Ebola

[Gurtie]

yeah initially the report here was saying he had stayed away from people and been careful, now its saying he felt bad for two days before checking in and was on the subway hours before he was admitted - thats two quite different stories so I wonder where the actual truth lies.

Anyone who goes out of their way to help with MSF would, you would think, equallly safeguard people in NYC if they suspected they may be ill, so the news reports aren't quite adding up to me.

[Brad]

I applaud people who go to Africa to help, but fer cryin' out loud, plan for a period of seclusion when you come home, until the incubation period has passed.

I agree.  You would think this would be just common sense, but you can't count on people to do the rational thing.

[rcjordan]

http://who.int/csr/disease/ebola/situation-reports/en/

13k cases

[buckworks]

In the New England Journal of Medicine: A report from the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) clinic in Monrovia, Liberia offered their experience with some 700 Ebola cases:


http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1413084