The director of the CDC said that you cannot get ebola from riding a bus, but said if you have ebola you should not ride on a bus because you may infect others. Does this make sense?
It's caught through bodily fluid contact so sneezing on a bus could theoretically get someone sick... If not then they wouldn't reccomend that people stay away from the bus if sick
Yes. These are not contradictory statements. You cannot catch ebola by just sitting next to someone who has it, and you should not be on a bus or other restricted space full of people if you have it, because you might expose them (i.e. puke on them).
You CAN catch ebola, on a bus or anywhere else, if an infected person pukes on you. I've ridden busses, but other than kids and drunks that puke on everything, I've rarely been puked on.
It's all about risk assessment.
Most activity including riding on a bus is safe for the general public. But it's foolish for someone who is actually sick to try to beat the odds.
My point would be many people, including the CDC, said ebola was not going to be transmitted here because of all the precautions they take and if two trained healthcare workers in full protective gear can catch it then it can be caught on a bus.
The act of riding a bus will not spread Ebola, however, you can catch Ebola from someone on a bus, or anywhere for that matter, if you contact their bodily fluids. The bus is superfluous.
It's no different than an elevator, or a train, or an airplane, or a street corner for that matter. Where you are doesn't matter, you get it from touching infected bodily fluids.
You are highly unlikely to catch ebola anywhere within the USA, especially on a bus. However, if you have been exposed and think you are infected, you should not be on buses or anywhere in public where you might be infecting others.
It could happen anywhere, anytime, anyplace. But the likelihood of it happening to you who live in the US and don't travel to Africa is very very small.
Just because 3 people in the USA have ebola does not mean that you should stop riding buses for fear of being infected. But, if you were exposed, you should not be in public riding buses or doing ANYTHING to infect others. Hope that makes sense.
Then we should put all the Ebola patients on buses!
We have to distill whatever protective property buses have and use it to create a vaccine for Ebola!
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