Africa was not in the midst of a flu epidemic so they were able to screen for flu like symptoms as a trigger for quarantine. Moreover your assertion that there are discernible differences between this season's flu symptoms and those of early stage Ebola is not only reckless, the aforelinked CDC guidelines provide nothing in the way of such criteria.
Here is their criteria <http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/clinician-information-us-healthcare-settings.html> : Illness in a person who has both consistent symptoms and risk factors as follows: 1) Clinical criteria, which includes fever of greater than 38.6 degrees Celsius or 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit, and additional symptoms such as severe headache, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, or unexplained hemorrhage; On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think humanity is closing in on the realization that all of this pulsed >> electromagnetic radiation ( 2 billion watts or more in the US) is actually >> bad for us. > > > That is not likely to be causing the epidemic in Africa. It did not cause > the 1918 pandemic. > > - Jed > >
