Instruments that magnify Ebola:

[Playinghardball]

http://theobamadiary.com/

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. I see what he's doing there.

Although to be pedantic, viruses are generally so small you can't see them with a regular old fashioned optical microscope, and need an SEM, or...... http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-03/worlds-most-powerful-optical-microscope-can-let-researchers-see-inside-viruses-and-human-cells-no-ele

[pnwmom]

2. Guidelines for diagnosis that make Ebola invisible:

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/case-definition.html

Person Under Investigation (PUI)

A person who has both consistent symptoms and risk factors as follows:

Clinical criteria, which includes fever of greater than 38.6 degrees Celsius or 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit, and additional symptoms such as severe headache, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, or unexplained hemorrhage; AND

epidemiologic risk factors within the past 21 days before the onset of symptoms, such as contact with blood or other body fluids or human remains of a patient known to have or suspected to have EVD; residence in—or travel to—an area where EVD transmission is active*; or direct handling of bats or non-human primates from disease-endemic areas.


NOTE: Both Mr. Duncan and Dr. Spencer arrived at the hospital with temps more than a full degree below the official diagnostic criterion that is still posted on the CDC website and hasn't been updated since September 4. Dr. Spencer tested positive for Ebola with a temp of only 100.3 -- a temp that under these guidelines wouldn't meet the bar for having a blood test. The clinical criterion should be changed to 100 degrees, not 101.5.