Maybe you should read the CDC FAQs I posted on the previous page. Coughing and sneezing aren't symptoms of ebola. And even then, you'd have to put that saliva or mucus into any mucus membrane (eyes/nose/mouth/vagina/into your penis/anus)
Good, now all the people that made fun of Dallas and texas can look at this idiot hipster from New York in the same light.
If you scroll down, they actually show you subway trains labeled A and 1 for instance. It's one of the more idiotic web articles you could find, and that's saying something. Not as idiotic as hipster doctor though.
Why? Duncan's family didn't contract ebola, and they were in close contact when he was far more symptomatic. Ebola is hard as hell to spread.
You would think he (the NYC doctor) would follow CDC guidelines and "abstain if possible," but then ... he thought it would be cool to go out on a town of 8-10 million people ... so who knows. What a freaking tool. But godspeed on his recovery.
Why would you think that? He came to the States to visit his girlfriend and family. You don't think there was a decent chance of bodily fluid exchange with her? Old people have sex, too.... I would expect the doctor was a bit more careful, but you can only hope. I suspect he thinks he knows enough about the disease to know when it is actually contagious, and decided to keep an eye for that. Otherwise he decided to start living his life again. Not what I would have done...I don't think...but people are by nature confident that it can't happen to them. He probably ha a false sense of security. Let's just hope he didn't transmit it, Bellevue doesn't eff this up and he gets out of that ****hole hospital to a better one, soon.
I think a lot of people are glossing over this fact. Spencer went to West Africa to treat patients with ebola, thus he knows when and how it's infectious. Plus, he knows he was exposed to it so he was self-monitoring. I doubt there will be a secondary infection from Spencer. Protocols are better and the CDC has learned from Duncan's first case in the US.
If you take care of a family member with the flu, and you know that sneezing and coughing spreads it so you sanitize your hands and be as careful as you can, can you guarantee you don't get the flu?
Flu is airborne. Ebola is not. That means Ebola is harder to spread. Add on top of that the supposed knowledge and gear they put on to prevent it from spreading means it should be well contained for doctors such as him. Per the CDC's own stance, if they get infected then some protocol was not followed... whoever's fault it might be that it wasn't (lack of gear, etc) the fact is that it wasn't followed.
The average Ebola patient in Africa infects 1-2 others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number
