Ebola --- Welcome to North America! (Maybe...)

[Fernand Boudreau]

In article <18MAY199510371579 at utkvx.utk.edu> staywet at utkvx.utk.edu (Bite Me ATF) writes:
>From: staywet at utkvx.utk.edu (Bite Me ATF)
>Subject: Re: Ebola --- Welcome to North America! (Maybe...)
>Date: 18 May 1995 10:37 EST

>In article <3pesd2$48t at emerald.oz.net>, jhawk at oz.net (Jane E. Hawkins) writes...
>>geofrey at interaccess.com says ( 18 May 1995 00:26:40 GMT )...
>>>
>>>ABC News reported tonight that a man was detained at the airport in 
>>Toronto who 
>>>arrived on a   
>>>flight from Zaire...he will be quarantined for three weeks to see if he 
>>shows si
>>>gns of the   
>>>virus.  So much for the CDC's downplaying the chance of Ebola making it 
>>to our s
>>>hores!
>> 
>>The man shows no signs of Ebola.  His mother died recently, and early 
>>reports said she had Ebola, but more recent news says her symptoms 
>>didn't match and she died of some type of dysentary (sp?).
>> 
>>His quarentine is purely precautionary, and an excellant example of why 
>>Ebola probably won't come "to our shores".

>did they quarentine the whole plane too.?  i think not. And you are incorrect,
>at best what it shows is that it can come to our shores but that an attempt
>will be made to quarantine it. Just wait till the reporters start coming back.

>and btw, the above seems like a good cover story to prevent panic in canada.
>After all the canadians are used to the government doing whats best for them.

>thomas

     Ebola is not contagious until symptoms are present. According to reports 
the danger to the people around him catching the virus is extremely unlikely. 
As for the people on the plane the chances are nil.


>> 
>> 
>>Jane
>> 
>>__________________________________________________________________
>>           Jane E. Hawkins, jhawk at oz.net
>>        "Time is the fire in which we burn."
>>                               Delmore Schwartz
>> _________________________________________________________________
>> 
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