Boston residents were in panic after a suspected Ebola threat occurred over the weekend. A plane that had come Dubai in the United Arab Emirates was detained after five passengers who were showing flu like symptoms were spotted. In another incident, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center was holding a patient in its Boston medical facility after a suspected Ebola case.
Beth Israel deaconess Medical Center confirmed on Monday morning that the patient detained at Braintree in suspicion to have Ebola was actually not having the virus. The patient, was in fact in good condition and the suspected case was simply a false alarm.
The patient was at a very low brisk of having Ebola. The medical officers explained that the ebola virus severity in a patient is calculated in regard to being a "high risk", "low risk" and ultimately a "no risk" case.
The heightened fear by the members of the public is probably because very few members understand the way the virus is spread. Dr. Anita Barry, the director of Infectious Disease Bureau at the BPHC, said in a conference on Monday, that their team was moving five passengers with flu like symptoms from the UAE flight after they had been spotted with flu like symptoms.
The director went ahead to assure the public that the symptoms had nothing to do with the Ebola virus. She assured the residents of Boston that Ebola was not an easy to contract disease and that the public should be well aware of the modes of contracting and their risk levels to properly understand the threat posed by the disease.
The ebola virus is spread through direct contact with the infected person's blood, or other bodily fluids, while he is contagious. This means that contact while the person is not contagious or when he is only emitting symptoms, does not spread ebola.
