Please take a visit to JKIA and see for yourself ama ni armchair imaginations tu?

@Kausha, mtu ameketi chini ya mti mahali na fertile imagination. to him noise implies activity. This hype that you have been hearing about Ebola from CNN is nonsense. Ebola is a problem in west africa due to a certain peculiar set of cultures (death rites e.t.c) and general hardheadedness ya watu wa huku.
People think Ebola is like flu! sneazing in planes spreads it... blah blah blah... the hysteria caused by the likes of CNN over this matter is doing more harm to these 3 countries than good!
Kwanza nakuja wednesday... @Kausha unaishi wapi? i need to sneeze on you!

@ Masukuma are you threatening @Kausha by any chance . There is a lot of misinformation about Ebola.

@Masukuma so you are a doctor based in west Africa according to what you have written. Am not a specialist and i guess its the same case for @kausha i depend on the internet and news which at times is biased i saw a specialist talk about what's happening in WAfrica saying its the family members who were somehow involved in handling the patients.He said there was no risk on planes ati its transmitted with stuff like handling money handled by an infected person, i think sneezing is included.But for us who saw the video of the American infected doctor, the guy was in a kacubicle of his own and how he was handled, i think we must get a bit serious. Just like the discussion about the KICC fire drill.

"But since it takes between 2 and 21 days before someone infected with Ebola begins to show symptoms, there’s little health officials can do to stop an infected but non-symptomatic person from flying to another country, said CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta."

From: http://myfox8.com/2014/0...outbreak-of-ebola-virus/

Health officers with protective clothing got infected, some died. Hundreds of citizens have been infected, and just over half of them died, then all of a sudden because it's in a flight, Ebola ceases to behave like Ebola?

Five things to know about Ebola and how it is spread:

1. WEST AFRICA OUTBREAK NOW LARGEST IN HISTORY. The current outbreak in the neighboring countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone has sickened more than 1,300 people and killed at least 729 since March. The outbreak is unusual for West Africa as the disease is typically found in the center and east of the continent.
2. SOME PEOPLE HAVE SURVIVED EBOLA. While the fatality rate for Ebola can be as high as 90 percent, health officials in the three countries say people have recovered from the virus and the current death rate is about 60 percent. Those who fared best sought immediate medical attention and got supportive care to prevent dehydration even though there is no specific treatment for Ebola itself.
3. EBOLA CAN LOOK LIKE OTHER DISEASES. The early symptoms of an Ebola infection include fever, headache, muscle aches and sore throat. It can be difficult to distinguish between Ebola and malaria, typhoid fever or cholera. Only in later stages do people with Ebola begin bleeding both internally and externally, often through the nose and ears.
4. EBOLA IS ONLY SPREAD THROUGH CLOSE CONTACT. The Ebola virus is not airborne, so people would have to come into direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person. These include blood, sweat, vomit, feces, urine, saliva or semen — making transmission through casual contact in a public setting unlikely.
5. FEAR AND MISINFORMATION. In the three countries, health workers and clinics have come under attack from panicked residents who mistakenly blame foreign doctors and nurses for bringing the virus to remote communities. Family members also have removed sick Ebola patients from hospitals. Government officials have stepped up efforts to isolate patients, educate the public, check travelers and tighten borders to prevent the disease's spread.

http://news.yahoo.com/5-...w-africa-125926589.html

http://www.who.int/csr/d...ase/ebola/faq-ebola/en/

@Thiong'o & @masukuma

Thanks, post #14 & #15 are informative.

Some of you guys appear comfortable, I still highly dread the disease, ever since I first heard about it in the mid 90's.

Typo there. Fast typing, r not pressed well. Anyways, let me say it plainly because the used figure-of-speech "Pulling Strings" was incorrect since "Pulling Strings" can imply manipulation.

Meant to say, if I was the decision maker, I'd decide to ban flights to / from infected countries.

I still think that the disease is still not known well enough, medicines and more effective methods of treatment have not yet been developed, so I'd minimize chances of infection at all costs.