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Originally Posted by Steve Dallas
On another note...you know what really scares me?
That somehow ISIS, Al Queada or some random lunatic will purposely infect themselves. Then at the point that they become sick, they start travelling on planes and purposefully infecting lots of people who would be difficult to track down.
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Except that ITS REALLY HARD TO GIVE SOMEONE EBOLA. The risk of infection is dependant on the amount of exposure and the method of exposure. A bit on the skin likely isn't enough to do it. Ingesting it (don't ask me
how a casual passerby would be ingesting the bodily fluids from a terrorist with Ebola) increases the chances, and injection raises it even more.
Think of it this way: are you afraid of catching HIV from a terrorist? Because it would be easier catch HIV from a terrorist due to the fact that you can live for years with the disease while its contagious, rather than days with Ebola (and by the time an Ebola victim is contagious, there isn't much time until they are pretty much bedridden).