Hey! Vacation! LOL.I think they are up to about 130 people quarantined here in Texas, but it ends in a day or two for 48 of them.
It is getting a little ridiculous. They canceled a game at my nephew's high school tonight so that they could shut down the school and clean it--all because a parent of one of the kids was on the same flight as the nurse that traveled from here to Ohio and back. They are even making the kid stay home from school for two weeks.
To answer the question, I'm not too terribly worried, not yet. I am big on hand sanitizer (just to avoid getting the flu and whatnot) so that has been amped up a little. I'm not living in an area where there have been any tangible Ebola scares (knock on wood).
From what I understand, the family that was living in the same apartment as our patient Zero (Mr. Duncan, the guy who came from Africa) are almost ready to get out of quarantine. They were living with him when he started to display symptoms, and so far none of them have come down with it? (Unless something changes within the next few days?) That should tell you something. Yes, it's a scare, a risk, but if a family can live with a guy who has it, and live with him when he starts to 'not feel well' (fever, etc) and they never catch it, then I guess it's not super contagious, at least at the earlier stages.
What I understand is that it becomes far more contagious in the later stages. That's why those poor nurses contacted it. They were caring for him when he was violently ill, vomiting, and so forth. Lots of bodily fluids around, and all of that highly contagious.
Most of us, when we go out and about in public, are not likely to meet up with someone who is suffering from the later stages of Ebola. When they are that sick, they won't be wandering around in shopping malls.
I am frustrated to hear about how ill-prepared the hospital was for this. But to be fair, it probably seemed so far-fetched for it to happen in the first place. But now all hospitals have to get with the program and really take the risk seriously.
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