Excellent LA Times article about contact tracing.

[kestrel91316]

Lots of DUers need to read this closely before they go ranting about how CDC is doing it all wrong and nobody needs to be monitored until they fall ill.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-disease-detectives-20141004-story.html

[uppityperson]

1. Here are a couple paragraphs explaining more of who they are contacting.

This means trackers on the ground in Dallas wouldn’t have to seek out contacts who might have encountered Duncan before Sept. 24, when he first developed symptoms — including dozens who shared the flights he took from Monrovia, Liberia, to the U.S.

But the Dallas team would relentlessly pursue anyone who might have had significant contact with the patient between the 24th and the 28th, when Duncan was finally admitted to the hospital, Smith added.