Oh no! The Third US Ebola Victim Flew on a Plane about Twelve Hours before she was Diagnosed

In the never-ending bad news department, we just learned that the second health care worker from Dallas who came down with Ebola flew on a Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland to Dallas in the hours before she got a fever and was diagnosed with Ebola.  The CDC is contacting all of the passengers on the flight in order to monitor them.  Once again, we are being told that the chances of transmission on the plane were tiny, but the source is the same group that told us that the American health system could handle Ebola cases without allowing the further transmission of the disease.  So who knows the reality of the situation.

I still accept that Ebola is not as contagious when symptoms first appear.  The concentration of the virus in various body fluids builds up over time so there is less virus to spread early in the course of the disease.  Sadly, however, there is no laboratory tests to confirm that this latest victim of the disease was not contagious while she was on the plane.  We have statistical data that confirms the low probability of transmission, but that does not mean that it could not or did not happen this time.

Let's all pray that no one on that plane contracted the disease and that this latest unfortunate victim is the last case of Ebola that we see here in the USA.