Monday, October 20, 2014

Ruthless attention to detail might defeat Ebola in the U.S. and Europe

Today a whole bunch of people came out from under the pressure of being under observation for Ebola symptoms here in the U.S.

This may indicate that as long as the U.S. and Europe actually know about Ebola cases soon enough we might be able to stop an epidemic in the U.S. from ever occurring.

I worry more about cases we don't ever see that might never go to a hospital or health care worker and what that might be doing around the world.

But, it is possible that attention to detail of who saw or touched whom  when down a long chain of people might eliminate Ebola in at least the U.S. and Europe in an ongoing way. However, many countries might not have that kind of infrastructure or discipline and even if they do what if Ebola sort of sneaks up on that country through people who don't usually go to hospitals or health care workers for help ever?

Time will tell which way this whole thing goes worldwide now.

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