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Originally Posted by NotGolfer

I just read a post from a nurse's perspective online and this disease sounds to be something we "should be" concerned about. It is a virus that is spread by bodily fluids---ie sneezing, mucus (think blowing nose, not washing hands then touching door knobs etc). She also said because we've heard it to be "over there" (Africa) and not here, we can compartmentalize it and tell ourselves it's because of their primitive way of living. That we're WAY ahead of them and it can't happen to our population. She also said it could be preventable here... I'd take that meaning to be that folks who have been in "those" countries should be quarantined before being able to return here. The disease begins much like a cold or the flu then goes into the really, really bad stuff. "Over there" the death possibility is 90% but here it would be 50%. I'm rambling a bit but this is her words... We need to be praying for this country in MORE ways than one. JMHO!

I agree we should be praying. BUT we should also be minimizing travel to and from West Africa....as well as really closing down illegal traffic across our boarders. I know this is a thread about Ebola but also note that the enters iris currently running amuck here was brought across the boarder by hordes of illegal kids. (Per research by epidemiologists.)