I was told the flu shot should be given at least two weeks before CTyankee Oct 2014 #13
More to the point, SheilaT Oct 2014 #16
This is going to to be a nightmare to enforce/track Dopers_Greed Oct 2014 #7
"Kennedy International in New York as early as this weekend"... Purveyor Oct 2014 #8
Could a person take Motrin and mask a fever? Drayden Oct 2014 #9
Man, I feel sorry for these people. potone Oct 2014 #14
TSA will spread disease because they do NOT change gloves between each person Sunlei Oct 2014 #20
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