In a video address to the people of West African countries, President Barack Obama stated that, “You cannot get it through casual contact like sitting next to someone on a bus.”
However, the CDC begs to differm, issuing advice to travelers, stating “avoid public transportation.”
“First, Ebola is not spread through the air like the flu,” Obama said in the video released by the White House Thursday. “You cannot get it through casual contact like sitting next to someone one a bus. You cannot get it from another person until they start showing symptoms of the disease, like fever.”
Obama also said that “the most common way you can get Ebola is by touching the body fluids of someone who is sick or has died from it, like their sweat, saliva or blood, or through a contaminated item like a needle.”
The CDC, however, is advising aid workers and others who travel to countries currently experiencing Ebola outbreaks to “avoid public transportation” if they develop a fever or experience other Ebola-like symptoms while on their trip.
Listed among their online recommendations for travelers journeying to Liberia, Guinea, Nigeria or Sierra Leone, the CDC advises travelers who begin to exhibit possible Ebola symptoms and choose to visit a doctor to “Limit your contact with other people when you travel to the doctor; avoid public transportation.”
The CDC also told travelers with Ebola symptoms, “Do not travel anywhere except to the doctor’s office or hospital.”
“If you get symptoms of Ebola, it is important to stay apart from other people and call your doctor right away,” the website continues.
The CDC also explains a person may contract Ebola if he or she “spends a long amount of time within three feet (one meter) of a person who is sick with Ebola.”
Recommended precautions to avoid contracting Ebola “includes wearing a mask over your mouth and nose, waterproof gloves, a gown (to protect clothing), and eye protection (goggles or a face shield – corrective glasses are not enough).”
On another page detailing Ebola exposure risks and “Public Health Actions,” the CDC reports there is “some risk of exposure” from “other close contact with an [Ebola] patient in health care facilities or community settings.” For these patients, the CDC recommends “If air transport is clinically appropriate and indicated, air medical transport only (no commercial conveyances permitted).”
Dum dum
You can fix stupid
He’s a lawyer, then politician, then President,.. Not a doctor,.. I’m a supporter of Pres. Obama but hell, even I wouldn’t take medical advice from a lawyer,.. C’mon ppl, be realistic, I would say the same for Bush, Reagan, Nixon, Carter the list goes on,.. If they have a comment or information to something pertaining to their field of expertise then yes I would listen and probably adhere to it. But that’s like taking your car to your dentist for a tune-up. He’s basically giving us information that’s being given to him and many presidents before him has given inaccurate information all the same and yes, even at critical points as well. When it comes to issues of the medical field, he’s just a messenger… We all know Ebola is highly contagious,.. Why do we need ppl to tell us that? Just take precautions. Just as we do with firearms, hot coffee, cars etc,.. All can be extremely dangerous if not handled with caution and care. True, he should’ve gotten his facts checked,.. But he’s the president,.. Those facts should’ve been checked before they were delivered to him as should any other president. But like any other president,.. They are all human and capable of making errors…
Liar in chief
Ebola, like AIDS “supposedly” can only be contracted through bodily fluids, so we are told. If a nurse , a trained medical professional can contract it, whats that say? Bottom line is the borders need to be closed , all flight to and from Africa HALTED…we knew AIDS could only be contracted by bodily fluids as well and look how well that turned out…the mans incompetence knows no boundaries
birdman says:
“O’BAMA telling another lie how many lifes well it take for our president to stop ALL flights in and out of the effected country’s with EBOLA HE HAS LIED TO THE PEOPLE OF THE u.s TIME AFTER TIME AFTER TIME.And o’bama care is a joke lol my wife only makes 30,000 a year I can’t work due to health problems and it would take us to devorce to even think about quilfing for o’bama care that is what we were told so now I have NO health ins.LOLOLOLO so much for O’BAMA CARE.”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/obama-cant-catch-ebola-bus-cdc-yes-can/comment-page-11/#comment-595208
O’BAMA telling another lie how many lifes well it take for our president to stop ALL flights in and out of the effected country’s with EBOLA HE HAS LIED TO THE PEOPLE OF THE u.s TIME AFTER TIME AFTER TIME.And o’bama care is a joke lol my wife only makes 30,000 a year I can’t work due to health problems and it would take us to devorce to even think about quilfing for o’bama care that is what we were told so now I have NO health ins.LOLOLOLO so much for O’BAMA CARE.
shut the f`ck up! damn liar!!!
As the old saying goes, every time he opens his mouth a lie comes out of it.
Obama doesn’t have a clue, or else he is lying again.