another Ebola case... Great

@mistybaby right its been around for yrs im not trippin off it im more interested in why all of a sudden its being used to get every one scared n cause panic!!

@aohernandez Ebola is also mentioned by Chandler in Friends pretty early on. "So the Ebola virus...that's gotta suck, huh?"

It's been around for decades, just like bird flu and swine flu and freaking cat flu. I'm not worried.

Dr oz is not a good resource to get info from. As far as I'm concerned that man is full of crap.

U need to watch the movie "outbreak" it was made some yrs ago n its crazy cuz it mentions ebola in it!!

Lol I love how people are taking Dr. Oz advice, wasn't that fool just indicted a few months ago for selling bogus products.

LOL this hysteria is the equivalent of the bird flu and swine flu and look at the crock that turned out to be..... Seriously I'm more worried about getting cancer or contracting hep c. I contracted a family parasite of the black plaque one time all because a restaurant didn't handle their food properly. Honestly I would be more worried about who's cooking my food than getting Ebola at this moment lol

On Dr Oz he said he was concerned because each person who gets infected the virus in the body changes 13 million times or some huge amount like that. So after trillions of mutations it may have the potential to become airborne but an epidemic hasn't ever lasted long enough for us to test it.

Hooray for living in a small town. Hopefully that keeps my kids away from it.

Fyi sneezing and coughing aren't even common symptoms of ebola anyways...

Yeah that's definitely not an opinion. I seriously just laughed out loud. ??

The Ebola virus being airborne is not a matter of opinion. It's a matter of fact. It's not an airborne virus.

This is why everyone is freaking out... Oh but I forgot, don't believe the medical community or the cdc. They're lying and trying to kill us.

The ignorance with Ebola just astounds me! You people should be more worried about the flu! Better yet, you probably have a better chance of being beheaded by ISIS than dying from Ebola.

& im asking because this scenario was brought up in a discussion i had with my history professor.

Correct me if I'm wrong but let's say your in a room with someone who sneezes & they have the disease.

Being in that enclosed space, wouldn't the gov consider you contaminated. Or request that you come in for testing because of risk of infection.

They wanted all those people he came into contact with to be tested/quarantined.... But all of those people wouldn't have come in contact with his bodily fluids.. Sounds far fetched, right? Or am I just thinking into it too much?

Like I said, I feel like they know more than they are willing to say. Not specifically that its airborn but, They wouldn't want to send all people into a frenzy so they wouldn't come forward with alllllllll the info they have

Sorry i was confused it has been confirmed the guy died

^^ that's droplet transmission, not airborne.

You would need to walk through the sneeze as its happening. Otherwise, the infected drops (of saliva, snot, whatever) fall to the ground. They don't stay airborne.

Edit: sorry, Hana. Your response hadn't loaded when I posted mine. I was addressing @amillion

They said it's very unlikely that he has it; as he has no fever. Just body aches and a sore stomach. He didn't have any direct contact with Ebola either.

The other Texas man that went to the hospital only went because he was an officer that had some contact with Duncan's family. He was feeling fatigued and had some stomach pains. He went in as a precautionary measure. He did not come in direct contact with Duncan or his bodily fluids. The officer's symptoms are shown to not be "ebola-like".

I really wish some of you would go read more than one source before you say something is confirmed.

It is NOT airborne. If an Ebola infected person were to sneeze on something thats being passed in droplet form. It may survive on surfaces for a short duration but so does HIV if infected blood or semen breast milk or vaginal secretions of an infected person were on the same said surface. Does that make HIV airborne? No. An airborne illness would infect someone in the same building just by breathing, they wouldnt even have to be in the same room. This is mass hysteria being perpetuated by sheer ignorance. Look up ways infectious diseases are passed if you don't know how things are passed. There are airborne illnesses out there but Ebola is NOT one of them.

If a person infected sneezes around you, their particles are in the air. They don't immediately die outside yjr body. If you walk thru that sneeze, your considered contaminated.

Call me a conspitacy theorist but The CDC is lying. I think they are down playing what they already know.

Now I'm confused lol

Oh well...has it hit the news yet? I looked it up and nothing

It has NOT been confirmed. It will take up to 48hours and they say the risk is low that he has it.

It was confirmed.

Meh.

It hasn't been confirmed that he has it.

True that the US has a stronger health care system than the other countries that are dealing with this disease - but they still couldn't save that patient in Dallas!

@pp no that does not make it airborne. Saying it could survive outside of a human host but on a hard surface does not mean it is airborne.

Its some officer that helped with rhe first ebola pt in dallas

Where i didn't find anything

This crap would have never phased me before becoming a mother. Now I'm scared to bring my daughter out of the house in fear she'll catch some stupid disease.........

Omg this is crazy!

I'm ready for this to be over with

. i sometimes wish i didnt get pregnant so i wouldnt have to worry about my child getting that or if i did and what would happen to baby if something happened to me... Is that wrong?

"Could"

Why freak out? It won't change anything. Aids, cancer, flu, hell the common cold could all mutate.

Scares the crap out of me too. I want me and my kids in a bubble until all this is over with. :/

You and I both...