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In reply to the discussion: Ebola patients, US citizens, are being evacuated to the U.S. from Liberia. [View all]jen63
(813 posts)wife and children just got back to the states, a few days before he started showing symptoms. They have been monitored this past week. I don't think there's any evidence that this has gone airborne, but I'm sure there are many more than this family who have entered the states after being around people who had been exposed. It would be naive to think otherwise.
I think the main problem with the healthcare workers and doctors contracting it is a lack of supplies and proper hospitals. They have to reuse scrubs, shields, rubber boots etc. Not the most ideal of circumstances. It's not like they could burn or autoclave everything; there just isn't the infrastructure for it. The woman who has it was one of the volunteers trying to disinfect everything.
I don't think it's time to panic yet, but it definitely needs to be taken very seriously. This is a nasty thing.