A reminder that the ebolavirus is not known to be transmitted through the air. In order to contract it, one would need to come into contact with the bodily fluids of someone who's already been infected, which should hopefully reduce its spread to just a few fluke incidents in the places where potential outbreaks can occur.
Most transmission is regrettably carried out by hospital staff or other caregivers treating ebola patients. This same is true regarding Thomas Eric Duncan, the patient in Texas, who had been in contact with an ebola-infected family in West Africa, and then lied about it before boarding the plane to the US.
Quarantine is a known effective way to control outbreaks of ebola, and with all the hype going on around it and the plethora of health and safety options available to the US in general, I have no doubts any potential outbreaks will be fully contained before becoming a problem. |