The word from some experts across the globe is that even airport screening is a palliative, a public mood-lifter, much as it was during the H1N1 crisis. Others believe that it is impossible to catch a ‘sleeper’ Ebola patient — one who is in the incubation, asymptomatic phase of 2-21 days (8-10 days for most sleepers) — with anything short of a blood test. (MSF has it that it takes five blood tests in all to definitively identify Ebola.) Individually, they are expensive; totalled together, they are exorbitant. They would put an enormous strain on anything short of a fully-developed nation with state-of-the-art medical facilities.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 08:52:28 +0000
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