
55 Daniel Levitin - The Organized Mind
Inquiring Minds
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Are You Infected With Ebola?
In countries like the US and most other countries, where there are only going to be a few index cases, we know that the people who get infected are ones who have had really close contact with somebody who is infectious. So when you're incubating Ebola, you aren't infectious. The big failure has been that he wasn't admitted to hospital when he first turned up with symptoms. And it's a hard thing because the symptoms of Ebola are very similar to lots of other infections, which are perfectly treatable and won't kill you.
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