"I have heard media reports calling for people such as me who have been treating Ebola patients to be quarantined for 21 or even 42 days. These ideas are not based on the medical facts. People only need to be quarantined if they are showing symptoms and if you do not have a fever, there is no risk of you transmitting Ebola to someone.:
What happens once you start showing symptoms? They're likely to have touched a large number of surfaces and interacted with a large number of people by the time they realize their worsening condition is the onset of Ebola. By the time I know I'm sick, I'm pretty sick. I'm damn good at trudging on until the point of no return and I'm sure healthcare workers would do the same since Ebola is contagious well before it's debilitating.
"These ideas are not based on the medical facts. People only need to be quarantined if they are showing symptoms and if you do not have a fever, there is no risk of you transmitting Ebola to someone."
Also, that above fact is wrong. "Yet the largest study of the current outbreak found that in nearly 13% of "confirmed and probable" cases in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and elsewhere, those infected did not have fevers." http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-1012-ebola-fever-2014101...
Even letting one-in-ten get through undetected is too high. Especially since any strains of the virus that are harder to detect are exactly the strains that most the most threat and must be kept out.
"I have heard media reports calling for people such as me who have been treating Ebola patients to be quarantined for 21 or even 42 days. These ideas are not based on the medical facts. People only need to be quarantined if they are showing symptoms and if you do not have a fever, there is no risk of you transmitting Ebola to someone.:
What happens once you start showing symptoms? They're likely to have touched a large number of surfaces and interacted with a large number of people by the time they realize their worsening condition is the onset of Ebola. By the time I know I'm sick, I'm pretty sick. I'm damn good at trudging on until the point of no return and I'm sure healthcare workers would do the same since Ebola is contagious well before it's debilitating.