The CDC has now changed its guidelines on Ebola. They are now saying that it can travel through the air like the common cold. So people like Prof Francis Boyle have been vindicated and my detractors with no facts or logic to back their derision,looking like fools.

About a month ago I posted on Tony Abbott's facebook that he needed to act on Ebola immediately. Just 200 cases here will send the public into a panic and no one will travel on public transport. The panic will kill more than the disease.

Thankfully the Abbott Govt has stopped travel to Aust from Ebola affected countries but the USA has not done so. The CDC hold patents on Ebola. Why?

If Ebola becomes a real problem in the USA, will this ban also apply to US citizens ?

Dear Arjay,

<<If Ebola becomes a real problem in the USA, will this ban also apply to US citizens ?>>

Viruses do not recognise citizenship: as the situation escalates, unless sufficient quantities of the new vaccines are available on time, Australia is going to close its borders to everyone and everything, including returning Australian citizens.

Yutsie: Australia is going to close its borders to everyone and everything, including returning Australian citizens.

Sounds like a plan. I hope that includes all those infectious people from the Middle East.

The CDC is not saying Ebola virus "can travel through the air like common cold".

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/index.html

"When an infection does occur in humans, the virus can be spread in several ways to others. Ebola is spread through direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes in, for example, the eyes, nose, or mouth) with

blood or body fluids (including but not limited to urine, saliva, sweat, feces, vomit, breast milk, and semen) of a person who is sick with Ebola

objects (like needles and syringes) that have been contaminated with the virus

infected fruit bats or primates (apes and monkeys)

Ebola is not spread through the air or by water, or in general, by food. However, in Africa, Ebola may be spread as a result of handling bushmeat (wild animals hunted for food) and contact with infected bats. There is no evidence that mosquitos or other insects can transmit Ebola virus."

Isn't it interesting that one of the US "do-gooder" nurses, who has been off helping the Ebola stricken poor, treats her own countrymen withy contempt.

She has refused to comply with a home isolation period, & has been riding her bicycle around the place.

As a supposedly trained nurse she should know what she is doing, but evidently "doing good" in some African swamp, & her civil rights, is more important to her than her fellow countrymen. You just can't trust do gooders to behave rationally.

And some still wonder why we don't want any physical connection with the Ebola areas.

Hasbeen,

I believe a period of quarantine is absolutely warranted in the case of health workers returning from Ebola affected areas in Africa.

This nurse is acting irresponsibly.

I believe there were some hefty stand-over tactics enacted by officials when some US states first implemented quarantine, and this soured the whole strategy.

I believe returning health workers should be treated with respect in these circumstances for they are ultimately assisting to attack the virus at its source - and in effect protecting their fellow countrymen.

This nurse will only achieve a more hardline policy from authorities by her reckless actions.