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Incorrect. It has an incubation period of 8-10 days, and as little as 2 and up to 21 days. There is about a 1 week window to identify anyone they might have exchanged bodily fluids with. Bodily fluids include sweat in this case, as well as tear drops, urine, etc. Any clothing or bedsheets, for example, that came in contact with these bodily fluids can also transmit the disease.

And as to the quarantine protocol, you have missed my point. My point is people with symptoms will be scared to be admitted into a hospital because they don't want to be quarantined next to someone who has Ebola, single patient room be damned. Instead they'll take all this nonsense about how it's hard to get Ebola and rationalize to themselves that they don't actually have it, so why bother getting locked up with people who actually have it.



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