White people...Your chances of catching ebola are infinitesimal. Worry about something else. Oy and double, no, triple vey!

It's not ABOUT distant people's chances of getting it it's about the actual Guineans, Sierra Leonians and Liberians who ARE getting it! By the thousands! For crying out loud, get your apparently white head out of your apparently white ass!

And the cruise ship person was a lab worker who handled Dallas ebola patient blood without precautions, and should not have gotten on that ship during the quarantine period. Not letting that person off the ship may make sense; not letting the ship dock may be excessive.

But ebola lives in mammals, ships have rats! I hear you cry. Well, ebola takes actual contact with the fluids, which poor cruise ship person had, there is a lot known about its transmission and it doesn't vector between people through mice like Hantavirus or bubonic plague, or the local dogs, or even bats. You can get it from butchering and eating the vector mammals, not by being in contact with them while they are nonetheless happily carrying ebola around and not getting sick.

Yet I don't want a population of mammals outside where ebola already is to harbor ebola. I think it's quite likely to be a good idea to kill all the known, US and European, patients' mammal pets. And I won't say euthanize since it isn't putting the poor pets out of their misery, the happy healthy doggies and kitties and bunnies. I just would not take a *known* risk. And we do *know* it lives happily in many mammals where it lives, if you want to look up how ebola works, be my guest, but this is not a claim, it's a fact. (That the virus lives in mammals whom it doesn't sicken and that's one minority way people get it, I mean, not that all pets should be killed on the offchance, which is also not a claim, but an opinion that is based on that fact.)