Why do people keep saying it's a fairly difficult disease to spread, when a health worker in the US contracted Ebola, even while wearing protective gear.
If a health worker with protective gear can contract Ebola, imagine how easy it is for someone infected with Ebola to transmit the disease on an airplane or a restaurant. If they start vomiting around people, and splatter the people around them, will those people not get infected? Will the workers who try to clean up the mess not get exposed as well?
The symptoms are obvious, but they are obvious symptoms for much more innocuous diseases as well, so it's easy to miss.
If a health worker with protective gear can contract Ebola, imagine how easy it is for someone infected with Ebola to transmit the disease on an airplane or a restaurant. If they start vomiting around people, and splatter the people around them, will those people not get infected? Will the workers who try to clean up the mess not get exposed as well?
The symptoms are obvious, but they are obvious symptoms for much more innocuous diseases as well, so it's easy to miss.