I don't only have concerns about Ebola but also about Marburg.
Anyone read this news item in CNN? There was nothing about it in the news. As easily as Duncan came into the USA, anyone can. I do not have a lot of faith in the airport "screening".
If someone is not running a temperature when they get here, they could be in the prodomal stage (interval from onset of nonspecific signs and symptoms- to more specific symptoms. During this time, microorganisms grow and multiply, and the infected person may be more capable of spreading disease to others).
"99 in Uganda quarantined after Marburg virus death
From Samson Ntale, for CNN
updated 9:29 AM EDT, Wed October 8, 2014
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
30-year-old male health worker in Uganda dies of Marburg
Marburg is an Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever
99 put into isolation
At least 11 test negative
Kampala, Uganda -- (CNN) -- Three days after a fatal case of Marburg hemorrhagic fever was diagnosed in Uganda, 99 people have been quarantined in four different locations across the East African country, as field epidemiologists and surveillance officers continue to closely monitor all people who got into contact with only victim.
More than 60 health workers form the bulk of people under quarantine after they were identified as having contact with a 30-year old male health worker who died September 28 of Marburg -- an Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever.
"As of today, a total of 99 contacts are under follow up. All the contacts are still in a healthy condition," Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, director general for health services in Uganda, said in the latest update on the outbreak on Tuesday.
"The National Taskforce through the field epidemiologists and surveillance officers continues to closely monitor all people who got into contact with this confirmed case," she noted.
"However, for those who continue to have signs, tests will be run again after
three days," Dr. Aceng said.
Among those who tested negative include are the brother of the deceased; two health workers from a children HIV/AIDS hospital; seven persons from Mpigi Health Center IV; and two relatives of the deceased who participated in the burial.
Marburg virus was first identified in 1967, when 31 people became sick in Germany and Yugoslavia in an outbreak that was eventually traced back to laboratory monkeys imported from Uganda. Since then the virus has appeared sporadically, with just a dozen outbreaks on record, many -- including the current situation -- involving just a single patient.
Marburg virus causes symptoms similar to Ebola, beginning with fever and weakness and often leading to internal or external bleeding, organ failure and death. The death rate runs as high as 80 percent, although it was significantly lower in the initial outbreak when patients were cared for in relatively modern, European hospitals.
The most recent outbreak, also in Uganda, in 2012, killed four out of 15 patients, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On Tuesday, CDC Director Thomas Frieden pointed to the most recent Marburg case as an example of how a deadly virus could be contained.
"I mention this, because oftentimes in public health, what gets noticed is what happens and it's hard to see what doesn't happen," Frieden continued, noting that there have so far been no additional cases. "That may not make headlines, but it does give us confidence that we can control Ebola in West Africa."
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/health...marburg-death/