I guess I would expect better clean-up techniques in the U.S. than unprotected guys using a pressure washer, and without any kind of protective clothing. And all that stuff in the apartment was still there four days later? I guess they didn't suspect ebola! Hopefully the Hazmat teams are on it now.

Is there an urgent necessity for people to travel to/from Liberia, vs the need to prevent more ebola from coming to the U.S.? For urgent matters, perhaps an airline stoppage to Liberia would be appropriate. We could still send help via the U.S. military rather than commercial air.

There's a pic from WFAA channel 8 showing two guys using a pressure washer to clean up the outdoor ebola vomit. They don't have any type of protective clothing on. (and I have to wonder if a pressure washer would be appropriate in this situation) I imagine by now those guys are under quarantine too.

Didn't we stop flights to/from Israel earlier this summer because of concerns about missile attacks?

The U.S. military can still get there if commercial flights are stopped. Right now I'm very concerned for the children of the Dallas area.

I don't know, people were speaking pretty confidently yesterday about how we didn't need to worry because it's hard to transmit, CDC has it under control, blah blah blah. They sounded like press releases for the CDC, but not realistic in terms of what could actually happen. Time will tell, but I think it wouldn't hurt anyone to stock up on food supplies and masks/wipes "just in case." If that's "freaking out," so be it.

Yeah I guess all the contaminated stuff, from bed clothing to everything else, remained there for days.

I know someone who had a similar symptom. She ended up seeing an endocrinologist. It was some kind of mitochondrial thing. That's kinda serious, so hopefully not that. It could be as simple as a vitamin deficiency.

I guess we can't know unless we experience the situation. However, I'd LIKE to think I wouldn't knowingly hop on a plane with a deadly disease and expose countless people along the way, including my family at the other end. It doesn't exactly fit in the "white lie" category.

Difficult and costly quarantining restrictions are nothing compared to difficult and costly UNCHECKED PANDEMICS. Just sayin.

I think it's worth our close attention because I don't think the authorities can be trusted to be completely level with the information. In fact, if it weren't for the Liberian community in the Dallas area, I don't think we'd know there was an ebola patient at the hospital. Which isn't to suggest we need to panic, just that we need to take everything that is said with a grain of salt, or maybe even a carton.

His travel was fairly long, from Liberia to Brussels to Dulles to Dallas. He could've had no symptoms at the start. (or not. Who's to know how much he was lying about?) It had been four days since he had contact with the sick person, and the median time for start of symptoms is five days. According to what you're saying there's "no need" to quarantine the exposed schoolchildren. And yet they are.

Technically they're not contagious unless they're showing symptoms. So maybe it violates their rights to force them to stay home when they're not symptomatic. Although the CDC website does say that it can be spread my coughing/sneezing if mucous lands on another person. (that person would have to touch their mouth, nose or eyes afterward, I'm guessing)

The director of Critical Event Preparedness at Johns Hopkins just said to expect "many more" cases of travel-related ebola coming to the U.S. I do think the guy knew he had it. His employer said he quit his job unexpectedly with no explanation.

This morning CNN is reporting the man had contact with 80 people, not 18.

Other parents are pulling THEIR kids out proactively.

That's partly the point. There is a lot of room for human error at "hospital in U-Name-It." There are a lot of people who need to do everything right to keep a lid on this thing, from flight attendants to TSA to after hours clinic people and on and on.

If we were more educated we would better understand the CDC's position, whichever one it happens to be at the moment. Hopefully there won't be many more patients getting lost in various "shuffles" or "two-steps" as spokespersons "dos-I-do" through their press conferences.

You sound pretty sure of yourself, there, when we can't be sure of all that. I think the CDC is telling us generally what they think is true, what they hope is true, not necessarily what actually is 100 percent true. They don't have enough experience with it to know. Now being reported that five schoolchildren have been exposed.

They apparently have a second person under watch that they are concerned about. However the doctor that gave that interview may have said more than the CDC wanted him to, and I haven't seen any follow up or anything on the news about it this morning.

Ambulance was used 48 times before being taken out of service for decontamination. I know, you're more likely to be STRUCK by an ambulance than get ebola from one...

Local news in Dallas is saying the ebola victim came in close contact with 12-18 people. That's from a friend with a teevee. I don't live in Dallas.

One is ALWAYS more likely to die of a heart attack or in a car accident. However there have to be certain people in the Dallas area who are wondering where that man may have traveled in the days before he made it to the ER.

If they know who is "affected."

Not sure what this "right to come back" is, but when it comes to pubic health a 21-day quarantine sure would be nice.