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).”
he lies to much..wouldn’t know HOW TO tell the truth if he had to
I just flushed my crapper closed the lid to shut Obama up stupidest man on the planet he is the poster boy for birth control.
If ebola is transmitted by bus, then most of us are in the clear.
Let him go sit on the bus!!!!!!!!!
Reminds me of a time, I went to a museum and watched someone who was standing at the edge of an upper balcony, and they sneezed. The sun was setting out the window and it lit the particles up like fireflies. It spread into a huge cloud and fell on hundreds of people on the floor below. A handful of people who saw it freaked. The CDC USED to have protocols for dealing with infectious diseases, why are they pretending they haven’t seen this before, who told them to stand down.
A sneeze travels nearly 100 mph and has a wide dispersal area.
#POS
I didn’t know Obama was a Doctor……
Dr. Obama gets it wrong…
Ebola cannot be gotten by casual meeting, its transfered by body fluids.Coughing is the most common way of infection.