Have people or will people stop flying because of ebola?
People are already stopping flying. Part of the reason is that people have seen that the "experts" are inconsistent in their facts. 1. In military and CDC documents, Ebola is listed as a Level 4 biohazard, which means that any fabric or seat cover that is exposed to an Ebola sufferer, no matter what stage of the disease, should be treated as a biohazard and disposed of. According to experts, Ebola can survive on a surface for 6 days...and maybe more, it's unclear.Yet when we talk about airlines, the public is told "oh, it's ok, we don't need to follow those standards".2. In military and CDC documents, Ebola IS treated as airborne over short distances (3 feet) which implies that, if you're sitting near an ebola sufferer, you are being put at risk. Yet, the "ebola deniers" still claim it's perfectly safe.As long as the Ebola Deniers continue their refusal to conform to common biohazard regulations, we are all being put at risk. People traveling on airlines are literally playing a game of russian roulette. Sooner or later, somebody is going to fall asleep and let their mouth or nose come into contact with an infected cushion, and get the disease. When that happens, watch the panic then.That's why the pubic is, most reasonably so, very suspicious of the situation.
What precautions would you take if the Ebola virus entered India?
There are a few unknown factors where Ebola is concerned, like how exactly it spreads to humans in the first place. However, infection seems to spread from infected humans to other humans mainly through body fluids ( blood etc). So barrier methods like gloves mask etc work. This link from CDC is informative Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever.
Can you catch the norovirus from an infected person farting in your face?
Anything that can cause the virus to be aerosolized - vomit is the most likely, but that is probably because there is more splashing and vomiting is a normal thing to do when you are sick with norovirus....even if it is unpleasant ..... and so more people might be exposed. In contrast, most people don't go around literally farting in other people's faces (except for maybe sadistic older brothers and sisters and immature boyfriends). I would think this would be much more likely to be a risk if no clothes were between said inconsiderate individual's butt and your face.
Ebola question?
If ebola has killed over 3,000 some and over people over in Africa, and the virus isn't "airborne" how did all those people get it so fast and die? I'm from the US and am literally terrified of this.
If it is so difficult to contract Ebola, why are all health care workers, police, soldiers, reporters, and everyone else shown on news reports wearing full protective gear?
It's difficult to contract Ebola unless you have actual physical contact with an infected person who is actively showing symptoms, or (especially) with the body of someone who died of Ebola. Then it's easy to contract the virus. Ebola doesn't spread by airborne transmission in the way influenza or measles do. That means that if you stand a few feet away from an Ebola patient, you won't be exposed to the virus. (Compare to influenza, where you can stand many feet away and still be infected, or to measles, where you can be in the same house as a patient and still get infected.)That's why it's said to be difficult to contract Ebola. Whereas you can get exposed to influenza or measles and never even know you were close to an infected person, just wandering around the streets puts you at minimal risk of catching Ebola. But people who have to actually handle patients showing symptoms, or the bodies of patients, can contract the virus fairly easily. Therefore, anyone who is likely to physically contact an infected person who is actively showing symptoms or the body of an infected person should wear full protective gear. It's like, "Should I worry about being run over by a Spanish fighting bull?" Not really, no. If you live in New York, don't spend your life looking over your shoulder for incoming horns. But if you're standing on the streets of Pamplona in July, don't complain that people told you it's not likely you'll get hooked by a bull.