AIBU to think my son should not see his friend for three weeks.. EBOLA?

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My son came back from the doctors and said there is a big notice on the door stating if you feel unwell and have been to Africa or in contact with any one who has travelled to Africa recently please do not enter the surgery but ring the bell and report

Hs best friend has spent the summer in Africa and neither of us thought anything until this message on the GP site

Is the GP scaremongerging or is it a genuine risk and he should wait a few weeks before meeting up with his friend?

The incubation period is days, not a few weeks, anyway.

The incubation period is 2-21 days; it's still extremely unlikely that it will spread outside of the African continent.

I thought it was fairly rubbish reporting, really - the headlines go on about the first person in Britain to get Ebola, but it's not till you get further into the report that they mention the absolutely key piece of information that he was working in Sierra Leone nursing infected people, which clearly gave him far, far higher odds of contracting it than the initial headlines suggested, totally different risk levels from even most people in Africa, let alone the UK. If you only heard/read the headlines, you might think he'd been in the UK all along.