o Ebola virus is not communicable to others until a person exhibits signs
of illness.

o Only persons who have had direct contact with the blood and body fluids
of someone ill with Ebola viral disease are at risk of infection.

o Infection prevention measures used every day in U.S. health care are
sufficient to prevent the spread of Ebola viral disease.

o There is a coordinated public health and health care response that will
contain the spread of Ebola in Virginia.

A link to the Washington Post article that addresses the various issues
related to travel and travel-restrictions:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/01/why-hasnt-th
e-u-s-closed-its-airports-to-travelers-from-ebola-ravaged-countries/

This one has an excellent visual to demonstrate the number of people one
person may infect and then compares Ebola to a variety of less-exotic
illnesses:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/02/352983774/no-seriously-how-contag
ious-is-ebola