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Originally posted by Duckear:
If you go, avoid bushmeat, sick folks coughing and crapping blood, funerals, rubbing on dead people, and witch doctors.

Follow the above, and you will likely be okay.

Although YOU are a sick individual. Just kidding and we are all thinking it. LOL That about sums it up for most of us who are not concerned to the point of rabid. To me, personally, the most dangerous part going anywhere is "THE PLANE".

EXACTLY! unless you are a health professional caring for victims or preparing dead bodies for burial in a village( with all the attendant rituals), you will not contract this disease. there is NO evidence of airborne transmission. this topic reminds me of a post several years ago where a guy was worried about contracting AIDS if he was scratched by the same thorn that scratched a tracker walking in front of him who had the virus. if you are that worried about communicable diseases in Africa- stay home.......