Local leaders address Ebola concerns - Amarillo.com

If a person begins to feel flu-like symptoms, there are two factors that point to Ebola: Travel to one of the four West African countries currently affected and direct contact with the bodily fluids of an Ebola-infected individual.

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Dr. Roger Smalligan, public health authority for Potter and Randall counties and chairman of internal medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Amarillo, said an infected person’s tears, saliva, semen, nasal and vaginal secretions, blood or anything else liquid that comes from the body would have the virus in it, but only if that person is actively symptomatic.

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