09-30-2014, 08:33 PM
I'm so glad that the two Americans were brought home, in a protected medical plane, for treatment. They appear to be in recovery mode.
I believe they would have died without the proper medical environment and sanitation that could be afforded them in a quarantined US facility. No one was infected as a result of them being treated here and some advances in treating the disease were gained in the process.
As for people visiting other countries and returning to the US (or other home countries) having been unknowingly infected and not showing any symptoms yet, not sure how that risk could be completely removed without putting the whole country on a kind of lock down -- no incoming or outgoing international flights.
I don't believe that Ebola can be detected before symptoms start to manifest, but Ebola sufferers are definitely not infectious before they start to show symptoms. So, I'm hoping that the man who was diagnosed in the US four days after returning from Liberia sought medical attention as soon as he became ill.
I believe they would have died without the proper medical environment and sanitation that could be afforded them in a quarantined US facility. No one was infected as a result of them being treated here and some advances in treating the disease were gained in the process.
As for people visiting other countries and returning to the US (or other home countries) having been unknowingly infected and not showing any symptoms yet, not sure how that risk could be completely removed without putting the whole country on a kind of lock down -- no incoming or outgoing international flights.
I don't believe that Ebola can be detected before symptoms start to manifest, but Ebola sufferers are definitely not infectious before they start to show symptoms. So, I'm hoping that the man who was diagnosed in the US four days after returning from Liberia sought medical attention as soon as he became ill.