5. The United States is Not at Risk
It’s important to note that you are not at risk of catching Ebola unless you come in direct contact with the body fluids and blood of an infected person. Ebola is not an airborne disease, so it’s impossible to contract it through exposure to the air around an infected individual unless they cough or sneeze in your immediate direction.
There are cases where infected individuals have managed to board planes before identified as carrying the virus, due to the incubation stage. However, there are only a few isolated cases of infected health workers returning from hot zones to America. In all of these cases, the infected person was screened and sent into quarantine until they successfully pass the infection.
People who reside in the United States don’t have to worry about contracting the disease unless they travel to African countries currently experiencing an outbreak, and come in contact with the body fluids of an infected person.