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There are all manner of infections for which doctors and nurses treat patients with extensive protective gear, or in isolation wards.

Beyond that, as others have mentioned, the really tricky bit is that once we don't have a good treatment for it, so post-exposure prophylaxis isn't really in the cards.

I have, for example, never seen an estimate for the infectiousness of Ebola that puts it anywhere near measles.




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