Quote Originally Posted by MajorEthanolic View Post
I'm stationed at the US Army Medical Research Materiel Command at Fort Detrick, so we're right in the middle of all this ebola stuff. This topic came up last week, and is a very real concern. We had the same issues during the anthrax and dirty bomb threats a few years back. Our biggest issue when things like this get into metropolitan areas is how to triage - meaning how to quickly determine who just has random symptoms vs who is actually very sick/exposed.
Yep you are spot on. This has been my concern since the first talk of it escaping West Africa. I have traveled 36 countries in the world. In 2001 I was on a flight to Porto madrin from Uruguay - Montevideo it was a small plane. There were 12 of us and not two of us from the same country. I got sick after that flight as well as 4 others it was some sort of virus that ruined a week of diving. You are the expert here but it would seem to be a problematic not knowing how to triage even for a small town doctor thus causing it to keep moving.