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Originally Posted by sunnyatlast
Maybe because a fair number of ebola victims don't get fever:
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.
The study, sponsored by the World Health Organization and published online late last month by the New England Journal of Medicine, analyzed data on 3,343 confirmed and 667 probable cases of Ebola.
The finding that 87.1% of those infected exhibited fever — but 12.9% did not — illustrates the challenges confronting health authorities as they struggle to contain the epidemic.
Ebola research: Fever not a surefire sign of infection - LA Times |
Which would further invalidate checking temperatures as a means to determine if an airline passenger (or anyone, for that matter) is infected with Ebola.