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64. Yes a sneeze. That is not an airborne scenario.

Tue Sep 30, 2014, 07:38 PM

Sep 2014

And immediate contact with bodily fluid of an infected person who is showing symptoms of the disease. It doesn't not mean people on the flight or in a bus or in a restaurant who breath the same air. That is airborne and it is not transmitted that way.

But if the person has symptoms and sneezes in your face or on your hand and you touch your mouth or eyes, it is possible. That is casual contact not airborne. If the person shows symptoms - Sneezing coughing, diarrhea or later symptoms - blood showing, it is transmittable. It is transmittable through bodily fluids - sweat, mucus, sexual fluids, blood, or fecal material or fecal mucus.

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I'm under the impression that the disease is passed via contact with thr afflicted's body fluids. notadmblnd Sep 2014 #21

As in a sneeze? Baitball Blogger Sep 2014 #24

It is not an airborn disease notadmblnd Sep 2014 #55

Thank goodness for that! Baitball Blogger Sep 2014 #57

A sneeze can eject both body gases and fluids. If you have ever felt you palm damp after 24601 Sep 2014 #65

Thank you much. Baitball Blogger Sep 2014 #69

You're welcome. Stay safe. 24601 Oct 2014 #90

Yes a sneeze. That is not an airborne scenario. defacto7 Sep 2014 #64

Oh. Back in worry mode. Baitball Blogger Sep 2014 #70

So if the Ebola-infected person blew his nose, Chemisse Sep 2014 #26

I'm also assuming this person used the facilities at least once during that long flight theHandpuppet Sep 2014 #36

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You go for it. I don't ever fly so it won't bother me. passiveporcupine Sep 2014 #68

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Sounds like scary season to me... Helen Borg Sep 2014 #46

A hospital in Dallas had been testing a person based on their travel history rocktivity Sep 2014 #18

I understand Nigeria has their Ebola epidemic contained. defacto7 Sep 2014 #22

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In the USA, it doesn't matter if the doctors cure or not, what matters is their bill gets paid. Trillo Sep 2014 #49

Indeed, apples and oranges. longship Sep 2014 #52

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So your argument is the doctors will die before sending out billing? Trillo Sep 2014 #50

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I don't know how they can say it with a straight face either. LisaL Sep 2014 #59

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This person arrived in USA 840high Sep 2014 #79

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He was showing symptoms for at least four days before being finally isolated. LisaL Sep 2014 #63

We'll just have to wait a couple of weeks defacto7 Sep 2014 #71

I think his family members are obviously at high risk. LisaL Sep 2014 #73

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