I'm not afraid of Ebola as much as the "experts" who keep intentionally misleading us about Ebola. I don't know why they do it, and that scares me. But it's very obvious that it's intentional.<p>See the first three sources I found about Ebola transmission in sweat:
<a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/ebola-ask-well-spread-public-transit/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0" rel="nofollow">http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/ebola-ask-well-spre...</a> (claims that sweat doesn't contain Ebola)
<a href="http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/epr-highlights/3648-frequently-asked-questions-on-ebola-hemorrhagic-fever.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemi...</a> (claims that Ebola can be transmitted through sweat)
<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html</a> (hard to tell whether they think sweat is a transmission mechanism or not... they define "body fluids" twice, once including sweat and another excluding it)<p>I also heard on NPR that sweat contained a lot of the virus (don't have a reference handy).<p>Real experts don't shoot their mouth off with false assurances about a disease we don't know much about. The "hard to catch Ebola" mantra was going on long after that was discredited[1]. These aren't experts, they have some kind of agenda, and I'm not sure what it is. For some, it's probably just being on TV. For others, it's to feel smug about how the ignorant masses under them are panicking irrationally. As for the rest, probably political.<p>Again, I'm not panicking about Ebola. We'll have a few isolated cases in the West. It will remain in Africa in all of the hot zone countries until we have a vaccine. And hopefully that happens before it spreads to Nigeria, India, Brazil, or other areas where it might be hard to control.<p>I am not panicking. I am just mad at the irresponsibility of these "experts" we keep hearing from.<p>[1] No references here, but I think everyone remembers that the first story was that, unless you were engaging in some unsanitary funeral practices deep in an African village, it was impossible to catch. After doctors began to catch it, the story changed to be that they don't have enough resources to protect themselves. Then several Western doctors got infected while in hospitals in Western countries (Spain and the US at least), and the story changed into something about how the protocols will protect us, but were just not followed properly these few times (despite not knowing the specific protocol violations that lead to infection).