Summary: Ebola arrived in the subway of New York increasing fear's people. Dr. Craig Spencer have caught the NY subway and he went bowling. Yet, he wasn't symptomatic. For sure, you can't catch Ebola on the NY subway for many reasons.
First, as I said Spencers was asymptomatic, and Ebola start being contagious with the first symptoms, like headache, fever, vomiting... Plus, Ebola isn't very contagious, in order to contract Ebola you must come into direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected, like saliva, blood, vomit...To help hypochondriacs, you can't get Ebola through water, throug food grown or legally purchased in the U.S. or through air.
Finally, Ebola is less deadly in developed countries than Africa. The survival rate for Ebola in the USA is around 80 percent. Comparatively, it's around 30 percent in Africa. That's caused by a number of politic and cultural reasons. However, the most important reason is the number of doctors per 100,000 population, rising numbers like 245 in USA and 1.4 in Liberia.
Personal opinion: It's quite known the bad hygienic quality of Africa. There, a simple glass of water save a life, there a lot of children died because of undernourishment, there the food that you don't finish are being searched by hopeless mothers. There's an awful Ebola outbreak with no vaccine. This disease has killed more than 10,000 people it wouldn't stop here. Is hard to fine a miraculous inoculation because is an RNA virus with easy and quicky mutation (like the SIDA virus). Plus, a huge part of the pharmaceutical sector is doing his best to deal with Ebola. I am agree that Médecins sans frontières it's one of the few organisations trying to stop this epidemic on disastrous infraestructures. This actions is costing a large number of infected doctors. The african society are paying dearly for Ebola.
For more information I've watched this documental that reports this outbreak with the colaboration of MSF.
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