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).”
You might want to actually read the article, he was speaking in generals of how the disease can be spread, The CDC, however, is advising aid workers and others who travel to countries currently experiencing Ebola outbreaks to “avoid public transportation” IF THEY DEVELOP FEVER OR EXPERIENCE OTHER EBOLA-LIKE SYMPTOMS WHILE ON THEIR TRIP.’. I am so sick of all this basing of our president…
hes as informed about ebolsa as his ebola czar.
What a total Jackass! and I don’t mean that in a Democrat sort of way haha
Ebola is a blood borne pathogen (i.e. Hepatitis) which is spread through bodily fluids. Bodily fluids are blood, semen, sweat, tears, and mucus. So if someone sitting next to you on a bus bleeds, sweats, cries, coughs or sneezes on you there is a chance of spreading the virus to you and or others. Is it unlikely? Yes, but still a chance.
And, when was this filmed? What did we know at the time? Obama isn’t really one to not be careful with his words. Ebola is a horrible thing, can we focus on that and not what someone said before someone else said something different. Let’s be logical, please…
you wont be catching no bus if your sick with ebola
Take on air force one (obama) Ebola kool.
As far as I know, he is not a microbiologist, Virologist, or an epidemiologist
The nurse next door went to a conference with someone from CDC and said his advice was bogus.
Who cares what the CDC says,they are the biggest liars and part of ” Team Satan” Who cares what Obamturd says,he part of ” Team Satan ” and so your point about this bull c**p Ebola.SHUT THE HELL UP ALL OF YOU WITH YOUR BULL C**P! EBOLA HAS A PATENT PEOPLE, it was made in a lab, so the the Pharmaceutical company can make billions and they force vaccines that will be deadly.Ebola came about after they found new Oil reserves there and Diamonds as well! The only thing you should be worried about is the almighty God! He is real and doesn’t lie, he doesn’t poison kids with vaccines that don’t work and harms them ,as well as vaccines for adults in Healthcare industries and the Flu Shot,he doesn’t get rid of good natural food and replace with GMOs, he doesn’t spray Chrmtrails in the air and then claim Global Warming,humanity you need schooling on God out creator because he is you should worry about and fear.IM SO SICK OF THE EBOLA C**P!!! Just stop.