10-12-2014, 02:27 PM
quote:Good lord, read the article I linked that states the long incubation time. The window to catch connecting flights is certainly there, even a layover would not preclude it getting here.
Originally posted by bananahead
common sense says there are NOT nonstop flights from Africa to Hawaii....
= thus a very very very very very very very low risk to get here
Point of fact: the first US fatality managed to get here with the disease, even though he did not fly non-stop. AND he passed it on before he passed on.
The lack of non-stop flights makes it easier to bring in the virus, because screeners pay less attention to a passenger arriving from Europe, say, than from Liberia.
Kathy